Monday: wonderful life

Today I got to eat donuts while being in the pool. Could life get better?

Sunday: Happy Easter!

Happy Easter. We went to a church down here and one of the reasons I love going to churches in different places is to be reminded that there are people all over the world that love God.

Besides that it was a nice relaxing day.

Saturday: Florida

We traveled to Florida yesterday without any problems! The flight leaving Detroit was about 20 minutes late, but that isn't so bad. Yesterday we just hung out around the house, but today we went on a boat ride to get lunch. On the way there we saw a dolphin jumping! That was cool. A little later we saw a dolphin just surfacing, but it was a lot closer and I was able to get a good picture.




Ashlyn and I also painted our toes last night. I found out later that it was Ashlyn's first time, but we both enjoyed our pretty toes.
In other news, on Thursday we had a department meeting with my manager who said he is working on finding other jobs at the site for us should the program be canceled...obviously if there is a site mandated something he can't change that, but it is nice to know that he is thinking about it to try and let us keep our jobs.

Thursday: memories

Today is the 7th anniversary of Mom's death. It's been so long...so many things have changed. This year I was really hit by how much I took her for granted.

Well, that first month or so after she died I wrote down as many memories as I could think of...there were several I repeated, like how she would pull her turtlenecks over her mouth when she was cold and when we were camping in the UP she would pile on the beach blankets to stay warm. But there were others like how her e-mails to me in college always started with the day of the week (ah ha! That's where I got it.) and how we would move her decorative animals in the bathroom and she would get mad and how the decorative turtles would migrate inside during the winter and outside during the summer.

Tuesday: my job II

I still have my job!

There were some e-mail sent out last night that said there was a stop-work order on the program, so everyone went into the meeting expecting to not have anything else to do. Well, apparently someone who thought they could stop the program tried, but the person who can actually stop the program wouldn't. So what we're seeing now is the middle of budget debates, which we usually don't see. And the program has a lot of support in congress and the white house. I expect/hope to keep this job until at least September.

So we're plugging away, trying to show people that we can actually make progress.

Monday: my job

Well I think my project is probably going to be canceled or put on hold tomorrow. There's been a lot of talk that the current project was canceled, and we have a big meeting at 8am. Since a lot of you will probably hear about it, here is my thought process:

*The site tries really hard not to lay people off, so I still expect to have a job at 9am tomorrow.
*I'm not in a department that is only the helicopter, so that might help.
*I had an important meeting with the customer tomorrow at 8am. It was rescheduled for 9am (not canceled!) which I take to be a good sign.
*Ben and I redid our finances on Saturday and can survive on one income.
*It might be nice to go back to working 40-44 hours/week.
*I don't actually know what is going on...maybe it's better than expected.
*God's taken care of me financially so far, so why stop now?

But I'm still a bit stressed.

Sunday: impromtu grilling

We went to a last-minute cook out with friends from church today. What a great idea! Once the sun went down it was rather cold, so we played four-on-the-couch. The girls won both times with the same order. That should count for about twenty wins.