Best Show EVER!!

I meant to post these sooner, but... didn't.

For my birthday, I won tickets to see the French band Phoenix here in Denver. I love this band and seeing them LIVE was amazing. The afternoon before the show we went and saw the band perform an acoustic version of their songs "1901" and "Litzomania" at the radio station. Afterwards, we got to take a picture with the band and I took a second to chat it up with the lead singer, Tomas, and just shoot the breeze. Wonderful guys. They have been together for over 20 years, but this album, "Wolfgang Amedeus" was their big break. If you have a chance to see them- DO IT!!!!!!!!!! They are coming to Denver again in August and I totally want to go while we are back here for Bekah's wedding.

Here are a few pics from my phone that I took at the concert. They aren't the best. When I upload the ones on my camera, I'll post them too.

NEXT!

I hope I'm not the only one that feels this way.

Do you ever get to the point at work where you just want to give up? Where you don't get the praise that you used to get and you just feel.... stuck? Maybe it's the move. Maybe it's the gloomy grey clouds, but that's how I feel. I feel so unwanted. My boss loves me and will hate to see me go (I'm kind of her "golden child"), but as far as some of my co-workers, they'll miss me but not too much.

I don't know.. I just am getting the urge to move. I'm ready to start over. New job, new friends, new community. I'm ready to see my daughter as much as I can. Details are pretty much 100% as far as the move. We have a schedule, a place to live and work waiting for me in Portland. Ben hates his job here, I'm getting sick of mine. It's just... blah.

Snow in May. I'm gonna miss it.

I am loving life right now. Work is a breeze, my friends are fantastic and I have a wonderful and supportive husband. Our move to Portland is coming along nicely. Just have to finalize where exactly we are going to live and sit and play the waiting game to move.

If it were up to me, we would have moved already. But, it is quite expensive to fly from Portland to Albuquerque for Ben to go to Jake's baptism next month. So, we will wait. Per Google the trip would take 29 hours of straight driving. We are going to turn that into just over a week. A night or two in New Mexico, a few nights in Idaho and night in Kennewick and then off to the new home in Hillsboro, Oregon.

I'm excited for all of the new change. I'll miss my family and my fantastic friends here in Denver. But, we will be back in August for Bekah's wedding! And yes, we will be in Denver long enough to see friends, enjoy family and then get on back to the real world.

I will keep you updated on the move. Eventually, I will even put some pictures up here!

Til then...

Heading West..

What do you do when everything is leading towards something big that can make your life possibly better? Well, if you are my husband, you start doubting if it will all work out.

I learned any years ago that if you have faith and put your life in God's hands, everything seems to just... work. A few years ago when I moved to Dallas, TX I started out wanting to move there because my daughter and her father had just moved there. I found out through a friend, that she knew of someone looking for a roommate. So, I had a place to live when I moved there. As for a job, I put up a post on a website on the local church site stating what I did for a living and what I was looking for. I got an email back about a possible job offer. So, what did I do? I took a couple days off of work, packed up everything I owned into my little PT Cruiser and drove to Dallas. No job secured, just my faith that everything would work out. I did my interview on Thursday and was hired on Friday. I started work that Monday. I loved my job, but got selfish and moved back to CO.

I'm back at that point again. I have an amazing job, and love what I do, but my daughter has moved to WA (back home to Kennewick) and her dad and step-mom have offered that if I was to move closer, then seeing my daughter would be a reality. As it is, I only see her 2 times a year. It sucks. I want to be involved in her life more, but for the past 5 years have accepted that wasn't going to happen.

Ben and I have talked jokingly about moving to the Portland, OR area. Now that I am in my position at work, I realize how easy it would be for me to be hired on at another Home Health Agency in Portland or Vancouver, WA. At the same time, we found out that our apartment complex has another property in Vancouver, WA which means our cost to move would be nothing as far as getting out of our lease. We would just transfer to the other property. Its what we did here. We moved from our location 5 miles away to here. Since we are moving more than 50 miles, there is no transfer fee. (Saves us $500) To rent a truck and move would cost us $2000. So, we are thinking of putting most of what we own on Craig's List and use the money we get towards new furniture when we move. So, we have a place to live when we get there. That is taken care of. As far as jobs, it will be another test of our faith.

If I could, I'd fly in, take a day to go to all of the Home Health agencies around Vancouver and Portland and find the ones that are hiring and BAM! start up in a couple of weeks.

There are a couple of glitches that make moving right away not good. My step-son will be here to visit for a week in June and then he is getting baptized into our church at the end of the month. Depending on his baptism date, kind of determines when we would move.

Ok, enough about it for now. Time to be productive and make the most of the Saturday.