We start out each week with the best of intentions. I even made a weekly to-do list a few years back that includes "Blog Post" as one of the items, and things just sometimes get so busy we don't quite make it through the list.
But that is no excuse! There are exciting things happening here, and we want to be sharing them with you! So this will be a post of briefs, because I think that there have been so many cool things happening that its more about quantity of news than quality of news.
I, Justine, have taken a new job since we spoke last. If we haven't spoken in quite a while, than I've taken two jobs! First I've taken on the manager position at Simply Bliss Spa. My boss is great with massage, waxing, all of the skills, but wasn't as excited about the business end of things. Our personalities are similar enough that we get along really well, and our skills blend perfectly to run a great business. So I spend 15-20 hours a week calling clients, scheduling and overseeing all of the business responsibilities.
Second, I am doing 15 hours a week for Capital Area Humane Society as the Outreach Coordinator for their Petsmart Grant. They have chosen two zip codes in the Lansing area, 48911 and 48910, and they have a certain number of cats that need to be fixed so that they can expand the grant into two more zip codes. So, between now and September 2013, I have to help find and schedule 1,311 cats. Its a challenge I am definitely up to!
Nate is busy with work as usual. He's just wrapping up a project to create a widget that lets users search for their upcoming hearings. The idea is county officials can add some HTML to their website and possibly save themselves some calls from people asking the time of their next court date. It was a fun project with many challenges to work around and gave Nate a chance to better learn a language called Javascript. Once it gets released to the production system you'll be able to see it in action here. The widget only requires one line of HTML to be installed, which Nate assures me took a lot of work to implement and is very cool. He's also working on his game in fits and spurts when social fun and exciting new cooperative games (see: social fun) don't claim his free time.
Things are going well with the house. We've been putting up insulation in the garage; the last people to live here had no insulation between the house and the garage, and one of the pipes burst. Instead of putting up insulation, they opened a heating duct to the garage and heated the garage! We opted for the more-expense-now-less-later insulation route.
We ordered our first piece of furniture, a dining table, that wasn't owned by anyone else before us! It was an oddly adult experience walking into the store, browsing tables and chairs and picking the one we wanted. We were sort of giddy about it, wondering how many pieces or furniture we'd have to buy before we feel more adult and less like kids pretending to be adults. Its a dark wood table that seats six when closed, but hides three leaves and opens to seat twelve. We bought six chairs and two benches, so bring on the family holidays! We love it!We couldn't be happier about the results of the election! Things have been busy, and we didn't get to volunteer with the campaign as much as last time, but luckily the nation stood with us in choosing equality. While watching the election coverage with a group of our friends, we couldn't help reflecting on four years ago, watching the election at Joan and Alister's, right after Mommer got sick. We remember hearing about how she was excited by the coverage, and that she waved to Obama in the hospital. It seems like a long time ago, and at the same time, as if it was just yesterday. We both miss her very much but think she would be proud of her family and country.
Love to you all,
N&J
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