since last sunday, I

• drove to my parents' house
• switched dixie to a booster from a car seat
• gave charlie an emergency haircut
• drove 500 miles to new mexico with seven people in my seven passenger van
• got to meet two family members i'd never met before
• took charlie michael to meet the woman whose son is where the michael came from
• rented a car
• sent my family off into the mountains for 4 days
• drove 450 miles to a small town on three hours' notice
• spent the night of a friend i hadn't seen in 12ish years after finding her on facebook
• went to wal*mart for a haircut and good shoes
• toured a state university and drove around a small neighborhood
• interviewed for an elementary music teaching job
• drove home
• slept for three days
• made preliminary moving plans
• and got a phone call today saying i got the job

 I'm really glad I got this job for many reasons, not the least of which that I was going to be really irked if I missed my camp out for this interview and didn't get the job. Steady income and health insurance are good too, I suppose.

I start work next tuesday and the girls will start school there two weeks later. the moving-on-short-notice bit could get interesting.