Woo! Spring's here! Well ok I guess it was technically on Tuesday evening but I've been busy. I surprised Tim with a little bouquet of yellow daffodils and white daisies for spring; he surprised me out of nowhere and got us tickets to the Chris Thile e-town show on Sunday - like the Yonder show we saw last month, taped for that radio show. :) The Rock Inn is having the Big Lebowski night tonight - looks like I gotta be Bunny again and see if my bikini will still help me win the costume prize.
Other news is I was offered a seasonal job with "special projects" here at Rocky Mt. I did already say yes to the forestry tech hazard tree job, but obviously I'm not crewleader... If I go to special projects, I will make more money, could start working next week (but still be limited to 1039 hours), and get a pay raise every season I come back ("step" increase - the WG grade is for laborers, and it's way better than the GS that I've been); If I stay at hazard tree, I don't go up in step, and my base pay is fundamentally less as a GS-5 than a WG-5. Plus, I'd get to learn how to completely remodel structures - from the trails lodge on the west side, to rest rooms, to installing water lines to the new fire house... I don't know what to do. I wouldn't be working four 10 hour days anymore and would instead be on 5-4-9's... 9 hour days for 5 days one week, then 4 days the next. I love my four 10s! And I wouldn't get to run a saw every day; though, there is a lot of saw work while building these log buildings.
Well Logan is waiting for me to take him to the dog park. Here's some photos from my St. Patty's Day, and another I found in the archeives. :)
Logan looking quite "wolfy" as he discovers how much fun running in a river can be
Michelle and I do probably our 7th or 8th car bomb on St. Patty's Day
Maria, me, Jenna and Steph looking green and exhausted from dancing!
Me, Jeff, Jess and Amadeo back in the "glory days" at 5th Ave
its still freaking dead in MI. even if it is getting warmer. also everyone is gearing up of mountain biking season. i took my bike in and last night we come home our neighbor is cleaning his bike in the hall, very cool. i miss you tons. sometimes i feel like everyone important keeps moving so far away. sigh.
ReplyDeleteHeh glory days. You mean when everyone was jobless and poor and partied all the time?
ReplyDeleteHmmm so now we have jobs, are still poor, and don't party a tenth of what we used too. So that's a good thing, right? HA