"You are sitting in a CHAIR, in the SKY!!!"

[spritechan]

I accepted a position working as an Assistant Teacher at a Montessori school in the same city that Steve works in. If he can coax his boss into letting him have the later shift (9-5:30 vs 8-4:30), we will be able to carpool. I'm fairly certain my hours will be 9-6 because they specifically said they wanted someone who could close, and thank god for that because the school opens at 6:30am DDDD: I am so ridiculously not a morning person that I don't even think I could manage that. Anyway, the position is full time and Montessori schools have programming year-round (so no worrying about having to find a summer job!). I have the option of advancement to be a teacher if I take their training courses in the future, and I definitely want to switch rooms in the future. They just opened up a young infant program and so that's where I'll be starting. Babies aren't my cup of tea but they're not overly stressful, and hey, maybe working in that room will make me like them more? When I told Faith she about pooped herself in jealousy. She's got mad baby fever.

As for my current job, I've pretty much checked out. Supposedly I'll find out who everyone on my caseload is going to by noon today... a whole two days before I'm leaving. Way to leave time to prepare and talk to the receiving case managers, guys. Woo. So I've mostly been sitting around doing nothing, or updating client profiles and such. I just want to be done - I'm so over it!

Friday I'm getting my IUD checked bright and early at 7:15am, and then I'm going to go fill out paperwork and do some training at 9:15 at the school ^_^ Steve and I have BOTH tried to find my IUD strings as told, and failed... I'm just hoping that they've just so successfully contoured to my body that they're hard to reach, and not that anything's gone wrong. I get afraid of that every so often because once in awhile I'll get a severe pang of cramps, though very briefly. Just freaks me out thinking I got an infection or the IUD shifted or something. I keep looking at the bill - $1500 - and thinking that everything better be okay because that shit was expensive! I wouldn't even go in for this check-up if I wasn't worried I could like, die of some infection if it went wrong. I hate check-ups - they're a waste of money. And I'm about to lose insurance for 2 months so this better be the only thing! Anyway, I have almost enough in my health savings account to pay for it - I'll only need about $100 out of pocket by the time I do pay it. But I'll be paying for the entire doctor's visit this time without my HSA. Thank god Steve and I have been saving like crazy. We'll have well over $5,000 in savings by the time I get my last check from MHR at the end of the month. And then moving in with his family until June or whatever will also be super great.

We watched Louis C.K.'s "Hilarious" the other night on Netflix and both almost died from laughter. Steve doesn't even laugh very often, let alone HARD, but we were both heaps of uncontrollable, gut-wrenching, teary-eyed, can't-breathe, laughing doofs. I would be Louis' friend in a heartbeat. I love Louis C.K. Especially when he talks about parenting, and technology.

So I have all of next week as a vacation week, with Steve having taken Monday and Tuesday off for Valentine's day. Not that we're a mushy couple, just that it's an excuse to spend time together around a holiday XD We don't even know if we're doing anything yet, and we don't plan on getting each other gifts (in keeping with our new ghetto-ish style of living in order to save more). Just extra cutie time together :)

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I really like the idea of you working in a Montessori school, especially since it's been one of those schools I've considered for my own kids (but, we'll see which kids I end up with--for all I know, it may be entirely wrong for the ones I get). I really think you'll do fine, especially with babies. And you may be able to better say one way or another if you want kids....OR if you're one of those people who only like kids in small doses and may want to do something else like fostering or assisting in a day care or so on. Or even if you can't stand under/above a certain age! Haha. But, I think you'll still like the job. Montessori has a lot of interesting philosophies about it that you'll enjoy learning about.

Plus, getting a certificate is NOT the same as going back for a degree--so if you did like it and want to keep going, you won't necessarily be forced into making that decision to going back to school. @_@

And I totally feel you on the checking out of your current job. I've always hated those last few days. I think in your case, it's like the last few days before being released from a hospital where you've been ill for a long time. Showing up is probably a big fight with the temptation to just not go in at all.

I'm glad you're going for a check up with your IUD. Losing the string isn't as big a deal as it seems (did you know that if you got pregnant with it and the thread got lost, they'll just leave it in for the pregnancy?). It's possible to develop an infection, true, but they are pretty rare (from what I've read--I've done some research on it since you've gotten it, out of curiosity and too much time on my hands). Still, since it's so new, I think peace-of-mind is more important than anything.

I'm really glad you mentioned Louis CK in this entry. I read it and immediately looked him up on Netflix. Brian and watched both. We both loved Chewed Up and liked Hilarious. I've NEVER been able to get Brian to laugh as much as he did with Chewed Up! He never really laughs very hard, and this had him laughing almost every few minutes, and for the longest I've ever seen him laugh. It was great fun.