Real life happy
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New job starts on Monday. It is a huge step up for me but I think I’m excited for it.
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One of my college kids texted me this morning saying he was going to try to finish a paper that’s due on monday today and if i was available he’d like to come home tomorrow afternoon so that he can surprise his littlest bro for for his birthday. He finished the paper, we worked out when I can go get him, and he’s already planning stuff to do with just him and little bro. I have one that works on the weekends so can’t (but texted me excited about a package he’d just sent off for little bro) and the last big bro is coming home as a surprise next weekend. And I didn’t text or remind them of youngest’s birthday coming up either.
Honestly I think my youngest is the luckiest kid in the world when it comes to his sibs. I worried about the spacing a bit, since they’re so significantly older. But it’s amazing to me how they each individually cultivate a close bond/relationship with him even though they’re launching into their adult lives now. And I’m thrilled at the timing too because youngest has been having some really tough weeks at school and I think this will be a really nice boost.
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@mietze You should be congratulated for raising proper adults, and this is the proof right here.
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This is super mixed. I for sure have a job next year!!
But it isn’t either of the jobs I expected. The ones I thought:
Job a) Same I have now, K-8 intervention. Work with small groups to fill gaps.
Job b) Classroom teacher, likely 2-4 grade, probably mixed level.
What was just offered:
JOB c) K-5 intervention .75, and k-1 technology. .25
I told my boss sure, whatever, but TBH I hadn’t considered job c. I wouldn’t call myself a technology expert, though k-1 tech is mostly problem solving, engineering, and basics of computer use.
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The lady who we bought our new home from is amazing. She’s still moving out while we are moving in and she is the nicest person. She’s an empty nester who is downsizing and she’s leaving us:
Coffee bar and shelf
Giant kitchen hutch
Bakers rack
Bar stools
Like four couches, including an awesome high back one in my room
At least three tables
Some shoe racks
And idk what else.Here’s our boxes in our new basement, and we’re not done for today
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@Cobalt Mr Rogers always said to look for the helpers. That lady’s a helper.
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@Gasboy she’s amazing!!!
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@Cobalt As someone who had to move recently and it was… traumatic, I am happy that yours is going well.
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@Gasboy I’m sorry to hear that. I’ve had traumatic moves as well. Nothing as fun as packing up as much as you can find in a two door coop and driving across the country.
This move is very stressful but also happy.
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In contrast to all my frustrated ranting on the Peeves board, my therapist gave my some resources about Rejection Sensitivity Disorder, how it works, and how it is a very common in women with ADHD and it has been so freaking validating. All my life, I have thought myself over sensitive and a lot of other really bad thoughts because I have hurt my own feelings over someone inflecting on a different word in a sentence than I expected.
I have spent years masking and beating myself up for these types of reactions and feeling very ashamed over crying over dumb rejections or reading too much into conversations. I thought this was something intrinsically wrong with me as a person and to find out that, actually, my gift for pattern recognition also means that I look for patterns where they don’t exist.
My brain is still fucked up but at least it’s not because I am at my core a terrible person? rofl
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@Herja You may not need to hear it, but I’ll just go ahead and say that you’re not a terrible person.
As someone who tells himself constantly that he is a terrible and worthless person because of his own mental weight, it helps when someone else tells you otherwise.
I don’t always believe it, but it helps.
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@Cobalt For me, the only positive thing that came from it, is that I filled up a clothing donation bin. To the top. xD Old clothes, but stuffed animals and other similar things.
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I got a text at almost 1am from the lady we bought our house from telling me that she was leaving us another fridge and an upright freezer…. @.@
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@Herja when I found out about this it was such a revelation. I’m so glad your therapist got you the goods.
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It’s the little things… Like getting a scam call - in this case a Medicare scammer - and completely wasting his time and making him think he got someone who didn’t know any better by giving him totally fake info before telling him to go fuck himself.
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I love when I can approve a kitten adoption. Especially when the foster is worried about their babies and I can gush to them about what an amazing home they are going to.
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Uhmm.
I somehow got an A in the worst class in my entire program, the hell-class that I was seriously concerned about failing in the final semester before graduation, the class that had me in spiralling meltdown mode for two months.
I understand virtually nothing from this class, including how or why I got this grade, but fuck it. I’ll take it.
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I got to see a show.
That is all.
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Our kiddos have been working to change a school board policy that prohibited any animals but service dogs and horses in schools. They researched, wrote letters, presented at board meetings (plural!) and weighed in on the policy rewrite itself.
Last night the board voted and today their class pet was returned to them!! A TV crew came and they were out of their mind excited. Their gasp and pure joy when they realized Noddle (bearded dragon) was back reminded me why I do love my job.
