Good Day

What a good day. Jeff woke me up with the news that the CCAA had updated their website. Referrals are on the way and they go thru the 28th of June. (my birthday!) Now this is both good and bad. Good...because referrals on the way is always a good thing. Families are about to be made. Bad...because it is only for 2 weeks worth of LID's. Anything less than a full month of LID's means the process is still slowing. And again, good...because within the context of the last 6 months or so, the process is not slowing as rapidly as it has been. (slowing as rapidly????) Anyway, if you choose to be a real glass-half-full kind of person, you could say the pace was picking up. Today, I am a glass-half-full kinda gal.

With a December LID, I still have no idea when we will get our referral, but here are my guesses.

If the CCAA returns to full month referrals.......Dec '06
If the CCAA keeps the current 2 week pace......June '07
If the CCAA slows again to one month of LID's every three months.......Dec '07.

My gut feeling says we will have her picture in February and travel to China in April. That's just a feeling.


So after my happy morning, I got to work to discover there was practically NO MAIL. Bad for the post office....good for Georgia. Also we had a cook out today at work. You see, we have these "voice of the employee" surveys quarterly and our office usually scores badly on the employees feeling appreciated. In response, mgt has started feeding us. I feel like a little kid being won over with a cookie. I guess it worked though because it keeps happening. We have cookouts, doughnuts, Chick-fil-A. They take lots of pictures of us eating (always nice) and plaster them up around the post office to remind us how happy we are.

Then on my way home from work, I call my Mom and she asks me if I want a pot roast for dinner. She had just made one and wanted to give it to me. Heck, yeah, I want a free, already cooked dinner!

Then I get home and Jeff has a bunch of packages. Even though I work at the post office, getting packages is still fun!! He has this project car that I can't wait for him to get working on so I can drive it!! It's a '78 Super Beetle. Not luxurious, but cool! Today he got a muffler, steering wheel, and a bunch of other stuff I don't know what they are. I can't believe I never put up a picture of the project car.

AND, I only have one more day of work before my vacation begins. I'll be off until after the 4th holiday!!! I don't remember taking this much time off from work before. We'll be going to Florida to visit Jeff's family in Melbourne (anyone from there?) for a few days, but for about a week I'll be home...alone. This is great because I have been feeling monstrously (is that a word?) overwhelmed lately. Too much to do. Home projects that never end and a million more to start. This will let me put a dent in some of them.

Oh gosh, and it looks like it might rain any minute. What a blessing for our brown yard, dying plants and the crazy hot temperatures.

Yep, good day.