interviews

well i had my final interview at chr*st hospital today, and after haunting the recruiter from hobok*n hospital, i have an interview monday morning. i am waiting to hear from the recruiter at h*ly name hospital about when i will meet with the nurse manager. both chr*st and hobok*n would be decent since i could walk to work, and (will explain in a sec) won't need a car... d's job totally sucks now. hp (he's been there a year since leaving the temp job he had, which was even shittier) is not giving xmas bonuses, cut their overttime rates by 2/3, and are changing their job codes which will allow them to cut the hourly wage of everyone. now since our parttime nanny (whom we love even after only 7 weeks) makes the same hourly rate as d. our plan is that when i get offered a fulltime position it just makes sense for him to leave and be a sahd since my rate (with the night and weekend shift differential) is nearly twice his. he would then get more aggressive in his nursing school admissions process. i am not totally excited about working nights, but hobok*n is doing 3 12 hour shifts which would be ideal in this situation. i am tentative about how i feel since we cosleep and i feel like i will miss r, but i've been sleeping in l's bed 1/2 the night since sept. due to r's awful sleeping habits... what i really have to do is just enjoy this period, with d not in school and r still only 14 months almost. he is getting so big and i don't want to miss anything. at least this way, i am most likely not working xmas this year and am happy about that... we're getting the boys a train table and eb*y is full of some that we can pick-up and then save some dough!!

update on the flea situation....

well... it seems we are ok. it only took us about 7 weeks or so to get it under control and that is after bombing and spraying for a month. i know there are worse things, but having a severe infestation of any kind is awful...
i have an interview tomorrow with the little hospital down the street. i don't really want to work there but, i think i may be able to get in and it would be terribly close to home. i am hoping that the interview last wed will come through. i spoke with the recruiter today and hopefully i will meet with one of the nurse managers next week...
keeping my fingers and toes crossed

a little about me (little long folks...)

it is the end of november. i cannot believe it. am i done with my shopping? barely started. i will get there, but it will be as always, right at the very last minute.
i have been meaning to post this for months. i have wanted to finish my journal that i started several years ago, when L was months old. but it has been patchy at best ever since.
here we go....
D and i met in 1999, and by the fall of that year, moved in together. very happy and then engaged feb 2002. found out we were pregnant in june 2002. married and bought house in oct 2002. on bedrest in late 2002 to feb 2003. L was born feb 2003. in june of 2003, D lost his job. no severence, no health insurance. i was still at home and getting ready to go back to school for nursing. D is in IT/help desk, and wanted to go back to school for nursing as well. his parents offered that if we sold our house and moved from NJ to MA, we could live with them and finish our RNs. well, as hard as i felt that was at the time, being a newlywed and new mom, i thought it was the best decision for us. it tore me apart but i went and tried to put on a brave face. it worked for a time but i struggled. in sept of 2004, i began nursing school in MA. there were many waitlists and since i already had an undergrad, i started and D did some pre-reqs in the meantime. ok, just of note... nursing school is hard as it is, but nursing school with a toddler while living with your in-laws is rough.
*breathe*
in oct of 2005 i was heavy into my 3rd semester. i got pneumonia and whooping cough at the same time just before mid-terms. while on antibiotics, i realized we put ourselves in a situation where we may get pregnant. to my utter shock, D was surprisingly disappointed when i wasn't. we talked and deicded that it would be a good time to try since the baby would be born after i finished school. we tried and i got pregnant after 3 cycles and finished my last semester. at the same time, we did all the paperwork for D to go to RN school in NJ. i graduated with honors in may 2006. my parents bought a multi-family and we decided that moving back to NJ and then living with MY parents while he went to RN school would be the plan... we moved in july 2006, and i passed my NJ RN boards in august 2006. R was born naturally (YAY!!) on my 30th bday in oct 2006.
since all this i have been at home with L and R. D got a job with HP, but it doesn't make it for us every month. i am now working part-time at my old fertility clinic job but am still searching for a perm RN job, and we are anticipating reapplying D to nursing school before jan. (the other school lost his transcripts 3 times, so needlesstosay, we are looking elsewhere..)
think i'm crazy?!??! no, i'm just trying to do what's best. although some days i just don't know, and don't want to screw us up with a bad decision.
sometimes, i don't know what the best decision is.....