41

41 is the number of jobs P has applied to.

Of those, 1 of them is in Oregon.  Portland to be exact.   PSU.

and I am SO excited!

Not that this means anything just yet, but it is still exciting to have one position finally open up that is in Oregon.  This job application process is just crazy.  I feel bad for P's three primary people who have been, and continue to write the letters of reference.  I am positive that each email P sends out to these three people is opened with hesitation, knowing that another letter of reference request awaits them.  The guy must be loved, or something, because I'd go crazy if someone asked me to keep writing letters of reference - especially a guy who has already applied to 41 different schools.

K has a raging ear infection, double to be exact.  One side looks really mean and nasty, the ear drum is ready to rupture.  So he is on high strength antibiotic to get rid of the nastiness, and has some numbing ear drops.  So far this is night 3 of no sleep for us.  His fever has him shivering and just miserable.  Poor little tyke. 

R is finally on the mend.  Of course now I am coming down with whatever they both had.  So is P. 

On a side note - Ben and Jerry's ice cream taste so much better when eaten straight out of the carton.  Because we are all sick here, it forced me to actually scoop some from the container and eat it from a bowl, and the enjoyable factor plummeted.  I am sure that I consumed WAY fewer calories this way though...and if you are thinking, I am never going to eat ice cream from the Loprinzi's house ever again because of this admitted guilty pleasure, I say wahoo.  More for me : ).