One of those days.

Have you ever had one of those days?  Where you don't even feel like getting out of bed?  Now I'm feeling guilty about it.  One of my friends ran a big race today that was very important to her and had some friends over after she finished... yet, I didn't go hang out with her.  Why?  I don't know.. I didn't "feel" like it.   Then, I started feeling bad, because I know how important it was to her, and I couldn't be bothered to go hang out.  Plus, an old co-worker of mine called me four times today... when I wasn't feeling up to talking to anyone really.


I guess it's just been a long week... hopefully I can sleep it off tonight.

A new step! :)

This week I finally started my job at the Gundersen Lutheran Daycare!  I was so excited just to be back to work again.. I can't imagine being unemployed for a long time, 1 week of sitting around doing nothing was enough for me!  The hospital has so many orientations and things that I have to go through, I'm still not done with all of them yet!  They had to put me in the classroom right away, so I'm in the infant room this week while the regular teachers are out on vacation/medical leave.  So, I'm hoping by next week I'll be in my classroom, getting in the groove of things with my co-teacher, and starting to do lesson plans and all that fun stuff!

I've been doing a lot of crocheting lately, and I am hoping soon to open my own etsy shop!  Here are a few things that I have made recently!

Skull Beanie that I made for my manager at CJ Banks.  I'm pretty proud of this one!

Green Bay Packers wrap around headband.. I am loving these too!

Women's Green Bay Packers hat, this was part of a set for a Mom, Dad, and their son.

Poked and Prodded.

Today was the first step in starting my new job at Gundersen!  I had my pre-employment physical.. and to get a TB test, Tdp shot, and had blood drawn!  Good thing I'm not too afraid of needles... lol.  I think the scariest part was stepping on the scale.  I had weighed myself yesterday so I had kind of prepared myself, but I feel like nothing could have prepared myself for that number.  I am hoping once I get settled in my routine, and now that I have some awesome insurance, I would like to start seeing a nutritionist... I need someone to get me going.

I'm excited to start working again... I've been driving myself nuts with apartment hunting and just really want to be settled in a place.  But, I need a paycheck to be able to pay a deposit, so I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place!  Ugh, life!  :P

What a month!

I feel like I just had a post talking about what a crazy week it had been.. but I feel like the whole month of August was completely CRAZY (and even that might be an understatement)!
We started apartment hunting because we had 7 bats in the span of 3 weeks.  Got a few of them out by myself (boys are such weenies), called Animal Control for a couple, and Bubba helped me catch a few (then we had to get a booster for his rabies vaccination).  We were pretty upset when our landlord said he wasn't going to do more than buy a can of caulk and fill some gaps, and since we hadn't re-signed our lease, we started to look.  I don't care for the place we live... I guess it's a roof over our head, but I feel like for $600 a month, we can get a lot nicer and bigger place.  However, it's extremely hard to find apartments that allow pets!  I love my kitties, but they're making this search hard!

Then, at the beginning of the month, we found out that the Child Care Center I was working in would be closing.  The building we were in had major damage that would cost too much money for the Parish to repair, so they, along with the Catholic School system in La Crosse and the diocese simply decided to discontinue the Early Childhood portion of their school system.  I felt awful for my families.. there are very few centers in La Crosse that take infants... let alone children under 2.  I wasn't worried about finding a job myself, I just wanted to make sure that my families were taken care of.

On that note, I have been looking for jobs like crazy.  Thankfully, I had an amazing boss who gave wonderful recommendations, so I was a shoe-in for any job I applied to.  I interviewed and accepted a position, but then an even better position came up at Gundersen Lutheran hosptial's childcare center.  I was so excited because so many of my kids were going there (I'll be a toddler teacher, so I'll have some of the kids that I had as infants!) so I'll be able to see a lot of "my" families!  It was hard to call the other job and tell them that I  was accepting another position, but they were very understanding.  I'll be starting next Friday, so it's going to be nice to have a few days off to go home and be with my family and my mom who is still recovering from the surgery she had a few weeks ago.

Oh, and to make things even more interesting, my car is breaking on me!  I had to replace my front struts and shocks... so that was about $700.  Thank goodness I won't be getting paid monthly at my new job!

Wow, what a novel.  Anyone who reads all of this gets a cookie... haha.