Our first weeks at home

Swell is well loved.

Me?

Not so much.

Swell was basically told that she has her old job back (at least 4/5ths of her old job) when she returns from Florida.

Me?

Not so much.

Not that I'd want my old job back. My old job was hideous.

Terrible.

Awful.

The worst job.

THE WORST JOB.

Well, maybe not the worst job, but a bad job nonetheless.

I've been looking for work but there hasn't been much advertised. I signed up with a company that offers fill-in services in the metro-Atlanta area. Not much out there and that which was offered is a million miles away. I took one job through that but its only for one day.

And not until August 1st.

I do have a meeting with an OD tomorrow. She has a part-time job very close to our house availableish. She has a couple of days per week for the rest of the summer and says it should become a 30 hour/week job in the fall. We'll see.

While Swell's been working I've been doing a lot of nothing.

A lot.

Of nothing.

Swell and I have had the last 5 days off together. We did our taxes.

Kaching! ... In four weeks.

We also came to the somewhat startling realization that we require somewhere between 8 and 36 hours of continuing education by December 31.

I realize that the spread between 8 and 36 is large and we should know how much CE we need but we have yet to be told.

In Georgia we require 36 hours of CE every two years. So our two years is up on December 31st. We think we have 28 hours done already but may be told that it doesn't count.

In June of 2006 we spent four days in Seattle and received a certificate for 28 hours of CE (necessary to maintain our Washington licenses), however, the fine folks in Washington didn't clear the CE through the organization that determines the acceptability of CE throughout the US. (If this organization OKs the education all state boards recognize the hours). So we now need to ensure that those 28 hours can be applied toward our 36.

Hopefully they will be.

As it stands now we need to obtain at least 8 hours of CE before December 31. So we have a few choices.

Florida at the end of October.

Or Las Vegas at the beginning of October.

They actually would end up being about the same cost.

I plan on going to the conference that is being held in Florida next year as I'll hope to be interviewing for a fellowship at that time (it won't be in Florida next year but it is the same conference).

So we're leaning toward Las Vegas because we're game for a good time and by early October we'll hate our jobs again and be eager to leave and have a good time.

Make sense?

Now how do we pay for it?