Check out this email I just received from Chase Visa. It is nice to see that once you get past the bureaucracy, Chase really does care about their customers. I don’t know if they really understand my point, but I don’t really care, because they made good on their original promise. (more…)
All of a sudden, we don’t live where we used to. For the last month or two, Beth and I have been a little concerned about our housing situation. You see, I have been applying for jobs all over the country the last couple months, in hopes of having some idea of what was going on in our lives before July 31, when our current lease expires. Around the beginning of July, our landlords started asking us if we were staying or going, and when we explained the situation to them, they agreed to be patient. But then it got to be the last ten days or so of our lease, and we still had no idea if we planned to be in the area for the next two weeks or the next ten years.
There were a few different situations that were tied for worst-case scenario. We could tell them we weren’t staying, hoping that one of the jobs would pan out, and then be stuck with nowhere to live. Or we could tell them we were staying, then get a job a few weeks later, and get stuck paying rent in two places until they were able to rent it out. Or our heads could explode. (more…)
It’s been nine days since I posted anything, and what a busy nine days it has been. I guess it’s easiest to just give a bullet list of what’s been going on: (more…)
Tuesday afternoon, Beth and I drove down to Payson (the ultrasound capital of the world) to take our first look at our fetus. Our appointment was for 3:40 p.m., and we got there at about 3:30. They took us right in, which was nice. Unfortunately, we then sat in a room for over a half-hour, waiting for the doctor. It wasn’t annoying or upsetting or anything, it was just nerve-racking. We had been looking forward to the ultrasound since the day we found out she was pregnant, but those last few minutes were the most intense.
Finally, the nurse came in and led us to the room with the ultrasound equipment, Dr. Dewey came in a couple minutes later, and it was time to see our baby. (more…)
Our friend Sherri came back to Provo on Thursday night, but she couldn’t move into her new apartment until Monday (today), so she stayed with us. Friday night, the three of us thought we might like to go see a movie, so we pulled up our friendly neighborhood Cinemark website. This is what we found:
Raising Helen: Beth and Sherri both wanted to see it, but I didn’t.
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story: I wanted to see it, but they didn’t (and my claustrophobic self hates to see movies on opening night).
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Sherri hadn’t seen it yet, and Beth and I were both more than willing to see it again, but we weren’t really in the mood for it that night.
The Terminal: We all wanted to see it, but again, the opening night/claustrophobia thing.
Shrek 2: We all wanted to see it, but I had only seen the first Shrek once, and that was in the theater in 2001.
Beth and I were in Texas with her family for her birthday last week, which was nice, but it also meant that I didn’t really get to take her out. We got back late Wednesday night, and we normally go out to dinner on Fridays, but I had a couple softball games on Friday. So we made plans to go out for a birthday dinner on Saturday. Of course, things didn’t go as planned, but it worked out really well. (more…)