this is my first post and i don't really know what i am wanting to say here. i just felt the urge to start up a blog and so here i am. i am 39, female, married, mother to one 8 year old, keeper of the household, feeder of the pets, doer of the laundry. i did just start a new job about two months ago, working as a captionist for a company that makes captioned telephones for the deaf and hard of hearing. i can't really talk about all of that, though, because it is all very privacy confidentiality FCC rules ish. i decided to try working there after taking a couple of sign language classes this spring, something i did years ago and always planned on returning to. now i am working a job that is pretty much as far away from sign language as you can get! i do feel like i am contributing to the deaf community a bit, so that is something, at least. i would like to continue with sign language at some point. my mom is retiring this winter and i'm trying to talk her into taking a class with me. we'll see!

lets see. it is summer and that means that lu and i have been going to the pool every freakin' day. i guess that i can't really complain about that...there are worse things than sitting and watching your daughter play tennis and swim better than i ever have! she really is getting good at these things and is at an age where she is very in between. she isn't one of the little ones anymore, she is in the most advanced swim class- yet she isn't one of the big kids, either. she still looks so small next to the teenagers in their bikinis...she is fully and absolutely herself, however, and as stubborn as her daddy. during lessons i get to sit in the sun and read...i'll have to put up my reading list as my next post. or can i do an ongoing list in the sidebar part? i dunno. i'm new to all of this stuff. my reading has improved with this job- i can read in between calls, and i can't have my phone on. so the facebook/internet/scrabble stuff that often keeps me from opening a book is out of bounds. and i've been catching up to my pre-Iphone levels!

i'm going to work on that list thing.