Archive for April 25th, 2006
(Big sigh here for emphasis!) At this rate it’s beginning to feel a little bit hopeless. The CCAA has released the referrals for April and well, you can see for yourself. This is approximately one weeks worth of referrals.
When we began this process the CCAA was referring about 30 days at a time. On that timeline, we would have received our referral in June and picked up our daughter in July/August. Now we’re hoping that we at least have a referral by December but unless things pick up dramatically it’s not looking very likely.
I thought that once we submitted our paperwork it would be easy. I was wrong.
What a miserable Monday it was! It’s not that work was bad (I have a fantastic job – no complaints there), but I woke up around 2am with a splitting headache and just couldn’t get back to sleep. I finally called into work at 6:30 and left a message for our administrative assistant telling her that I was going to take a couple of Fioricets, go back to bed and I’d be in around 10 or 10:30. That seemed to take the edge off, but I spent the rest of the day miserably struggling through the email that had accumulated over the weekend and desperately trying to get caught up while dealing with the inevitable numerous Monday morning crises. Did I mention that my car didn’t want to start this morning and I ran out of Excedrin midway through the day?
I finally gave up at 5pm. I accomplished next to nothing today, my brain wasn’t working at all and I wanted nothing more than to come home and lay down on my sofa. That wasn’t likely to happen though, since I still needed to complete a take home test, a term paper, and put together a power-point for my lab group to present. All this being due tomorrow and, of course, I had not yet begun any of these (still need to do my paper and here I am wasting time on Blogger). So I get home, check the mail and find a wonderful surprise from my secret pal.
On my November DTC yahoo group I’m participating in a monthly secret swap with specific themes each month that are set by the swap coordinator. This has been great fun, although I quickly figured out that everything I’m buying for my secret pal must be purchased in duplicate because I like what I’m buying so much that I have to buy one for myself. Anyway, this month’s theme was scrapbooking and/or journaling supplies. My secret pal sent me the neatest photo backing papers (which I never even knew existed) and some cute, cute, cute butterfly and ladybug stickers and page accents. I also got a journal!
I plan to add these to the box of scrapbooking supplies that I’ve started collecting in preparation for Ava’s lifebook. Now I just need to figure out how on earth to put this all together. I’m so not good at the crafty stuff so I’m hoping there’s a “Scrapbooking for the creatively-challenged” book out there somewhere.
~A