here's wishing you the best

7 days from tomorrow...

2008-08-11T00:37:41Z

I will be a college professor.

6 days from now I will be going crazy hoping I have all my shit together.

Coming full circle

2008-07-22T11:34:17Z

We're not moving to California anymore. When we realized we'd have to take out 70,000 a year in loans to sustain the kind of life we live now (which is in no way a grand lifestyle but a very very frugal one) we could just not justify the move. Of course the move itself was also going to cost us 5-6 grand we didn't have too.

The good news, however, is that both the Math department (for Chris) and the English Department at WVU agreed to still consider our applications. The application deadline was back in January so you can understand how gracious a move that was. Both department accepted us into their programs and I still have a fighting chance at getting a teaching position which will pay my tution and grant me a living stipend. They gave the TA (teaching) positions away back in March, but the director said I was more than qualified and if a class opened up it was mine.

We were disapointed of course to wind up back at WVU but the fact of the matter is we have formed relationships with the professors, we know who to avoid in research and who to join up with. We are here for our MA only. we're going to try to publish, publish, publish, and apply out again for PhD programs.

We also already have Kayleb registered into Kindergarten and we already have a babysitter we trust for Sebastian. we have state medical insurance and we know our living means. We even made a couple of friends in the few months before school ended that we can now let grow.

Staying in WV is so much easier than leaving it right now.

and it goes without saying that my mother was simply thrilled with this news.

So now instead of packing up the house I'm "moving in" We've been here a year and a half but had never gotten comfortable as we expected just to leave again. But now with another two years ahead of us we're really working on getting settled and making this place a home.

our thoughts will compile

2008-07-11T19:32:35Z

so I may make a come back to livejournal.

I'm unemployed, graduated, and not quite sure where my life is headed. Seems a good time to start putting thoughts down again. It would at least pass a few extra minutes. Chris would rest better knowing I'm not using all my free time thinking up more stuff I want/need him to do around the house...

No promises, despite this being a post itself, that I will continue. But, I'm considering the idea of bringing LJ back into my life.

totally done with LJ

2007-09-19T19:12:41Z

I'm not deleting it because its still a journal I have kept. However, I am considering this the last hypothetical page.

it's been...forever

2007-08-01T20:20:24Z

Fall semester starts Aug 20. This is important because:
- it's my last semester.
- I have a shit load to do and to write in my classes and may lose all traces that are left of my sanity

and because Chris and I have to :
- retake the GRE
- figure out what schools we want to go to/can afford (in the process)
- make connections with professors at those schools
- write kick ass personal statements
- dish out large sums in graduate applications (probably around 1,200 total)
- wait for acceptance letters
- make choices that will impact the rest of our lives
- Gradute
- Move
- Start over

so, ya know, that's what I'll be up to from now to December when I may or may no update again.

adjust_it_right @ 2007-02-01T13:49:00

2007-02-01T18:50:28Z

I want these

in more detail

2007-01-12T16:50:48Z

When i first looked through the house we now live in, I fell in love. The house was huge. Plenty of room for the boys to run and play. A really big kitchen that I pictured all of us eating in and laughing and talking. Kitchy family stuff. ya know? Plus it was an old house with awesome woodwork around the doorways, lots of closet space. And it was cheap.

But, as the saying goes (and they wouldnt become old sayings if they didnt hold true most of the time) if it's too good to be true, it probably is. The house that looked good was actually rotting and falling apart. There are termites, and mice, and spiders galore. Infestations. There are pipes that leak and cause the basement to grow mold...right where the furance is. The floors give you splinters because they are so old and cracking. The sink never worked right at all in the kitchen and frequently sprayed burning water at the user. And so forth. All these problems would be livable if the landlords cooperated to get them fixed, but they don't.

Beyond all that, Chris and I are sick of the commute from school/work to home. It takes an hour out of our day each way. So each day we lost two hours to the commute that we would rather be spending with kayleb and Sebastian. It's hard waking up and dropping your children off right before 7Am only to get home, feed them, bathe them, and put them to bed. We were getting very minimal time with them and that hurts both of us. It's emotional frustration that infiltrates every other aspect of being. We need to see our children more. Everything else was just a catalyst to facilitate that need.

So we're moving to morgantown, just a few miles from the school. There are more activities here for the boys. More places to shop than walmart. There are more activities for Chris and I as well. More social interaction.

It's still a step for me to leave grafton. I had comforts there. Support. But its not like I'll be far from those comforts and new comforts will formulate in morgantown.

