Living & Loving, Autism & Deafness
Our Journey with our loved ones and our lives
I need to take more time to write here. I do feel my life is kind of taking on a pace all of its own that half the time I feel I have no control over!!!
First of all, Chris is doing great — 
We went out to eat with him today and he was very happy. Ryan also had a plate of spaghetti 
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Well, maybe not for long, but after a few months of a blanket of snow continuously it was so nice to see the grass this week!! We had snow pretty much continuously since November with maybe 2 short breaks. I love winter, but it was getting to be too much!
… and I didn’t even leave 🙂
Wow, after 3 months, I’ve decided to quit looking for a job. I made this decision on Sunday, after 3 months of no-gos and dead ends, and not really being able to give transcription my all because I’m always looking for jobs or going to interviews (only 2) or talking to people and finding out the job is the wrong hours, etc. etc.
So this morning I found out a trans job I did briefly over the summer, that put me on hold because they got slow, have added me back on! So I’ll have 5 active contracts again.
God is Good! And it’s nice to feel at peace about this….
Now if one of the 100 or 200 jobs I applied for actually CALLS me for an interview, that will be another story but we’ll see …
Reminds me of this song, even though mine has nothing to do with a heartbreak – well not the same kind.
My boy is moving!! Chris is moving to a group home on SATURDAY. It is an awesome place. I think he’s really going to be happy there. It is so close to his school, and they’ll be taking him on a field trip every other day or so after school.
And I’m looking for a job. We are stopping home-schooling Colleen – we got her through end of eighth grade with it, but now she’s got to make a clean break and try again with 9th grade in public school. I’m trying to get a legal secretary job. I’m still transcribing, and I love it, but it’s just not steady enough. WE are SO behind on our bills, and want to get out of debt. I’ve signed with a temp agency and will wait for the right job to come about. I’m not going to just grab anything as I do have a nice little income from my transcribing where I can be a little picky.
Then when I get a full-time job (hopefully soon!) I can catch up on the credit cards again.
It’s just funny, what a full circle since I started my blog here at LJ in 2003. I was still working full time and lost my job a little later after that. Was then just home, then went back to typing at home, then home again, then typing at home again, and now looking for work again. 5 1/2 years later.
Back then the kids were 1, 8, and 12. Unbelievable.
Funny how we called them Owen, Renee & RJ. Eventually I just started using their real names.
I didn’t realize how hard it was to find archives with this theme background. I finally had to go in my WordPress blog to get it as a lot of the entries are copied there. But I may have to get a different background as God help anyone who wanted to go to the beginning of my Livejournal – there’s just no link to do it!!
5 1/2 years ago:
April of 03:
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owen is having a bit of a tough time again after doing very well for a week or so. He went to day care with his sister first time last week on Thurs and Fri. This is the first EVER he’s been in day care. he did well! This week he goes back to school (tomorrow) but last night he started staying up late again — 4:30 a.m. this morning (dh stayed up with him – I actually got to sleep 9 hours last night PRAISE God! it is 12:00 now and he’s still up. dh has to get up at 4:30 a.m. and I will be up at 6:30 with my little baby, I’m sure.
I had been thinking all weekend trying to make a decision about my work. I work 22 hours a week now but have the opportunity to work up to 30 if I wish. That would mean having the older kids go to the day care every day after school. After thinking about it all weekend we decided to wait until summer and see how they do, and maybe work a little later then if they seem to be able to handle it.
We just have been so broke for so long that it feels good to be able to pay the bills and having more sounds so good. We also need a new house — 5 kids in this tiny house is tough.
dori, in the close family
I’m alive!
Kids have all been sick again. Ryan is home sick with the intestinal garbage (I think he fell asleep). Colleen missed 3 1/2 days this week, Chris missed one. Mom was here this week and now she doesn’t feel well. My days may be numbered. Rog was sick earlier this week while he was out of town.
I still have so much work!!! It just keeps coming. Legal interviews, hearings, a focus group, and even working on a web site for someone! Rog just got more work approved too – YAY!!
Some pics — and then back to work!
First, the brand new sink we got in our bathroom last weekend! Rog and his dad worked about 8 hours on this! The old one had quit working and only leaked drips of water and nothing else.
Ryan just a little while ago – I thought he was sleeping —
Then he turned over and looked at me and said “cheese” —
What he’s watching – or sleeping through, by now! He even loves the teen shows like Hannah Montana and Zach and Cody…
What I’ve been eating. Too. many. of.
