Okay, I think I’m done. Ish. I still have to write my paper, but the other stuff? DONNNNEE. I’m pretty sure. I’m kind of going nuts, but I’m really pretty sure I’ll be okay.I’m sure I’ll think of stuff I forgot, but I have the sitter on Monday, and was planning on working on the paper on Sunday, but that won’t be too hard as I have all the stuff done for that now, and it’s just a matter of putting it together.

And there’s so much else to do now! Like thank a certain kickass Brooklyn family for the tomato-red hat that Ingrid has been wearing every day, including to get her first Christmas tree, or to get stamps on our damn new year’s cards and get those mailed. Or to even, maybe, get a freaking December photo album up; our families have been politely quiet on this one, but I’ve heard from more than one that they are chomping at the bit for some more photos.  Oh, and to find a damn job, too.

See, i can reallly use a job now. How farking TYPICAL that i have a Master’s! Degree! and even more amazing than that, I have Childcare! Lined up! for End of January! and yet — no job. Today is Ing’s last day at the uni daycare, they all say she’s a great kid, and that she’s really done well, and I don’t doubt it a bit. She really likes going, there are BABIES THERE and COOL TOYS and she is just such a social bug that my fears of childcare have really melted away. I do wish I could stay home forever with her, but half of that is just wanting to be independently wealthy, period, enough to stay home even if I didn’t have kids, but those days are drawing to an end. And really, I can’t even believe how fortunated I’ve been to stay home THIS long, and if I do get a job, the new childcare opens in late January, so I will have had 8 months at home. I do love it, but our savings is circling the drain, my education is done (DONE!!!) (for now, I probably can’t stay away from formal learning for long) and I’m poised to start a Real Career …. if only one would have me.  I mean, my car’s inspection is 6 months out of date, and they just changed the laws, and we have an appt on the 30th to get it serviced, and I’m absolutely terrified that to get it inspectable will cost more then the actual car cost us to BUY. Our furnace died the other night while I was at work, and that cost just over 200 bucks to repair because of COURSE the furnace dies after business hours. I’ve consolidated my loans, but those are going to need to start being repaid soon, too — because my student status officially ended in august, my grace period ends in February. All important reasons to need a job, on top of "my glasses are beat to hell, and I could use new ones" and "ooh, pretty D70!" Ahem.

So, now I think I’m going to network a bit — fire off an email to former professors, letting them know I’m available for hire, will work for car repairs, and, holy hell, have a master’s degree and CHILDCARE taken care of. CROSS YO DAMN FINGERS. (ANd if anyone has any good leads for me — highly unlikely, considering the geography of my readership — let me know.)

(If anyone wants to check my work out, the url is folio.MyFullName.com — if you do, and see something missing or broken, please email me!!)