Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Payson Canyon
We tried to take an afternoon trip up Payson Canyon for FHE yesterday. We got up there and the roads were closed off. We walked around and took a few pictures. Addie was overly dramatic after getting a few stickers stuck in her shoe (which I removed thoroughly). She was limping and not putting any weight on her foot at all, and crying a river of tears. We had brought soda, and I told her she wasn't getting any if she didn't put a sock in it. She made a miraculous recovery.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
House finally recorded
So, it took forever, but our house finally sold. Since it took them an extra week or so, we had to go in and throw more money away, but at least it's over.
Lehi city decided to dig up our front yard last week, and it's still kind of a mess, but I guess it's not our problem anymore.
I'm still waiting to hear from Idaho Falls FD. I finished #1 after the written test, I passed the agility test with plenty of time to spare, and I thought I did just fine in the interview. My concern is that I will not have my EMT cert until June, and they made it clear in the application that current EMTs would have a significant advantage.
I just applied to take the test in Houston, and I'm going to be applying for Oklahoma City as well.
Lehi city decided to dig up our front yard last week, and it's still kind of a mess, but I guess it's not our problem anymore.
I'm still waiting to hear from Idaho Falls FD. I finished #1 after the written test, I passed the agility test with plenty of time to spare, and I thought I did just fine in the interview. My concern is that I will not have my EMT cert until June, and they made it clear in the application that current EMTs would have a significant advantage.
I just applied to take the test in Houston, and I'm going to be applying for Oklahoma City as well.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Moving on
We just about got everything out of our house today. Tomorrow we will be picking up a few computer chairs and a desk.
We're all sad to have to leave. The house is looking its age, but it's super clean for probably the first time in 10 years (the people who lived in it before us were slobs {takes one to know one, and believe me, they were slobs} and we didn't have a chance to clean it up very good before moving in.) The swamp cooler is operational, which would have made this summer fairly bearable, and the front room is looking pretty snazzy with the addition of the new blinds I put up in the windows. We did get out of a summer's worth of weeds I guess.
I've been sick for the past week and a half which hasn't made moving an entire house very fun. All the kids had something over the past 3 weeks or so, and Emery was sick the entire time. She's still really fussy because she's not used to being well, but things are slowly getting better.
I took the border patrol test today, I'm sure I did just fine. I realized that I have forgotten more spanish than I retained, but I'm pretty sure that I scored high enough on it to prove that I had been fluent at one time. I heard that the EMTs on the border patrol make quite a bit of money from one of the guys who was at the test, so there's a nice possibility I guess. Supposedly, it takes about 9 months to go from the initial test until graduation from their academy. Some of the things they talked about that will be job responsibilities sounded like they'd be pretty fun.
I was also called today by the city of Roseburg, and they want me to interview for one of 3 open positions. They are interviewing 19 people. Those aren't particularly good odds, especially for someone who flunked out of an interview already, and didn't even get invited back for another after acing the written test, but we'll give it a go anyways. My interview is on the 30th of this month, and I'm hoping that I took some valuable lessons from failing my first interview.
Tomorrow I'm driving up to Idaho Falls to test for their fire department. I'm hoping to do well there, it's probably the best situation for our family, nice smaller community, temple very close by, and BYU Idaho within driving distance so Jennifer can finish school. We'd really like to find somewhere that we can settle down, and Idaho Falls seems to have everything we need.
I'm going to be calling up the electricians union here in Salt Lake and see if I can get an apprentice position. It would take a while, but making it to journeyman would probably be pretty lucrative.
We're all sad to have to leave. The house is looking its age, but it's super clean for probably the first time in 10 years (the people who lived in it before us were slobs {takes one to know one, and believe me, they were slobs} and we didn't have a chance to clean it up very good before moving in.) The swamp cooler is operational, which would have made this summer fairly bearable, and the front room is looking pretty snazzy with the addition of the new blinds I put up in the windows. We did get out of a summer's worth of weeds I guess.
I've been sick for the past week and a half which hasn't made moving an entire house very fun. All the kids had something over the past 3 weeks or so, and Emery was sick the entire time. She's still really fussy because she's not used to being well, but things are slowly getting better.
I took the border patrol test today, I'm sure I did just fine. I realized that I have forgotten more spanish than I retained, but I'm pretty sure that I scored high enough on it to prove that I had been fluent at one time. I heard that the EMTs on the border patrol make quite a bit of money from one of the guys who was at the test, so there's a nice possibility I guess. Supposedly, it takes about 9 months to go from the initial test until graduation from their academy. Some of the things they talked about that will be job responsibilities sounded like they'd be pretty fun.
I was also called today by the city of Roseburg, and they want me to interview for one of 3 open positions. They are interviewing 19 people. Those aren't particularly good odds, especially for someone who flunked out of an interview already, and didn't even get invited back for another after acing the written test, but we'll give it a go anyways. My interview is on the 30th of this month, and I'm hoping that I took some valuable lessons from failing my first interview.
Tomorrow I'm driving up to Idaho Falls to test for their fire department. I'm hoping to do well there, it's probably the best situation for our family, nice smaller community, temple very close by, and BYU Idaho within driving distance so Jennifer can finish school. We'd really like to find somewhere that we can settle down, and Idaho Falls seems to have everything we need.
I'm going to be calling up the electricians union here in Salt Lake and see if I can get an apprentice position. It would take a while, but making it to journeyman would probably be pretty lucrative.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Home selling blues
Today on our way back from Jennifer's birthday dinner, we got a call from our agent telling us that the people who are buying our home don't have enough of a down payment to qualify for a mortgage, and that they are applying for a 3000 dollar grant so that they can still go through with it.
They've asked us for a 2 week extension, and it's not like we have much of a choice. We started emptying the house out on Saturday into a storage unit that we are renting. We've already gotten rid of Bailey and Addie's bunkbeds (sold on craigslist) and I just loaded the queen bed they were sharing into storage.
I guess we're putting the house back up, which means we're going to be spending lots of time keeping it clean, and who knows where we're going to hide all the boxes.
On the bright side, this gives me at least 2 more weeks to find a job that will be good enough that we can at least get by here and not have to move. The house is in much better condition now than it was the past 2 years, and it might be a pleasant summer with a working swamp cooler.
They've asked us for a 2 week extension, and it's not like we have much of a choice. We started emptying the house out on Saturday into a storage unit that we are renting. We've already gotten rid of Bailey and Addie's bunkbeds (sold on craigslist) and I just loaded the queen bed they were sharing into storage.
I guess we're putting the house back up, which means we're going to be spending lots of time keeping it clean, and who knows where we're going to hide all the boxes.
On the bright side, this gives me at least 2 more weeks to find a job that will be good enough that we can at least get by here and not have to move. The house is in much better condition now than it was the past 2 years, and it might be a pleasant summer with a working swamp cooler.
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