A New Twist

Well Howdy there!!

Asking me how I am is taking a chance on having your ear bent, your shoulder dampened and your time stolen!

There have been a few twists in the Mankey family life just in the last 48 hrs!

I have three minutes to tell you all about it so get your tea/coffee/wine and I'll type as fast as I can (forgive typos, I may not correct them)

First, three weeks ago we got a puppy. She's a darling little Malti-poo (Maltese and poodle) with a little teddy bear face. She's black with white on her nose, under her eyes, on her ruff and on the tips of her toes.  She's feisty, too. Barks at Hamlet all the time. Wants to play with him. He just growls at her, teaching her some boundaries. She's a pain in the butt tho....I think she's really a "shitty-poo"  She can't seem to get that concept of pooping OUTSIDE...why just this morning she left a little present on my pile of clothes that need to go to the dry cleaners!  Bless her heart!

I've been sick with the flu and a sinus infection since the first of the year. I'm on my 2nd round of meds and I think it's getting worse instead of better. In the third week of being sick, I got a job! Yippee! part time, no bennies, but great pay--9:am to 1:pm. at a mortgage company only 10 minutes from home.  I really am enjoying it and the people are great.  Of course I was ill, so thick headed and coughing up a lung every 10 minutes or so I'm sure wasn't appealing to my coworkers. However, they are grooming me to do funding while the woman training me is on mat leave from June to whenever. I'll get a raise then, too.

In addition to learning the mortgage company, I got a part in a community theater play, Little Women. I'm Marmee (the mom).  Learning lines is not the easiest thing to do when trying to simultaneously learn mortgage loan laws and documentation!!

Scott then gets laid off last Tuesday.  That was his last day at Bo(r)ing...at least it was until I told my mgr that I could work full time, since he was going to be a house husband.  She jumped at that chance....now I'm full time and guess what? Scott gets a job---a great opportunity, somewhere in BF Georgia !!!!  He'll be gone for anywhere from one month to 6 months.  He's going to leave as early as next week, maybe.  So I now have the opportunity of finding child care before and after school.

That's not all, oh no, boys and girls, that is not all...but I need to get the girls to school and my butt to work.

Did you ask me how I am? Are you sorry yet?

Love you and miss you,

Today I'd be leaving on my cruise with the dec moms!!!  8^(

I'll write again, I hope, soon,