A novel
This'll be a long one, so hang in there with me! :oP
Last week was very eventful (mostly bad events) but it's a new week and a fresh start for a better week. As I posted last week, my grandmother passed away on Tuesday. The funeral was Friday and was a nice service. And just like is appropriate for any day of a funeral the sky clouded up & it rained and poured--but it stopped just in time for the service at the graveside. Good thing because we didn't have an umbrella.
I also had strep last week & am getting over that. Chris's aunt also passed away Saturday morning we found out over the weekend. It's his mother's sister and I guess she was sick for a while but nobody was expecting it still.
I was not at work all last week except for Monday. So I'm catching up this week. Last Wednesday my cube neighbor collapsed in the restroom here at work & had to be taken out by ambulance. She's still in the hospital and is having tests done today to figure out what's going on. And we have a HS student who works here one day a week on a sponsorship program with his school. He was hit by a car last week and is OK but was pretty shaken up. He went up onto the woman's hood of her car & freaked out & ran off.
What a week! I hope everyone's week was better and I would be most grateful for a calm and boring week. You know what they say about "no news is good news"--I hope I get NO news this week!
BUT I do have good news to report and I'll finish with these good notes. As I mentioned in the last post, Chris was offered the job last week that he interviewed for a few weeks ago. He starts training on the 18th but it's 5 weeks of paid training so that's cool. He'll be installing satellites for Dish Network and will only be working 4 days a week. FT with PAID overtime guaranteed (it's been a while since he's gotten paid for OT having been a salaried manager). He'll only work 1 Saturday a month also so we're happy about that that it's not every Saturday like we've been used to the last several years. I really hope he likes it. It sounds like it'll be a good job.
And...it's in Grain Valley, close to the location we've been looking at for houses. The house in Lexington we've had our eyes on for a while dropped from $89,900 to $79,900 last month and just yesterday we noticed that the price listed on the website now says $69,900, so they've dropped it another $10k! We're not quite ready yet to make an offer because of Chris's new start date later than he was originally told, but hopefully the lack of interest in this property will continue and that it'll still be there in a few weeks.
Yesterday I got Afton out in the grass at Chris's brother's house & he didn't even know what to do in the strange green stuff. He truly is a city boy now and we've got to do something about that! Every time I put him down in the grass he cried & acted like he forgot how to walk. With the few steps he took he wobbled & fell. It was like I'd stuck him in a tar pit & he couldn't manage to lift his feet to take steps properly. So I let him take a break, held him a bit and tried again later. He still cried & freaked out when I put him in the grass again but I finally got him calmed down & playing a little. He still just sat there in the grass & didn't move his tush for a half hour though! This kid needs to get out more! The grass was a monster trying to eat his feet apparently.
Well, that's all the update I've got for now. I'll post some pics soon of Afton that I took over the weekend of his "outdoor adventure." :o)
Last week was very eventful (mostly bad events) but it's a new week and a fresh start for a better week. As I posted last week, my grandmother passed away on Tuesday. The funeral was Friday and was a nice service. And just like is appropriate for any day of a funeral the sky clouded up & it rained and poured--but it stopped just in time for the service at the graveside. Good thing because we didn't have an umbrella.
I also had strep last week & am getting over that. Chris's aunt also passed away Saturday morning we found out over the weekend. It's his mother's sister and I guess she was sick for a while but nobody was expecting it still.
I was not at work all last week except for Monday. So I'm catching up this week. Last Wednesday my cube neighbor collapsed in the restroom here at work & had to be taken out by ambulance. She's still in the hospital and is having tests done today to figure out what's going on. And we have a HS student who works here one day a week on a sponsorship program with his school. He was hit by a car last week and is OK but was pretty shaken up. He went up onto the woman's hood of her car & freaked out & ran off.
What a week! I hope everyone's week was better and I would be most grateful for a calm and boring week. You know what they say about "no news is good news"--I hope I get NO news this week!
BUT I do have good news to report and I'll finish with these good notes. As I mentioned in the last post, Chris was offered the job last week that he interviewed for a few weeks ago. He starts training on the 18th but it's 5 weeks of paid training so that's cool. He'll be installing satellites for Dish Network and will only be working 4 days a week. FT with PAID overtime guaranteed (it's been a while since he's gotten paid for OT having been a salaried manager). He'll only work 1 Saturday a month also so we're happy about that that it's not every Saturday like we've been used to the last several years. I really hope he likes it. It sounds like it'll be a good job.
And...it's in Grain Valley, close to the location we've been looking at for houses. The house in Lexington we've had our eyes on for a while dropped from $89,900 to $79,900 last month and just yesterday we noticed that the price listed on the website now says $69,900, so they've dropped it another $10k! We're not quite ready yet to make an offer because of Chris's new start date later than he was originally told, but hopefully the lack of interest in this property will continue and that it'll still be there in a few weeks.
Yesterday I got Afton out in the grass at Chris's brother's house & he didn't even know what to do in the strange green stuff. He truly is a city boy now and we've got to do something about that! Every time I put him down in the grass he cried & acted like he forgot how to walk. With the few steps he took he wobbled & fell. It was like I'd stuck him in a tar pit & he couldn't manage to lift his feet to take steps properly. So I let him take a break, held him a bit and tried again later. He still cried & freaked out when I put him in the grass again but I finally got him calmed down & playing a little. He still just sat there in the grass & didn't move his tush for a half hour though! This kid needs to get out more! The grass was a monster trying to eat his feet apparently.
Well, that's all the update I've got for now. I'll post some pics soon of Afton that I took over the weekend of his "outdoor adventure." :o)
posted by Studio P Photography at 10:52 AM
2 Comments:
I hope you have a really good week this week! You need one! Wow...what a crazy bunch of events!
Ha...that is so cute about Afton in the grass! I can't wait to see some of the pictures you took of him!
Wow...that is great about the price of the house dropping! We'll have to pray no one even looks at it!
Thanks! We would really appreciate the prayers for the house that nobody else would even look at it! ;o) My patience is definitely being tested though, that's for sure. Seems like we've waited forever to get a house.
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