No word yet, on any of my resumes or temping or whatever. I did, however, see that my degree status has changed in the campus info system, meaning my stuff has been processed and I honest-to-god have a master’s degree. So, that’s cool.

Ingrid starts at daycare on Monday, regardless, and if I don’t have any temp assignment, I’m still going to take her to transition her, and then go to the superintendent’s office to fill out subbing applications. And that’s fine, because a gradual transition sits better with me, anyway.  Damn, I hope I get a bite, get something, some kind of forward motion with this whole ‘job’ thing.

Being all consumery and crap, part of the way I keep this job-fire lit is to compile mental lists that employment will afford us… aside from daycare, of course. I could use some new glasses, we’d like to do the windows/roof/siding eventually, and the big "I will research into the ground" product is a new car for me, because of the whole uninspectable thing going on with mine. WHich, I’m totally not worrying about, the new rules are set up to make it so that poor people can’t drive, and right now, I’m poor. I’ve been hearing lots of crazy "the car didn’t pass because" stories, and fuck, mine WON’T pass, to get it to would cost more than I paid for the car, probably, so I’ll just wait and if I get a ticket, whatever. Cheaper than a sticker.  ANYWAY. While we love our Subarus, our local dealer totally, completely sucks, and we’ve always said "oh, we’ll just go to dealer-in-a-town-an-hour-away" but as we tried to figure out how to get my car inspected/serviced there, we realized that tha was a real pain in the ass, too. I love my Outback, but now we’ve been talking about small SUVs — the Toyota RAV4 and the Honda CR-V. My SIL had the CR-V a few years ago and didn’t like it, didn’t like the AWD as compared to a Subaru, but damn, there’s a lot of pros to that car (not the least of which is that it’s sold by an in-town dealer that doesn’t have a horrible reputation, and that is also a client of Dave’s, which lowers the ‘I’ll screw you over’ threshold to about nil, since he gets on well with the president/owner/whoever guy, who is just a few years older than us..)  Toyota isn’t a client, but my folks have switched to Toyota because they like the dealership and service people so much.

Anyway, it’s all a fantasy world right now, of course, because I don’t have a Damn Job. I haven’t had a car payment in five years, and haven’t shopped for a car in, god, ten. (Holy shit! TEN?!) The last car I shopped for I bought from the Honda dealership, actually, but it was a used ford, and they were good to me then, too. (TEN YEARS, though? HOLY FUCK.)  Regardless, that wouldn’t be for a loong time, summer, anyway I’m thinking, but just daydreaming about having a new-to-me car is a little bit exciting. . .

In other news, my parents are coming back tomorrow, after having their return flight cancelled and rebooked for tomorrow because of the Texas ice storm. They lost a day with grandma by being stranded in San Antonio (it was a trip to grandma’s with a meeting in SA stuck in the middle) and then gained that day back with the flight cancellation. Of course, we have a nor’easter incoming, so that might fuck up their return flight, too, and almost certainly guarantees they wills tay with us tomorrow night (which is totally fine, Ingrid will be excited about that, I think.) Denver blizzard screwing with my family’s travel plans? check. Texas ice storm doing the same thing? check again.

I’m tired. I want a job and a known income and my savings account to grow quickly. Yawn.