Tomorrow is the Try Out Day

So on Tuesday, I went for a job interview.  It was my first one in a long time.  I guess they were kind of impressed that I used to work for Pitney Bowes and they wanted me for their mailroom position that just came available….not the customer service position I applied for.  To be honest, once I finished my degree, I wasn’t thinking about seeing myself going back to working in that setting.  Although, I have to think that I haven't worked full time for almost 6 years so I need to work up some kind of work history.  I am just hoping it works out.  So this place likes to do a “try-out” day to see if you like it and they like you.  To be honest, I think a lot of places should do that.

I guess my two biggest concerns are daycare and schedule.  I know, for right now, I can have the boys go to after school at the school.  That isn't a big deal.  Now, when it comes to the summer, I would be interested to see what the cost would be to have them go to summer camp program that the after school company runs.  I guess that will let me know a great deal of what is going to happen.

Next, I need to figure out what to do with Brynlee.  I would like to get her in a setting like Evan did when he was about her age.  He went to a church preschool and then they had after care that they could go to after school was over.  I liked that because it was no required for them to be a yes we are coming everyday or no we weren't.  It was a drop in kind of thing.  So you could tell them in the morning that they were staying and then pay the additional at the end of the billing part.  The biggest problem with it is most places like that require them to be potty trained.  I don’t think Brynlee really is interested that much in that yet.

Then on top of that, I am worried about schedule.  As of right now, Evan has soccer practices on Fridays at 5.  If their games are cancelled on Saturdays, then they have practice on Wednesdays.  So, this job wants me to work until 5…it would be hard to get him there at 5.  Right now, we only have one main family vehicle.  Additional to that, I already have days set aside that I have prior plans.  Like I have a bunch of Fridays that I have stuff planned.  I have the Friday of our yard sale, Friday of Webelo-ree, and Friday of our trip to Williamsburg.  Oh and the Friday of our Sherando Lake trip…and I am sure there is more.  I am wondering how much they would be willing to work with me until I have a working mommy schedule again instead of a stay at home mom schedule.  I guess we will find out tomorrow….

Just like restaurant guacamole

Guest post written by Dean Perry

For Valentine's Day, I decided to fix up a good meal of Mexican food for my girlfriend. Last year when we went out to eat at this nice restaurant, we had to wait almost two hours to get seated and then the food was just okay. It wasn't even that good. So I decided I would do that for him this year because it will be more special for her. Plus, I think that she'll appreciate the effort a little bit more.

But I've never cooked Mexican food like that before, so I decided to go online and find some recipes to make for her. While I was online, I came across this site www.ClearTVBundle.com and decided to change over my internet service at my apartment to it after I looked through it some.

I found a recipe for guacamole that I'm going to try to fix. I thought about making it ahead of time but I don't want her to suspect that I'm going to fix her Mexican food for Valentine's Day.

Diet Journey

Well, I think I have been doing okay on my diet.  I know the big thing is that I am not getting exercise in like I am supposed to.  I guess it is hard because I haven't been putting it on my “to do” list.  I really need to start that, I think that would help my efforts a great deal.

On a positive note, I have officially hit in the 250s.  I know that it is still a big number but I am trying my best.  I am trying to push getting in all my water but for some reason, I am short every day.  I usually get around 6 cups in so I have to really push to try to get a least the 8 in.  So today, my goal is to be to 8 cups.  I read a diet one time and it said you should try to drink half your weight in water.  I don’t know if I could do that, that would bring me from 8 cups up to around 16-17 cups.  That would definitely be pushing it for me.  I wouldn’t get anything done because I would have to spend all day peeing.

So back to trying hard today.  I am hungry already after eating breakfast but I have it set in my mind, I can not have my snack until 10-10:30.  So I am going to try to stay busy and not think about it.  I really wish it would hurry up and get warm.  That way, I could open the windows and get the spring cleaning started.  For some reason, I cant get motivated to do spring cleaning unless it is warm and the windows are open.