It's Been Awhile

Welcoming back blog readers! OR maybe I should say welcome back me since I seem to have been MIA from my blog for the last 6 months. It seems like just a year ago that I was talking about us finishing the remodel on our house in Petoskey and putting it up on the market. Well now I'm having Deja Vu. Since we just put that house BACK on the marked this week at $20,000 less. Jason and I want to get on with our lives! So we need all the help/prayers/finger crossing you can give us.

I moved to Eaton Rapids in September and set up our house down here. Jason's new company paid for our move so it was fairly painless. Trying to fit 2,200 sft of stuff into a maybe 1,100 sft house was a challenge. We're a little cramped and most of our things are in bins in the basement. I did get to have my piano come down. It had been sitting at Mom and Dad's since I left for college and this house actually has a place for it so I get to play once in a while.

I took a job with a company called PSI and I work in Construction Services. Basically I drive around mid-michigan and test construction materials and tell contractors what to do. I was laid off in December and have been waiting for Construction Season to start back up ever since. Meanwhile I continue to look for a job in the Civil Engineering industry but it's pretty dead right now.

In the meantime Jason and I have decided just to get on with our lives. Our old house not selling and me being laid off are really holding us back since we're broke most of the time. But we just can't wait for things to get better anymore. When Jason got laid off at GRP in December of 2009 our whole lives were put on hold and we stopped trying for the tings we wanted out of life and instead were just trying to survive. Well we survived. The war is not over yet, but we're going to be on the winning side.

I have even started to get back in shape. Which I think shocked the shit out of my loving mother since she's been eager for me to do that for some time. I've lost almost 30 lbs in the last 4+ months and feel great. I've started running again which I love. The dogs love it too since they're a little tubby (I'm talking to you BEAN) from the winter.

OK that's it for now. I've got things to do before Jason gets home from work in an hour. I make a promise to my readers to try and blog more often. I know I have like 5 readers, but hey, whatever!