January Blusterings

Alright, I am very sick of snow!! At least shoveling it! The Christmas tree and other holiday decorations finally came down this week, and our living room is looking quite barren and cheerless. Opening the blinds on the big front window just seems to let seep in the dreary winter landscape.


So hopefully Spencer is at the tail end of his first cold. He has kept both Dacia and I up the last several nights with his sufferings. We've had an exhausting week. The new job at Fidelity is going fairly well. My shift is from 2-11pm Monday through Friday, so I am becoming a bit of night owl. I will typically work overtime until at least midnight, and when I get home everyone is asleep. Since Jonah is in school, that means the only time I see him is if I wake up early enough in the morning before school, so I've had to make it a point to make him breakfast, and take him to school to spend some time with him every day. The rest of the day I spend studying for the series 7 exam for licensing as a stock broker. I have been studying since early December, and so am pretty much fed up with studying at this point. This is the reason I have such a difficult time wanting to return to school. Kudos to all y'all who are doing that and more (Jonathan).




Jonah is doing quite well in school, but his favorite pastime is Harry Potter games on the Xbox. For the last two weeks, he has been telling me about his 4 day weekend over Martin Luther King Jr Day, and how he wants to rent Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for Xbox. I had to explain to him that we have the old Xbox and the game is only made for the new one. Well that didn't deter him for long...He and Jon-Jon received a Nintendo DS for Christmas, and his rejoinder was: "Well then let's get one for the Nintendo!" Too smart for his own good, that one. Jon-Jon is banned from the DS for this week for playing too rough with Spencer and causing quite a bit of pain for the baby, and consternation for the parents. He is pretty sly as well. Every time I stopped by a Target or a Walmart, I had to go search him out of the electronics section where I would find him playing-yep, you guessed it, the floor model of the Nintendo DS. And at home he kept trying to convince me to let him play the Xbox, since I only grounded him from the Nintendo, and that is not the same as the Xbox!

Dacia is coping with our overlapping shifts. The Fidelity job came as a bit of a surprise, and so she didn't have time to plan her shift around mine (my fault of course). She can't wait for her shift bid in May. She currently is working Friday and Saturday nights until 3:45 am, then has to be at church Sunday mornings at 9:00. It's a wonder how she does it! I would be less-active by this point. I asked her about planning for our next baby, and she kind of grinned weakly, and quickly exited the room so as not to have to respond. I was only joking! A little... :) Here she is at 1:15 this morning while working...on her very expensive chair, which she loves...