anjel

Anjel-
Is this the official new spelling? I keep picking this up from Cindy’s emails. Could it be? Is it true? Except for email, I’ve been really out of touch lately. (Gee, really?) Sorry about that. : ( . I hope thanksgiving was the usual blissful roomful of people and warmth. I did make some pies, and I’m proud to say fed about twenty people, but thankfully none of them had the comparison of Grandma’s or it might have been embarassing.
How are you? How are you doing with the journey into motherhood? Is it what you expected? Are you getting enough sleep and taking care of yourself, too? Do you have pictures of little Jade? (you know, I have to say, that’s a gorgeous name. I really really love it. How did you come up with it?) I want a photo, I want a photo!!!!! AAAGH!!!! Everyone’s seen her but me. (I’m pouting.) I can’t imagine, I guess I’ll just have to wait until I visit again… Wow.
And hey, while we’re on the topic of you… I’ve been hearing some wonderful rumors about you lately… Some things to the effect of how great you are with Jade, and that you’ve really come into your own and have matured into an extraordinary woman. I wish I could congratulate you in person, but congratulations. Mary has also been keeping me informed about the school thing. Are you up for any classes yet? Still thinking about it? All I have to say is you go girl. You go. You’re an incredible and beautiful woman Angel. Don’t forget it. You can accomplish whatever you set your mind to. (There are benefits to being stubbornly independent….) Let me know if there’s anything anything at all I can do. I know that’s hard form SF, CA, but if you think of anything. As soon as I scrape together some $$$ I’ll send off the gift for Jade. I really love it and I hope she will too. I want to keep it for myself. But alas. sigh.
I am very definitely in between jobs. I left the solid stable one, with the excellent future, primarily because I couldn’t even begin to relate to the people there. Spending 70 hours a week to make advertisements for Bank of America. It just occured to me that’s not what I want out of my life. I’ve got to get back to the teaching and education ideas. Or I’ll be nuts. So, here I am, working several part time jobs to try and get rent together. Once again. Oh well. But my grad school applications are looking better, that’s for sure. oh well.
I won’t go into our lovely sunny temperate and mild weather (hee hee) here in the bay area of California. It does rain everyday through the winter, but clears up for the afternoons. I do miss the smell of the air, and the woodsmoke though. I find myself sad and nostalgic fairly often. Jody Galinat (blast from the past) is staying on my couch in between apartments right now. He says hello and congratulations. He says you’re “a rad chick” and wishes you a hug and all the best. (He’s watching me type it in.)
Well, I hope you are well and I hope you are happy. I think of you often and send you much, much love. Have a wonderful holiday season and please please please give love to your mom and grandma and kim and all the family… and give my mom a hug for me when you see her.  At any rate… oxoxoxo caitlin