Matt still lives in San Diego and is still in the Marines. From the tone of his facebook posts, however, both of those facts are about to change. His term of enlistment is going to expire this year, and he does NOT plan to re-enlist. Once he is out of the military, it sounds like he plans to move back home, so to speak. Home, meaning Idaho, not his mom's house or ours. I am glad! You wouldn't think a trip to San Diego would be so difficult to manage, but it is. I will be glad to see him back in the mountains and closer to us! He finalized his divorce and he currently has a girlfriend named Autumn. He seems head over heels in love with her. I sincerely hope for lots of happiness to head his way!
Helena went to a job interview today at ... RUBIO'S! Ooh, yeah! It went well, and once the paperwork and orientation are done later this week, she should be working there by next week! I think it will be great. The manager, Eva, is VERY nice. Bill and I are very happy for her and hope she has a great experience. This is her first official job, you see. Sure, she has 'nanny-ed' for lots of people, and house-sat. But this is different. And I am happy for her. Also, I'm looking forward to ordering my dinner from her sometime in the near future!
While she was gone on her job interview, her friends stopped by and 'heart attacked' her room as part of a date invite! Braxton wanted to ask Helena to the Valentine's Dance at school (also called the "Winter Social"?), so Megan and Dallan helped him decorate her room as the invite. She didn't realize the 'heart attack' was an invite, at first. She thought it was just her friends' way of cheering her up after a rough weekend, until she read the letter attached to the red rose laying on her bed. It is a good thing she is a relatively neat person and her room was decent (although she says she would have cleaned it up if she knew they were coming).... no underwear on the floor, thank goodness!
Helena has been enrolled in an online Financial Literacy class ever since summer vacation and has had a hard time motivating herself to finish it. So, she is now taking the more traditional approach and is now taking it at the high school. We had to move Seminary to after school in order to fit it in. However, her final semester schedule is still somewhat up in the air. Her Advanced Photo class only has 8 registered students. The school may drop the course because the numbers are too low. If that happens, we'll have to go in and do some juggling of her classes to fill the void. The school would take those students who still want Photo (like Helena), and add them in a Photo 1 class (which she has already taken), and have them take it 'seminar' style with a personalized contract with the teacher. It is unlikely that she would learn as much that way, and much more likely she'd become a glorified TA to help the teacher with the photo 1 students. Phooey.
Will has a science fair project looming large in his life right now. Can I tell you just how much I HATE it when teachers take an event that is supposed to be voluntary and turn it into a mandatory class assignment?!? It is like they sat around in a teacher meeting and said, "You know, we just don't get enough entries in the science fair to justify the cost and bother of running it... I KNOW! We'll MAKE the kids enter it, then we'll look like our science department is freaking awesome because so many kids are participating!" (Never mind that 90% of the projects are pieces o'CRAP!)
Yeah, well, here we are. Doing a mandatory/voluntary project. And yes, it is WE. He is supposed to submit photos of himself performing the experiment. So I became the photo journalist documenting him. He also needed an assistant to help him time the reactions as he performed them. And, of course, he needs a swift kick in the behind to remind him to get it done; because while performing the experiment is fun, processing and writing the paper is not.
Lacrosse pre-season conditioning starts tonight. Will is there now. And he is also over the moon about the new snowfall we received today. I am sure he is going to want to hit the slopes ASAP. He's the only one in the house truly thrilled to see winter finally arrive.
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