Shock and Awe, and questions...

David went to a regional programming contest today and placed second! Yay for the David! He won a really cool road atlas that Alisdair will luuuuuve, and $40 bucks for his own edification and gratification. I'm uber proud of him. :) In other, more stunning news, he talked with his friend, Robert there as well. Robert's a programming guy who's also graduating this spring. He's been doing an internship, and has just been offered a starting position at the place he's been working for $50K a year.

Fifty Thousand a Year.

And this is apparently not unusual here locally for the programming companies. I am stunned. I mean, I've lived in the world. I know that most everywhere else, $50K is pretty darn good for starting but nothing completely spectacular. Well, let me put this into perspective for you. The house we're wanting to buy isless than $30K. $50K, in this part of the country, is frickin wealthy. Especially when you add on that I will still be making my income, giving us roughly $70K a year. Some of the most comfortably well off people in the area make around $50K and never have a financial worry their whole lives here. I'm utterly in shock. I'm so scared to trust it, but my God... all my life, all I ever wanted was to not have to worry about money and have some left after bills to allow a little spending money. I cannot fathom what it would be like. It's almost enough to make me consider sticking around this part of the world for a while longer, because being here with money is a whole different animal than being here and broke and unable to go much of anywhere else.

Anyway, on a more down-to-earth note, I finished a small editing job today that had been taunting me with its incomplete status. Tomorrow I dive back into the Big Seecrit Writing Project and try to finish with all haste. My goal is to write 5K tomorrow. Think good thoughts for me. :)

After I got the editing done, I put the boys to work and together, we cleaned their room. Threw away about a large sack full of garbage, straightened up their books, did laundry, fished socks out from under their beds, and generally got stuff done. I was feeling pretty wiped by then, but then my mom cooked dinner for us all (bless her) and gave me a chance to rest. This cold still is kicking my butt, regrettably. Afterwards, I had recovered enough to bake, and made cinnamon chocolate Kahlua brownies. Mmmm.

And now, I will do more questions. Today's questions are from anidada.

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