Lucky 13

As I had hoped and felt about 2013 is definitely coming through. Refer to my Goodbye 2012, Hello 2013 post. I'm going to lay out the good news. Some aspects will be describe in depth, some will be left for a separate post to follow.

At the moment spring break has started and I am again at Arcosanti for a few nights of awesome relaxation by myself. While I'm here I will be posting some updates. So here's to it!

I switched jobs, or schools, I should say. I had a series of classroom observations and interviews lined up for about a 3 week period. It was very stressful. Originally there was only 2 openings I was interested in, one more than the other. I didn't get the one I wanted, due to high competition. I was hoping that the closing of this position meant something deeper, that I was going to find something much better. I knew I basically had the other job but wanted to watch the class, the workers, and the teacher especially because I was skeptical. The substitute I work with often, who is also a good friend of mine now, was researching her connections to find anything out about the teacher because she thought she may have heard something bad about her. Later she confirmed that with me, letting me know the bad news. It was a Friday just as the school day was ending, I immediately checked to see if there were any new openings in the district. Something came up and I texted both my cousin whose kids I watch and my substitute/friend. They both responded with good news. This is the best news I've heard all along. The teacher and the staff in the room were known to be really awesome, plus my cousin's kids had also been in that class. My cousin got the teacher to come over and meet me while I was watching my cousin's kids. The experience was so uplifting and made me feel so happy, as you can see in this post. The following week I still had an observation to meet the other [bad] teacher and interview with her. I also scheduled an "interview" with the [awesome] teacher. I mostly knew my decision but still needed to go through the motions and make sure I felt I was making the right decision. Basically I got the job I wanted and even got offered the other job even before I had an actual interview, both in the same day. Technically I only had one interview during this whole process and that was with the first job that I didn't end up getting [being my first phone interview, in fact]. I had to turn down the [bad] teacher, and accept the other position and officially tell my news to my current school and other Special Ed authorities. My news was officiated on a Thursday, they got me to officially transfer to the new school on the following Monday. This was a super quick transition, but definitely needed because I was becoming increasingly unhappy by the day at my current school.

Needless to say, everything worked out really well and I got lucky. I found a problem and solved it, made the move and I'm so much more happier. The happiness, less stress, and less anger will be outlined in a separate post.

On to other awesome news, which just came to me two nights ago. Every day I drive around and I try to remember the names of apartment complexes that catch my eye so I can research them later. Every weekend I spend hours online researching apartments, from floorplans, rates, and resident ratings. I haven't found a large pool of appealing apartments in my price range, but at least a couple. The next step was to actually put some time away and visit these apartments to see how I like them. But I hadn't had time yet to do that, and felt like more research was in need. As you may remember, my heart is still stuck on the townhouse my best friend lived in and whose mother also manages. I have now been on that waiting list for just a little over a year. A couple months ago, prior to researching deeply into other apartments, I texted my friend's mom to see if she knows of any openings at her property. At the time, there were none. I decided to try again Friday night. She said there will be an opening at the end of this month. After texting back and forth about some details, it basically looks like my time to move out will be happening very soon! I'm so thrilled but nothing is concrete yet, so I cannot get my hopes up too much. Since I am still on a waiting list, she is required to call other people, but luckily I am currently pretty high up on the list. So what happens next? The current residents move out at the end of them month, the manager than starts calling people on the list, then it's quick war time. Fortunately a lot of my paperwork is still with the manager from the last time I got called from the waiting list so I will be more prepared to make this happen faster. For now it's still a waiting game, but I have high hopes. The rent will be super cheap for 1,000 square feet, two story townhome with a small patio. If I get this apartment, the timing couldn't even be better. I would be moving the first weekend of April, when my other friend is moving into a new house. She will be selling me her couch [which I love], and leaving some other things behind for me. This is important because if I move out later, that means she has to take the couch with her to her new place and wait until I move, rather than just have it where it is for a week or less and move it into my place.

So, if you notice my horoscope for the year of 2013, as linked at the top of this post, change of job and a move are both mentioned to happen. That's what I want to happen, and so far I'm halfway there! Yay me!