Jo Knits!

Happy news, finally!

Well knitters and friends it is my pride and joy that I share with you GREAT news. After being up, then down, stayed down for a few weeks, freaked out about life, had a really hard time coping about being job-less. Both Carl and I are going to school for the next 5 months!!! We have been accepted yesterday and all papers are being finalised today, which includes a WHOLE lot of running around. It's been SO crazy you have no idea. We have gone to meet so many people and actually yesterday was the hardest part. We both had to convince someone that yes, we wanted this course and that please pay for it. Carl's meeting took 10 minutes, my meeting took more than an hour, the person I had to meet talked to her boss for 15 minutes and can back in the office to say she wasn't convinced. Oh my goodness, I thought it was the end for me, my stomach did a turn and I sulked into my chair. Then I did my best to tell her the reasons of me wanting this program and all. Oye! It was VERY scary to be so close, the school had accepted me already and thinking I might not get to start next monday. Argh! Now all is well, I still have one step to get done but it will have to wait until after I start school though.

Imagine that, me, at school! WOW! Last week's tuesday I was reading the newspaper and stumbled across the ad for this new program, this week's tuesday I was in an office on my second part of school registration doing a one-on-one interview to be accepted on the spot. I was really lucky to have gotten my interview with the program coordinator, I had met her twice and she really thought that both Carl and I would be great for this class. Next tuesday I will be attending my second day of school. AMAZING! Never had I thought I'd be going to school so soon, this is really a chance that I couldn't pass up though. It will be tough to be in class all summer but I think to know that I could possibly work in a new trade before Christmas is a very encouraging thing. It is also comforting to be going with a buddy, my pal Carl. We are both stressed about leaving the house on monday morning but luckily we will both support each other along the way, Carl might have to physically support me, I'll be a nervous wreck. LOL!

In LESS than five months I will have learned a new trade, a real job, I will be part of the 1st graduates (hey, I'm aiming to finish this too! ) to complete this new in the whole province program. Actually as an incentive to stay motivated I also have a personal goal to achieve and a great reward to myself but more on that another day... Both Carl and I will become professionals, we will be proud to say our jobs and actually get good jobs in the end. It will be fun, it will be challenging, we will be proud for ourselves, for our kids and for our whole quality of life that will benefit from this. So what IS this all about? Well we are studying to become (very liberal french to english translation) optical/ophthalmic laboratory technicians.

Sadly on the knitting front the BitterSocks (after all the ripping out I did, the color bittersweet isn't all that sweet anymore LOL!) are still not done. MY goal is to finish them and wear the socks to school on the 1st day. teehee!

Have a great weekend, tomorrow is Quebec's 4th of july for theAmercians or August 1st for all other provinces kinda day, it's BBQ's across town, it's beers, it's fireworks at the end of the day holiday. May you all have a beautiful weekend, I need to go get some school supplies! WOOHOO!!!

p/s: If you saw Tom Cruise when he went on Oprah's show, that's exactly how I feel about being accepted in the program. I feel like jumping on chairs, pointing my first in the air, screaming yes, yes, yes and acting all silly but frankly, I'll do all of this in a classy way. LOL!