So I am officially back to work-full time at 30 hours! I am working for the same company where Mom B is staying. Wonderful! I have my old work schedule back-4 days a week, Mon-Thursday. I get all benefits because it is considered a full time job. The staff are jealous, but it is what the company wanted-little more than part time but not exactly full time. That way I don't take away the hours from the 40 hr /week staff. But I am a steady employee, and one more person to share weekends. We have to work one Saturday a week, which is fine. Sometimes it is not as busy and you don't have to work at all. Plus they have a weekend therapist so we are just back up. I am excited to have a new OT home and have been busy bringing in some of my supplies. The place was getting quite busy and they actually wanted me to work last week, but I needed some time to get things done before starting full time. Like going to the dentist. I figure I would have plenty more chances to pick up more work. And I did-they asked me to work Friday during my first week of work. Now I just need some more black scrub pants and a new shirt since we wear uniforms. At least I have an official name badge now!
Allison was also back to work after being out sick all last week. She really did not take sick time however as she brought her computer home and worked from there. Unfortunately, I cannot do that in my line of work, but she was able to and feeling much better over the weekend. Just in time to house and pet sit for friends. She spent the weekend at our friends house watching their two cats. One of the cats was a stray kitten that their daughter brought home from college. The family headed down to Florida over the Holiday weekend(Martin Luther King holiday). We had some nasty weather come through, but Allison was able to drive to their place Friday night and came home on Saturday for dinner. Then we both went over to the house for awhile for me to meet the kitten and feed them and play with them for awhile. Allison decided to come home for the night. She was having a hard time sleeping in their big, empty house. And the kitten kept waking her up, jumping on her feet every time Allison moved in the bed! But she headed back over early Sunday morning to spend the day until the family returned.
Allison has been very busy these past few weeks with volunteer opportunities for both Girl Scouts and with Northrop. She was asked to be on the GS Gold Award committee which meets twice a month to review GS Gold Award projects and deny or send them through. She really enjoys the new position. She was also asked to be on an interview committee for the GS Shadow Girl program where GS high school students are chosen to follow a businesswoman in our Baltimore area around for the day. Allison had the opportunity when she was in high school to shadow Jeannette Partlow, owner of Maryland Chemical Company and it was the best experience of her life. She ended up doing her summer internship at the Chemical Company when she was in college and has made a wonderful friend and supporter from Jeannette. So Allison will be on the committee choosing girls for the same type of experience. And she is still signed up to help out with the after school science programs offered by Northrop once a month.
She also spent her time catching up with college friends home on break. Here on the east coast, universities don't start their spring semesters until February. So the kids have the whole month of January off. Which is nice because they have a one month winter school semester available for taking travel abroad classes, or retaking classes they may have failed. Allison once spent the winter term at Salisbury repeating an Accounting class with a different professor and did much better the second time around, although it was very intense with classes 4 hrs long each day. But at least she understood it better and got a better grade. And she did not have to take a full semester, just 4 weeks.
Not so for Scott. He just finished his first two weeks of his Spring term at Western and was not happy with his calculus instructor or the schedule. He needed to retake the initial calculus assessment exam given to all students since he scored so low, but students are allowed to retake the test up to 3 times and only needed a C to pass. He did so poorly mainly because he has calculus and physics back to back, and the class before calculus was running late so they had less time to take the test. And he could not stay later like the rest of the students since he had to leave for physics, so he did not have a full hour to take the exam. He did much better on the retake, getting a B and passing. But now he is looking to change classes. He really doesn't want that scenario to happen again where he is rushed through an exam. And he enjoyed the instructor, but she was very intense and moving quite quickly through the work. This is Scott's first experience with Calculus and he really wants to understand it(and do well!). So far he seems comfortable with the rest of his classes-two engineering classes and physics.
On Sunday, I was also busy catching up with Girl Scout events. Our choir's Sing A long Event was rescheduled due to the bad weather last Sunday afternoon. We had a great turnout and as usual, it was a lot of fun. And since I knew I was going to be busy on Sunday, I took my mom out on Saturday for a hair appointment and lunch.
We also keep trying to get our neighbors over for dinner to thank them for watching our house and pets while we were away. But everyone is so busy. The next door neighbors that had to deal with Picka our cat were not available when we got back from Florida for us to take out to dinner. Gloria had just taken a nursing job assignment in Naples, Florida. We had wanted to take them out to dinner, but they were traveling down together since Gloria needed a few days to set up an apartment and she also needed her car on this assignment. Usually the company pays for everything, but not this group. So she was traveling with her husband, Dan, who just happened to have some time off since he is a government employee and was on furlough.
They both drove down to Florida and Dan took a plane ride back. So on Sunday we had him over for dinner, along with our friend John D from California and to watch some football. I figured we could get both guys to come over on a Sunday night since Monday was officially a holiday for both of them. Tom made a wonderful prime rib roast and we topped it off with Key Lime Pie in honor of Gloria(suffering on the gorgeous beaches down in sunny Florida!) She has not had much luck lately with local nursing management jobs and would have loved to retire, but their youngest son decided to attend grad school out of state, so they needed the extra cash. And we still could not get our other friends over that watched Cookie for us. They were visiting with their son who came home from college on his long weekend holiday. Since when do college kids get Martin Luther Kings Day off? Apparently Scott has the day off too! I was also surprised to hear that it is a paid holiday for me as well at my new job! No matter, I still planned on going in to work. I just get paid double.
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