Update *BABBLING*

Fall 2009 is getting off to a good start.

I just have to say that I love my new job. The work is interesting, I feel challenged! I also really enjoy the people I work with. The other assistant is a gal named Nyssa. I was worried that I would be starting out on a bad foot with her because I was hired to replace a relative of hers. The girl I replaced was fairly young and didn’t have much direction or drive. Fortunately, Nyssa has been really kind to me, and she has helped me learn quite a bit about quotes and our accounts receivable system.

Matthew started FOURTH-GRADE this year. It’s so hard for me to believe that my little boy is growing up, and I’m starting to see the beginnings of the man that he is becoming and I’m really proud of him. People always joke about kids who misbehaved while growing up usually have children who behave just as badly as their parent. I’ll be the first to admit that I was a horrible child, and a really obnoxious teenager. But Matthew is a good kid, I seriously lucked out!
Emalee is in third-grade, just behind her brother. She is one of my best friends, just in a little body (but the same could be said about my mom lol). She just wants to be one of the girls, she loves her lip gloss and her pretty dresses, but don’t let her get near dirt while dressed up because she will play in it. She will probably search for bugs while she’s at it too (never a good idea while wearing church clothes).

Both of the kids started at the elementary school by our house. This is the first year that their elementary school has gone one a traditional 9 month schedule. Emalee was super excited to come to the new school, but Matthew had a harder time because he had close bonds with friends from his previous school. It broke my heart when Matthew came home that first day and told us that nobody wanted to play with him, and that one boy had singled him out to exclude him. Matthew isn’t the kind of kid who’d fight; he just went off and sulked. Things have gotten better for the little guy, but he does have an opportunity to join the new class they are adding to his grade, which I’m going to push to get him into. It’ll at least get him away from the little boy who was singling him out (at least for this year).

I headed back to school this semester also. I’m still not sure what major I should select because there are just so many different possibilities at this point. I have really enjoyed the various aspects of the field I’m currently employed in so I have been considering switching my major to do associates in arts in integrated studies with an emphasis in communications. This will keep me busy for 60 credit hours and give me some time to develop a long term career plan. Who knows, I may change my mind tomorrow and go back to computer science.

I’m not going back and checking my grammar, so feel free to lol at me later for the various mistakes I’m sure are here. I just wanted to post an update and copy it off into the various places I post.

One other thing I'm working on is going through and editing some of my poetry and short stories so I can post the less emotional ones (less angry, less violent, etc...) here to share.