The movers are here, packing up our stuff. We’re supposed to finalize a lease tonight or tomorrow. The first place we wanted fell through. We are hoping beyond hope and praying hard that this one will work out. We need it to.

Puppy is going to stay with Audra for a few days while we take care of things. I can’t wait to be in our warm hotel room in Bannockburn tonight. Watching LOST. And relaxing a little. There have been a few hitches with this moving process, but I’m trying not to worry about stuff too much.

Tomorrow we’re doing stuff at Trinity; Thursday we’ll be moving in (as long as things go well); Friday we’ll be driving to Champaign to pick up Cors; Saturday we’ll have Jessica’s parents visiting.

It’s been a long couple of weeks.

I am traveling. Big day coming up and hopefully some news to come in a few days.

We made it to Portland. Left Apple Valley at around 2 PM yesterday and got here around 10 AM today. Drove all night. I’ve been up for about 30 hours. Proof of how tired I am:

We are at my sister’s apartment, just waiting until we can check into our hotel and get some sleep. And a hot shower.

It’s been a looooooong two days.

Time to Fly

Jess and I are sitting in the Southwest terminal at Lambert-St. Louis getting ready to fly to California!!! Well, first to Kansas City and then to LAX. I am so excited about this vacation! And Christmas.

It’s going to be fun!!!

Jessica and I had a fantastic Thanksgiving, and I hope yours was great too. Once again we made the trek out to Hurricane, West Virginia to spend the holiday with her parents. Jess’ grandma was able to be with us too for T-day and an early Christmas.

In three weeks we’ll be flying out to California for a West coast Christmas tour. My parents house is first, then we’ll drive up to Portland, Oregon with them just before the new year. My sister’s wedding is the first week of January, in Portland, and after that we’ll be heading home.

So, busy busy times ahead.

We’re also thinking about having a small Christmas dinner party with some friends. The school I work at gave the faculty and staff a turkey for Christmas. Well, with us leaving for the holiday, we’re going to have a turkey to get rid of and we certainly can’t do it on our own.

I am so ready for a break. I need to regain some mental health, I think. And I also have some designs to work on and some new projects to get started.

Hope you’re having a great holiday season.

What a busy few weeks. A lot has been happening, what with being accepted to grad school, work, the holidays coming up and NaNoWriMo. Yeah, not doing so well on my novel actually.

Work has eased a bit as I was able to wrap up two large projects I was managing at once. I was so excited to be done with those that the following day I designed and built out a new WordPress template for the blogs we’re starting to roll out. It’s pretty nice. So nice that I might modify it and release it for public.

Speaking of which, my Modern Linguist release was so popular (for this blog anyway) that I’m thinking about updating the old WordPress templates I created and putting them out for public release. That might be my January project.

My awesome wife Jessica has been doing great Etsy sales as the holiday season hits us. She’s also been running a bunch of giveaways on her blog. I’m hoping to redesign that site too at the beginning of the year.

We’re also praying for some changes to come in the next few months. I’m excited to go to my parents’ house in California for Christmas and then head up to Portland for my little sister’s wedding just after the new year. Then I start my first masters classes toward the end of the month.

Lots going on. How are you doing?

Sam and Melissa’s wedding was great yesterday. It was awesome to see so many people from school that I hadn’t seen in awhile and also to share with Sam and Mel on their day. Sam was in our wedding and he was nice enough to include me in his as an usher.

I met a couple of his friends I hadn’t met before as well as reacquainting myself with some that I had. The guys all had a lot of fun and got along great.

Jess and I realized that there really wasn’t any need for us to stay in Springfield. It was only an hour and a half drive (for some reason I was thinking it would be closer to two or two and a half hours there) and we easily could’ve driven back home after the rehearsal dinner on Friday and driven back up on Saturday for the ceremony. But it all worked out alright.

I think Sam and Mel had a good day and we may be meeting up with them for my birthday on Tuesday. Overall it was a great weekend.

I didn’t have an incredibly great week last week. It started out pretty good but got increasingly poor as the days went on. This weekend was a blessing of a break. Even though we did a lot of driving I was still able to get away from here and that was good.

Saturday we drove to Poplar Bluff in Southern Missouri for my friend Ryan’s wedding. It was a 3 1/2 hour drive, but entirely worth it to see him get married. I also got to see my good friend Rod who lives on the East Coast now.

And we slept in. That was really nice. Today we went to the bookstore and I picked up Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue which I’ve been eyeing for a while. I’m excited to start reading it tonight before bed. I think it’s going to be really interesting.

But I am not excited to have work tomorrow. I need a break. I need an extended vacation. I need some time to recover. I haven’t had any time away from work since Christmas and I am definitely starting to feel the effects. I was going to take Jessica to Six Flags last week but didn’t feel I was able to after some things that happened at work and with Kevin taking Friday off. So hopefully I will be able to work out a long weekend this week and we can take care of these cheap Six Flags tickets I have.

And today was Father’s Day. Looks like I will finally be starting on a design for my dad’s site which is good. He needs it and I have a good idea for what I’m going to do design-wise. Hopefully  I’ll have some more freelance coming my way in the near future.

An official AgapeFest recap is forthcoming.

I’ve just been super super super busy since the weekend. Lots of stuff at work and also outside of work.

Driving to West Virginia tomorrow and then to Virginia on Friday.

Also, I may or may not be teaching the Web Design class next semester!!

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Yay AgapeFest 2009!