What’s good, yo!
So, I’m at home (early) and since we’re heading out of town tomorrow i thought I would write a bit about what is coming up for us. I think I might be able to get away with an extended post 1) because it’s not late at night so I should be able to keep typing without dozing off and landing face-first on my keyboard and 2) my husband and kids think I’m in the office ‘working’. ‘Cuz that’s how I roll.
Tomorrow we are heading to Vancouver. Not the good Vancouver (BC). The other Vancouver (WA). Jim has a Vineyard pastor’s conference to attend. Yawn. Try as I might I could not find anyone willing or able to watch my children for 3 days so that Jim and I could go together (read ‘together’ as ‘Jim goes to conference. Erika goes shopping in Porland’). So, I’m taking the kids and the dog to some hotel in town and god knows what we’ll do while Jim is doing his pastor thing. Swim? Eat donuts? Watch daytime tv? I’m sure we’ll think of something. Not the vacation I need or was hoping for, but it’s a start. At least it does not involve 3 hour meetings, conference calls and 100+ emails per day. The best news about this trip is that my long-lost friend from high school, Erika Vorie (now Plummer) lives in Portland and I get to see her on Friday and catch up on 20+ years of life--over a latte. Fo’ shizzle.
In other news, and I’m just going to be blunt about this, Jim and I are seriously considering putting the kids in private school next year. Not genius-kid, alternative ed-type private school either (we can’t afford that). Not perochial school. Just plain-old Christian private school. I don’t even really want to get into the details of how we have come to this place, because interestingly enough the minute you bring this subject up for discussion 1) it polarizes people, 2) people (and by people I mean those whose opinions I have NOT asked for) can’t keep their yaps shut about why you are making the right or wrong decision, 3) everyone has a very strong opinion about how they can know things that are totally unknowable--like how your kids are going to turn out if you do or do not send them to private school or 4) they want to decontruct my issues about private school to show me how wrong I am about my concerns. Can you tell I’m a bit sensetive about this issue? We still have time to decide so I won’t yet say if it’s a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’. Only that we are working it through. Deciding what we hope will be the right path for our children and our family. I’ll keep you posted so don’t be trippin’.
Finally, and I think I can post about this and not jinx it, I am getting a sort of promotion at work. They are moving me from being a project manager, to being a Lean consultant for the Group Practice Division. This is just process improvement stuff and it would bore most people to tears, but I love it and am pretty excited. Right now, I’m functioning in both roles so work had been a tad, um, busy. But whatever. The end result is that I get to help consult people on how to do things better and more efficiently and all that. I’ve died and gone to process improvement heaven. Don’t laugh too hard. Aside from being president (which at this point in my life may not happen), this might be what I was made to do. And it’s better than hustling.
Jim is taking this summer off school and hoping to spend some time relaxing and spending more time with the kids. He still has to work two jobs so not sure exactly how relaxing it will really be. But at least it’s better than working two jobs and going to grad school. That’s whack, yo!
Finally, for all of you folks out there who don’t understand my super cool and hip ‘slanguage’ you might want to try out this righteous book I found on the internet “What's a Fo' Sheezy? Over 300 Questions from Slanguage to Get Teenagers Talking”. If you want to be slick like me, you can order it here
And, yes in case you were wondering, I DO crack myself up.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
