Home Improvement

We’ve been busy, if you hadn’t guessed.

Last week was the Career Fair. Nico went (in his cute brown suit with tangerine shirt and tie) and mingled with potential employers. He scored two interviews and looks like he may have more in the works. He celebrated on Friday by hanging out with his guy friends.

Saturday we powerwashed the East side of the house and the front (south). Then we went a little powerwash-happy. We did the entire back deck and it looks AMAZING! It's like a whole new backyard.

Saturday night we went over to our international student's house. He and his roommates cooked us dinner. It was very nice. On Sunday, we got up early and put a primer/sealer on the areas that we powerwashed.

Yesterday afternoon we put the house color over the primer. It looks much improved.

Just so that you know we haven’t forgotten the bathroom, I’m including pictures of the tile.

The vanity light fixture

And the light/exhaust fan and crown molding. Next we install the doors and base trims, after those Nico says that we put in the real important stuff like the vanity and toilet.




Wow, it will be really nice to have a functioning bathroom. Maybe we'll even move back into that bedroom. Praise God!

Busy!

As you can imagine, we are busy!

We have been going to our classes and working on the bathroom. The shower is almost installed and the tile is in! Yay!

I’ll post pictures soon.

More details to come. Hopefully, this weekend I will have time to write up all the things that have been going on.

Assistantship, work and school

School started this week!!!! We are trying to get back in the groove.

I gave my notice last Friday at my job. I'm outta there in a week.

I have a part-time assistantship in FCS for both this semester and next.

The FCS department has really gone out of their way to include me this semester. I'm really fortunate to have so many people encouraging me. Other than that, I'm really liking one of my graduate classes and the other two are going to be "okay".

Nico's classes "seem alright". That's about all you can get out of him. He's secretly excited about his welding class, but he doesn't show it much.

Well, work has been hectic and I’ve been prepping to… teach my class!

I am not teaching the course that I told many of you about, instead I’m teaching a 1 credit hour class in the FCS department. I’m really excited about it, but a little nervous at the same time.

The madre is coming down this weekend. Our big plan is to head to Eureka Springs on Friday and not return until Monday. We are planning on mother-daughter bonding time and much needed spa treatments. Nico is going to Topeka for an SCCA race. He leaves Friday morning… anyone want to watch the kids?

School starts on Monday. Nico’s taking 12 hours and I’m enrolled in 9. We are going to be crazy busy this semester.

Well if you can’t tell, I’ve been really busy.

Nico left for Chicago early, early Tuesday morning. This was his last trip for the Firestone internship. Much to his pleasure, they ended with a bang: an autocross. Of course, he was totally in his element and shined like a star. If they don’t want to offer him a rock star job, they are out of their minds.

I’ve been dealing with a whole other set of issues. I am not sure that I want to stay at my job. I am not enjoying it and the company has definite issues. They are totally unorganized and in the midst of major changes. I’ve been working until 5:45 or 6:00 every night. And I’m salaried. :(

On top of the icky job situation, the University offered me a position to teach a 1 credit hour course. I accepted, but am hoping that they have more courses for me next semester. It’s really too bad that I turned down the Career Services assistantship. But, I didn’t know that I was going to stay here for my graduate work. Hindsight is 20/20.

The weather has been really miserable. We are frying down here. But that’s the Midwest in August!

There is some good news… our neighbor sold her house. She made a nice profit. Looks like the housing market here isn’t doing as bad as the rest of the country. Hopefully, we’ll be in the same boat in a year or so.

More later…

Update and Mattress Shopping

Well, I've been super busy with work and haven't had much time to post. Hopefully, things will calm down around here and I can keep the blog updated.

Today, we searched for a new mattress. Not a lot of furniture stores in Pittsburg. But we had some victory. Our new "guest" bed (which we will be using until we get the master bedroom back) will be delivered Monday. Yay!

Here is a fun picture...

Is this a bloodthirsty hellspawn or a doggy engaged in rough play? You decide.