I have been enjoying the paradise-like weather since Hurricane Ike roared through, dumping many inches of rain and flooding our rivers. Except for a few closed roads, we weren't inconvenienced at all, and have been soaking up the sun ever since.
Congrats to the Talbott clan. Can't wait to see pictures.
I thought perhaps I could persuade Professor of Economics, Jim, to give us a little economy lecture on the blog. Don't use any difficult terms, as I have never had an econ class in my life! Just curious what he thinks about the recent economic action in our country.
See you soon at the wedding.
Love,
Janice
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Friday, September 5, 2008
Tucker Wallace Talbott
Hello everyone!
Our newest family member arrived Thursday at 2:34 p.m. He weighed 6# 3oz and was born via C-section. Sarah has been battling high blood pressure the past few weeks. She spent last Sat. night in the hospital and was released when medication helped that issue. During her regular apppointment Wednesday the doctor decided that it was time to bring this boy into the world, though it was 3 weeks before his due date. On Thursday the decision to do a C-section was made. Tucker is just beautiful, with long fingers that look just like Tom's. While Sarah's mom and I took turns holding him he was making the sweetest little sounds. He may be a talker like his dad!
His name comes from Sarah's grandmother (maiden name Tucker) and Tim's mother (maiden name Wallace). He was born on Ervin & Marianne's 60th wedding anniversary. It's hard to think of a better gift!
Joan returned from South America on Monday. There was only one glitch in her travel from SA. One bag did not arrive in KC with Joan and Sarah. However, it came on the next flight from Atlanta. Joan was given a restaurant voucher so we ate breakfast while waiting for the bag. It is so good to have her back home.
That's all for now----
Connie
Our newest family member arrived Thursday at 2:34 p.m. He weighed 6# 3oz and was born via C-section. Sarah has been battling high blood pressure the past few weeks. She spent last Sat. night in the hospital and was released when medication helped that issue. During her regular apppointment Wednesday the doctor decided that it was time to bring this boy into the world, though it was 3 weeks before his due date. On Thursday the decision to do a C-section was made. Tucker is just beautiful, with long fingers that look just like Tom's. While Sarah's mom and I took turns holding him he was making the sweetest little sounds. He may be a talker like his dad!
His name comes from Sarah's grandmother (maiden name Tucker) and Tim's mother (maiden name Wallace). He was born on Ervin & Marianne's 60th wedding anniversary. It's hard to think of a better gift!
Joan returned from South America on Monday. There was only one glitch in her travel from SA. One bag did not arrive in KC with Joan and Sarah. However, it came on the next flight from Atlanta. Joan was given a restaurant voucher so we ate breakfast while waiting for the bag. It is so good to have her back home.
That's all for now----
Connie
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008
One night in grad school and I dropped out...
The title says it all. Yuppers, that's what happened. Let me explain to you why that is. You see, we had to do a 15 page journal of personal reflections every week (not bad, not bad) but here was the sucky part. I had to find 15 people to interview for class and we could not do our classmates. Grrr...I was NOT comfortable with going to a senior citizen's retirement center to interview them. So I dropped out.
Actually, my heart wasn't in it fully. I just wasn't sure if grad school was the right thing for me at this time. Thank goodness for my adviser. She told me to take some time off from school. I might go back to grad school in the Winter II term, or in other words the spring semester. Right now I"m back at CCC and taking Juvenile Justice. I want to learn about the system and besides that, I'm trying to get into working with high-risk juveniles. Yeppers.
So, I've applied for jobs all over. I first applied for the parole officer position in western Nebraska. However, the state said that I did not qualify and that they don't count HRC as experience for corrections. Grr...so I got screwed there. Mom didn't want me to get that job anyway because I would be supervising life time sex offenders. Hahaha, I probably would only have 1 or 2 of them to worry about and the rest adult male and female felons. Oh well.
I also applied for 2 probation officer jobs. One is working with juveniles in Lincoln and the other one is working with adults in Lincoln. I hope that the RISE job doens't prevent me from being a probation officer. LONG story behind the RISE job and why I quit that in the same month. The jist of the story is that my supervisor had a heart attack and therefore no one had a clue what was going on in the office. So yeah...but I hope to get an interview with both probation jobs and we'll see.
