CBB - it is perfectly FINE to say that it was perfect!!! You put a lot of work into that one day! I should have learned and planned a vacation after as well - but no I stepped right back into a chaotic work month! Oh well. Live and learn - not that I’m going to be there again!
Enjoy the vacation and glad that everything was perfect!
congrats!!! It sounds just perfect!
I may have passed you in Cambridge yesterday :-h.
We just got back late last night ourselves. I am glad we planned a trip to Maine after the
Boston bash. The weather did not cooperate but I think the getting away from it all did.
RM, hope you know that we are all quite concerned about your work hours!
Very. How many more years?
dt, hugs for your appointment and fairy dust for your interviews.
Anyone in their right mind would beat the doors down to hire you.
Not sure how many more years. I think we are at the point where we COULD retire in the next year or 2 but every time my H looks at health care cost he adds more time on. 
At this point if one of us is let go or laid off that’s it or at least that is what my H says. I don’t even ask anymore just come to work. Issue is is that of late I find that I’m either working or cleaning and cooking. Something has to give soon as I do want to ENJOY life as well. Really starting to just say no at work at times as I do want to do other things.
Worked a bit from home on Sat and then came in for 4 hours yesterday. Since I still wanted my “day” I came in at 5AM and only worked until 9AM. That way I still had most of the day. Of course doing that I no longer exercise so I need to try to figure out a balance where I can exercise, work, have a house that I can at least live in and still maintain a sense of accomplishment and order in my life. Definitely a work in progress. I can do 45 hours no issue - it’s getting more than that that becomes a huge issue.
Oh and I was going to comment. I’m originally from Maine - lived there until I went to college. I miss the ocean and the mountains - western NY has neither.
Glad you had a good trip even if the weather wasn’t cooperative.
Happy October, everyone!
Hope everyone is recuperating from weddings, etc.
We’re in double-move mode. Have a few more steps to make it 100% official, but H has a new position starting Nov. 1. Will need to find housing and figure out how to move belongings from storage.
Also need to get my mother moved to assisted living and figure out what to do with all the family stuff (photos, etc.) Been going through things but now that we know our time here is numbered, really need to speed up the process.
Hope you are all doing well!
How Wonderful!!!
I hope it is somewhere you are happy to go to–or are you moving in the area?
We’re very happy with the new location. It’s the position H wanted the most. Interim, so not permanent, but looking forward to the new opportunity. It’s 634 miles from his last position, so not in the same area.
That’s great news c_q. Looking forward to hearing more.
CQ - congrats to your H!!! So is it in a part of the country that you will be happy? Is this longer term than the last one or is that really dependent on how things go? Good luck on the move for your mother.
Congratulations on the new position and move! Just got back last night from 6 nights in Iceland with my sister and S2. Great trip and loved spending so much time with my youngest son!
@RochesterMom - like the other position, contracts are signed for one initially year, which can then be extended. Have no idea how long it will last, but I’m thinking it won’t be as long as the prior one.
@sevmom - sounds like a great trip!
I can’t remember but is anyone on here from NYC? Thinking of going down for a couple of nights prior to Thanksgiving but wondering it it’s a mad house the week prior? Would like to do a bit of shopping and get in a show. Nothing too strenuous but wondering it that is really the time to be there or not.
Good news cq!
So nice to hear the good news about your H’s job offer, cq.
I loved reading the wedding reports. Sounds like all of the planning paid off.
This is wedding week for my mother. omg omg omg omg omg
omg omg omg omg omg
I will go there on Wednesday afternoon, with other family coming later on flights that are all detailed on a spreadsheet, hotel rooms rented, cars rented.
I’ve very worried that there won’t be enough food but the church lady who has been doing this for 40 years is confident that we’ll be fine.
Southern Baptist wedding. Four of us are bringing flasks. I’ve never brought a flask anywhere but surely it beats opiods, right?
Son has a real true teaching job. Social studies at a school an hour away from where he lives, low achieving low income school. The intake process has been pretty good - he has observed for almost a week and will start to teach late this week or early next.
MP, great news about your son’s job. Absolutely fantastic. Good luck with the flasks. Definitely better than opioids.
kmc, squirrels and chipmunks begone.
ShawD is looking for a new job in town to be near BF, friends, and secondarily family. She interviewed today at a place that we wouldn’t be excited about but they asked about compensation and she told them her annual salary, stripping off the thousands. They thought it was an hourly salary and said, “Oh. We can’t pay anywhere near that. Are you sure that is what you are making?” What they were paying was $15K-$25K per year more than she is making, so she didn’t want to say that she was making that much less and said she would figure out her hourly rate and confirm that she was or was not in their range. I’ve got to coach her a bit on the salary part of the conversation.
Good news missy! Great for pieson! He must be thrilled.
Your mom is getting married!!! How is your sister coping with that? I would have a flask, too!
@RochesterMom - not in NYC any longer, but it is a popular destination at Thanksgiving because of the Macy’s parade. But NYC is always crowded and busy. I wouldn’t let that stop you if the timing works for you.
MP, omg omg! Hope you all survive the wedding! And congrats on pieson’s new teaching position.
Ah yes, CQ. Congrats on H’s new job.
ShawWife had her 3 week post-surgery follow-up visit. Way ahead of schedule – in the top 10% of patients – so she has been cleared to drive (though she did a 2 minute drive and it hurt) and to travel with me to Tel Aviv and London next month.
Congrats to PieSon on the teaching job and good luck with the wedding MP. Hopefully that’s a good thing for your mom. My own one experience with a Southern Baptist wedding was when H and I were 22, soon to be engaged and we did the flask thing in the parking lot of the church. The couple is still married and we are still friends - we attended their D’s wedding a month or so ago -open bar.
RM - I think the week before Thanksgiving is a great time to visit NYC. It won’t be as crowded and the hotel rooms should be more reasonably priced.
sevmom- Iceland? I want to hear more - it’s on my list.
Glad shawwife is recovering well. I have had to talk with D about what to say/not say about salaries. Not that I am a great example, I’ve mostly learned from my mistakes.
Congrats MP S on the teaching job! The wedding - was this expected MP? Did I miss something prior? Are you and your family on board with this?
Good news Shaw on your wife’s recovery. Hope it still goes smoothly as she makes it through.
Maybe it will be NYC then for a few days prior to Thanksgiving. My fear was with the parade it would be too crowded. We have been before, just at other times of the year. Since we need to be in Albany on Thanksgiving I was thinking that maybe we would take the train from there and back that way no need to drive in NYC. My H would appreciate that as he hates to drive regardless.