Well, Halloween was a bust...

We got tons of candy to hand out, got all dressed up and waited for the kids to come around.

And waited

And waited...

We had a total of about 7 families ring our doorbell... in the 3 hours or so that we had the porch light on for them. It was almost depressing! I mean, we were all ready to have a lot of fun with all the kids coming by and scaring them and all the candy we had to give out but no one came...

Our decorations were ok. The carved pumpkins I made didn't even last until Halloween night. This growing season was too wet and rainy so they started to MOLD wayyyy sooner than normal! We didn't even have them for 2 weeks (including before and after they were carved) and normally they last about a month or so. The rest of the yard looked great! And I took a ton of pictures of all the little things we did around the house.


In other news...

Well, Joe had yet another spinal epidoral (injection of Cortizon for his back) which would be his 2nd in a month. The legal limit is 3 every 6 months so it's getting out of hand. He's currently applying and interviewing for other jobs. He has a doctor's note excusing him from work until Dec. 1st when he gets re-evaluated. Until then, he's trying to find another job because he knows he can't stay in this one.

He went to a job fair yesterday and right now he's got some good prospective places - an interview at a debt consolidation place at 7pm this evening and some leads to other places... so keep your fingers crossed for him!!

He's also supposed to start back at school in the Spring for a degree in Social Work and Psychology.


As for me...

Well, things are about to change a lot for me too.

When Joe was at the job fair he talked to some people about the school districts in our area... as it turns out, you don't have to have a college degree or a certificate or anything like that to apply for a Sub position!! Well, he picked up an application for himself and ONE FOR ME!!!

I have already talked to my boss about it... I am going to be switching to Part-Time status here soon and then working as a Sub part-time so I can get my foot in the door for when I complete my Teacher's Aide certificate.

It will only affect my hours a little... I'll lose about 10 hours or so a week and I'll lose my insurance (which I can always get by myself) and it will open up a day or 2 to where I can sub for the school district. I'm going to try and work 3 days a week (plus Saturdays) here and then the other 2 days I'll dedicated to subbing. I figured out that if I work regular hours Monday and Friday and worked open to close Wednesday, worked Saturday and took Tuesday and Thursday off for subbing then I wouldn't really lose that many hours out of my check so it would be enough to support our bills and everything and yet give me enough free time to really concentrate on studying when I'm not subbing.

Oh, and last week I decided that (since everything was up-in-the-air about Joe's job) I'm going to take another online course when I'm done with this one that concentrates on Psychology.

I'm planning on eventually being a school Guidence Counselor or something of that nature and a little Psychology background would only help me out! I figure that I can narrow it down to Child Psychology once I get into school for my Teaching Degree. I am going to work on that certificate from the time I'm done with this Teacher's Aide cerificate until next Fall (when I hope to be back in college).


Anyways, just thought I'd fill you guys in on everything going on here! I'll be back in a few hours/days/weeks to answer all my messages but until then....

I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!




I love my dA family - you all have proven to be the best friends I could ever ask for... loving, supportive and understanding - More true friends I've never found.



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