We'll keep our same cell phone numbers. I can give the address to those who want it.

haven't been around in a bit

2007-01-11T15:19:02Z

Things are busy here. Christmas was great. New Years was memorable. Classes have started again. And, this weekend, the Joyce Tuggle family is moving to Morgantown. So we've been excessively busy trying to pack up our house in the midst of our always busy everyday life. I'm hoping after the next few weekends things will settle back into some form of new routine in which I can breath again and check in and talk to people more.

they got me dead bang

2006-11-01T21:37:22Z

What American accent do you have? Your Result: Philadelphia Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard.
The Midland
The South
The Inland North
The Northeast
The West
Boston
North Central
What American accent do you have?

seeing as Im from baltimore, I'd say they hit the nail on the head. Or close enough :-)

adjust_it_right @ 2006-11-01T08:45:00

2006-11-01T13:45:10Z

I tried to upload a bunch, but was having tech difficulties. This is the only one that worked!

I'll upload more tonight if I can.

adjust_it_right @ 2006-10-30T15:49:00

2006-10-30T20:51:08Z

What the fuck??

I was going to say "What in the holy hell?" but that would have been too ironic.

disgusting.

adjust_it_right @ 2006-10-27T08:58:00

2006-10-27T13:02:14Z

Kayleb spent saturday through monday with Cory and Luanne at Tygart. Luanne sent me some pictures and they were both good shots:

Kayleb at Taygart Lake

Carving a pumpkin with Cory in perfect fall weather

I can't wait to see the rest. He had a good time. Of course the rest of the week we have all been miserably sick and I havent been in to work (though I am here at work today again)since Monday. Glad he had some fun between all the sick.

adjust_it_right @ 2006-10-13T09:58:00

2006-10-13T14:00:24Z

sweet I just got a 1,500 dollar annual raise. Much better than my last raise of 17 cents per paycheck.

adjust_it_right @ 2006-09-27T08:51:00

2006-09-27T12:55:59Z

I'd like to announce the arrival of another addition to the Joyce Tuggle family household. And, NO, I'm not pregnant again. hehe. But, as of yesterday evening, we are now the owners of an adorable 7 month old male kitten names Patches. He looks very similar in coat to my old and deeply missed cat Toby that Demi took charge of when I left Boston. He is the same size and the same "pet me! pet me! let me sit in your lap!" temperment as Perri's cat Molly. He's not big at all. Probably about the size of poptart and grapenut, only with longer legs. His feet are tiny tiny.

The most hilarious thing was how into the cat Sebastian was. At first he wanted to see it only, but when the cat came too near, Sebastian would get this look of horror on his face and try to climb up the leg of whichever parent was nearer at the time. As the night went on, and as he avoided his bedtime with great excitement and dedication, he became more and more brazen. By the end of the night he was patting the cat and giggling over and over each time. I dont think I have ever heard him talk so much at a stretch as he did last night. It was adorable.

did someone call me?

2006-09-14T12:53:11Z

did someone call me from NC area code 336 or 363 or something? I forget the area code now, but I know it was North Carolina. Demi? Dan? anyone? anyone?

people should leave messages.

obsession

2006-09-08T18:19:59Z

okay. i seriously need this! I already have the dark crystal book, and I very fairly needed that one. But I neeeeeeed this!

another memorable day gone past

2006-09-07T18:05:51Z

Now that all is said and done I can announce that Kayleb did, in fact, start preschool on Tuesday. Christopher and I went with him Tuesday for two hours and then he went yesterday for the whole time (4 hours). He seems to really be enjoying himself. It was so heartwarming to watch him playing and following directions with the teacher and the children. The rewards were starting to show themselves before we even left the first day. They have name tags with stickers on them. First they identify their name by the sticker but will slowly (so they say) come to recognize their name. Well as we were leaving tuesday they had to take their nametag (a different one without their sticker) and put it on door to signify they were signing out for the day. Well Kayleb recognized his name tag right away. He didnt even need the sticker any more. Maybe it was luck but he went right for it.

He was singing songs and doing the hand motions and everything. I know he may pick up a few bad habits along the way too, but Im really excited for him to play with his peers 4 hours every day.

A momentus occasion

2006-08-30T12:02:44Z

Today, Sebastian turns 1 year old. He was born on a rainy day, much like today, at exactly 8:00PM after 5 hours of labor. It's been such a wonderful year with such a wonderful, joyful baby. I feel like it just a few months ago that I was bringing him home from the hospital, so small I could hold him effortlessly in one arm. Now he's big enough to wrap both my arms around, and he rarely wants to be held at all. He's so much more independant than Kayleb, trying to grow up fast enough to keep pace with his older brother (or be able to escape him). He climbs the stairs like a champ, points to things with great deliberateness, claps when he's done a good job or is proud of himself, and shakes his head yes or no depending on what you are telling him. His smile is brighter than any star in the sky. Today I must cope with the fact that both my boys are growing up so quickly. I have no more babies. Just a house full of toddlers. Things are about to get very very interesting.

