Under Contract... and WICKED!

On Monday I received a phone call that I missed. It was St. Paul Public Schools. More importantly it was the Principal from the school I interviewed with last week. She left a message to call her back.

2.5 hours later of phone tag, she told me she wanted to hire me.

I signed my contract with St. Paul Public Schools today to be a full time Middle School English teacher! ;) Surprisingly, I will be making more money then I ever did while in the business world. Now, does this mean that I just worked for a crappy company that didn't pay me crap, or that the teaching world is catching up to the times. I would prefer to say they are catching up with the times!

On a Secondary note, my Mother and I went to see Wicked last night, and it was awesome! Honestly, I didn't know what it would be about until 20 minutes before the show, but it was amazing, and everyone should go and see it! The writer is very creative, and took some good liberations with the plot, but still made it believable with the original Wizard of Oz!

Lady

Lady has been a handful, but we have been enjoying every minute* we have been with her. These first few pictures are of Lady when we were at Josh's parents house... she has grown so much... She also really enjoyed the new toy she got to play with while we were there... a skunk with no stuffing and a squeaky on each end of it. She wouldn't let it go!

*The minutes she is not biting us!

Lady needed to see what was going on. My goal was to get a close up of her face... haha... I didn't mean a close up of her nose and mouth!

This is blurry, but she was so confused by the rain... she kept running around trying to drink the water that was falling on her!

On another note, I had an interview yesterday. I got the phone call 55 minutes before they wanted to meet with me. As I took the time to shower, walk Lady, and drive there I mentally went through what I have done and what I can talk about during the interview. I proceeded to get side tracked as there was a huge accident on 94, and I had to figure out the back roads while my Jeep was overheating. It was awesome.

The interview went as well as it could go, and I think I did alright. They will call me either way sometime next week. BCMS please hire me.

Home Ownership

The spring should not look like this...

The garage door still isn't fixed. Let me tell you what has happened so far.

1. As I asked my good neighbor to help me open the door manually when I got home from work, he looked at it and said that I could buy a new spring and he could help fix it.

2. I bought a new spring for the price of 21.49 at the local hardware store.

3. He along with another good neighbor fixed it while Josh was at work and Lady was in her kennel. I sipped a beer.

4. Two days later, it didn't open. I had to manually open it with Lady trying to get in on the action.

5. First good neighbor is out of town on a work trip. Damn.

6. Josh is at work, and I can't do anything about the door. I call All American Garage Door Co. recommended from my Mother. (who recently had a new door put in)

7. Corey comes to service the door. He says he is going to try something, I drink coffee.

8. I get handed a bill for 153.00. The new spring (which has rust on in) cost 69.00. Okay. The garage door is fixed, whatever, I don't have to deal anymore.

9. I pay with a check.

10. An hour later I have a fence company come and give me a quote so we can take Lady off her leash and let her run free in the yard.

11. 8 hours later, the door won't close. Josh has to push the button 3 times, after I had already 'closed' the door.

12. Next morning (this morning) Josh called the MPLS company and left them a strong message. I told Josh he called the wrong one, I had used the St. Paul company. He called them.

13. A new service guy is coming tonight at 5pm. Josh will be home to deal with him. I will sip a beer.

14. The joy of home ownership.

Secondary note: Josh and I will not be getting a fence this fall. We will however, be buying an electric 'shock' fence this week. Hopefully to be installed Sunday morning.

Third note: Will someone please hire me... I need a break from all day Lady watching... my hands are for sure not ready for any modeling...

Lady thinks that she is a lap dog. She is not going to be for much longer. This was last Friday when I got home from park. She barely fit!

Waking up...

This morning I awoke to Lady scratching and whining to get out of her kennel. I should be okay with that since she gave us an additional half an hour of sleep. Josh took her out and let me crash for another half hour. Yes. That was very nice! However, when he came in, he let me know that our garage door is broken. Sweet. On top of that Lady has ripped off almost all of the foam around the air conditioning pipe. Awesome.

She is now napping while I have my last cup of coffee and see if there are any jobs available... or just spend some time reading other blogs. Not sure yet.

Happy Wednesday!

*3 days left of park!*

Last Week of Park!!!

This summer I have been a 'Senior Playground Leader', which means that I have spent the summer afternoons outside playing, rain or shine! I have really enjoyed my time with the 20+ Ten to Fourteen year old 'teens'.

But I am so excited this is our last week! Especially since we have added Lady to our family... I feel that I keep running out of time.

Which means, I am and have been hitting the ground running to get a real teaching job. Some applications have been sent, and things are in process, so at this point only time will tell.

Here are some of the Lady pictures from the past few days... some of her classic moves that I love!

She would sit so nice watching everything, then she needed to make sure I was still around!

Dear Santa, for Christmas I would like a hose reel that hides the hose. That way my hose might stand a chance at living.

Here, Lady was at my Aunt and Uncle's house keeping the bucket of water from her new BFF. We are pretty sure that Tic-Tac (the older dog in the second picture loves her).

Note the red leash under her. No, she wasn't attached to it. She picked it up and carried it to the farthest point it would go, and laid down on it! Perfect. Even if she isn't on it, she needs to be touching it!