Playing Catch Up - Again
-- 22 September 2006 [Friday]
Oh yeah it's Friday! Work has been OK. I still daydream every thirty minutes about quitting and doing something I love. Something physical and preferably outside would be great. I just worry about the finances and especially about health insurance. I know we would get by but actually doing it and taking the plunge is very hard for us - me especially. If I didn't have three children counting on me I would have quit long ago. Maybe next year will be the answer? Who know's what will happen.
Doing nothing tonight I hope but taking it easy. Maybe we'll go out for ice cream if the kids are behaving. We'll have to see. Tomorrow I am on call starting at around 1pm for our RMS 4.5 release to production. Shouldn't be too bad, but that means I have to stick around at home and answer the phone and be ready to login if necessary. Amanda is going with the kids to a concert at Regency Park with Pat and Dawn. Should be fun for them. We got the free tickets at a kids birthday party a couple weeks ago so that worked out well. Even if they don't like it, it's something to try, and it was free.
I forgot to mention (I think) sometime last week the Saturn rolled over 100,000 miles on it. It's currently at 100,200 miles and seems to be going strong. I hope it lasts!
-- 21 September 2006 [Thursday]
Yayyy! Carpet Day. We are very happy to get our carpet in today and get our house back in order. It's a mess downstairs with the new table burried in the corner under our upstairs stuff. I worked from home all day. The carpet guys came around 12:30pm and we done by 3pm. They did a great job as far as we can tell. Amazing story too - when the first guy walked in, he stopped in the living room as asked about the green carpet he had there. I told him it was intalled by Lowes about a year or so ago, and it turns out he was the one who did it! He had worked for Lowes and quit to go back and visit Mexico and upon returning went to work for Empire who we hired today to do our upstairs. Amazingly small world it is. He was nice and they did a great job again.
By the time the kids were in bed we had gotten basically all the furniture put back that wasn't too "flat" on the floor and left the rest of the stuff for the weekend. We want to let the carpet 'breathe' as much as possible to get that smell out. Luckily for us the weather is perfect. 72F today but it's been cold in the morning - 50F. We are all using our covers and the kids have their pajamas and socks on at night. :) Fall is definitely my favorite time of the year.
-- 20 September 2006 [Wednesday]
Actually worked the first half of the day from home. Amanda voluntered at Keegans school this morning for his center time, while I watched Ian (Carson was in school as well). So it worked out good. When she got home I went into work as I'm working all day from home tomorrow because of the carpet being installed.
When I got home, we finished up the moving and screwing down of the squeaky floorboards as best we could. It was a lot of work, and Amanda as usual was a huge help!
We watched a movie at night called "Grandma's Boy" - and it was pretty funny. I could relate to it a bit being in the software QA field myself.
-- 19 September 2006 [Tuesday]
Yikes, I'm actually composing this on Friday (22nd). It's been that long since I've updated the blog. We've been super busy to say the least.
Last night (Monday) Amanda and I went to look at a nice table with eight chairs I found on Craigslist along with a china cabinet for $750. We ended up liking it enough, and getting them to sell it for $600 without the china cabinet which we didn't want. So it worked out good. Man was that thing heavy though! Solid oak for sure. It wouldn't have been our first choice, but for $600 we couldn't pass it up. It was in very good shape for sure.
On Tuesday I went to work and my parents caught a flight home around lunch time without issue. I can't remember anything else for that day as it was a 'wind' down day. I do remember it hurting me bad inside during the morning when Keegan had to leave for school and was crying and didn't want to go because he didn't want Grandma and Grandpa to leave. That just hurts me beyond words every time I see that. I take it harder than Amanda because I still feel to this day that it is my fault for that seperation as I was the one who moved to North Carolina, but that was awhile before we had kids so I just didn't think it through. Knowing now what I do, I don't think I would have made the move - although I know if we still lived in Illinois and took a family vacation to the ocean, the kids would probably cry when we left there and I would hate myself for having stayed in Illinois. There is no answer - unless the grandparents would move out here as well. Guess I'll just have to keep wishing.
I do also recall that when I got home from work, Amanda and I started moving furniture and boxes downstairs in preparation for the carpet installers who are coming on Thursday this week.
