Yes it has been a long time. But enough about that.
William saw a mole on my back the other day. He asked what it was and we told him it was a mole. He asked what a mole was. Maeghan said it was something old people get. I sent her to her room but since she can outrun me, I could not make it stick.
We have been busy and not so busy for a while. Just got over a bout of stomach flu. Maeghan and me mostly but William stills tells us he is sick. He was sent home from school a few days ago. We got a call to come get him and then about 2 hours later, we got a call to come pick up Maeghan. It seems there were a lot of people sick in school that week. I think we are all over it but I still feel a bit queasy when I eat. Not that it keeps me from eating but it is a bit unpleasant so I can't enjoy the full belly.
The kids are on spring break in a couple of weeks. We were planning on doing something as I took vacation for it but we seem to have a couple of other things to do later in the month that I need to take off for, so we will probably just stay home.
At the end of October, we have a wedding to go to in Queensland. One of Juanita's friends daughters wedding. I have met her but don't really know them well. We have stayed at their house a few times and Juanita basically used to live with them, so we are going to the wedding on a short trip. The wedding is on a Saturday. I will drive up with one of the kids, Maeghan I think, and Juanita and William will fly up on Saturday morning, hopefully getting there before we have to be at the wedding. I think we will be ok as they get in at 06:30 and the wedding is that afternoon but we still have to pick them up and drive to it. I think I remember it is on some island, about an hour or two from the airport, so we should make it.
We will then stay until Monday, when Juanita and Maeghan fly back at 06:00 and William and I will drive back. You might be asking why some are flying and some are driving. Basically, Juanita is doing foster care and she has a little baby with her. The baby has visitation on Fridays and Mondays. Unless we just drove up there and then drove straight back, she could not make it for both visitations. So we have them flying out after the Friday and then before the Monday and I will drive so we have a car available and we can spend a little time there.
We might go to Dreamworld, an amusement park, or something like that while we are there but I think we will just visit some of the old places we used to go to. Like Sutton's Beach, I think I got that right. It is where we got married and there is a big free water park and play area. Maybe we will visit some people but we will probably not have time.
In December, we are going down to Tasmania for a couple of days. We are going to Juanita's father's 70 birthday. Not sure how we are doing that visit. We might do the fly and drive thing again, so we do not have to rent a car while we are there. It is actually cheaper to drive down to the boat and take the car than to fly and rent a car but again, the problem of visitation and the long travel time make it hard to work around. If there are cheap fairs at any time, we will figure out something but we really want to go for this one as we missed both the 60th birthdays and her mother is not well, so it will be good to see them.
Plus, to rent a car big enough while we are there is fairly expensive. Taking our car is a good option. Just have to find the right price for it.
After 8 1/2 years, my job has finally come to a head. I was told to look for something else. Nothing official, or nothing really official, but my boss said to start looking in case it came about fairly quickly.
I have actually found another job and was supposed to have received the offer today but have not heard anything. In the meantime, the job I am in now has been working to find a way to keep me. They think they have done it, but again, nothing official just saying they have agreement in principle to keep me at least until next April.
So, I am faced with a problem. Do I take the new job, which has not been offered yet, and do something I do not really want to do. It is just a job and not really something I want but could lead to other things, including facing being fired in April. Or, do I stay where I am and take the chance that the job lasts beyond April or no one changes their mind and lets me go earlier.
I like what I do now, although to move up anywhere, I would have to move back to America and take my bosses job. A possibility for the job but not for real life. (I can't move my family back to America. They live here and I would not do that to them as I know how much I miss being home and I would not want to put them through that.) And, going by myself is not something I think I could handle. But that is a whole other story.
Anyway, it looks like nothing will happen today, or if it does, it has to happen in the next hour or so, so I will wait until Monday and next week to see what happens. Hard to say which way I will go, but I think I am leaning on staying where I am. Hopefully, in April, I will have the same luck finding a new job as I did this time. Tough chance to take but I really do not want this other job at this time. Maybe things change in six months.
I suppose I should be going and do some work. I have a lot of work this weekend and I will be missing a party on Sunday that I was supposed to cook for. Just a BBQ for someone's birthday. I would say it is Michael, but that would confuse everyone because it is a different Michael. Michael the son. I have to work on Sunday, all day, so I won't be able to make it.
Means I have to find something fun to do with the kids tomorrow, Saturday, so we can spend some time together. We have found a new park about an hour away that is really great. It would be good to go there for a BBQ but since they are doing that Sunday, we will find something else to do. It should be fun, or I hope it will be. I have been sick so have not had a lot of time with the kids the last week. And, almost every other weekend, we have had grand kids or other people over so we can never do anything just for ourselves. I hope that has not changed while I have been here, but sometimes, things change and I do not find out about them until they actually occur, so we will see when I get home.
Still more stuff to talk about, it has been three months, but I will leave it until next time, whenever that is. Until next time.
Talk to you soon.
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