Yes, it has been far to long since I've posted! I have been very busy with working (in Woodburn in case you forgot) and continually working on the house, and this month with the job search. I've given up hope on driving to Woodburn everyday. It just takes to much time out of my day. I have to get up at 6:15, work from 8 - 5, and I don't get home until 6! I don't feel like a good wife because I'm so tired when I get home, the last thing I want to do it get dinner ready. The job search has been challenging. Every night when I get home I look and apply on-line....and if I'm not working on that, I'm working on getting the house together. The house by the way, has really come along! We got the floors in, and the fridge in. We moved all of our stuff from the garage into teh house...but it's not all put away. We are slowly getting there...I just haven't had the motivation I'd hoped for with the job search happening to.
The floors are beautiful! The paint it wonderful! We love it...and that's a good thing because we will probably be here for a while. I'm ok with that though! That will give us time to really make some nice updates and changes! The garden in the back is just beautiful with blooming flowers and bushes! I didn't know all the bushes flowered so beautifully so that was a nice suprise! There is still a lot to do, but at least we can live now!
SO back to the job....the thought of Woodburn these days makes me a little sick to my stomach. The job is so stressful and hard, my co-workers are not very helpful or friendly and some of them are not even pleasant! The hardest part is the long long drive....and it's not like I'm driving to something that I LOVE....I'm driving to something that stresses me out and that I think may be to much for me to handle. I'm getting a lot of pressure to take on more to, which really doesn't help. So, I come home every night and look for other jobs. I've had some good interviews....I think I may even get a couple offers here pretty soon. I am interested in a couple places though and I'm not sure which to go with....but I'm getting ahead of myself since I don't have any offers yet! Hopefully I will be a local employee soon! Having lunch with Travis would be so much fun to!
I won concert tickets on the radio last Friday! That was fun! Last summer I won tickets to the Oregon Jamboree. We sold them because we couldn't make it, but it was still fun to win! This time we are going. It's tickets for a John Mayer concert....neither of us are huge fans, but we like him! It's more for the experience anyway. I've been wanting to go to a concert for a long time! So tomorrow Travis is picking me up from work and we are trekking to Ridgeview Washington (a couple miles out of Portland) for the show! I'm really looking forward to it!
Well, hopefully I'll be able to get on here and update you a little more often. And hopefully soon things will be looking up in the job area!
I have the good stuff! Good friends, AWESOME husband, great family, wonderful home, transportation, and lots of love!!
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Friday, April 27, 2007
Moving in!
It's been awhile since our last post because we don't have the internet right now. The last few weeks have been so so crazy! We moved out of our house on Friday the 13th (creepy) and moved in with my best friend Erika. We lived with her until the 22nd, when we got the keys to our new house!! It was so exciting finally getting to move it and have the house be ours! We were ready to have a home again!!
So Sunday the 22nd we went and checked it out...it was the first time we got to see it empty. We also got to get the kitties out of the cat hotel they had been staying in for the past 11 days! They were pretty freaked out, but they are doing much better now! So we brought the kitties to the house and hung out there until about 9. We had all our family and friends come over to check it out.
We moved our stuff from Erikas over on Monday, and have been staying there ever since. We haven't moved much in, because we are updating the place like crazy! We are scraping the popcorn off the ceiling, taking the wallpaper off the walls, taking the carpet and vinyl out, taking the basboards off, texturing the ceiling, getting new wood floors and carpet, and re-painting every room!! It has been fun, lots of work, and challenging, but it is so nice making it our own!! We have been to Home Depot SEVERL times, and I'm sure there will be several more trips to come!
Tomorrow, we are moving everything from our storage unit into our garage. We can't move anything into the hosue yet, because the flooring won't be in until the 8th or 9th!
Oh, we also picked out our new fridge! We really like it! It is one of those freezer on the bottom fridges!! Yay!
WHile all this has been going on, work has been an exceptionally large challenge as well. I found out I am permanatly in Woodburn now, and I have taken on more work than I can handle! Plus, the extra commute time hasn't been super fun when I staying up late every night working on the house!!
It just makes me so grateful for my wonderful husband Travis...he is enjoying his job and career choice and I am very glad for that!! He even gets up early with me and goes to work early so he can get off early and start working on the house!
Well, I've babbled enough for now! Back to the house!!
So Sunday the 22nd we went and checked it out...it was the first time we got to see it empty. We also got to get the kitties out of the cat hotel they had been staying in for the past 11 days! They were pretty freaked out, but they are doing much better now! So we brought the kitties to the house and hung out there until about 9. We had all our family and friends come over to check it out.
