Well, I'm back for the weekend from training for scoring
NBPTS portfolios. I got good news and bad news. The good news is I get to work an extra week at a good pay rate. The bad news is I had to postpone the family vacation with the
Cathers family. We are all bummed, but I don't know what they would have done to/with me if I hadn't accepted the extra week. I'm hoping that by my being flexible with them, they will ask me to go to Charlotte, NC next year to train and score again. That would be a fully paid trip. It would be nice to see a part of the country where I've never been. Keep your fingers crossed. OK, so I won't know until next February, at least, but still.
Everyone did fine without me. Brian kept busy playing golf and video games with friends and his dad. Brad and Sayre went to Cedar City for orientation. He really liked the campus and the area. The second dorm deposit has been paid. Now we wait until August to pay the rest. Sayre has her official schedule and is pleased with it. We'll see how hard it is when the semester starts.
I've enjoyed being at Wendy's house. She and
Caitlyn are so glad I'm there. Connor might even like it, because he has someone to drive him to and from the gym. Wendy informed me that I wasn't allowed to leave at the end of my job. She likes having me there way too much to let me go. We've gone to
Caitlyn's swim lessons, gymnastics class, and Connor's guitar lesson. OK, so the guitar lesson time was spent at the neighborhood scrapbook store. It was quite fun. I was able to get some cool things and even planned a page for one of the papers. Now I just have to make the page. We'll work on
scrapbooking next week. We had to settle into a routine. I just need to make sure I exercise. I didn't walk as much as I had been at home and that's not good with the big lunches they provided. Next week won't be as generous with food, but it should still be good. I'd rather not gain 15 pounds while I'm there. I did find a fun run. Don't know how long it was, but I ran for more than 30 minutes just around Wendy's neighborhood. It was a good feeling to be out there. The treadmill tried to kill my shins, so I'll not be doing that again.
Now I must go and see what I can create. I have a new, borrowed stamp set that I need to use.
That's good too since today at work I felt anything but smart. It was a rough day. One of my scorers won't be here for the whole week. We only had four people to begin with and now we are down to three. Good grief! They came to me today and said we were authorized to work any overtime that we wanted as long as it was not something like 12 a.m. - 4 a.m. It is really nice for the money, but what stress there is on all of us to perform. I keep telling myself that when I get that check I will be so happy that it won't matter. It won't either. I will make it just fine. I am not going to let a little thing like too few people get me down.