Author: Andi

Sunday morning…EARLY (4:40)…I drove Chuck to the airport so he could go out to Redmond, Washington for his orientation stuff for the week. He will be out there until Friday afternoon. I think Sadie is very upset that he is gone. She keeps looking for him and doesn't seem too pleased when I am the only one she can find. But he'll be back soon. It sounds like he's having a good time out there and I know he's excited to be out doing something and not sitting at home. After he accepted the job, there was still some waiting until he got to go out to Washington. So he's been anxiously sitting at home waiting to start his job. I will be happy when he gets home. I just don't sleep as well when he isn't there. I keep the tv on for some noise otherwise I hear every little noise in the house. Tonight I am going to a friend's house so I won't be sitting at home wishing Chuck were there. 🙂

And we get the new counters installed on Tuesday, so I will be sure to post a couple pictures when it's all in and back in working condition. We decided to take out the old counters ourselves, so we have a little project to look forward to this weekend. It's been a while since I got to tear things out! Sweet!

I am just finishing up my 4th week of work. I can't believe it's been that long already. It doesn't seem like it. I still like it and still love going to work every day. Fridays are a little slow since so many of the attorneys work from home and the ones that are in usually leave early. We're having some friends over tonight which should be fun. Then tomorrow Chuck will be at a friend's cabin and I have book club with the girls tomorrow night. I think thise weekend is going to feel very short! Enjoy your weekend and your Mother's Day.

Chuck and I ordered a new counter for the kitchen the other day. Since we have been looking at new houses, we are also getting ours ready to sell and new counters was about the only thing we had left to do. So we picked out this pattern. It's really going to look nice in the kitchen. It has the color of the cabinets, white for the appliances, and a little hint of red to go with the walls. This little sample doesn't really do it justice, but I'll take some pictures when it finally gets installed.

Chuck just accepted a position as a Software Developer with Microsoft! I am so excited for him and so very proud! He's really excited about the job and they gave him a great offer. He'll be starting in a couple weeks. He will be one of the first few people working in the Minneapolis location of Microsoft. They are currently looking for a permanent location, but we'll both be downtown for a while. When we decide to go back to work….we go big! A law firm and Microsoft! 🙂 Yay us!

So today we get an email saying that there is going to be a “Meet & Greet” for people to say hello to the new people in the office. (I think there are 4 of us that have started recently.) So we got Dairy Queen Pizzas! How yummy! I just recently realized how close the DQ was from my office…which is going to be a very bad thing. Thankfully I do have to walk a little bit to get there…but it will be on the way to Chuck's office when he starts working down here…(Which is a whole different post!) So I was happy about that!

On top of the pleasent surprise of DQ pizza, today was payday. This isn't exciting to everyone, but I have been working at home for a number of years and this was just fun! To have money in my hands was such a nice feeling. So that made my day!

And..on top of that, tomorrow is our firm “Staff Appreciation” lunch. I have heard nothing but good things from coworkers about what they feed us. So I am really looking forward to tomorrow, too!

This weekend we have a couple parties to go to for friends, so we have a fun-filled weekend, too! In summary…life is good!

Not too long ago, all the ice went off the lake. It's so nice to see that because it's when I start to feel like Spring is really here. Then, Saturday morning, we wake up to a lovely little gift from Mother Nature….an inch of snow! Lovely. The end of April and it's snowing. Thankfully it didn't stay long, but it was cold, snowy and incredibly windy all day Saturday. Today, we wake up and it's gorgeous, but chilly outside. This afternoon…you guessed it…more snow. At some point I think we just upset the heck out of Mother Nature and she is paying us back for something… 🙂 The really strange thing…last weekend it was in the 70s! Here's to hoping we have better weather (or even possibly consistent weather) soon! HA…right! We are in Minnesota…land of the craziest weather on Earth!

This commercial cracks me up. I just thought I would share it for you to enjoy, too!

VW Commercial

One day last week I got home and found this on my office ceiling. Well, I didn't notice it at first. Chuck put this together for me and it's so cute. He pinned it up to the ceiling. It looks like there is a cat looking down at you from a hole in the ceiling. From what I understand, this was a pretty big thing online for a while. I found one site called Ceiling Cat that shows some other examples of it. You can also find lots more if you go to Google Images and searching for ceiling cat. Now I have my very own!