Good News!!

I submitted a proposal for a Continuing Education Program at the university I attend and it was accepted!! a certain number of CEUs (continuing education units) are required each year for social workers to be able to renew their license to practice social work. I will be teaching a 3 hour CEU course to other social workers about how to practice social work in the NICU. This is great for 2 reasons: 1. I will get experience teaching and will get to add this presentation to my resume, 2. I will get paid to do it. When I was getting my master's, I don't ever remember getting paid to something i needed to do to get through the program. Actually, i remember working at my internship for many hours a week for free. :) anyway, all that to say, this is good news.

Just wanted to say only 5 more weeks of class for the fall semester!!! YEAH!!!

In other news, we have some major projects going on at our house. First off is the pool. michael, my dad and gabe have been working hard in our backyard for the past 2 weekends trying to fix the leak in our pool. it seems that the leak has been fixed, yeah!!!. I think we are going to recement the part of the deck they broke apart this weekend, so that will be 3 weekends in a row we have been able to hang out with my parents. it has been hard work, good times and great food. my mom and i have also had some projects of our own. we went shopping for some new winter clothes for me and we also cleaned out my closet of all the clothes i do not fit in anymore. i have 5 garbage bags full of clothes to donate to the domestic violence shelter. It was so nice to be able to get rid of all those old clothes. losing weight has been very hard, but it is sooooo worth it!!

well, Halloween came and went. we gave out some candy to the neighborhood kids while we studied and then watched tv. nothing to exciting to speak of.

I am really looking forward to tomorrow. i cant wait to find out who won the election. It is going to be so exciting. I know we should probably watch cnn or something, but i think we are going to hang with jon steward and colbert during the election results. i think it will be much more entertaining. anyway, we are in november and I am already ready for thanksgiving. good times ahead.