How I type – for the non-seasoned to transcription world readers – though the ORANGE is an extra item that I didn’t know was there – suppose I may eat it with my lunch? This is my money maker and occasionally cramp-in-the-foot maker!! I switch feet, often. It’s sitting on my scanner so I have some height so my foot doesn’t get too sore… I download audio into Express Scribe or For the Record and type away.
Today’s ice/snow storm. I don’t think we got it as bad as south –
and I just realized I completely missed the news that would have told me (12:30 p.m. now)
Back to work!
Broke in the digital camera, early Christmas present for us.
Here’s a start:
Going to Erie from Dori H on Vimeo.
And by the way when I said “Open the door” I didn’t mean the car– I can see that would possibly be assumed from my statement 
All videos here – and I’m sure this is the site I’ll stick with as they loaded fairly easily (not true at my old photobucket account, not sure why…)
This was in response to a “what was the funniest thing you typed” post at the transcription board —
“These are all so funny! I keep trying to think of one I’ve done and I’m sure in almost 20 years of typing professionally I’ve done many! But I can’t think of anything.
I can sure think of funny things though said at work – I remember once at the law firm I worked at which happened to have the name McNamara in it, my friend and coworker said Macaroni instead of McNamara along with the rest of the firm’s title while answering the phone, and we all just busted up and couldn’t stop laughing.
There was another time I was collecting PI information from hospitals and doctors in order to assemble it to print out final settlement checks. I was printing out checks while I was on hold on the phone. I actually went to SLEEP (Chris didn’t sleep then either – he was 4) and was startled awake by the party coming on the line to see what I needed – luckily I had it written down in front of me!
Another time I fell asleep typing a tech document in the metallurgy department of a local metals engineering firm I worked at in the 80’s. I literally shifted sideways and almost fell off my chair.
As far as funny/humorous things I typed, I still can’t remember anything. But one interesting one is when I very first started typing care and protection hearings for Mass. in 2000, I typed Wooster for the city there pronounced that way. As several of you may know Ohio has a town called Wooster so I simply spelled it same way!!!
Little did I know it was spelled Worcester! I think my boss laughed about that for a while…”
We saw this theater walking today to get menus for Sunlark in Akron. Also took pictures of the Aeros stadium, etc. I should have gotten more pictures but forgot. We went today to work together for Sunlark but also to have a “date” to celebrate our 20-year anniversary (which was in June, but ahh well! ;D )
But boy, the memories here. I believe we saw Amy Grant/Michael W. Smith here in Concert in 1984. We also I believe saw Glass Harp there in about 1988 or so. What a beautiful theater.
We also saw the old Mr. Bilbo’s restaurant that we ate at in 84 and 93 (with our Mr. 2-year-old Christer when we toured Quaker Square and historic Akron – will have to post THOSE pics sometime!). It’s now known as the Lime Spider – here http://www.myspace.com/thelimespider It was closed or we would have looked inside. As dedicated Lord of the Rings fans we were very interested in that place….
We walked our legs off and got very good exercise and made some $ too…
It was nice to have a day out. We used a coupon we had and ate at Cracker Barrel with it – yummy free lunch! http://www.crackerbarrel.com/
Now, back to life, dirty dishes, laundry, and lining up transcription work for next week…
Kids are all back in school and doing okay. It’s nice to be back in a routine. though it gets a little tiring getting up at 5 every day!!! Next week will be the first week they all go to school every day so I plan to work 3 days. Only had gotten in 1-2 days per week the last few weeks.
What a beautiful night! After a few days of [for me] oppressive heat I really enjoyed a day in the mid 60’s today and an evening by the fire with us heating grilled hot dogs and s’mores 🙂 We wore long sleeves and jeans and enjoyed the fire and got rid of a ton of “burnables” from my cleaning the office.
In other news, Chris has finished his first week off of school and has one more week off before he starts summer school June 18. There are some pictures in the Flickr area of where we visited his summer camp yesterday (he got to enjoy a hot dog there too!). They seem like they will be very capable with him over the summer and he’ll have a good time swimming some days too!
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Ahh, just remembering the days when Ryan laid on a boppy pillow and napped while I typed. When he was three weeks old I began my legal trans again, just a little, and I remember how I reached my arms around him to type on the keyboard. Now he’s starting kindergarten in 3 months. All day kindergarten.
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