Because its been a while...

and I need a dose of 'reality' and inspiration, here it is again:

Ahhhhh. The Dream™. Once again I find myself pipe dreaming to get me through the day. (It's only Tuesday and I want to throw my daughter out of the window, is that bad?) I applied to a handful of jobs today, and it was a drawn out process because of the following:

1. I haven't ever had a job in America before and am trying to learn very fast what they think is acceptable in a resume (its a CV damn it) and a fancy covering letter. Which I can tell you now is very much fancier than we'd do at home.
2. Lots of places I have applied to want my salary requirement. Excuse me, I just want a job right now, I haven't thought as far ahead as you paying me for it. Hang on a minute, what do [insert job title] in the [insert town name] area make again? Yeah that maybe. Or maybe less, cos I really want a job duh, or not cos I have to pay for day care for Adelaide...
   
3. I keep making spelling typos in English.
4. I realized that for the jobs I applied for already I sent a resume (I said CV damn it) that had a myriad of errors on it and then punished myself for a few hours afterwards.
   

Other than that, not much else to report! My stomach has been borderline behaving itself today. Although we'll see how the day pans out because yet again I am stuck at home (having no luck whatsoever getting through to the blasted DMV non-citizens office/desk/person) with a lot of foods that I can't/shouldn't/would rather die than eat. I had tater tots for my lunch! It is all I could muster. Well, that and a Kinder Bueno but don't tell anyone.

The sun is finally out today, and the snow is almost all gone for us! It was supposed to be snowy a bit yesterday. It was cold enough but we only got rain and sleet thankfully. Adelaide and I took a walk around the garden and she really enjoyed being outside picking up dead leaves from the grass and feeling the sun on her face, as did I. It is crazy to think that just a little bit of sun does so much for your vitamin levels. Well in Adelaide's case, it might have been all that cat chasing she did. I also put her in the back of Sam's truck which she enjoyed, although I soon realized the error of my ways when I couldn't quite reach inside to grab her when she moved right into the centre.

You might have noticed that I have been dancing between American and English spellings. This is really an exercise for me, to get me in good habits, but you know what America? There is no fucking way I can bring myself to type centre as center. It makes me feel like a complete retard. I have done a lot of things I don't agree with for you and your bastardisation of my mother tongue; namely putting inquiries instead of enquiries and putting a Z instead of S in various words. But center takes the absolute biscuit. My poor spell check does not know if it coming or going right now. I have it set now for American spellings and it breaks my heart to see enquiries with a little read dotted line under it. And now barstardisation. What is so wrong with an S America? Why have you got to break my heart like this?

In other news I will be 30 in 9 days. Seeing as my family are miles away and my in-laws (and Patrick and I) are financially destitute, I am compiling a list of all the things I want to get myself when I get a job and get my first pay check (check! That is another one! It should be cheque!) and have some money that I earnt myself. Apparently earnt is an exclusively used (albeit rarely) British word as well. My list so far looks like this:

1. Tattoo (s)
2. Some new clothes, nothing fancy but some bits from Old Navy, preferably without my husband huffing and puffing uncontrollably because he hates that store so much
3. Chocolate and sweets from home, ideally a ridiculous amount
4. A night out with Patrick somewhere, hell even a couple of hours to ourselves would be nice, to have a date maybe or a nice dinner
   
5. I can't write a list or buy anything for myself without caving in and getting something for Adelaide. Usually, before I have actually managed to find something for myself, so I am throwing her on here for good measure and force of habit
6. A hair cut and some pampering, which I rarely do, but I fancy it for a change
7. Shoes. Maybe some nice pumps I could wear to a job, as well as some sneakers
8. A Links of London charm for my bracelet
9. A new sewing machine or to fix the one I broke about 5 months ago so I can get quilting again
10. Something nice for my husband
11. More things I don't need, just want, like more Angelique prints and some plugs for my ear lobes
    
12. Those amazing Junko Mizuno set of three Ectoplasm prints
    
13. (Getting ridiculous now) A car
14. (Even more so) A house
15. (A girl can dream can't she?) Some holidays and the chance for us to travel a bit more like I used to

That is enough for now. I still have a bunch of photos from our house sitting trip and the weekend we had when our friends came to stay and we went to the Childrens Museum in Boston. Which was awesome. I keep forgetting to pull out my camera cable and put my pictures onto Flickr, but my memory is wasting away thanks to all the Dora I've been soaking up with Adelaide.