Elise received a call from the AK BRN informing her that her license was mailed out today. The hospital can verify the license online, so she can begin working now. She is scheduled to start on Thursday.
It's been a long delay... We're not quite sure yet, and really don't think we'll ever find out, why all the things have happened in the way they have. Maybe one reason was so Elise could accompany Lorean to help her visit her family. Maybe earlier there were homes that we might have chosen to purchase that we simply were not supposed to get. I really don't know.
When we made the move, now almost seven months ago, our plan was for one or both of us to find some simple job, part-time if needed, to be able to cover our living expenses. That didn't seem to work out too well. When the hospital expressed interest in having Elise be re-licensed as an RN, that's the route we took. We expected things to be done and over by January. Obviously that did not happen. Then we thought, February or March at the latest. But those months, too, went by. So here it is now, in the month of April when the second of our big, open questions finally has revealed an answer.
The next big question to be answered is: Where are we to live for the next unknown number of years? When we first moved, there was a plan for the apartments in which we now live, to be torn down around this time. It appears that won't happen at least for the good part of this summer, and perhaps won't happen until next year. So even though our house didn't sell until a month ago, and we have not had the necessary income to support the purchase of a house here, we aren't in a crisis mode today like we thought we might be some months back.
The interesting thing is that over the last couple of months, inventory of houses in the price range, with the features, and in locations that we'd like have dwindled to almost nothing. At the moment we know of exactly three. If it dwindles even further when the time comes for us to purchase, I guess we'll take it as providential leading...
In other news, I went back to the hardware store to check up on replacement parts for our dehumidifier. It's a good thing I did, because nothing had been done. The manager wasn't too pleased that the company makes it so difficult to obtain warranty parts. I hope that the parts are able to be ordered and will arrive, even if I have to pay for it. For the time being, we obtained a unit on loan from another family.
We had two new girls for choir this evening. It looks like we will need to do more work with pitch and rhythm. The instructor on one of the instructional videos I have says that anyone can be taught how to sing and stay on pitch. One of the techniques to help students learn pitch is to do simple interval exercises. At Pacific Union College, while taking music theory, I was introduced to Kodaly exercises. I found a set of Kodaly instruction books for kids, so I ordered the first one in hopes that this can be used to help some of the kids learn about pitch.
The weather here this week has been rain with sunbreaks. The snow is melting away. I could be wrong, but I think it's been sometimes since December since we've seen so much lawn out of the front window.
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