School re-ranging

Okay okay first I better apologize for not updating my stinkin' blog! for 9 days 1 hour and 16 minutes. All I can ask for is mercy. We have finally got our school schedule figured out for the Fall. Sara had problems getting into Math 1050 and I need to have one day off a week so I can do this Rock Springs job. Before the madness of rearranging our schedules began our schedule looked like a lot of sleeping in. I think there was only one day that we had to get up before 9:30. We also had a beginner's swing dance class together which we wanted to do last year but you know how things go when you're dating- you just wanna be sure to avoid potential awkwardness. Well anyway now that we are married figured we could take the class risk-free. Then we reranged our schedules. Now we have a class at 7:30 (AM) 2 days a week and the other days we have to be at class at 8:30. The swing dance class got thrown out the window but we sneaked ourselves into a billiards class which should be good because we are both horrible at that. The important classes have worked out though. Sara has her 1050 class and I have Thursdays off.

As for work, Sara really likes her new job so far. She graduated from training yesterday and officially starts today. She has had to take a pay cut but it is so worth it when she comes home in a good mood because she hasn't been treated like trash all day. I still haven't taken my business trip to Rock Springs yet. I need to leave next week or the week after or it isn't going to happen. I have been talking to their head drafter in Broussard, Louisiana and he was telling me that there really isn't anyone to train me on their software in Rock Springs so he wants me to fly out to Louisiana so I can be trained by him. My boss is fine with that but it all depends on the Plant Manager's decision in Broussard. I probably won't end up going in the next couple weeks but if we are still working with this company next year there's a good possibility I will be going out there. Exciting huh?

The fishing has slowed down quite a bit. We went last week and caught 3 fish, then 2, then 1 then last night we got skunked (0). We're considering taking a fishing-camping trip soon up to Franklin Basin. I'll let you know if/when that happens.

Sorry no pictures.

update

The transitions happnin around here are going pretty good. Sara is officially done with Kohl's and has started her new job at Direct Financial Solutions. She is in training for the next two weeks but her hours are great: 9:30-3. After training she has to work 4-10 and we're not real excited about that but at this point we have to think about how her schedule will work with school. In the meantime, we have lots of time at night to go fishing, swimming, movies, or just chillax. We've also had to make some decisions about my job. It's becoming apparent that the days of staying home all week long and getting work are gone. In order for me to get 40 hrs a week I need to go on-site to the oilfield or to a fabrication shop at least once a week to get drawings to work the rest of the week. I even spend a few hours a week doing sales calls. One of my sales calls landed us a customer in Rock Springs who wants a drafter 3 times a month at his site. I'm pretty sure I can make that happen just fine. Problem is, before I'm ready to go 3 times a month I need some heavy training with their software and how their company works. What that equates to is that in the next few weeks I'm taking a business trip to Rock Springs, staying there 3 days a week for 2 weeks. The company will pay for hotel, food, gas, provide a car, and pay extra for the time I work there. They would even let Sara come up with me. It's almost too bad she got a job so quick. I'm not sure exactly when I'll go up there or what I'll do with my evenings in Rock Springs - I'm thinking fishing and golf. All this is going to happen just as we're trying to get school figured out. First day is August 25.

Ducks!

Well I just got home from working in Rock Springs today and found these creatures walking on my driveway. A momma duck and 6 babies! Pretty cool huh?




Our life is in transition right now. Sara is quitting Kohl's. Her last day is this Friday. My job is supporting good enough for now. I'm just glad that she won't be working there anymore and have to be treated the way she is now. We also got a new entertainment center and TV free from Sara's cousin. So it's really cool to have another TV. But, we don't have 2 DVD players so we have converted the mini TV we used to have in the bedroom into a DVD player. It's a little distracting to have to have 2 TV screens going but it saves us 20 bucks. 2 days a week I have been going on site to oil fields for work. Today I went to Rock Springs, usually I go to Big Piney. The company doesn't have enough work to just email us drawings anymore so someone has to go get small sets of drawings that last us a few days. Guess who that someone is..... But it is better to do that than to not have work for those 2 days a week. It gives me some extra hours at least.

pictures

Today I discovered that the memory card shaped hole in the side of my computer actually takes memory cards. (I have been stuffing paper in it for weeks in hopes it was a shredder.) So now I can transfer picture straight from the camera to the computer instead of printing and then scanning the pictures to the computer. So here are some pictures for your enjoyment.

the curse is over!

It's official- my fishing famine or curse is over! In the past 3 days I've caught 21 fish! 4 on Wednesday, 11 on Thursday, and 6 today (Friday). This picture is from the day we caught 4. Sara caught 1 1/2. I caught 2 1/2. We don't keep little rascals like these anymore. I was just so excited to catch a fish that I kept these guys. One of the fish is actually albino. It's weird to catch an albino rainbow trout. While the regular rainbow has a variety of beautiful colors, the albino has a variety of white and yellow scales with 2 creepy red eyes. Sometimes we refer to them as alblindos because they always get snagged in the eyeball. We helped tom and dani move some stuff from their house and now we have a table and chairs. wahoo! I came home and parked tom's truck just outside our driveway and our neighbors put a note on it saying we couldn't park there because it's a private roadway. What? Oh well. I don't know what we'll do with the truck to avoid getting a ticket. I just mowed the lawn today and I'm thinking of camoflauging it in grass so people will think it's a huge truck shaped pile of grass. But really it will be a truck covered in grass. Now that I think about it I can't believe how ingenious it is. Perhaps I'll post that picture later on.