Oh awesome! Interview prep sounds promising - hope it went well!

I finally did my cleaning! The weather turned rainy and cold after dinner, so instead of taking a walk, I cleaned the bathroom and did the vacuuming. I'm satisfied with how things look.

And I'm tired! Hopefully I will manage an early night today :D

I am home now. I hope it went well too hahahah Overall I feel it went ok - Pretty good even. I know my face felt hot a lot. I do that when I get nervous, so who knows if I was blushing or not. There were 7 people there - lucky I knew all of them, if not all that well :P He said they'll "make a decision to fill one position by the end of next week". AND mentioned he knew there was a job fair tomorrow.... Great thanks dude. You're making me wait another week EEEEEEEEK. So annoying. I get it though, I have no idea if he has OTHER interviews, he made it sound like he did, when he was talking to the others near the end (as he said "you'll need to keep track of what question you asked, as well as the answers, but also what answers were given when other people asked a question")....like I said, made it sound like they had at least one other interview.

Now I am just not sure if I should go to the job fair or not. I mean, it won't HURT to go, but I really am like, WHY go if I am going to get this position?? I have printed off copies of my cover letter and resume (even though its available online). I might just go anyway, say hello to whoever is there. I mean, like, what if HE (principal) is there or SHE (VP) is and they dont' see me there, then they think I'm expecting the job - which ok yeah, I AM since they asked ME for an interview, not me asking THEM....but still that would look ooooh whats the word, not bragging, not superior, but well....maybe you know what I mean anyway.

If I go to the job fair, I don't know how long I would stay, it can't take that long, since its only 2 hours to begin with, and I'd only talk briefly to like 10 people (the other 10 elementary school representatives)....and hand over my stuff. But then I have the Mother/Son Sneaker Ball from 6-8 to go to after that. Phew. LONG LONG DAY Especially since my professor is also coming to observe tomorrow tooo!!! Phew. Phew Phew Phew. TOO MUCH at once :P

That does sound like too much! Update us when you know whether or not you're going, regardless. I think I vote for going to the job fair... but I definitely wouldn't hold it against you at all if you didn't go, what with the full day and everything!

It's already late. I have to get myself ready for bed. Chit chat tomorrow though!

I think I will go. I mean, on one hand I feel its pointless, since I'm most likely getting hired at my school - but on the other hand, I feel I should put myself out there, since I don't HAVE the job as of this moment and before scheduling the interview, everyone knew I was going to go to the job fair.

I went to bed around 10 - woke up around midnight. Ugh. Tossed and turned a lot during most of the rest of the night. And then finally fell asleep I guess because I woke up at 530!! And was shocked at what time it was.

I think I'm stressing about everything happening at once. Maybe once its all settled again, I will sleep better ?? I hope. Because, I had that interview, my professor visiting today, the job fair, the dance, Shane coming home every weekend, Anna texting ME about she needs the money to pay the filining fee becuase those idiots have blocked each other again, waiting on the appraisal to be scheduled and happen, and then waiting on the mortgage as well to see how that goes after the appraisal.... Plus the wedding, with the family all asking me MY opinion on things or what is best (what does Katie want) when Katie hasn't told me a damn thing other than what they already know....And then my dr apt in April and taking a halfday personal day for my own graduation as well - both of which I need to schedule a sub for. SEEE!! SO MUCH! I think maybe thats why I'm not sleeping so well. Its affecting me....all the unknown and exciting/scary changes.

Yes! That is a LOT you are dealing with! D: Totally makes sense it would affect your sleep, whew. After today the list will be less long, and maybe you can try getting the family to back off on wedding stuff, since you're not really involved, and once everybody knows that they can bother someone else hopefully?

Fingers crossed in any case! Hopefully you still get something out of the job fair, and enjoy the dance.

i think they are asking me so they don't have to bother her. which i can understand. but i just am not involved. i can give some advice based on what shes told me. but the main thing is who will be where when and who wants to meet up and be together since we haven't seen each other in forever. like Nathan was 5 the last time i saw my eldest brother who lives in Utah. Nathan is now 19 almost 20. i can only rearrange souch tho..my neighbor is watching my dog for me for the three days I'll be gone and i don't really want to make it more trouble for her ... plus i already reserved the car rental...so only so much i could do there.

good news is the appraiser finally called. so that inspection will be tuesday. bur he wants to do it at 10am. so nathan will have to be awake and let him in and deal with the dog as I'll be at work.

