growth.

sprout.
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things are popping up. interviews, potential opportunities, openings. i'm not going to get into it, because i'm not sure how good any of this looks, and i'm not going to jinx myself. growth is coming though. i can feel it.

i'm also craving spring. i want to be growing things. vegetables, flowers, baby seeds. will i even get to have a garden this year? how depressing if i can't. a job could mean a house, and a house will mean a garden. i can't wait for my very own chunk of land. here's hoping...

back in the saddle, aka germs and puppies.

two months in. jeez, it's been two months since i've posted anything, which is too bad, because a lot has happened. then again, there's been a lot which hasn't happened too. still no "real" job. wednesday i have a second interview with monsanto, so that's good, but it's for a contract job for which i'm overqualified. oh well. it won't be the best, but it'll be better. i mean, the daycare's not the worst job i've ever had, but it's hard work. after this stint, i'll be prepared for nearly any and all distasters of the child-rearing sort once we have our own critters. being spit upon? been there. kicked in the shins? yup. explosive diarrhea followed by fingerpainting with said shit? you betcha. kids are crazy. goddamn crazy. oh, and germy. i probably should've mentioned the germs. TONS of germs.

so mom and dad went to florida with aunt karen and uncle jim last week and i've had the house to myself. what a luxury, to have some of my own time again. they come back tonight. hank came here for the weekend, which was really a good time. friday we went to b.hall's, rented "the departed" from a redbox at the grocery store, and gave gemma a badly-needed shower. the movie was good, but the ending could've been better. the redbox could not have been any better. what a fantastic invention! saturday, larry and debbie came over so we could go to love 'n' care and pick out a goldendoodle puppy. it was so much fun to hold and fawn over all the puppies, and to finally (probably) find out that gemma really isn't a labradoodle, but more likely a goldendoodle as well. we saw her dad again, and as it's winter, he hasn't been groomed so he has a long coat. having not been groomed, he looks EXACTLY like gemma. she's a daddy's girl. the puppy that larry and debbie picked out was pretty cute, but i have to say, i still prefer a more poodley dog mix to one with more golden retriever like the one they got. the new puppy really is a looker though, and they've decided to call her elphaba (like the character in wicked).

the godfather's on tv. being that it's my favorite movie, i'm going to watch it. best. movie. ever. (well, maybe except for the godfather II...)