As I finally have a few moments, I thought it was well past time to post an update. The move started last Friday on the 21st. I took the Thursday before off of work to finish up packing, though didn’t, as my dad had the guys coming with the truck early Friday morning. To help me out further my parents’ kept the twins Wednesday night onwards. I took a break from packing on Thursday to see my children for a bit and to bring Sara and Earl over to the house. I initially was going to bring all the cats but decided that it probably wouldn’t be fair to torture Duchess by taking her there if neither I nor my bed (her normal spot) wouldn’t be there. She doesn’t like the kids, doesn’t know my dad and really I was only worried about her for the move. I kept her home with me.
Getting her to the house on Friday wasn’t easy though. She was under the bed when the guys started moving it! Boy did she scurry like a cockroach when the lights turned on when they lifted up the boxspring. She disappeared into the closet where she remained for the next 8 hours. Right before having to pick up the twins from daycare, I dug her out of the closet, twice, removing her from the clothes she attached herself to and finally got her into the carrier. She stayed in it for the next 12 hours, gate open mind you, crammed in the far end of it. It wasn’t until 5am on Saturday that she exited and made a beeline for under my bed. She’s be slowly but surely getting more comfortable and coming out but she did have me scared for a bit! The other cats settled in in no time and by Saturday morning, I heard Earl and Sara romping around, flying up and down the stairs.
The bulk of my stuff, bed included, was moved on Friday. Sadly it wasn’t everything that was in the apartment so I needed to spend a great deal more time there cleaning and packing. I spent all weekend there. Wednesday I had one of the guys come back with the truck and we sorted everything in the place (Mom helped with the kitchen stuff that morning) and after 5 hours, I had a truck full of "garbage" which he took back to the warehouse. It was incredibly wasteful. Something I’m not proud of, but I had no where else to put it. I did manage to freecycle alot of things, but nowhere near what I could have. The guys did take a bit, including my kitchen table, living room rug, etc. Still there was a load of waste. The rest of Wednesday was spent packing the remaining stuff for a Saturday move. Im relaxing from that now! I turned the key to the apartment in a few hours ago, picked the twins up from the babysitter and returned home. Nice to sit for a bit and certainly nice to have it over. Now begins the unpacking. Ugh.
On the job front, I had a second interview with a company last week. It went really well I think. I was told that the VP was overseas in the UK working with a client and should be back Monday. I should expect a phone call. In the meantime, I should practice my C# (which I’ve been doing anyway). Sounds like I’m not too far offbase in thinking that they might extend me an offer shortly.
Back to the temp gig. Remember it was supposed to be a 2 week thing, maybe 4 on the outside? Well it is still going. I was called into a meeting with the boss lady and both the guys. Her first question was how the interviewing was going. I pretty much told her exactly what I wrote one paragraph ago. To which she replied "oh you’re scaring me!". She’s been very honest all along, she’d love to keep me, there just wasn’t a full time position. Well, unless I’m seriously mistaken, they are cobbling together one for me, part developer, part product manager serving as a contact for the clients in their ongoing maintenance needs. As a beginning point, she extended my "freelance" through the end of May. Whew. I was concerned as as of Thursday morning I was only there through the end of April and well, had no place to go on Monday! I’ve been asked to give them a chance to match an offer I get and if they can’t match it, to consider the intangibles. Fair enough. They have 2 weeks vacation, pretty standard, but then add in that they close the week between Christmas and New Years (paid!) and every other Friday during the summer (also paid!). The people are nice, the work varies and they dangled a developer carrot before me with the prospect of building an application from the ground up in the new technology that I want to learn. Yes. Life is indeed starting to look up.
I’ve done a minimal amount of knitting recently as train time has been devoted to learning C# still and with the packing, cleaning, moving crap I just haven’t had the time. I did finish the second sleeve for Ribby on Tuesday night while watching House and started the back.
I need to confess that I started a new project last night. My mom reminded me about a week or so ago that Rikki’s wedding is coming up and that my gown is sleeveless. Being the nutty knitter, my mind began to wander towards knitting a lace shawl to coordinate with it. Really, I’m not the crazy fiber lady for nothing! So stash diving I went, pattern searching carried on and finally after a couple of possibilities, I started last night. I’m knitting the Flower Basket Shawl, pattern purchased probably a year ago and was intended as the use for that butterscotch yarn I spun up. I’m using some of the laceweight that I got from HandpaintedYarn.com last year in the alpine colorway. The mid-range color is a perfect match for the dress which is now sitting in my closet.
So there it is. The kids are napping, the folks are out for the day at a Power Squadron function and I have some quiet time to relax before I need to start tackling the garage. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and I don’t doubt that a regular posting isn’t far now. Good. I’ve missed this big time!
Craft on!
