Marching Into Spring -- Ha!

Today was the first day of March and I am very, VERY glad to see that it finally decided to stop snowing around here! I hope we shall see no more of that at least until we roll the clocks back again next fall. Speaking of which I read in the newspaper today that we are just two short weeks away from "springing" those clocks forward an hour. Woohoo!! I can't wait for the longer days! I can already tell that it's staying light out later and it is just such a nice change. Plus, it's so much easier to get up in the mornings when it's actually light outside. It was fun having all of this snow this year but it's time for spring now. I'm ready.

Things are busy here, oh yeah, I know, I do mention that in pretty much every blog post, but only because it's true. Some friends contacted us about getting together for dinner sometime this month so I sent them the list of evenings we would be available to do that. There were only 5 dates out of the entire month of March that I could offer to them as potential hang-out nights. FIVE!!! As in that's literally all of the free evenings that Steven and I have together for the next four weeks. It's just ridiculous. Steven's at drill right now actually. I just had a lovely phone chat with Lena (almost two hours of catching up, it had been a while) and now I'm drinking my second mug of sleepy time tea and waiting for Steven to come home. We're going to watch one of our library movies. We currently have Schindler's List, Backdraft and The English Patient. One because it's a firefighter movie and the other two because the characters on Seinfeld watched them in the movie theaters and there were whole episodes based off of them so we decided we should watch them too. Pretty silly.

Not much else to report. I've been working hard on filling out applications so that I can hopefully start substitute teaching in a few more districts. I figured that way I'd be more likely to get work more than just three days out of each month. I worked today actually, which was really nice, and already have three more days scheduled for the end of the month so I'm off to a good start. I've also been offered a position as a tutor at the Sylvan Learning Center in Maple Valley. I haven't decided yet whether or not I'll take the job. The center is really nice and they have a lot of great materials! I was really impressed with the resources they have and all of the lesson plans and games and math manipulatives and everything. It would be really nice to work in a place that is so well equipped and where the parents are obviously invested in their students' education (clearly since they're will to pay so much for the tutoring) and I really like the idea of getting to consistently meet with the same students and watch them grow and progress. I think that my abilities as a teacher would be valued and put to use in a way that just doesn't seem possible in the subbing world. I'm just not too excited about the idea of giving up those evening times with Steven since the hours would be 3:00-7:00pm. I told the director of the center that I would make my decision about the job by Thursday evening, so who knows, I might have a new little very part time job by the end of the week.

Steven and I have a crazy weekend coming up including spending Saturday driving to and from Hoquiam for an interview with the fire department and the Stairclimb on Sunday. Well, let's be clear, Steven has a really busy weekend and by extent I have a very busy weekend because I'm either tagging along and taking turns driving or trying to find other fun things to fill my schedule with since Steven will be unavailable to me on a weekend that we would normally spend playing games and drinking tea :)