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Feb. 15th, 2026 06:20 pmJust got back from a lovely afternoon walk in the park with my fiance, where I listed off my plans for the next week. "Wow," he said. "You're booked up!"
I have to keep reminding myself of that, and especially that anyone with my workload on their plate would be a bit stressed. So far this month I've completed my initial application to the alt. certification program, which required writing two essays, purchasing an official copy of my college transcript, and attending a truly ridiculous number of webinars and video calls. At the same time, I arranged for the repair of our oven, which had a part conk out just before the ice storm, and sorted out using the oven-centric dinner ingredients we'd already purchased to make stovetop meals before they went bad.
I also just sent off another round of accumulated evidence to my fiance's mother's lawyers for the custody negotiation portion of her ongoing divorce. There are some specific types of documentation that I was the best person to collect because I'm more tech savvy than her and was unemployed until last month, meaning I had a hair more free time to go digging through text chains and social media comments. That, at least, should be over with now. It's all well and good to be an orphan (by way of estrangement) marrying into a large, tight-knit family, but it does mean there's always something going on. I'm happy to help with the custody suit, though. Unfortunately it's a situation where one parent has made it clear that she will not work with the other, and it's gotten bad enough that my fiance's ex-stepmother has refused to let his youngest brother attend school. Currently he gets homeschooling during the weeks he's with my fiance's mother, and otherwise nothing at all. So something will have to give there.
Next week, I need to get my car insurance and tags up to date. I'm hoping to do the insurance bit tomorrow after a doctor's appointment. It should be a simple phone call, but I hate spending money over the phone and have been putting it off as a result. Then on Tuesday, my boyfriend has symphony tickets. I've already warned him that I'll cancel if I don't get far enough along with my second-round application materials by that evening, but my fiance has bravely volunteered to go along in my stead if he has to. Wednesday is my big interview, where I'm expected to do a five minute response to a dataset they've given me and follow it up with a five minute "sample lesson" before proceeding to a more standard interview format. I'm told it'll last 90 minutes. On Thursday, my girlfriend flies home from Seattle. I've promised to pick her up from the airport.Then on Friday, I'm cooking dinner for my neighbor. We haven't picked a meal yet, so I'll probably go for something fairly simple.
Most of the busyness of my life right now is the exciting sort, but there's still so much of it! With the new job in the mix as well, I'm doing my damnedest to get plenty of sleep and brain rest so as not to burn out.
I have to keep reminding myself of that, and especially that anyone with my workload on their plate would be a bit stressed. So far this month I've completed my initial application to the alt. certification program, which required writing two essays, purchasing an official copy of my college transcript, and attending a truly ridiculous number of webinars and video calls. At the same time, I arranged for the repair of our oven, which had a part conk out just before the ice storm, and sorted out using the oven-centric dinner ingredients we'd already purchased to make stovetop meals before they went bad.
I also just sent off another round of accumulated evidence to my fiance's mother's lawyers for the custody negotiation portion of her ongoing divorce. There are some specific types of documentation that I was the best person to collect because I'm more tech savvy than her and was unemployed until last month, meaning I had a hair more free time to go digging through text chains and social media comments. That, at least, should be over with now. It's all well and good to be an orphan (by way of estrangement) marrying into a large, tight-knit family, but it does mean there's always something going on. I'm happy to help with the custody suit, though. Unfortunately it's a situation where one parent has made it clear that she will not work with the other, and it's gotten bad enough that my fiance's ex-stepmother has refused to let his youngest brother attend school. Currently he gets homeschooling during the weeks he's with my fiance's mother, and otherwise nothing at all. So something will have to give there.
Next week, I need to get my car insurance and tags up to date. I'm hoping to do the insurance bit tomorrow after a doctor's appointment. It should be a simple phone call, but I hate spending money over the phone and have been putting it off as a result. Then on Tuesday, my boyfriend has symphony tickets. I've already warned him that I'll cancel if I don't get far enough along with my second-round application materials by that evening, but my fiance has bravely volunteered to go along in my stead if he has to. Wednesday is my big interview, where I'm expected to do a five minute response to a dataset they've given me and follow it up with a five minute "sample lesson" before proceeding to a more standard interview format. I'm told it'll last 90 minutes. On Thursday, my girlfriend flies home from Seattle. I've promised to pick her up from the airport.Then on Friday, I'm cooking dinner for my neighbor. We haven't picked a meal yet, so I'll probably go for something fairly simple.
Most of the busyness of my life right now is the exciting sort, but there's still so much of it! With the new job in the mix as well, I'm doing my damnedest to get plenty of sleep and brain rest so as not to burn out.
