December 2007 - Posts
For the second and hopefully last time in my life, I'm teaching a child how to tie shoes. You know, make an x, put it through the bridge, make bunnie ears, cross the ears and push it through. Easy in concept, once you've got it. My tiny man is lying on the floor right now having a meltdown b/c he can't do it.
I woke up this morning, and my son had filled his older sister's shoes with ball bearings from his magnetix set. He had mentioned something last nite about an invention to make Dbot fall down, but i was not really listening.
Those two hate each other. I thought, having them ten years apart would lead to their being less rivalry prone. Nope. They fight like cats and dogs. I suppose there is a deep core of love there, but it's hidden under intense, pathological competition for resources. I was thinking about it, and really sibling rivalry makes sense from an evolutionary perspective, if you can get rid of the competition, there is more parental resources for the one left standing. It's still really annoying. Dbot is mad b/c I did not have a girl. Seaton is mad that there is this pseudo adult trotting around with hand held electronic devices he cannot play with who yells at him.
Meanwhile, the cat, my middle child, looks on all with deep despair. I think he hopes that the little one will go, so he can have his mom back to sleep on. Until then, he uses a set of sterlite storage boxes Dbot erected as stairs to jump up into Dbot's loft bed where he hides from the baby. Its like watching Jabba the Hut jump.
I am now a sahm until I can find a different center for my booboobear. We've had a great day. He woke up eager for "school at home", b/c he thinks he's like our close friend's little boy, who is home schooled.
In other news, he helped me seal all my xmas cards last nite, and got two viscious paper cuts. So, if you get a bloody envelope from me, its not a threat.
My sister got the wrong internal letter in her christmas card from my grandma, and it was hilarious. Lets just say, my grandmother's tone with her brother and his wife are different than to her grandchildren.
I think my four year old is getting expelled from preschool, for bad behavior. My cat has a bald patch on his eyebrow from a glue gun incident. I went on an awesome tour of Locust Grove today, as a field trip chaperone, and bonded with a group of teenagers.
You know, really, two weeks ago today, I was convinced my pappaw was near death. The man has nearly recovered! (not to jinx him.) I went with him to physical therapy today and watched. It was really interesting stuff.
There was a dwarf.
Except for having to finish my writing requirement tomorrow, I'm done. I already have a draft, albeit a shoddy one, so its not going to be that difficult. Then some law school buddies and I are getting together to commiserate our lack of employment over drinks. Well, one of us has a bomb 70K a year job, but we forgive her for it, b/c she absolutely rocks balls. The rest of us are as yet, unemployed.
In my own case, I had put in for a position with a federal agency in october. I did the interview, and I've not gotten a rejection. I am doing an externship (if I pass the mini - character and fitness review) with them, so I casually (for me casually - which means I saw the nice attorney lady who'd interviewed me and said "Jill, I've never heard anything, I'm taking that as good". subtlety is not my forte). And she said "hmm, that's strange, you should have heard from hiring by now."
So then I felt like a douche. I've probably been rejected for months and had no idea, b/c of a missent email by the agency. I ran into an acquaintance that had interviewed with him and he got rejected about a month ago. So, I'm apparently rejected by default. O well. I've emailed the head guy and asked him directly, so we'll see.
I also earlier this week asked a friend of mine kind of casually to let me know if he was hiring associates, and he replied "okay next week sounds good re the will" so I'm taking that as a rejection too.
I'm such a whiner.