Proud of Myself This Time

I sat for the 8 hour Professional Engineer (PE) Exam yesterday!  It feels wonderful to have actually done it and I still think I have a fair chance of passing.  I’d put my odds at 50/50 or even 60/40.  I struggled where I thought I would during both the AM (breadth session where everything I learned as an undergrad is fair game) and the PM (depth session where I’m just tested on structural design stuff) sessions.  Overall, I’m quite proud of myself for working hard and being able to give myself an honest chance on the exam.

Now I just get to play with Shayna, get the house ready for SJ and Shayna’s transplantiversary party, sort through and file the last month and half worth of mail and relax with just the usual work of life.  Today we’ll go to the farmers market where we usually meet up with friends and Shayna plays on the grass with other random kids there.  Then we have a little just-for-fun party at a friend’s.  In the afternoon, we’ll got down town for Halloween and a local church’s trunk-or-treat followed by a Halloween party for kids at the community center.  Next week, I’ll finally have the time to take Shayna on a bus ride.  She loves pointing out the busses, but I hope she won’t be disappointed that it’s not a school bus.  (She wants to ride on a school bus to school with other boys and girls.)  I think we’ll take the bus to my polling station on Tuesday to vote then head over to campus for some duck feeding and a visit to Aba.  Wednesday we resume Shayna’s vaccinations (she hasn't been shot since before transplant).  She knows about shots because she saw Ima and Aba get them.  Since we didn’t flinch or cry, I don’t think she thinks they’re that bad but I know she won’t be happy when it happens to her.

Shayna’s learning her Hebrew letters with this great placemat I got in Pittsburgh.  Here she is studying them.  She can point out 4 letters reliably and likes me to spell her name and Aba by pointing to the letters with her finger.