No News

I didn’t hear anything about the job today. I sent an email to the HR rep but never got a response. I hope that’s not bad news.

We won’t be moving to my dad’s. He dropped a bomb on us. In order to move there we have to get rid of our animals. As I said he can be very controlling. His reasoning: he doesn’t believe in house cats and he doesn’t think beagles make good house dogs. It has nothing to do with the fact that he doesn’t want dogs in the house at all. If we had different dogs he would let us keep them in the house. He offered to put up a hot wire to keep them in. As if we would leave them outside all the time. Oh well… Something has to work out for us eventually.

Good News?

I’m cautiously optimistic. I had a wonderful interview yesterday with a company within a reasonable commute from our house. The job is interesting to me, more related to my degree than my previous job, and a great opportunity. The company even offers dome stic partner benefits! Half way through the interview and tour it transitioned from “if you get the job,” “if you work here,” etc. to “when you get the job,” “when you work here,” “you’ll be helping me with this.”During the tour I admitted that I didn’t know how to use one of the pieces of equipment and was told “oh, I can show you how to do that one day next week.” I was told I should know something by the end of the week. I checked today and the job has been removed from Mon ster. Hopefully that’s a good sign.

Digging Out

of the funk I’ve been in for the past week and a half. We have both been applying to jobs all over the country. We know we’re not going to end up homeless. We have options. There is an unoccupied house on my father’s property that we have been offered. It is not a prime location for jobs since it’s in the middle of nowhere (no really, the GPS doesn’t even know it exists and the closest town has a population of 400). He has offered to let us live there for free. We will only have to pay for satellite and internet (too far out to get cable) all other utilities will be covered. He has also offered us garden space and help with food costs. That will allow us to build up the savings that we ate through this past year. If one of us finds a job we will start TTC. Not unless one of us finds a job. I will be keeping my health insurance. I’m too much of a klutz to go without health insurance. I also plan to keep going to acupuncture. I’m going to drop it down to once a month right before ovulation. I’ve come so far with my cycle to stop. Last month was a 29 day cycle with very strong ovulation signs (and confirmation with the monitor) on day 14. It was perfect! We thought of isemming but I ovulated on Christmas Eve so timing with the holiday and family visits and shipping hassles made it impossible. I’m glad we didn’t since I got laid off though.

We have decided to take my dad up on his offer if we have not found jobs in the next month. The earliest we will move is Feb 28th. We don’t really want to move to this house for many reasons. My dad can be a bit controlling. He likes to have a say in what we do. We don’t want him to try to keep us up there instead of finding jobs in our fields in a city. Everyone up there smokes (except my dad) and it really bothers R’s asthma. Everyone up there drinks in excess and we rarely drink. The drinking usually lead to tons of drama that we really don’t want. There are plusses though. Saving Money! More time with my family that I love most of the time. My sister also has a house on the farm. A roof over our heads while we look for jobs. Fresh food from the garden (and meat from the farm). 450 acres to roam.

Hopefully we’ll both find jobs very soon and it won’t be a problem at all.

Postponed Indefinitely

I was laid off this morning. I don’t know when we’ll be able to do an insem. I only have health insurance for another month.

The job market her sucks (not that it is that much better anywhere else) so we will probably be moving. The job search starts today. I have 3 weeks of sev erence pay. Let’s hope the job search is short and prolific.

Introducing…

Kara spooning with her new baby brother

Salinger

Good Riddance 2008

You will not be reading a happy go lucky retrospective of 2008 here. Fuck you 2008! I hate my job but have stayed because my wife hasn’t been able to find a job. We’re in a city we don’t like (we’re closer to my family though but that’s too much drama sometimes). We have no friends here and miss all of our friends in PA terribly. I had surgery and am still struggling to get back to normal (it’s getting better but I still feel like an 80 year old woman when I get out of bed. My 91 year old grandmother is more agile than I am first thing in the morning). We did get married but then Pro p 8 fucked that all up so now we’re in marriage limbo.

Last night we toasted to 2009 and vowed that it would be the best year of our lives so far. It has to come true because it can’t get any worse…