Out of it

I've been out of it for a while. Sorry about that. We've been switching around computers because my laptop is on its last legs I think. I've had it since 2002 and it is beginning to cause major problems, so my brother dug the old family computer out of the garage, cleaned it and set it up at our place. He's been great at finding new parts for it. It still runs, slowly, but runs. Luckily enough Mike figured out that it can take a memory upgrade and found stuff online for it. It is great to have my own person IT Solutions guy handy.

With me finishing up at the school, I am jobless . . . until the fall. No, as of right now I'm not teaching in my field in the fall, but I am teaching. I was hired as the PE instructor at one of the local elementary schools. No, it isn't my forte, but I've got a great resource (my mom!) so I think I'll be in good hands for a while. I'm still looking around for a job in my field and many jobs won't open until August, so at least I've got something for the fall in case I can't find anything else.

Jakob and I got home earlier this week from Joseph's graduation (he's my brother-in-law). He is the last of the 8 kids to graduate high school and it was fun to go and see him and get to spend some time with him. We saw the sights of Seattle again and experienced that great weather. I liked walking around and getting to have some cooler weather. I'm super happy we could find the great deals on air fare that we did and we could fit it into our budget and schedule. Congrats again Joseph!

Then the past few days I've had a teacher workshop (yep, even though I'm not teaching I've still got to go to those things) and while some of it was worth going to, I don't think it needed to be 2 days worth. I've got another one at the end of June that I've got mixed feelings about. It is for TV Broadcasting/Film Production and I'm not teaching it any more. I'm wondering what people are going to say when I show up and tell them what has happened this past year. I've got a few people on my side because they've worked with me for a few years. The flip side of that is that it is a 2 hour drive away. So that is 4 hours of commuting every day for 3 days. I know, I could probably get a hotel room and save that on gas, but the district isn't paying for anything and I don't want to spend anything I don't have to.

I was looking forward to a trip that we were going to take this weekend, but it ended up not working all that well with our schedule. Jakob has rehearsal this weekend that he couldn't get out of and I've got a couple of costumes that needed to be finished, so it just ended up not working out. We've got another trip planned for next weekend so hopefully that will hold and we'll be able to go and see some hot air balloons (my favorite!)

Once my camera starts cooperating with me again, I'll see if I can post some stuff from our Seattle trip (I really don't have a lot, I just wasn't all that camera happy this trip around).