You got this, Kat! It sounds like you're as prepped as can be both for the wedding and the inspection.

Subeta today was sloooow for me, but right now it's going fast like a bullet train. Wheee! 🥳

Edit: I need to get off the computer and ready for bed, but first! I just checked out the seasonal quest point shop and oh my. There's SO MANY CUTE THINGS. First off, of course, the beanbags, but there's also so many cute and nice wearables! I need to laser in on doing my legacy quests more consistently so I can get stuff haha :D

I have got everything but books from all seasons of the seasonal quest shop. but i need a lot of books from the regular quest shops and they're cheaper so im getting those first

well. job fair went well. I even got an offer for a PreK spot. but at a school im not sure i want to go to. mainly because i know nothing about it and dont know any people there. i didnt expect to find a PreK spot !! my principal was there too and asked me to talk to him before making any decisions so even tho that other principal came back witha. precontract offer...i told him i needed to speak to my principal first. i am leaning towards staying where i know people. even tho i really want a prek spot

and then i stopped at firehouse subs for dinner and my car battery dies. cries and now my steering isnt working after i got it jumped off so i am waiting on a tow.

why is it everytime something goes good, something goes wrong??? EDIT: I got home around 730. Tow truck driver believes it to be the alternator. he got the car to crank back up (it sounded a bit glitchy but it did crank) and backed it up, having as much problem with the steering as I did. Then he positioned the tow truck and when he went to drive the car forward onto the dolly, it died right as he pulled it into place sigh Hopefully Ryan can replace that for me. He is coming here in the morning - was going to pick up his mail. So now he's going to take me to work, and HOPEFULLY fix the car.

Glad the job fair went well! That does sound like a difficult decision too, between new place but they offer the PreK position you want and old place which is familiar but does not yet offer that PreK position.

And oh no! Sorry about your car, that sounds a bit scary that the steering won't work 😱 fingers crossed as well that Ryan can help.

Did you still make it to the dance or was that over with the car giving up on life?

No, I didn't go to the dance. I didn't have a way to get there or home, with my car acting up. Plus since I didn't even get home until 730 - it was from 6-8. I am very sad I missed it. I saw some pictures this morning, they looked like they had so much fun!! I enjoyed the Daddy/Daughter Dance back in February, so I am sad I missed this Mother/Son Sneaker Ball!!!

Ryan and the tow driver both said if the alternator was out, the battery wasn't being powered, and that can affect the steering - not enough power to run it or something I guess. I'm not a mechanic, I didn't quite understand, other than, NO BATTERY NO WORKING CAR :P (ok I understand more than that, but its the simplest explanation lol)

Legacy isn't loading this morning. Yay. I'm working on kumos quests anyway.

edit hahah I say that and then refresh the page and it loads. Of course. :P

Haha, yes, Subeta is all over the place - the moment I say it works well it stutters, and vice versa!

I'm also very far from a mechanic :P so battery not working means car not working makes sense! Cars have become more and more electronic throughout the years, I imagine the battery does more than just power the windshield wipers haha!

Sorry to hear you missed the dance! I thought you probably did, with getting home so late.

Yep! Exactly LOL

Anyway, Ryan is here. Its almost time to head out to work - Nathan's still asleep - that is between them if Ryan wants to wake him up to make him help or not. I warned Nathan his daddy was coming over to work on the car and might wake him up.

I guess I'm going to head out in a bit and hope for the best. I'll be talking to my principal today about the job/s. Make a choice. Pretty sure its already made in my heart and head - to stay - given that choice. Be where I know people and have relationships vs going to the unknown.

Updates later!! Bye for now!