We moved our stuff from Erikas over on Monday, and have been staying there ever since. We haven't moved much in, because we are updating the place like crazy! We are scraping the popcorn off the ceiling, taking the wallpaper off the walls, taking the carpet and vinyl out, taking the basboards off, texturing the ceiling, getting new wood floors and carpet, and re-painting every room!! It has been fun, lots of work, and challenging, but it is so nice making it our own!! We have been to Home Depot SEVERL times, and I'm sure there will be several more trips to come!
Tomorrow, we are moving everything from our storage unit into our garage. We can't move anything into the hosue yet, because the flooring won't be in until the 8th or 9th!
Oh, we also picked out our new fridge! We really like it! It is one of those freezer on the bottom fridges!! Yay!
WHile all this has been going on, work has been an exceptionally large challenge as well. I found out I am permanatly in Woodburn now, and I have taken on more work than I can handle! Plus, the extra commute time hasn't been super fun when I staying up late every night working on the house!!
It just makes me so grateful for my wonderful husband Travis...he is enjoying his job and career choice and I am very glad for that!! He even gets up early with me and goes to work early so he can get off early and start working on the house!
Well, I've babbled enough for now! Back to the house!!
Monday, April 9, 2007
The game
Life truely is a game. It is moving so quickly right now! Christina Agrulra has a song about life...she calls it a "show" in this song...and I love to listen to it because it talks about how this is the greatest show on earth we'll ever see or experience. It talks about how everyone wears a mask thorugh life, and so many people let you down, but there are the few who are there through everything. My favorite line in teh song is where she asks "Is it all blue skys?" The answer, obviously, is no....there are lots of times in life where it's not fun, but what fun would life be if there were never any hard times to look back on? I think we need those experiences to keep us understanding and appreciating the GREAT ones!
Anywaym life is extra crazy right now. Someone bought our house, and we have to be out by the 13th. SO all we have done for teh past 2 weeks is move things into our storage unit, because don't get our new house until the 24th! And then we can start moving things out of the storage unit into the garage, but we have LOTS of updating (painting, carpeting, vinyl, etc) to do before we can actually move in! So we are "homeless" for 2 weeks. My best friend Erika is letting us stay with her! Bless her heart. We have to put our 3 cats up in a cat hotel. They are going to hate that! They all have to get updated shots to stay there....so by te end of the 2 weeks those cats are gonig to set us back about $500! We love them though, they are worth it!!
Work for me has stil been crazy! I sure am glad Trav's job is stable and he likes it so much....because lately tehre are many days I question mine. Basically I'm trying to do 2 jobs, in 2 locations, and move and I'm about to lose it! If things at work are still crazy liek this once we are settled into our new home, I will probably start the job search. I hate the job search!! So much time and effort! Especially at this time in my life...because in a couple years I want to start a family and stay home with the kids until they are in 1st grade! So all this job searching and interviews, etc for me to be there for 1 or 2 years?? Seems like such a waste. Hopefully my job will just settle down in the next month or so. Well, Trav is home from moving a load over to the storage unit. We only have a couple boxes left to pack and move over!!! I can't wait!!
Anywaym life is extra crazy right now. Someone bought our house, and we have to be out by the 13th. SO all we have done for teh past 2 weeks is move things into our storage unit, because don't get our new house until the 24th! And then we can start moving things out of the storage unit into the garage, but we have LOTS of updating (painting, carpeting, vinyl, etc) to do before we can actually move in! So we are "homeless" for 2 weeks. My best friend Erika is letting us stay with her! Bless her heart. We have to put our 3 cats up in a cat hotel. They are going to hate that! They all have to get updated shots to stay there....so by te end of the 2 weeks those cats are gonig to set us back about $500! We love them though, they are worth it!!
Work for me has stil been crazy! I sure am glad Trav's job is stable and he likes it so much....because lately tehre are many days I question mine. Basically I'm trying to do 2 jobs, in 2 locations, and move and I'm about to lose it! If things at work are still crazy liek this once we are settled into our new home, I will probably start the job search. I hate the job search!! So much time and effort! Especially at this time in my life...because in a couple years I want to start a family and stay home with the kids until they are in 1st grade! So all this job searching and interviews, etc for me to be there for 1 or 2 years?? Seems like such a waste. Hopefully my job will just settle down in the next month or so. Well, Trav is home from moving a load over to the storage unit. We only have a couple boxes left to pack and move over!!! I can't wait!!
