Our new pool and stuff about my job

Last week it started to look like we weren't going to be able to buy our house. The underwriters decided that they weren't going to count Erick's income from the church because they didn't want to count the signed statement from the board as proof of income. We finally got that figured out, but had to reapply for the loan since they had denied it. They've also required a few piddly repairs to the house, which we've finished and we're just waiting for the appraiser to come back and say it's all good. Anyway, in the process of all this, the closing costs were recalculated and are much less than we thought they were going to be.

Since we had some extra money that we'd put back for the closing, and since most of the public swimming pools and beaches around this area have closed down (an accidentally drowning death prompted a new law specifying safety features that a lot of pools just can't afford to implement), we decided to buy a pool for the kids. I bought it off Walmart.com and got an 18 foot pool for $199. I'm pretty sure we paid more than that for the smaller Easy-Set pool we had a few years ago when we were at Shiloh.

So the kids have been having a blast with the pool. The water isn't warm enough for me to try it out yet, but maybe soon.

In other news, we are thinking of trying out the Civil Air Patrol for the older kids. We have to attend a few meetings first before they can join to see if it's right for us, but according to the website, they would have the opportunity to fly an airplane. There seems to be a lack of good homeschool groups in this area, so this might be something we could do instead.

At work, I had an interview the other day for department manager at the pharmacy, and I'm supposed to interview soon for another CSM position. There weren't any CSM positions opened when I transferred so technically I'm at the service desk, but I've been doing a lot of CSMing and cashiering as well as service desk.

I'm also trying to get on at the State of Illinois. The government jobs pay quite well here. Of course, I'm also still looking for jobs in the communication field, since that's what my degree will be in when I graduate this fall (woohoo!) I only have one more Spanish class, my capstone communication class, and I'm also taking Intro to the Animal Kingdom to fulfill my last science requirement.

But I'd better go. They are going to watch The Amazing Spiderman without me if I don't.