Bye!! Best of luck 🍀

I'm glad it's Friday, I'm tired of my job. Mid-week the drag hits me and I stop wanting to do anything, and then on Friday I get some energy back because almost the weekend! 🥳 If I wasn't constantly anxious about money I definitely would not work full time. Four days a week would be plenty.

My husband is complaining about sudden sharp headaches and I'm doing the constant worried reminding he has to make a doctor's appointment. That's so cliche for a married couple, but alas! I am worried about him and so many men don't take their health seriously or don't take action when there's health issues, I also see that in my father 😤

ohhh yeah..i know all about that with my ex. not my problem anymore.

he got the car fixed. nathan will come pick me up and then go to work. $185 for the alternator. not sure what else he did, besides cleaning the terminal connectors as he realized he couldn't change them. they sre some weird way.

my principal talked to me this morning. the kinder spot is mine if i want it. so i said yes. but somehow my application I have in isn't showing for them to accept me, so i have to look at it again. And he asked me not to tell anyone until it is official with the board of education. Hope that doesn't take long but probably a week. And everyone is asking if I've got interviews or found a spot ....

OK SO FIRST.. OH MY GOODNESS, CONGRATS KAT!!! That's so awesome, to get offered TWO jobs! And I think you may enjoy kinder more than you're expecting to, but if not, at least you'll be in there and have the chance to go down to pre-k when one opens up there.. and you'll maybe get to see some of your little pre-k-ers again! That's great!

And I agree, that's a LOT of change and stress all at once, I'd be unable to sleep, too! Sometimes I'm so stressed that I wake up in the middle of the night in the middle of a panic attack already so.. I'd say that's a definite possibility!

And eesh, but at least the car was an easy fix, and fairly cheap, and Ryan could get it done so fast!

Berry, ugh about the headaches and such. You're right, it's SO hard to get men to go to the doctors (but I mean.. me too, so I get it!). Hopefully he calls and they get him in quick and you both find out that it's nothing!

I've been so busy and so exhausted, with subeta being kind of.. up and down and laggy I just gave up for a bit :P Plus it's just been a loonnnngggg week at work. I got the heater room cleaned out though, and cleaned out two big bags of trash from the shed and garage last week.. more next week, hopefully! And I had to drive Alex to work on Wednesday, but the new brake pads came in the mail that afternoon so we got all four sets put on. Yesterday it was gorgeous out..

BUT TODAY. It's finally Friday!

However.. that means it's also PLAY WEEKEND. So I'll be at the school tonight at 5 to setup for concessions.. probably get home around 10:30.. need to drive an hour away for 8:15 am for accepted students day at Lilys college, that ends at 3 and we need to be at the church for 4 for the soup dinner (they're giving her half the donations for her trip, so she needs to make an appearance), leave at 4:40 to get to the school for call time at 5. Tomorrow we're watching the play, too...

Then Sunday it's at 2 so we need to be at the school for noon, should be done by 6 though! But I feel like the entire next week is just going to be EXHAUSTING.

And I need to run to the city at some point too, and pick up the beach towels that I ordered for their Easter baskets..

TGIF TGIF TGIF

Yeah, YES. Its Friday! My kids have been....restless. Excitable. LOUD. Just....wilder and wilder every day this week. I think they've got spring fever :P I do NOT want to see what next week looks like (and then we have spring break the week after that). But next week includes a school wide assembly, and our easter egg hunt. So yeah. Fun.

I checked on the application, turns out my application I did is on the OLD platform and they need an application on the NEW platform (Why was the old platform still in use? Why is it still giving access and has active links???) But when I try, I get an error page sigh If I can't get it done over the weekend, I'll pop into the office on Monday and show them the error page I'm getting and see what to do! GAH!

Even though I've been home for over five hours....I've been working on my philosophy assignment. So not really relaxing yet. No idea how well I did. But its done. And turned in. And we will see.

That leaves only the PLP, which is due in 3 more weeks, and I've got it like 90% done. My professor and I talked about it Thursday when she came for her final observation, and she said if I only have 1 source, I only have 1 source, and thats fine, but if I find something else to put in there, even better. I have 2 areas that only have 1 source now. (out of 10). And I do still have to do my "self evaluation" part of that, where i decide if I am "in progress" or "proficeient" at each teacher standard and explain why, using my evidence sources.