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Life
Well I have to that life has definately thrown us some curve balls lately. I have made some great new friends, my co-worker Lindsey and her husband Brian. They are a great couple and we love spending time with them. We have been playing the market trying to sell our house and buy another....it is taking it's sweet time. It's so hard to wait! We had an offer on a house that was being built, and we were really excited about it...even though it was a little out of our price range. We decided we'd stretch ourselves financially and go for it. We got to pick the colors and everything. Well, our house just wouldn't sell. Finally the seller accepted another offer and we were back at square one. We were already frustrated because of our house not selling, and this news did not help!
Selling a house is not easy! You have to basically pack up 3/4th of it and live with very little of your stuff. AND you have to keep it spotless all the time. No more drunken nights and sleeping in until 2 the next day with passed out drunk friends and assorted cards, bottles, and glasses strewn across the house. Now you have to clean it up in your drunken stooper, or wake up early the next morning to take care of it...JUST IN CASE someone calls and wants to stop by. UGH! Lucky for me I married and wonderful man, and he has pulled MORE than his weight keeping the place clean!
So, in the midst of dealing with all this, my job starts making big changes. I had my review in early February and my boss told me they were re-arranging some departments, and that my responsibilties could be changing. Or even better, it could go away but they'll try to place me somewhere. Thats what everyone wants to hear from thier boss. I got a GREAT review though...and they really don't want to lose me, but of course all this is coming from corporate! Well, last Friday my boss called me into his office and told me that they needed me to fill in at the Woodburn office for a while. Probably 3 months. Great, now I get to commute to Woodburn everyday to do strictly AP, which is the least favorite part of my job!
What do you do? I'm sticking it out for now, trusting God. Lindsey is going through the same thing so it's nice to have someone who really understands go through it with me. And as always, Travis has been to supportive and understanding. It's so comforting to know that we are on this windy path of life together!
Well, thats all for now, I'll try to write again soon to fill you in on any updates.
Selling a house is not easy! You have to basically pack up 3/4th of it and live with very little of your stuff. AND you have to keep it spotless all the time. No more drunken nights and sleeping in until 2 the next day with passed out drunk friends and assorted cards, bottles, and glasses strewn across the house. Now you have to clean it up in your drunken stooper, or wake up early the next morning to take care of it...JUST IN CASE someone calls and wants to stop by. UGH! Lucky for me I married and wonderful man, and he has pulled MORE than his weight keeping the place clean!
So, in the midst of dealing with all this, my job starts making big changes. I had my review in early February and my boss told me they were re-arranging some departments, and that my responsibilties could be changing. Or even better, it could go away but they'll try to place me somewhere. Thats what everyone wants to hear from thier boss. I got a GREAT review though...and they really don't want to lose me, but of course all this is coming from corporate! Well, last Friday my boss called me into his office and told me that they needed me to fill in at the Woodburn office for a while. Probably 3 months. Great, now I get to commute to Woodburn everyday to do strictly AP, which is the least favorite part of my job!
What do you do? I'm sticking it out for now, trusting God. Lindsey is going through the same thing so it's nice to have someone who really understands go through it with me. And as always, Travis has been to supportive and understanding. It's so comforting to know that we are on this windy path of life together!
Well, thats all for now, I'll try to write again soon to fill you in on any updates.
Saturday, February 3, 2007
House Selling
House buying is a fun experience, especially when you know exactly what you're looking for and how much money you can comfortably spend on a place. I can't think of anything more exhilirating than buying a new piece of property and thinking about all the possibilities. But after that first house, you have to SELL to buy that next one (most of the time), and that is truly where hell and earth collide.
We're having some guy from Portland come down to take a look at our house today at about 11am. Hopefully all will go well and he'll be interested in buying it, I'm pretty much sick and tired of having to clean this house non-stop, 24/7 and cater to the demands of a bunch of realtors. Anyways, wish us luck you hundreds of Clark Game fans, we're countin on your thoughts and prayers to get this place sold!
We're having some guy from Portland come down to take a look at our house today at about 11am. Hopefully all will go well and he'll be interested in buying it, I'm pretty much sick and tired of having to clean this house non-stop, 24/7 and cater to the demands of a bunch of realtors. Anyways, wish us luck you hundreds of Clark Game fans, we're countin on your thoughts and prayers to get this place sold!
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Entry, Captains Log...
This first post is probably not going to be much to look at. I know we have interesting lives that we live, (all of us) at least I hope they are because otherwise, we're just fresh outta luck. If you happen to look at this blog I hope you enjoy the random thoughts I will occasionally write here. Probably not too often but these are nuggets of grandeur, believe me. Hold on tight, get ready for the ride of a lifetime. It's the CLARK GAME.
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