admitted

today i checked my application status and found i've been admitted back into uta. i have to figure out where i'm going to live now, and its rather bleak looking. if mark gets a job in dfw and we move up there before january, i won't have to worry much. i'm going to apply for dorm housing just in case, but i'm going to put it off until my acceptance letter comes in the mail because there really isn't any hurry. living in the dorm is not appealing, but its super cheap, so it could be worse. i've paid a lot more for that torture before, so that's at least an improvement. in the mean time the kids are going to have to start school here in san antonio. their elementary school still won't answer the phone or return my calls, so i'm just going to have to go by tomorow to check on their registration. i should have made this decision last january and then i would be leaving in a couple of weeks and not having to fret for the next few months. oh well...

5th time's the charm?

I submitted my application to return to college once again last friday and the suspense is getting to me. I have this horrific luck with forms getting to where they need to be and so I've submitted really early this time. Everyone is being super supportive. Hopefully things will work out this time.

My health problems, it turns out, are very simple. I'm carbohydrate intolerant. The southbeach diet is the most common low carb diet out there, so that's what I should be doing. I tried a few months ago and had a lot of trouble adjusting to the blood sugar drop off that occurs when you don't eat at correct intervals. All that time I was vegan, it turns out I was still having problems because I ate so much rice and potatoe. I didn't even know people could be carbohydrate intolerant. Now I just have to learn to adjust my diet and not eat deep fried buttermilk biscuits like I did this morning....

I need to do school supply shopping for the kids, and make sure the school didn't screw up their registration. Pre-K here we come.

New Technology

Colored bubbles and spray on drugs are the amazing things I love today. I loved patches, but sprays seem so much cooler. As for colored bubbles, I have no words for how awesome that is.

A long time ago, a couple of people who like to request technology out of me as though I were Merlin, asked me for two things: a personal protection forcefield type bubble, and a patch to release medication. The forcefield is a long way off, but the term contact high just got a lot more literal with transdermal technologies spray system. Five minutes to absorption of allergy medicine? I don't have to wait and hour and forget I took it? wow

job searching

now the job search is going into overdrive. i've started getting everything in line to apply for federal jobs. as it turns out, they have the most thorough and inefficient means of accepting applications, which is interesting, but not surprising. its nice to know the screening process is so in depth since the pay is quite good and we all pay for the work. its sad that in this day and age you have to print tons of paper copies of your own records and send them in the mail to apply.

as for the rest of the plan for moving, we went from owning a bed, coffee table and desk, to owning a dining table and chairs as well. estate auctions are awesome. i just hope mark likes it. i think i'm going to keep it very minimal and buy either a couch or 2 lounge chairs and call it quits. i'm thinking of selling off all my books, but i don't really know how to go about it just yet, and they're mostly paperback anyway. giving everything away is much easier and feels better in so many ways, so maybe i'll give them to the library. at this point, the idea of moving them all again is nauseating.

i hope my kids will deal with this move well. its the first one they'll remember. they've been so catered to and spoiled since we've been living with extended family that just having me and mark is going to take some getting used to.