The good news I was hoping to have this month about my job didn't materialize in June. There was one job posting but it was for a project management position that I'm not terribly interested in but with the manager guy on PTO, I can't ask for details. I'll learn more in July but it sucks. I was really hoping for something to get me out of my ( Read more... )

At the beginning of August, Nicole and I took a one-week fifteen-hundred-mile road trip around Washington, Montana, Idaho, and eastern Oregon. My workplace had a one-week shutdown so we spent the whole time visiting friends and rolling around the Northwest. Right off the bat, we visited Nicole's best friend who recently moved to Montana. It was a ( Read more... )

Well finally after a whole year of back and forth, it looks like the farm land sale is finally beginning. It'll happen in three chunks; one every year for the next three years. The paperwork for the first chunk being sold just arrived the other day so this is it! It's finally happening. This is the boost Nicole and I need to finally start our house ( Read more... )

Wow, I can't remember the last time I'd gone a whole month without an update. It's been an incredible month, though, so there's lots to mention ( Read more... )

The big news of the moment is Nicole enjoying her first few weeks of being unemployed after quitting the job that was making her miserable. Last week, she and her best friend drove down to central California to visit her parents. It was the first time she's seen her immediate family since last May when her and I made the trip and I met her parents ( Read more... )

The shutdown ended last week and it was back to the old grind at work. For the last month or so, I've been training on a few machines that are fairly easy. I certified at the end of the work week last week and now I'm completely caught up with one of my counterpart coworkers who has all the same "certs" as me. The only difference between us is that ( Read more... )

Training at work continues. As I said before, my trainer is usually too busy to properly train me. My final test is this Thursday. Am I ready? Maybe. Just in case, I've got all my notes here and I'll be studying until then. Once I'm certified, I'm hoping I'll go back to my original machines and only act as a backup for my new area in case people ( Read more... )

I've been back from house sitting for a week and a half now and I'm relieved to have heard that the returning home owners approved greatly of the condition of the house and animals I was in charge of. Whenever I'm in charge of things that important for so long, I do get a little paranoid, so to hear everything is better than perfect is not only an ( Read more... )

Eek I'm 29! The last birthday of my 20's! It's dawning on me more and more these days that, as I push thirty, I realize how much I've changed in these last ten years. My body, too, looks different. I've put on a tiny bit of pudge and my hair is slowly fading from my temples, but I still feel like I belong in my 20's. Hopefully I'll always feel that ( Read more... )

These last few days have been ones where the past seems to meet the present and I can't help but look back and ponder my life with a strange sense of wonderment. Have I made these last ten years since high school count? Would my life have been different if...? I'm not exactly questioning myself in any negative sense, it's more of a rhetorical ( Read more... )