Suit Up!

That title is for any of you who watch HIMYM. I'm such an adult and bought a suit for the interviews I've been having. I had a pretty chill spring break (aren't you jealous I still get a spring break ; ) ) but i did have an interview for a reading specialist position. It went pretty well and I will hear back about a second interview next week. Today I had an interview at my current school for a 5th grade position. We have a new principal next year so it was with her and some of my co-workers, which was a little awkward, but not in a horribly bad way I guess. I had a friend from work help prep me so I felt good about it. The interview was a whole 10 min long and at the end one of my co-workers was like, "See you tomorrow Bridge!" This new principal has an open facebook, so of course we've all been stalking her. Found out that she is uber religious and has a youth pastor husband so I made sure I wore my cross necklace today ; ) I also have an interview with my current principal at her new school in 2 weeks. She's going to the school that Mike's sister teaches at. I'm hoping that one of these interviews will lead somewhere : /
Amy, glad to hear the new job and living situation are working out well!
Meg, Mike and I will most likely be in DSM 4th of July weekend for the car show : )
Sarah, stop working so much!
Love to all!

My week alone is coming to a close

Hey ladies :) I hope everyone is great and enjoying this amazing weather! So far it has been a typical Chicago spring with beautiful 60 degree days and then it snowed for a whole day and now its starting to get warm again. It's Barrington's spring break this week so my fam has . been gone since last friday. They went to South Africa for Conor's grad present. Conor and Papa get home in about a half hour and my mom and dad come home tomorrow. I have mixed feelings about their return lol. I'm excited that someone else will be getting up early to let Mulder out haha and I wont be freaked out when Mulder starts barking at the back door for no reason :) haha But I will miss my alone time for sure! I might be getting offered a manager postion at my job - but I dont really know if I want to take it. I will welcome the extra money lol, but its a part time job and I dont really want to take the added responsibility in a job that I really dont care about. Lots to think about. Hockey is over and its pretty sad...A couple of the girls have been texting us to see if we would go to lunch or want to hang out because they miss us...so I guess thats a good sign?! One of the girls, Emily, is dating Conor - so thats kinda strange getting used to. Char and I never got to go to Cancun, because the dates of the trip were the same as our hockey play offs. Major bummer - but we are going to Germany in October for Courtney's brothers wedding. Its going to be a blast and we are going to do a little backpacking while we are over there! Miss you all so much its impossible to describe! The other day I was thinking about all of you and realized that we were in Aruba at that point last year...tear! Love you all!

A combination of everything!

Bridget - So sorry to hear about Max! Even though you all know it is for the best, it is still hard to go through that. And good luck with the interviews! Let us know how it goes!

Meghan - You still need to tell me all about your trip last weekend! I'm sure you did great!

Michelle - Keep us posted on the move! And be sure to post pics of your new place!

Sarah - Hope all is well out in Cali! You always impress me with your work schedule... I could never work those hours and still function the next day!

Maggie - How is the job and hockey going??? And did you and Char ever get your trip planned?

My new job is going really well so far! I am basically doing a lot of the same stuff I did at my job in Des Moines, just for different clients. And since this is a smaller company I am able to take on a lot more responsibility so it is definitely a step up in my career. And everyone here is really nice so that makes things a lot easier!

And the commute isn't so bad. For about the first 30 minutes you would seriously think I'm driving through the country-side because there is nothing but trees and lakes and horse stables and a few small towns, but then I get closer to Bloomington and then it's the stop and go traffic which sucks, but at least that only takes me about 15 mins to get through.

Living with my sister and her husband has been going well too. There have been days when I'm like "OMG get me out of here" and I know there have been days when she's like "OMG get her out of here" but overall its been fun. And we worked out rent, so I feel a little better about extending my stay with them if I need to :) I just really have not had a chance to get out and look at some of the areas, and then figure out where makes the most sense to live. And my next few weekends are pretty busy so I think I'll be staying with them for at least this month!

Hope you girls are all enjoying the recent signs of Spring! Which for Sarah probably means temps in the 90s, and for Meghan probably means time to start sand bagging, and for the Chicago girls it means green rivers and St. Patty's day :)

Good news and bad news

Ok, so bad news first. Mike's dog Max is being put down tomorrow : ( He's been having seizures everyday and losing control of his bowels. It's hard because he acts totally normal and happy when we see him, even today. But we know we can't let him go through the pain anymore.
On a happier note, I have two teaching interviews set up! One is with my school's new principal for a 5th grade position at the school I'm at now. My current principal is being tranferred to a different school, ironically Mike's sister's school she teaches at, and she is interviewing me there as well. If I had a choice, I would love to stay at my current school, but either way I will be thrilled! So keep your fingers crossed!
Last night we had a St. Patty's day party at a friends house. It was a crazy shit show and I am still hung over at 9pm. I woke up with a shamrock sticker tramp stamp.
Amy, how is the new job and living situation?
Hope everyone is doing well! Miss you all!!

Traveling Girl

Hey everyone! Amy - I still miss you, come home. Mich - I hope your skin is back to it's normal color! lol Sarah - I love your hair! Mags - when's your tropical vacay??

I feel like I haven't posted in forever! I'm still at the campaign and starting to really get into it. The woman who hired me actually left the campaign last week so now it's only me and Chris on the finance staff and we're just trying to keep our heads above water.

My exciting news is that I'm going to officially start traveling for the campaign! I'm leaving this afternoon to head down to southeast Iowa with the Lieutenant Governor - we'll be overnighting tonight and then I'll be staffing her all day Saturday and we'll head back late tomorrow. I'm very excited - but extremely nervous at the same time! I'll keep you guys updated with how it goes!

(and yay spring is here!)

smurf-skin

Congratulations on you move, Amy! I hope everything is going/went well! Good luck with your new job, too!
I'm still just working lots. Currently my skin has a blue tint because I the other day my work pants split at the crotch - luckily this was before I left for work, but so I have been wearing super dark jeans that have never been washed and haven't had a day off to wash them and so the ink is dying my skin lol I feel like a smurf!

The only other thing in my life is that I am officially moving out in July. For the last few weeks I actually contemplated moving to California with a few girls I work with at the end of the summer, but then I realized that isn't really the best idea. Although I'm totally in need of an adventure and a new living situation, moving all the way to Cali isn't the answer, plus I can't afford rent, a new car and a new job right now. However, I really need to move out, so I am. I'm moving to an apartment complex with my friend, Elizabeth. We're not actually living together but each renting a 1 bedroom in the same complex. I know financially that sounds a little stupid, but there are a bunch of reasons why we both kinda want our own space, which I'm sure you all understand since we've all been in different living situations in the last few years. So we've been looking at a few places and narrowed it down and are in the process of visiting some. She has a dog and might be getting another one so our choices are a bit limited by that, but the place we visited this morning was good and included a bunch of stuff with rent. Plus, it's only 20 minutes from my house now and is the same distance from work as my house is too, which is great because i don't want to have to get a different crappy job just because im moving, so therefore I can just keep up the "real" job search and keep my current job, which I'm finally making money at.  So that's my news. We're waiting until July because she's going on a weeklong vacation in June and that way shes not paying for time she'll be gone, plus July really isn't that far from now.

I hope you're all having a lovely day and enjoying this Spring-ish weather! :) I'm going to try to take a nap before work. Miss you!

Mich