Oh yeah it's Friday! Work has been OK. I still daydream every thirty minutes about quitting and doing something I love. Something physical and preferably outside would be great. I just worry about the finances and especially about health insurance. I know we would get by but actually doing it and taking the plunge is very hard for us - me especially. If I didn't have three children counting on me I would have quit long ago. Maybe next year will be the answer? Who know's what will happen.
Doing nothing tonight I hope but taking it easy. Maybe we'll go out for ice cream if the kids are behaving. We'll have to see. Tomorrow I am on call starting at around 1pm for our RMS 4.5 release to production. Shouldn't be too bad, but that means I have to stick around at home and answer the phone and be ready to login if necessary. Amanda is going with the kids to a concert at Regency Park with Pat and Dawn. Should be fun for them. We got the free tickets at a kids birthday party a couple weeks ago so that worked out well. Even if they don't like it, it's something to try, and it was free.
I forgot to mention (I think) sometime last week the Saturn rolled over 100,000 miles on it. It's currently at 100,200 miles and seems to be going strong. I hope it lasts!
-- 21 September 2006 [Thursday]
Yayyy! Carpet Day. We are very happy to get our carpet in today and get our house back in order. It's a mess downstairs with the new table burried in the corner under our upstairs stuff. I worked from home all day. The carpet guys came around 12:30pm and we done by 3pm. They did a great job as far as we can tell. Amazing story too - when the first guy walked in, he stopped in the living room as asked about the green carpet he had there. I told him it was intalled by Lowes about a year or so ago, and it turns out he was the one who did it! He had worked for Lowes and quit to go back and visit Mexico and upon returning went to work for Empire who we hired today to do our upstairs. Amazingly small world it is. He was nice and they did a great job again.
By the time the kids were in bed we had gotten basically all the furniture put back that wasn't too "flat" on the floor and left the rest of the stuff for the weekend. We want to let the carpet 'breathe' as much as possible to get that smell out. Luckily for us the weather is perfect. 72F today but it's been cold in the morning - 50F. We are all using our covers and the kids have their pajamas and socks on at night. :) Fall is definitely my favorite time of the year.
-- 20 September 2006 [Wednesday]
Actually worked the first half of the day from home. Amanda voluntered at Keegans school this morning for his center time, while I watched Ian (Carson was in school as well). So it worked out good. When she got home I went into work as I'm working all day from home tomorrow because of the carpet being installed.
When I got home, we finished up the moving and screwing down of the squeaky floorboards as best we could. It was a lot of work, and Amanda as usual was a huge help!
We watched a movie at night called "Grandma's Boy" - and it was pretty funny. I could relate to it a bit being in the software QA field myself.
-- 19 September 2006 [Tuesday]
Yikes, I'm actually composing this on Friday (22nd). It's been that long since I've updated the blog. We've been super busy to say the least.
Last night (Monday) Amanda and I went to look at a nice table with eight chairs I found on Craigslist along with a china cabinet for $750. We ended up liking it enough, and getting them to sell it for $600 without the china cabinet which we didn't want. So it worked out good. Man was that thing heavy though! Solid oak for sure. It wouldn't have been our first choice, but for $600 we couldn't pass it up. It was in very good shape for sure.
On Tuesday I went to work and my parents caught a flight home around lunch time without issue. I can't remember anything else for that day as it was a 'wind' down day. I do remember it hurting me bad inside during the morning when Keegan had to leave for school and was crying and didn't want to go because he didn't want Grandma and Grandpa to leave. That just hurts me beyond words every time I see that. I take it harder than Amanda because I still feel to this day that it is my fault for that seperation as I was the one who moved to North Carolina, but that was awhile before we had kids so I just didn't think it through. Knowing now what I do, I don't think I would have made the move - although I know if we still lived in Illinois and took a family vacation to the ocean, the kids would probably cry when we left there and I would hate myself for having stayed in Illinois. There is no answer - unless the grandparents would move out here as well. Guess I'll just have to keep wishing.
I do also recall that when I got home from work, Amanda and I started moving furniture and boxes downstairs in preparation for the carpet installers who are coming on Thursday this week.
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