High-speed update - took oldest out job-hunting Monday. Scored a fortuitous hit at the first place we stopped (I drove her - I knew the area and had family biz to tend to as well), and she's already on day 2 of her new job. Pay is apparently fairly decent and she's hoping to have a car in short order, with a CCW handgun shortly after. *I* am hoping an apartment of her own closer to her job happens quickly!
Son got his ACT scores in - composite of 28 on his first shot at it, coming from a homeschool environ where we don't DO standardized tests. He's already had some trig lessons that he says would have helped him out on the test, so he might take another shot at it in the spring to see about a better score for scholarship competition.
Dad is in LA this week, having gone out last weekend to see a specialist at Cedar-Sinai. Wednesday, the doc looked at his mri taken just after the "stroke" on Labor Day, 2010, and said, "There's the tumor right there - I could have done this surgery a year ago." So they set him up with pre-op appointments today and are going to schedule surgery sometime early next week - this was as of my latest update yesterday.
Personal accomplishment - I got on the scales yesterday and saw a reading under 200# for the first time in over 6 YEARS!!! And it happened again today!! I've been lifting weights pretty consistently since July and only just recently was able to setup a home gym I'd bought used back when I was on my last project. I was right at 212# at the time, so it has been a long, slow process - but I'm getting there! Then there's the fact I'm losing inches, adding muscle definition, sleeping better, and in general feeling a lot better overall. (okay, except for yesterday and today - I caught someone's cold or something. ugh.)
So anyway - that's the end of the week update.
