Taking it all in

Yesterday, the fire department released the scores from the Lieutenant test. I have place 111th out of the final pool of 410 individuals. It looks like the first 150 on the list will get jobs in the next year so I am pretty much...well...going to be a Lieutenant.

I am pleased with my score. God knows I couldn't have studied any harder or wanted it any more than I did. I am thankful that I did well and so glad that the process is over.

I did it. I really did it.

Today we close escrow and officially own our new home. We are going to partake in our ritual of pizza in the dark with Mary and her family, which we always do whenever one of us buys a new home. There is nothing like sitting in a house you just bought, eating on the furnitureless floor and contemplating your future in your new vacuous home.

Michie is also getting the molding done for her radiation treatments today. The molding is basically a cast for her body so that she is positioned in the exact same manner each time that she had radiation done. I think we will make a chaise lounge out of it when she is done. We will need more furniture in our living room anyway.

I am trying to take it all in. I am trying to allow myself a moment to celebrate amidst all the chaos and change. Breathe.