Time is ticking down fast.
We spent Sunday with my dad and Stephanie's dad at dinner.
It was great catching up and spending time together. It may be a long time
before we get together again. Will always be in contact via the phone, etc.
Jenn L at the Ann Arbor Outback is awesome. We have come to know her
and her family for long time. Hope to see you and yours on a beach soon Jenn.
Hauled off carloads of old books, disks, cds, papers to the
recycle bins this weekend. I had to drive to the other bins last night
as our usual ones were overflowing.
Found more Sony 8 videos of the kids I had not
converted to DVD yet. That's going on now while I type.
I have all their video tapes converted to dvd then ripped to AVI.
Backed up in the cloud via BackBlaze.
Ever since the one flood we had that trashed tons of pictures,
I'm in scan and preserve mode.
HR is doing interviews today for my job. Last day is tomorrow Tue.
Need to compose my So Long, and Thanks for all the fish email to everyone.
Party later this afternoon. Final day tomorrow to turn in keys etc.
More purging and packing things up.
Stephanie might run another yard sale after I leave to see if she can
get the remaining things outta here. Whatever is left I think will have a date
with one of the various donation trucks that will come to your home and carry off
your stuff.
Thank you so much everyone for your help and support with everything.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Yard Sale
This weekend was busy.
We got up early Saturday morning and decided to put everything we own
out on the front yard and sell it. Jeff Foxworthy has a funny skit about
people that do this every Saturday.
Woke up Sunday and did the same thing.
You meet a lot of interesting people when you have a yard sale.
We had a nice couple up from Georgia for a reunion that stopped by.
A guy from Alabama that had 15 months to go before retiring stopped by.
They closed his plant down south and said "come to MI for the rest of your time
or see you later". So hes working up here at the Chrysler proving
grounds crashing very expensive cars until hes done.
He kept telling everyone in the yard... They are moving to Hawaii!
We told him all our town & country mini van horror stories because of that.
He said he was very sorry. LOL
A very nice pastor and his wife stopped by. Hopefully they made it to
their shower in time.
All the furniture is gone from the house. We have some odds and ends
that didn't sell, but everything else is outta there.
Carload of household items that we were not keeping and did not sell, was
dropped off at Goodwill. I'm sure there will be more of those trips.
Spent Sunday evening at the lake with friends.
It was sooo nice to get in the water after toasting for two days.
We sold the grill and our cooler so we looked funny at the
picnic table with Mickey D's cups for our drinks.
Do what you have to do. :)
Came home and everyone crashed hard to sleep.
My days before I fly out are ticking down and I'm sure this will be
another jammed packed week.
We got up early Saturday morning and decided to put everything we own
out on the front yard and sell it. Jeff Foxworthy has a funny skit about
people that do this every Saturday.
Woke up Sunday and did the same thing.
You meet a lot of interesting people when you have a yard sale.
We had a nice couple up from Georgia for a reunion that stopped by.
A guy from Alabama that had 15 months to go before retiring stopped by.
They closed his plant down south and said "come to MI for the rest of your time
or see you later". So hes working up here at the Chrysler proving
grounds crashing very expensive cars until hes done.
He kept telling everyone in the yard... They are moving to Hawaii!
We told him all our town & country mini van horror stories because of that.
He said he was very sorry. LOL
A very nice pastor and his wife stopped by. Hopefully they made it to
their shower in time.
All the furniture is gone from the house. We have some odds and ends
that didn't sell, but everything else is outta there.
Carload of household items that we were not keeping and did not sell, was
dropped off at Goodwill. I'm sure there will be more of those trips.
Spent Sunday evening at the lake with friends.
It was sooo nice to get in the water after toasting for two days.
We sold the grill and our cooler so we looked funny at the
picnic table with Mickey D's cups for our drinks.
Do what you have to do. :)
Came home and everyone crashed hard to sleep.
My days before I fly out are ticking down and I'm sure this will be
another jammed packed week.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Nut House
The house purge has been going slow and steady.
Of course all the beds sold right away.
Anything we owned with the Ikea brand name on it went first.
Its like a camp out at home right now. hahahaha.
The kids rooms are almost completely empty as we
have gone thru clothes etc. The things they are keeping
have gone into a few box's, clothes into Space Bags.
(Sucked the air out) Helps even more if you walk on the top of
the bag to smash it down more while taking the air out.
We still have bookcases, dressers, lawn mower, lawn tools,
bikes. I need to box/purge more of my IT stuff this weekend.
Gotta figure out how to get my Lionel trains packed and ready to ship.
