I can't wait!!! I'm flying to Portland TOMORROW to see my hubby! I miss him like Alice misses Dinah; like Wendy misses Peter; like Louie misses Becky; like Tessa misses Guy; like Ai Ling misses Chen Yong; like Katniss misses Gale :) NOT like Bella misses Edward. Oh Heaven forbid, NO.

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I'm an awful blogger. I completely missed this last semester. After we got back from Christmas I was just waiting for enough time to write about our break but it just never came. Oh well, I guess we'll skip the last 4 months and I'll start with our big news now.

We're MOVING!!!

I'm pretty excited about it. We'll still be in Provo but we're going to a bigger apartment with a dishwasher and a washer and dryer. We found someone to buy our contract yesterday so we're moving out around May 20th and Cory will be going home to Oregon for a month and a half to keep residency and I'll be living with Maren while Parker is in Florida and then when Cory gets back at the end of June we'll move into our new place and be there for the next two years. I'm really jazzed about it! Cory is excited too but you can tell he doesn't really want to move our stuff around twice. It will be fabulous and the hard part will all be over soon and then we have this wonderful new place to call home.

can I just say I love my new job

Yes it's true. I love it. It pays good, the hours are good, my coworkers are awesome and the work is actually kinda fun. PLUS, yesterday we had an awesome work party. We played charades, had a white elephant gift exchange (sorta), ate delicious food, and played Rock Band! This all went on for about 4 hours and I got payed for all of it. It was WONDERFUL! And Cory got to come and join in on the fun as well. Right now our house is a mess and we have finals to study for but I don't care. I love my husband and I had a great day yesterday with him and life is fabulous.

o Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum

Cory and I bought a Christmas Tree!! ....yes it's fake but real trees are SO expensive in Utah. But it's ours and we won't have to buy another one for a while especially since we'll probably go home for Christmas for the next few years and we don't have any kids so there's not a huge point to dealing with a live tree at this point in our lives...whew long sentence, sorry. Anyway, Cory and I had a blast last Monday putting up the tree and decorating it and getting out our nativity sets and stockings to put out and generally putting off big assignments we had due last week and this week, which we are suffering for now (Cory had to stay up til 5:30 am last Friday to finish one of his, it was miserable and yet highly entertaining at the same time). Here's some pictures for your holiday cheer.

And yes, I made that star out of wire garland. We're cheap like that.

thanksgiving post (of course)

We're back from Thanksgiving with the fams. We drove through Medford so we got to spend a day or so with my family and then stole my parent's van to drive up to Salem and have Thanksgiving with Cory's family and all the Barnhursts. We watched a lot of movies and ate a lot of food and basically just had an awesome time. On Saturday we went to a tree farm to get the Davis Family a Christmas tree which was quite the adventure. It took them a long time to pick one out that was absolutely perfect and Cory was throwing stumps at people (not cool) and Hunter was running around like a crazed monkey ;) and we just had a great time in the mud running through the trees and critiquing every single one. It was definitely a highlight.

It was so nice to get away from school and work and normal life and just enjoy our time with family. I think this last week really helped Cory and me. We have been super nice to each other and don't fight as much as we sometimes do. I think these last few weeks before finals and the end of the semester will be really good ones for us.

Oh, and I took the job at the library. Right after my interview for the editing position I got a call from the library saying I needed to make a decision. I decided to just go for it and whatever happened with the other job would just happen. It's a good thing I took the library job though because about 6 hours later I got an email saying they had chosen someone else. It was a close call but I'm seriously so blessed to have this job. The people I work with are wonderful and the pay is really good. I am really glad that I got this job and it's all thanks to Cindy. She gave me such an awesome reference that my boss changed his mind about not hiring me and gave me the job. So many things worked out for the best and life couldn't possibly be better now.

a dilemma is a problem with only two options as solutions... according to the original Latin

I learned that in my Modern American Usage Class

So, here' s my dilemma. I applied for two jobs that I wanted. One was in the Acquisitions Department of the Library on campus as a bibliographer. They wanted someone with German language skills and I thought, "hey I have German language skills" so I went ahead and applied. The second job I applied for about two days later. It was for an Editorial Assistant in the University Accessibility Center. They create alternative forms of text books for students with disabilities and since I'm an editing minor I decided this would be a better choice for me and my future career goals. Also, it pays like a dollar an hour more which, when you're poor and married, makes a big difference.

Ok, so I had an interview with the first job last Friday and they said they would let me know by today. On Tuesday, I was contacted for an interview with the second job which is scheduled for tomorrow morning. This afternoon (Wednesday) I received an email from the first job saying that they wanted to hire me. I'm sort of stressing this as I'm sure you can understand.

I would rather have the Editorial job but I don't want to turn down the Library job because I don't know if I'll get the Editorial job. Also, I can't make the Library wait too long because I'm pretty sure they wanted somebody to start before Thanksgiving and I don't know if I'll find out about the Editorial job before then. This whole situation is making me really nervous. They're both really good jobs and I would love to do them both but honestly I was hoping the Library wouldn't want me just so I wouldn't have this problem but the interview went really well and I was pretty sure I was going to get it and I've been freaking out about this for a while (yes that's a run-on sentence).

I'll let you all know how it goes. I've never had this problem before and I hope that the way I choose to handle it doesn't screw me over.

P.S. As badly as I wanted to I was determined not to write anything on our blog until Cory did. Finally I could write something.

woot woot

Cory finally wrote something!! I've been bugging him about it for weeks and he finally did it!! yay! you all should read it because he wrote it!