STL & GIS

So we are headed to STL tomorrow to spend time with C's family. I'm pretty stoked about meeting his mom, stepdad, and I just learned last night also his sister and her kids, and also his brother and girlfriend. I also get to meet his aunt whom we will be staying with. Thanksgiving went well spent it at the fire station. Watched the LSU vs. Arkansas game yesterday and today am watching the Ohio State vs. Michigan game.

I applied for the GIS position with DPW and hoping that I hear from them with good news soon. I did learn though after getting the mail today that I am eligible for another extension on UI from CA. When we get back we are getting our tree and decorating it, yay! Of course, that will definitely ensure us having tons of needles all over the house. Trying to figure out how to get my knitting on the plane but I'm thinking I may have to just take my quilting instead. Good thing Mom Nola is a quilter so I can borrow her scissors.

Needles Everywhere!

So I've been admiring all the wonderful lush green evergreens this past year. When you spend over four years living in the Los Angeles metro area you don't exactly see evergreens that much, its mostly palm trees or some exotic species that someone decided looked good growing in their yard but most of the time it doesn't! Or you end up looking at a lot of oak trees as those are quite prevalent too. Nontheless, since moving into the new house in early Autumn it was great having all the shade. Since late Autumn almost Winter though those same fir trees are shedding needles galore and they are literally everywhere in the house!!! Ugh and the vacuum has a hard time sucking them up out of the carpet. I think I would think twice about living directly under so many evergreens in the future even though I really love trees :-).

Having some difficulties at home lately with sharing of chores and stuff but I think we will soon work something out. One of my close girlfriends, Mel, is planning on taking me out tonight for something warm to drink and then hopefully come back to the house to play cards for awhile. Be nice change of pace.

Still trying to apply for the GIS position with the county. Haven't seen it posted yet. It's supposed to snow with accumulutation this week but we shall see. I have mixed feelings about snow: first, I like to watch it come down and don't mind standing there briefly to have the flakes catch on my nose & eyelashes or attempt to go snowboarding in it as sis will attest to that, but as far as driving in it no way I don't like it one bit.

Hoping to get to go with C when he goes to STL to see his family in a week and then to get our Christmakuh tree when we come back :-). I really want to decorate it with white and blue lights. I think it will look really pretty.

Trips & Turkey

So the Las Vegas trip is off indefinitely due to threats through email to M about having C & I go down there. Which as much as C & I would like to get away for a few days that isn’t what we had in mind. Hopefully we will here from Mom N. and can go see her soon. Other news, the fire commissioner election is over and the person we wanted to win did. Yay Tim! Everyone gets to keep their jobs and we have adequate coverage for the next four years for emergency purposes. There is also a GIS position coming up with the Dept. of Public Works that I will be applying for as soon as it posts on their web page. Hopefully that turns out to be promising (keeping fingers crossedJ).
Finally have the money for getting wood, now we just need the person to deliver it. I am getting the plastic up on the windows inside to help with making the house more energy efficient and so far it seems to be helping. Still in the process of putting things away in the house. Our vacuum cleaner quit working for some unknown reason. Should be able to get the full deposit back on the other house early next week which I know will be a blessing.
This weekend I am getting together with our friend Erin & her daughter Grace to enjoy an early Thanksgiving dinner for free at the community center put on by the local church on Saturday and maybe we can scrapbook or something afterwards.

Trunk or Treat

So this Halloween we were at our community's Trunk or Treat. I had never been before and it was awesome! Aside from both of us being sick still we had a lot of fun (and yes Mom we were both dressed warmly). So I'm finally all moved out of the old house and moved into the our new house...woohoo!! Now just have to put things away.

This month we are putting plastic on the windows to help make the house more energy efficient and getting our cord of wood next week after we get back from Las Vegas. Mike is paying for our travel expenses and for Chris's missed work. We're taking the schnauzer's down to stay. Hopefully it will be a good trip with lots of great photos. Thankfully there has been some job free lifts by the state so that there are more work opportunity possibilities for me in my field. There's another possibility coming up in December of doing some contract work with Mike for King County but we're still waiting to get more information.

Thanksgiving we will be doing at the fire station and should be lots of fun with a good turn out. Our friend Erin and I are still trying to work out the details of getting together for our scrapbooking night once a week. She has lots of photos of her 16 month old daughter, Grace, that she wants to put in albums and I am looking forward to helping her.