We’re officially 4th time home owners.  I’ll post pictures when I have a chance to dig my camera out of the rubble.  We spent the evening at the house cleaning and getting ready for the movers to arrive.  I learned many things about our new house tonight (the reason I didn’t know some these things before buying will be found in a soon to follow story of how we ended up in this house) and was reminded of many things about myself:

1)  Our office has no light.  Plugs for lamps, but no actual light.  I found this out when trying to vacuum after dark and found no light switch.

2)  The view from our back patio over the pond has absolutely beautiful sunsets.

3)  We need a shower rod in the “powder room” (that’s really a full bath)

4) I have absolutely no clue how I’m going to layout our master and the movers will likely be cursing me for this tomorrow.

5) I hate spiders

6) The house has been empty for several months and spiders have taken up residency in our basement.

7) As in 2 went down there and had about 500 babies who live not just in corners but on the wall and ceilings and in closets and behind toilets (this one was particularly hard for me with my flashbacks to the movie arachnophobia)

I hate spiders and thus hated our basement.

9) I can conquer my fear and kill spiders.  I did this with a vacuum and am no longer afraid of our basement.

10) I love having a front porch and outside lighting.  Dave put together our glider tonight to go with the rocker I built last night.  I love them both.

11) I have no idea where I’m going to put my dogs…dare I put them in the beautifully finished now (hopefully) spider free basement…or do you think the creepy crawlies will come back?

12)  I can’t walk into a room without rearranging (in my head) our furniture 10 times.  I need to make some decision before 8am.

13) There is a lot of little wildlife around our house and the pond.  Bunnies, groundhogs, geese (which Dave has sworn will not be there for long) and birds.

14) I am terrified of the beautiful flower beds as I tend to kill any plant I touch, but I’m also anxious to try, try again

15) I was not excited about our house until tonight.  I’m officially excited about our house and am ready to settle into our new home, and nothing matters more than getting my little family back together again

Off to wash of the imaginary spiders crawling all over me then crashing.  The truck will be there bright and early!

Working together has it’s ups and downs. I’ll let you know how many of each in a few months. Dave and I have always worked for the same company, and other than his night shift in Memphis we were in the same office. But rarely did our actual jobs intertwine. We just had all the perks of working together: we went to lunch together, got a few minutes to chat during the day, made decisions on evening plans before even heading home, as a dual career our company moves us together, generally all just enough to say that it’s nice “working together.”

Now that phrase means something totally different. Our jobs overlap all the time. I’m in sales and Dave is in quality over the plants where most of my product is made. This means that when a customer calls me with a complaint I can go yell at Dave . Rest assured I don’t really yell at him but he does deal directly with the complaints/claims for my customers. He’s the one who I go to for a lot of answers.

So far we work pretty well together but keep in mind he was in Canton while I was in Memphis. This was our first week where we were working together, in the same office, going back to a small rental apartment each night (with a broken air conditioner) knowing that there’s no break coming up anytime soon. I’m not leaving for Memphis tomorrow (though I wish we both were), nope I’m going to be there Monday and all of next week and the week after, and so on until my travel schedule picks up again. To make quarters even tighter we’re out of office space until the remodel is complete so I’m office hopping while people are out. The above picture has been my view most of the week except for the day that we sat right next to eachother (surprisingly not our toughest day). Needless to say, we learned that working through dinners is not in our best interest.

We work differently with eachother than we would with other people but all in all we make our best effort to be coworkers in the office and husband and wife when we walk out the door. But with his new role we’re still in the stage where we’re feeling it all out and I guarantee some days will be easier than others. Again being in the same office for 5 years we know how to act, we’re not dealing with the problem of p.d.a. or marital bickering at work, it’s just finding a balance in our time. When we worked in the same office but not on the same projects we could still go home and talk about our days. It was nice because Dave had an idea of what was going on in the company and industry to know what or who I was talking about but he wasn’t directly impacted by what I had to say. Now when I say “oh I got a complaint from customer x today” he wants all the info right then. I’ve learned not to even mention it until I have all the details and know it’s a real problem. Dave knows he can’t say things to me like he would another guy at work. I take things more personally from him than I do anyone so my feelings will get hurt more easily than they would from someone else. And unfortunately the person I would normally go home and talk to stuff like that about is now involved.

People have always asked how we do it. How we see eachother all day then go home together. I’ve never really thought too much about it. One of us has always had at least a moderately heavy travel schedule which may help some but I’ve always liked work being a little extra part of our lives. I think I feel the same way with this job. And while it will cetainly be easier when we’re in the house so when we receed to our corners they’re a little farther apart (and cooler), I like having Dave in my day. I like seeing him in action, making a difference and hearing what people say about what he’s doing. It let’s me see a different side of him than I would just at home and I’m very proud of him.

I don’t know that I would recommend it to everyone, but we’ve made it work. Our company has been good to us, they keep growing our individual careers so neither feels left behind which is important. If you have to do it just know that like anything else in marriage it takes a little extra effort. Like this weekend, work is off limits. It’s become a part of our relationship but our marriage is not all about our jobs. I’ll let you know in a few months if one of us if looking for a new job, but for now it’s not bad at all.

Off to enjoy a work free weekend

Yep more baseball. Thank goodness Cleveland is close to Canton. We were so used to going full speed in Memphis that we’ll definitely enjoy all that CLE has to offer this time around. Starting with Indians games.

It’s a beautiful fall evening…oh wait you mean it’s June?? I never would have guessed from the 60 degree weather. Brrr. Everyone thinks I’m crazy for missing the 100+ temps and absurd humidity of Memphis but it sure felt more like summer. Ok ok I promised Dave I would slow down my weather complaints. So it’s a beautiful night…for fall

Unfortunately the Indians aren’t the best team in the country so our prime entertainment of the night has been waiting to see when this guy below us will get thrown out. So far he’s avoided profanities and has been carded by the cops but none of the complainers have succeeded in having this very vocal fan thrown out.

Our next game will be in Cincy in 2 weeks right after closing on our house!! Yay!

Happy Thursday, I’m off to snuggle closer to my hubby…I don’t think they sell winter coats at ball parks.

I just got the wordpress app on my phone which means the potential for many posts. Haha funny right? But it may help. We’ll see. It also means the potential for many blurry phone picts like this one of my girls our last night in Memphis. Checking it out so sorry if it’s awful. But if it works I don’t have an excuse now do I??

Happy Anniversary to my sweet husband.  I love you with all my heart.

It’s been 5 years (yesterday June 3rd) and looking back I wouldn’t change a thing.

Some things I would even do again…

There’s no other person I’d rather be with through life’s wonderful adventures.

I love that no matter where we go I’ll always have my best friend beside me.

I cherish each day that we have together and I can’t wait to see what’s next.