If I'm keeping anything from my youth to take over, its my trains.
Time is flying and running out fast before my flight out.
Going thru new hire paperwork.
I need to snap a nice head shot pic for new hire announcements.
I need a TB test to start working.
County health department in MI offers them on Mon & Tue's for
a lot less than the doctors office does.
CT scan and final MI doctor checkup next Friday.
Geeeesh.
We put an all call out at the University for a place to
stay for a few weeks while I'm working and looking
for a place for the family. I now have a room
at a professors home while I search for a permanent
place to live. Nothing beats a home stay to absorb everything
that's going on locally. I just have to figure out the bus
lines to get to/from work. I'll have to switch
bus lines one time from where I'll be staying.
More updates as we can squeeze them in...
Thanks for checking in with us.
Of course all the beds sold right away.
Anything we owned with the Ikea brand name on it went first.
Its like a camp out at home right now. hahahaha.
The kids rooms are almost completely empty as we
have gone thru clothes etc. The things they are keeping
have gone into a few box's, clothes into Space Bags.
(Sucked the air out) Helps even more if you walk on the top of
the bag to smash it down more while taking the air out.
We still have bookcases, dressers, lawn mower, lawn tools,
bikes. I need to box/purge more of my IT stuff this weekend.
Gotta figure out how to get my Lionel trains packed and ready to ship.
If I'm keeping anything from my youth to take over, its my trains.
Time is flying and running out fast before my flight out.
Going thru new hire paperwork.
I need to snap a nice head shot pic for new hire announcements.
I need a TB test to start working.
County health department in MI offers them on Mon & Tue's for
a lot less than the doctors office does.
CT scan and final MI doctor checkup next Friday.
Geeeesh.
We put an all call out at the University for a place to
stay for a few weeks while I'm working and looking
for a place for the family. I now have a room
at a professors home while I search for a permanent
place to live. Nothing beats a home stay to absorb everything
that's going on locally. I just have to figure out the bus
lines to get to/from work. I'll have to switch
bus lines one time from where I'll be staying.
More updates as we can squeeze them in...
Thanks for checking in with us.
Friday, July 13, 2012
On your mark, Get set...
Let the crazy stuff begin.
I have turned in my formal acceptance letter to the dean at UofH Manoa.
I have turned in my letter of resignation to my current employer effective end of July.
Watched today as they posted my job. I know where you can find
some IT work in MI right now. ;-)
We talked to Stephanie's dad today and told him about our plans.
My dad knew we were going to be moving soon, just not how far west.
Friends, Family, FB, its all out there now on the table for the world to see now.
We are officially moving.
We started going thru all the kids clothes tonight, too small in one pile,
winter another pile, keeping - into the boxs for shipping.
Spent time on the phone trying to work out a temporary place to stay
for just a few weeks for me. I'm heading over, going to work, and
checking out places for all of us to live.
Stephanie will ship over the keepsake things we are keeping, and then
her and the kids will venture over.
I have a boatload of frequent flyer miles saved up.
My flight from MI to HI. 20,000 miles and $5.00. Nice.
Booked, seats picked, done.
I will have enough left over for 3 more people and will only need to
purchase one ticket.
My new colleagues at the UofH are amazing.
They have been working hard with me to help me with the transition over.
Ride from the airport - Check
Temp use of a car to get around - Check.
And a ton of other stuff right now.
Good people all helping one another...
I have turned in my formal acceptance letter to the dean at UofH Manoa.
I have turned in my letter of resignation to my current employer effective end of July.
Watched today as they posted my job. I know where you can find
some IT work in MI right now. ;-)
We talked to Stephanie's dad today and told him about our plans.
My dad knew we were going to be moving soon, just not how far west.
Friends, Family, FB, its all out there now on the table for the world to see now.
We are officially moving.
We started going thru all the kids clothes tonight, too small in one pile,
winter another pile, keeping - into the boxs for shipping.
Spent time on the phone trying to work out a temporary place to stay
for just a few weeks for me. I'm heading over, going to work, and
checking out places for all of us to live.
Stephanie will ship over the keepsake things we are keeping, and then
her and the kids will venture over.
I have a boatload of frequent flyer miles saved up.
My flight from MI to HI. 20,000 miles and $5.00. Nice.
Booked, seats picked, done.
I will have enough left over for 3 more people and will only need to
purchase one ticket.
My new colleagues at the UofH are amazing.
They have been working hard with me to help me with the transition over.
Ride from the airport - Check
Temp use of a car to get around - Check.
And a ton of other stuff right now.
Good people all helping one another...
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