I know you will be exhausted after the weekend!! But I know you will also enjoy it. Good luck to Lily on the play, college visit, the church donations and the trip!!

I oringally planned on no Easter baskets. Just some gummy bears for Nathan. But...I dunno. I will see if I pick anything up this weekend or next weekend. Shane wasn't supposed to be home, but now he will. I need to see if Katies coming up or not. I am getting a "supplement" for my pay on this upcoming paycheck (on Tuesday) of $2000. So that is why I am thinking of maybe getting some treats for fun baskets (candy, snacks, etc not too much). And we will have dinner of some sort I guess. or lunch. I also still have confetti eggs I bought last year we never used, so they can do those.

[edit] 1010pm I figured out how to circumvent the error message. I noticed it was saying "former employee" when the error page loaded. Now - I am a CURRENT employee. So not sure what is causing that error. But I created a new account using my personal email and added my school email as a secondary email - and have almost completed the application. Its spinning instead of loading my resume sigh I may just save it and try again in the morning.

Ahhh the weekend. Started off good for me, the sun came out (and now went away again but that's okay!), I slept in, rolled out of bed in a good mood!

Husband has a doctor's appointment for Wednesday also!

Mieke so nice to hear from you - definitely good to take a break from Subeta either when you need one or you're just too busy to come here and battle lag, which it sounds like you were :D and the week to come also sounds so intense! I will not hold my breath to have you pop up, but if you need to vent feel welcome :P

Kat that's intense that your kids are feeling Spring so much haha. Good for them! Glad you figured out how to submit the application on the new platform, and nice that you got a little bonus for Easter. Nice food and some treats are always good.

I am mostly hoping the coming weeks will be slow at work so I can make some progress with my reviews, since we're supposed to be finishing this Summer and I am, ah, NOT on track for that. I don't think anybody from the reviewers is so I definitely don't want to stress too much about it (management problem, I am not paid for that kinda thing haha), but it would still be nice to not have Other Things thrown at me continuously so I keep being distracted from the reviews hah.

But! No more work talk from me, my job right now is to relax and enjoy the weekend :D

Relax? What does that mean? I am sure you've noticed I have no idea giggles Well, one day in the future, fairly soon, I may find out!! Or I may fill my hours with some other business. :P

I am hoping the application SAVED. I couldn't tell. And as it was after 10pm I gave up and went to bed. I hope I don't have to redo it all again. I will check on it today, see if I can get the resume to load or the application to submit w/o it (they already have a paper copy!!) - I'm not sure what else they might need for it...but I will see what happens and what they say Monday, once I get whatever I can get done!

Glad your husband has an appointment, headaches aren't fun. Hopefully they can help at the doctors office with that.

My plan for the weekend - finish cleaning up the house for the appraisal. Maybe mow the lawn, maybe not. Maybe clean out around the rosebushes and put down new dirt, maybe not. Upload a few more photos and make a few more comments in the PLP (which is now my FINAL assignment, whew!!) - now if my professor would just grade the things I've turned in and do her observations online. (she did the in person part, but hasn't rated me online on the platform yet for any of the three visits!!)

Stupid kumos keeps giving me "unsecure" messages. Grrr.

Anyway. I came to update. I was able to go back into the application. About half of it had saved. So I completed it again, uploaded the resume (which actually uploaded this time). and submitted it. AND got email stating it was recieved (automated email). Thank goodness. I'll still check with Ms Nancy in the office to make sure everything looked ok or if I need to fix anything and reapply or whatever. But I did my best to get it all fairly accurate (I was uncertain of some specific dates and unsure how to calculate the hours at each college so I estimated) :P

Haha, that's a good point! :D You truly never seem to slow down!

Great on getting the application in (for the second time), fingers crossed it's all good now.

Lag Monster was VERY active today! It seems better now, so I'll try to do some questing. Every Quest Point counts in my current quest to get all many of the Spring season items from the quest shop haha :P