Phase III - Getting Ready

I got a job! Hallelujah ~ I got a job!! The town/school shares its name with a major weather disaster (West Virginia has: Tornado, Hurricane, Flood, etc.), but the school itself is adorable! I'll be teaching middle school for the first time; the students are either on grade level reading-wise or above, and it's the town that my late grandmother-in-law helped to develop so my name is very well known in the area. I'm looking forward to being pleasantly at ease for the first time ever at the start of the school year.

However, I have had this conversation with Bea:
Bea: How are you going to adjust going from an inner-city high school to a small town, middle school?
Me: Easily! I am so excited.
Bea: Or...
Me: Or I'll end up pinning some kid to the wall by October going, "Call me Bitch dammit!!"

So, it could go either way.

We have also found a school/daycare for Glow Bug. He is quickly becoming the outdoors man. He goes for walks with Duke by the river (or 'moat' as I call it), he's learning how to chase grasshoppers with the four-year old across the street, he prefers to pee outside, and has learned to outsmart Dame's mother to open the doors and get outside when she isn't looking. It will be good for him to get back to school and into a routine. As a mom, I am terrified for him to be the "new kid" although 2.5 year-olds generally get used to each other quickly. In my head I know that I've met his new teacher and she's adorable, I know that he is verbal and will tell us of any problems, and I know there won't be any. In my heart I see my little boy sad that we've dropped him off somewhere that he isn't used to, and not knowing anyone. I guess my worry makes me a good mother. Or an obsessive mother, either way.

I've forgotten how much I love the stillness here. It was one of the things I loved more than anything about going to college in West Virginia: at night, even during a crazy party, there was a stillness to the sky and world around you that I just can't describe. I love it here.

Again (partially because it worked last time), in honor of The Secret:
MY HOUSE WILL SELL BEFORE HALLOWEEN!!

Phase II - Settling In

I can't fix the cable. Apparently they are working on updating the system that we run on. They "say" it will be updated regularly and we'll start noticing new channels all the time, but they don't know in what order. Whatever.

I still don't have a job. There are about 85 steps needed to get a job. I am on step, like, five. It doesn't matter that I have experience, it doesn't matter that how qualified I am; if don't go through the 85 steps in the correct order, I won't get hired. I'm working on it, but transcripts cost money, getting finger-printed costs money, ordering my test scores from 2002 costs more money, etc. It's going to take awhile.

Our house in North Carolina still hasn't sold. In fact, it hasn't been shown in about a month. I'm starting to worry. We can check our realtor's website and see how many 'hits' our house gets daily, which means someone had to click on our house to view the details; we're still getting hits which is good, but nothing has turned into an offer yet. Agnes got an offer on her house today. I might be a bit jealous.

Beau loves his job. The base pay is quite a bit more than he was making; however, he hasn't started to make sales which is where the good money is. He's been down in the dumps about it even though we both know that it takes time to get set up in a new sales area.
Glow Bug is officially potty trained. He's too cute about it and it makes me a little sad that he is becoming more and more independent of me and Beau.

More to come later.

I am going to tomorrow to try and circumnavigate the 82 steps remaining and just bombard some principals with my awesomeness.

In honor of the ideas in the book, The Secret:
I WILL GET JOB
I WILL HAVE A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE IN WEST VIRGINIA
MY HUSBAND WILL BE SUCCESSFUL