DAY THIRTY NINE: Melting in the Attic and Graduation

I don't blog on holidays, so I skipped yesterday.

That's half the truth.

The other half is that I spent a cumulative couple of hours in an attic in 90+ degree heat installing a ceiling fan.  Before you ask, yes, I am aware that ceiling fans go below the attic and not in them.  But, one must make sure the ceiling fan stays on the ceiling, so a brace had to be put up.  My Mom and I spent about five hours getting this fiasco handled.

The first problem was that the original brace we bought was useless.  While tightening it into place, it broke.  pretty sure that wouldn't hold a fan, then.  After getting a replacement brace- a much more manly one- I made the other four trips into the attic.  I'd like to point out that neither brace's package indicated I would have to spend a lot of time melting and growing grumpy in the attic while choking on insulation.

Mom and I work together really well, but I was getting angry yesterday.  Not at her, but at the fact that nothing was working properly.  But, by extension, anyone in my vicinity was feeling my wrath. 

Finally, we got the fan up and it stayed there.  But I was exhausted and had no intent to try to write anything coherently.

Today was much more laid back.  While Leslie and Kristin went to school, Kenna, Mom, Sherri (Kristin's mom) and I went to a stained glass window shop.  It was to open at 11.  It did not.  So we went to Mr. G's Pizza across the street.  Then the shop opened, and I entertained Kenna while the ladies shopped.

After that, we took Kenna home to change for her graduation from MDO.  She's stayed home because of a fever, but there was no way she was missing this.  And she had broken her fever.  We picked up Leslie and headed to the graduation.

Kristin got to take off early to see it and to see her kids from her old class- a much needed burst of joy for her.

Anyway, here is our little graduate:

On the job front, I sent emails to five different principals in College Station ISD about job openings.  The application system for CSISD only allows aides to apply for three jobs at a time, so I sent an email explaining why I, a college graduate, would want an aide position.  Then yesterday, I applied for a library assistant position at Bryan High.  It pays well.  Again, we'll see.  Kristin is still waiting to hear on several emails she sent out as well.