New Toys

Under the premise of being broke in the near future, we are spending like fools while we can, preparing for the drought if you will. New phones, new laptop and a new bike for Tim. He is gonna cruise to campus in his new Electra bike. Now we’ll just have to see about a helmet to protect those expensive (“some” would also say extensive) brains.

History Repeats

There has been packing:

And there has been rain:

In early July 2002, as we were getting ready to move into this house, San Antonio had a 100 year flood. Now four years later as we are packing to move again, more rain. Maybe instead of renting a Uhaul, we should build an ark. Though I hear it is a dry summer in Indiana.

Unemployed

As of 5:01 pm on Thursday (when this picture was taken), I am no longer employed. Well, for about 2 1/2 weeks anyway. I believe I am holding my final evaluation in my hand, on the way to Azuca for mojitos (and later at Bar America). I have mixed feelings about leaving this place, but I have learned a lot. Its been really hard, but also fun, interesting and many days I left feeling like at the very least I helped out one person who didn’t have any resources, any knowledge of how to obtain those resources, and used to hearing the word ‘no, I can’t help you’. I love it when people say, really? You can help me? That can turn any crappy day into one with a light at the end of the tunnel.

Moving forward on the house in Btown, including HOI and POA and learning what those even mean. And no, POA doesn’t stand for Piece of Ass…but it should. I have procured a sublet for le chat et moi for the month of July while I start work and before we can move into the new house (Aug 1). Have I mentioned that our new house will be . 9 miles from work? Not 9 miles, but less than a mile!

Made Zucchini Frittata this evening for dinner with zucchini that we grew in our garden! V. good.

W. 6th

We were looking at a house across the street that was weird and needed major work. Our realtor pointed to the cute red house on the corner and said that it had been for sale, but the owners had taken it off the market and she didn’t know why, but that it had been completely remodeled. I off handedly asked if we couldn’t just go up and knock and make an offer.

Which is in fact what we did.

And they actually accepted. We close July 13, move in Aug 1. The cute red house on the corner? Its ours!

I also heard when we were gone that I got my first choice job! We had a lucky week. I can’t believe all the good fortune we’ve had. Of course Tim likes to remind me that we’ve worked hard, which is true too.

Newsy

This is sort of how I feel today. A little off centered and fuzzy.

I don’t know all the details yet, but things are happening and I am giving my two weeks notice tomorrow at work. I will fill in all the details as they become more clear, hopefully by the end of this week.

Threads

One job offer down, one to still hear from. Hopefully this coming week I will know more.

This might be one of the last weekends of slack. We worked so hard to get the house ready, and now have had a few weekends where we haven’t had one million things to take care of. But we close on the house on Tuesday, and then we should really start packing. Also must figure out when to have a garage sale and such.

I have been quilting. Well, really just sewing. Technically quilting and sewing the top together call for different terms, but to make it easier, I just say quilting. Too much quilting information? Anyway, I’ve been working on two twin sized quilts for Thien’s nieces. They are made primarily from the no peek nine patches that I have collected over the years. Every year some quilty ladies get together at Katy’s neighborhood clubhouse and bring 270 2.5 inch squares and a covered dish. All the little squares are dumped into a tub and mixed up. Once everyone is done eating, we start sewing the little squares into bigger 6.5 inch squares. The resulting blocks are pretty/ugly and so much fun. The quilt will turn out a bit funky and I hope the girls will love them. Maybe tomorrow I’ll be able to finish the borders on this one.