15 days and counting!
During the past 15 days, Bethany and I have labored late into the night after work hours and on weekends priming wood trim, painting walls, ripping up floor, laying floor, ripping out cabinetry to fit a fridge, soldering a leaky copper pipe, packing our things, moving our things, signing checks, …
Did I mention we bought a house?
Meanwhile, Bethany has worked during the day to get 20-some 3rd graders to stop thinking about summer break and focus on passing a poorly construed standardized test that does little to track learning but is still for some reason the sole, official measuring stick for her success. Talk about stress. (She did a great job, by the way!)
And get this. I’m one of only three reporters remaining at the Telegram right now, (No, we haven’t had layoffs. Just slow on the draw replacing a few staff writers.) and therefore have been writing about 12 stories a week. In a single day last week, I wrote about a police standoff with an armed criminal, a county-government budget work session, an update about that wounded soldier and boating safety tips.
Yeah.
That’s why we’re both so excited that 15 days from today …
… it’s beach time!
And check this out. It’ll take us about two hours on the road to get to that ocean sunset. TWO HOURS!
We live a charmed life.
June 2, 2009 at 11:27 am
two hours????TWO HOURS????
I hate the both of you.
June 7, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Right now I’m to tired to be jealous. Your old mama has been putting in alot of hours at work. I have about 3 months to think about how nice it will to get away! So think of me and feel real guilty about laying around on some nice beach while I’m working my you know what off!!!
June 30, 2009 at 10:28 am
good lord….when are you guys ever going to post something new???!!!
August 12, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Okay, I just looked at the pictures of the inside of your house! Was that hard wood under the carpet in the living room???? What a big difference! And I just LOVE the kitchen cabinets after they were painted! Very nice job guys!
And where are more pictures? I see you don’t post very much. What’s up with that?