Limbo Land

We were thrown a pacifier last week, its not a very tasty one. Hubby got a call from a neighbor, he had a job at a drill rig, to work as grunt. Hubby took it and now is on day three. The money is good, but it reminds me of how much I hate long tiring days, especially when mixed with long commutes. Having only the one vehicle, it has left me stranded. Which does leave me grateful for the wonderful friends that we have made here. Its only a temporary situation, a week more at the most, but we shall see just how much more we can take of the hours, work, and mess. Fuzzy Girl is missing him too, we really liked our little vacation where he was around a lot. We've had a lot of discussions about jobs and possibilities. This does really help to put things in perspective. I would rather live in a shack and have him home lots, then live in a mansion and have him gone for days to weeks at a time. Thus, some of the options for employment that scared me a week ago are sounding very appealing this week. But we wait. One week to vacation (and I will drag him if I have too) and just over two weeks to the move. I guess that means two weeks until we have to decide where we are moving. Our confidence is high, as are our hopes. Our Heavenly Father has richly blessed us with his support and love, we are well provided for in so many aspects. So, for this week we wait, work, and deal with the exhaustion and separation again.

Progress

Last week we had an offer on the house. Nine days on the market and we are under contract. It is a beautiful thing. Today the appraiser came through, which meant yesterday went from busy to crazy. About 10 o'clock last night we finally finished putting the closet back together. That means the home remodeling is finished. Sure, there are a few small bits left to do here and there. But now we can focus on cleaning (because this joint is completely filthy now), job hunting, and packing.

We've only had the one interview, and we have never heard back from them. Which could be unfortunate, and could be just fine, only time will tell. In theory we have four weeks before the next big step, but things could move faster than that. So we will continue to make good progress each day and be ready for sudden changes.

Fuzzy is enjoying having Hubby home all day, and I find it to be rather nice myself. So now we plug on, pray for jobs, and collect offers for places to live when we are jobless and don't own a home (the current count is three).

Long Drive

In the midst of hanging drywall, we opted for a "mini-vacation". We took off very early Thursday morning, almost Wednesday night, and drove for about seven hours. We took a couple of hours to drive around town, participate in a job interview, and talk to a local. Then we got back in the truck and drove seven more hours until we got home. What did we learn . . . 17 hour round trip, one day excursions are excruciatingly painful, and we will endeavor to never do that again. The area we visited is still beautiful, periodically crowded, and expensive. The truck has a much bigger gas tank than expected, but the gas gauge may not be entirely reliable. But we didn't run out of gas, so its all good. Fuzzy loved the drive and is enjoying the truck where she can lay down and look out the window, and if she is really lucky, then she'll even get wind in her fur too.

A New Adventure

As the story goes . . .

Hubby worked with a supervisor, who we will call Lamen, who took a dislike (for multiple reasons) to him. Now, understand, the other four supervisors that Hubby has worked with have found his job performance to range from good to outstanding. So this is all the power of one person with too much control. So, Lamen started making life difficult in June. The first few weeks of July worked turned from difficult to painfully miserable. It also came to the point that it was quit or be fired. This wasn't a decision we wanted to make, but, we didn't get that choice. So as of July 28th, Hubby is unemployed. Its a great opportunity for him to reassess his career field and the choices he makes. So we are looking at a lot of options right now.

As for me, I've got a few side jobs, but not enough to support us. The plan is to sell the car and sell the house and be debt free. Of course, this also leaves us homeless, though our parents don't like us to use that word. We have sold the car and bought an older truck. We've been putting the truck to good use already. We were in the middle of painting the main floor, remodeling the closet, and redoing the driveway approach. Its been a crazy, busy couple of weeks. We've got the main floor painted, it looks so much better. We have starting hanging sheetrock on the closet walls and hope to have it back together within a week. Then we can move on to lesser projects.
We hope that the home will sell quickly, and that the new job will follow shortly there after.

Its been really nice to spend the extra time together. In a few weeks we might even get to slow down enough to do something fun with the free time. Right now I just hope for the time to finish work for my clients and a little more sleep. We will try to keep this updated, by time for "playing" on the computer is very minimal, so there wont be regular updates.