Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Well, I’ve got some pretty crappy news, but surprisingly I’m not too freaked out about it. In fact, I kind of see it as just another push/step in the right direction of my long-term goals. My church lady job is shutting down, effectively cutting out my main source of income. My first reaction? OH SHIT!!!! Then shock and disbelief as I had discussed this very scenario with my boss before deciding to buy the house a few months ago and he emphatically assured me that the church ladies would always need supporting as long as I wanted the job. But unforeseeable shit that is out of our control sometimes happens, so there ya have it, no more church ladies. Ug. I then, of course, automatically assumed that all my grandiose ideas of going back to school would be down the tubes because I would have to scramble to get some sort of full time job to cover the bills, thus continuing the drudgery of working in unfulfilling dead-end jobs. And I even began searching initially, but quickly discovered that I just couldn’t stomach the thought starting over with the same ol' crap all over again. So I regrouped and started crunching numbers and scenarios, and I’ve decided that I’m just not willing to settle for the same ol' crap anymore. By god, I’m going back to school, one way or another, I WILL make this work! I’ll just have to take on more hours with my other job and make sure to take full advantage of the help that’s available for students out there. Grants, scholarships, student loans, it CAN be and IS done all the time. Sure, it’s gonna be a whole lot harder this way, but at least there’s a way, and by golly, I’m up for the challenge! :) So that's it, do or die time, here we go... YIKES!!

In other news, we have baby birdies!!! I actually meant to post pics of the nest and eggs before now but, well, I suck at updating lately, so sue me. ;D Anyway, we noticed the nest a few weeks ago in the eve of our front entrance so climbed up my stepladder to take a few pics and this is what we found:



We’ve since been checking every few days, and yesterday we finally found this!:



Awwwww, so ugly they’re cute, aren’t they?!