November already!

Every week just seems to fly by! My goodness. We've been busy with the start of High School bowling. We've been getting everything we need to do with Dev done. I can't believe that in less than one year she will be in college. We are sending off applications next week. I wish I knew what we were going to be doing before she has to have the applications in. Here are the schools I want her to attend in the order I want her to attend:

• Farleigh Dickerson-its in Jersey, my Aunt Lyda attended for a class or two there and they have a great women's bowling team
• Delaware State-another top 5 bowling team in the country
• Maryland-Eastern Shores-top 5 bowling team
• Arkansas State
• Univ of Arizona
• Central Missouri

The whole application thing depends on bowling. She's going to be offered, if not a full ride, close to it. I want her to go to the school in Jersey because she can get to my Aunt Lynda's or Aunt Marilyn's house easily if we are in Germany. In case of emergency. It's on the East Coast so a flight home is not far OR we can come see her. Right now we are just waiting on her senior pics to come in to mail off with her bowling video, her recommendation letters and her bowling resume.

Wanna see her senior pics?? I love them. Go to www.shop.prestigeportraits.com user name is aloharev1 and password is seniorpics

Work is going good. I'm in my last two days in communication. I have Mondays and Tuesdays off right now but that could change come Thursday when I finish up my 2nd phase of training. This training has been tougher. It's major multi tasking. Answering emergency calls, dispatching, printing criminal history's for detectives, entering stolen guns or missing persons into a nationwide database. My trainer is hard. She's to the point, abrupt and not so soft and while I appreciate it because I'm learing how to do my job the right way it's difficult because she makes me nervous and when she's not there I do my job with ease and when she's there I feel like a deer in the headlights. I have two more days with her. I just hope I can get through okay. I'm moving to the front desk next. It's a lot of report writing. Not looking forward to it.

What I do enjoy is on my day off going for a ride with Shane. I tried being stubborn and refusing to ride because I didn't want him to have a bike. BUT I ended up loving it. I love the vibration, the wind, the sun, the open air, and holding on tight to my man. One thing my job has done is put more pressure on us as a couple. It's the adjusting period. I think if I came home tomorrow and said that I was quitting he would thank his lucky stars. He misses me being home. He does do most the daily cleaning and I still cook dinner. I do the laundry, he folds it. I do the deep cleanings on my days off and he does touch ups that need to be done to a home you've lived in for a few years. When I start working the 2pm-10pm schedule we will be on the same schedule but in the meantime I get up at 5 and go to bed early. He gets home late and sleeps in. I've never slept so soundly since working. My job has affected all my relationships. I never hear from those I love. Weird how that worked. I just never thought it would affect that. Was willing to retire in a place not home to me just to be near and now it seems that idea is not so good anymore. Sad. Miss it but no matter how I try I can't change it. And I know I need to be a better niece. Flying to NH in April to be a better one.

Well, I'm going to curl up with a bowl of ice cream and cheer on Drew Brees to pull me ahead in Fantasy Football. I need to scrap too.