Happy birthday to my sweet love, Sebastian.

adjust_it_right @ 2006-08-14T16:28:00

2006-08-14T20:32:10Z

well, pending the fact that my financial aid goes through in time and I can get a free (or loans...) ride, I am enrolled in three web-based classes for Fall semester. Which starts Monday. Those three classes include my last gen ed course eVer and 6 of my 9 remaining english credit requirements. So thats good news. I kinda lucked out that what I needed was being offered online. Mind you, those arent english classes I would ever take if I had to take them in a classroom or really under any other circumstances other than "ugh. Im so sick of not being in school and even sicker of NOT having my degree that I will take ANYTHING to satisfy requirements." So, I am now stuck with the following three classes: Editing, Technical writing, and Plant Science. You are all jealous. Especially of Technical Writing. I know it. But...should I ever go get my MBA for whatever reason, they wont be bad classes to have taken I suppose.

anyway, cross your fingers I get my financial aid in time. And doubly that christopher gets all his financial aid squared away too!!

The good, The bad, and the Ugly (read: Disgusting!)

2006-08-04T16:00:50Z

We've been having a real rough patch lately that has entailed all of the following (not in chronological order):
1. Christophers car breaking down and costing us 300 dollars
2. Expensive medicines/doctors visists
3. Weird ilnesses:
a. hands foot and mouth disease
b. mastisis
c. the worst case of poison ivy (sumac, oak?)
4. A stopped up toilet that was rendered unusable too late at night for a plumber to come.
5. Shitty water falling from under the bathroom floor through our kitchen ceiling. It was a real shitstorm.
6. Kayleb having a mysterious virus that caused a high fever and relative unpleasantness.
7. Kayleb losing my new pearl necklace
8. Plumber costing almost 200 dollars
9. broken refridgerator
10. poverty

Im sure theres some things Im forgetting too. However, most of this culminated yesterday with numbers 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 happening in the same day.

There has been some good come about though.
1. Help and Support from family
2. New bedroom furniture
3. new coffeetable (that kayleb already got permanent ink on)
4. Fish we havent killed yet
5. Kaylebs acceptance into preschool
6. Good annual checkups for both boys
7. great dentist checkup for Kayleb
8. a great boss the understand all the terrible hardships Ive endured that required taking days off recently
9. an income
10. each other.

I was really about to lose it last night. Id just had enough. I went to bed muttering aloud how "I was done. Im just done. Im...done." I usually try to be optimistic, and I know Chris has been dealing with all this same bad luck, but he remained consoling and made me feel much better. He's exceptional at that. Really, our luck needs to seriously change, and I hope it does. But Im also glad for what Ive got.

adjust_it_right @ 2006-07-18T09:32:00

2006-07-18T13:32:57Z

this is way too depressing for words...

Advanced Global Personality Test Results

Extraversion	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Stability	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	33%
Orderliness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	66%
Accommodation	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	63%
Interdependence	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Intellectual	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	63%
Mystical	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%
Artistic	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%
Religious	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Hedonism	\|\|\|\|\|\|	23%
Materialism	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	56%
Narcissism	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%
Adventurousness	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Work ethic	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Self absorbed	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%
Conflict seeking	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	36%
Need to dominate	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	63%

Romantic	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	70%
Avoidant	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	36%
Anti-authority	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	76%
Wealth	\|\|\|\|	16%
Dependency	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%
Change averse	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	56%
Cautiousness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Individuality	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Sexuality	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%
Peter pan complex	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	36%
Physical security	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	36%
Physical Fitness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	64%
Histrionic	\|\|\|\|\|\|	23%
Paranoia	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	56%
Vanity	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	63%
Hypersensitivity	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	70%
Female cliche	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%

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adjust_it_right @ 2006-06-30T16:31:00

2006-06-30T20:33:22Z

Kayleb will be 3 tomorrow.

I still havent wrapped my head around that.

work email

2006-06-21T13:01:56Z

lindsey.joyce@mail.wvu.edu

my new work address for those who do email me at work or for those inclined to start doing so.

closing up shop

2006-06-15T15:36:51Z

the best part about leaving a job is going through the computer and deleting all your personal info. emails, pictures, downloads, documents, etc. My email is now brimming with all the crap I've filled this computer with that I somehow have deemed not worth deleting altogether.

Not only am I a packrat at home I am an e-packrat. ugh.

word.

2006-06-13T16:00:26Z

huz·zah also huz·za ( P ) Pronunciation Key (h-zä)
interj.
Used to express joy, encouragement, or triumph.

n.
A shout of “huzzah.”
A cheer.