I finally applied for a Protection and Safety Worker position in Grand Island. I would like to be able to be a CPS worker, but I really don't have any case experience. Everytime I apply for one, I don't get an interview. And the only experience I've had is the Visinet job and case work. But I'm not getting any calls on interviews there, so perhaps I should just give up for awhile. Oh and I applied to be a Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist. We'll see, I still need to get my transcripts in order and send them to the DAS. But that is the other thing that I need to do. Yuppers.
So I'm on the hunt for full time jobs and I REALLY don't want to move out of the Hastings/GI area, but so far, most of the jobs are in Lincoln or in Omaha. Ugh, I hate big cities. But I guess I'll get used to the big cities if I get jobs there. Well, other than that, there is not much else for me to put. I'm just sitting here trying to catch up and tell you what happened.
OH YEAH!!! One more thing and then I'll shut up. Our cat Ike disappeared the day of the family reunion. We had no clue on where he went. All hope was given up by moi that he would ever return. Well, we put up lost ads on the local station's website (KHAS) and also in the newspaper. We went searching through the trees at HRC and couldn't find him. We were slowly losing hope. Now remember I've given up all hope. But last night around 9:30 mom called for Ike one more time and she thought that she was hallucinating when she heard him meow! He RETURNED HOME!!!! Not one single scratch or wound on him. I have no clue to this day where he was hiding, but I'm just glad that he's home.
Yup, now I'll shut up. Talk to you all later. Enjoy your Labor Day and see you next year if I'm not working!
Suz
Actually, my heart wasn't in it fully. I just wasn't sure if grad school was the right thing for me at this time. Thank goodness for my adviser. She told me to take some time off from school. I might go back to grad school in the Winter II term, or in other words the spring semester. Right now I"m back at CCC and taking Juvenile Justice. I want to learn about the system and besides that, I'm trying to get into working with high-risk juveniles. Yeppers.
So, I've applied for jobs all over. I first applied for the parole officer position in western Nebraska. However, the state said that I did not qualify and that they don't count HRC as experience for corrections. Grr...so I got screwed there. Mom didn't want me to get that job anyway because I would be supervising life time sex offenders. Hahaha, I probably would only have 1 or 2 of them to worry about and the rest adult male and female felons. Oh well.
I also applied for 2 probation officer jobs. One is working with juveniles in Lincoln and the other one is working with adults in Lincoln. I hope that the RISE job doens't prevent me from being a probation officer. LONG story behind the RISE job and why I quit that in the same month. The jist of the story is that my supervisor had a heart attack and therefore no one had a clue what was going on in the office. So yeah...but I hope to get an interview with both probation jobs and we'll see.
I finally applied for a Protection and Safety Worker position in Grand Island. I would like to be able to be a CPS worker, but I really don't have any case experience. Everytime I apply for one, I don't get an interview. And the only experience I've had is the Visinet job and case work. But I'm not getting any calls on interviews there, so perhaps I should just give up for awhile. Oh and I applied to be a Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist. We'll see, I still need to get my transcripts in order and send them to the DAS. But that is the other thing that I need to do. Yuppers.
So I'm on the hunt for full time jobs and I REALLY don't want to move out of the Hastings/GI area, but so far, most of the jobs are in Lincoln or in Omaha. Ugh, I hate big cities. But I guess I'll get used to the big cities if I get jobs there. Well, other than that, there is not much else for me to put. I'm just sitting here trying to catch up and tell you what happened.
OH YEAH!!! One more thing and then I'll shut up. Our cat Ike disappeared the day of the family reunion. We had no clue on where he went. All hope was given up by moi that he would ever return. Well, we put up lost ads on the local station's website (KHAS) and also in the newspaper. We went searching through the trees at HRC and couldn't find him. We were slowly losing hope. Now remember I've given up all hope. But last night around 9:30 mom called for Ike one more time and she thought that she was hallucinating when she heard him meow! He RETURNED HOME!!!! Not one single scratch or wound on him. I have no clue to this day where he was hiding, but I'm just glad that he's home.
Yup, now I'll shut up. Talk to you all later. Enjoy your Labor Day and see you next year if I'm not working!
Suz
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