Working Girl

Well I have a job!  Gosh I must really love 2 year olds huh? It's an assistant teacher position at that childcare facility in McKinney (the BIG one y'all).  I start on Monday but have CPR training tomorrow since mine wasn't up to date.  I also have an interview for a part time gig on Friday; it's a faith formation assistant at a church in Plano.  It's a temporary thing, just for a particular event they do, but it would be a cool opportunity. So I'm going to convince Tim to take me out to dinner... but really what is there in Sherman?! We'll end up having chinese buffet, I bet.
Meanwhile Scout and I have found and enjoyed a lovely trail at a park nearby.  It is uber warm, not like hot, but pretty darn nice so we've been taking advantage of it! This park is gorgeous though; big lake which the trail wraps around, plus when you get to the end (or beginning, but I prefer to go a certain way) you come out on this great big hill where you can see the whole lake and the sun is just gorgeous over it.  On the other side of the hill there's this wide open space, lots of trees.  I want to take Scout and just run up and down the hills.  But then I would die yo.  My knee has been killing me today so I'm sort of taking it easy.  I guess it knows that the weather is turning.  Darn arthritis.
That's right, the cold is coming to Texas too.  We're supposed to get ice though. No bueno.  Tim's mom and dad are coming down this weekend too (if they survive that drive, ugh I couldn't think of anything worse than that drive at night...oh I bet driving at night in ice/snow would top it!).  So I'll finally get to see Progress, where Tim works, plus he'll get his car back.  I'm sure he's enjoyed driving the Mamaw-mobile this week but that's going bye bye.  I guess we'll probably head into Dallas if we can, however I'm going to push for a nice look through McKinney and Frisco since Tim has now found a love for the latter.  He had a train meeting in Frisco last night at Babe's, a chicken place and he was nice enough to bring me back some leftovers.  Yummy chicken.  Very crispy.  Tim said he liked it better than Hodaks and I'm gonna agree.  Hodak's is good but really St. Louis, it's not that good.  The whole, not getting to eat food in St. Louis thing is kinda bumming me out though.  Like bbq, so much bbq I did not have.  But really, I'm in Texas.  I'm sure I'll forget about St. Louis food soon.
I gotta tell you how much a of a dodo bird I was about this whole license/plates thing yesterday (and Monday!).  I go to the DMV and they say you have to get your plates changed first.  Which means I have to get the car inspected.  I take the car to get inspected and I need the insurance (which was supposed to be on its way to me).  So I go to the insurance office to get my temporary card, go back to the inspection place, then head to the courthouse to get the plates.  The super expensive, super ugly Texas plates.  Then I go back to the DMV, stand in line even more (their system is crap compared to the lovely electronic one in Maplewood yo) and finally get my licence.  Or a piece of paper saying I have my licence.  I can't wait to get the real thing of all these things- licence, title on my car, real insurance card.  I'm very in between right now.  I'm just excited to have work! And leftover chicken!!!