It's a Good Friday!!

Happy Good Friday, y'all!

It's a super-duper happy day for me. Today was the end of my 'trial' period at the new job. I'm officially on board for good. It's definitely been a fun month getting back into the swing of the work routine. I'm loving the new & different culture. It's amazing being away from a more corporate type of environment. Good stuff.

I've been a little busy since I last blogged keeping up with hockey. They dont have any more regular season home games, and it's still up in the air whether the Preds make it to the playoffs, but we'll see. Que sera sera! I'm not as uptight about it this year as I have been over the last few years.

Sadly, there was a deadly tornado in Middle TN today, but Nashville really wasn't affected. I've mentioned before that this type of weather freaks me out. I hate it and hate the devestation it causes.

On a lighter note, I'm looking forward to a good weekend. I think we are going to hang out with some friends tonight. I'm heading to East TN to visit family tomorrow. I've got some relatives in from Michigan, so it's always fun to see them.

I hope you all have a hip-hoppity Easter weekend, too!

Go find some eggs!

Finally Friday!

Hey, y'all! Hope all is well. I'm so excited that the weekend is here. I look forward to a relaxing weekend.

Let's see what I can catch you up on.

Two weeks ago, our friends Josh & Alan came to our house for the weekend while they were in the area visiting family. Josh and I have been friends for over 10 years and he's lived in something like 800 cities. After not seeing each other for about 5 years, we've made it a point to have at least one visit a year. They also brought their adorable mini-yorkie, Galileo. Sooo cute! It was a beautiful weather weekend and we walked to Cafe Nonna for dinner. After brunch on Sunday, we checked out the Country Music Hall of Fame. Josh & I are big fans of classic country females, so we had a good time. As usual, we had a great time together. ***Click this link to see Josh's pics.

On the Wednesday after their visit, I actually started my first day at Emma! It's so nice to be back in the workforce especially with the continued news of job losses. It's a different type of place than I've ever worked really. It took a couple of days to get adjusted, but I'm loving it so far.

Last Saturday, some of my relatives were in Murfreesboro for their annual visit. They come to see basketball games. It's not really my thing, so I met them before the games for lunch. It's always nice to see them. I havent been to East TN since Christmas.

I just got home an hour ago from my first full week of work at Emma. Woo-hoo. I cant wait to sleep in. I dont have any specific plans this weekend and that's perfect.

I dont have anything else to bore you with right now, so I'm out!!

Holla!

The wait is OVER!!!

This is one of my most exciting blog posts in months!!!

I am pleased to report that after 7 months of being unemployed, I accepted a job offer today at Emma. I'm going to be back in a customer support role. I'm super excited about the company. They only have about 100 employees right now compared to thousands at the last 2 companies I was with. The culture there is also neat... it's the opposite of the more corporate cultures I've been involved with.

It was quite the process getting in there. We started this back around Thanksgiving. Three interviews & two writing assignments later, the wait paid off!! I've gotta give major thanks to my gal Casey for her help. It's going to be exciting working at the same company again.

I start on Wednesday and although I'll miss sleeping in, I'm so excited to be back around people. 7 months of a lot of alone time gets boring.

To top things off, it's going to be a beautiful weekend weather-wise AND my friend Josh & his partner Alan are coming in for a visit. Luckily we have another thing to celebrate now.

Woo-Hoo!!!

March is here...

Hard to believe that March is already here. March & April are usually interesting weather months in Tennessee. It might snow one day and be 70 degrees a couple of days later. We're kicking the month off that way now. We had snow on Sunday and it will be around 70 by week's end. I'm looking forward to the warmer weather, but I like seeing snow sometimes too. We dont get enough in Nashville.

I do get panicky about tornado weather this time of year though. It might sound silly, but that's just me. This year is even crazier b/c we dont really have an interior room or hallway in this house. I guess our somewhat basementy area would be the safest. I can assure you I've never been shy about popping into the closet during a storm at our old house. Bottom line is that I'm a big baby about stormy/windy weather.

We had a great week & weekend. On Saturday, we ran around town looking at rugs for our living room. I hate looking for stuff like that, but I was relieved to head to the hockey game against Detroit that night. The game was U-N-B-E-L-I-E-V-A-B-L-E!!! Detroit is always one of the top teams in the league. We're struggling this year but whipped their behind. It was 5-0 at the end of the first period!! We wound up with an 8-0 victory. Crazy, crazy, crazy!!!! We capped the night off back in our neighborhood at a wine party at our friends house. Good times.

We slept in a little on Sunday before going to lunch with friends. We came home and then checked out a going out of business sale... it sucked. I got back in better spirits after that when we met a friend to go bowling. I'm a very inconsistent bowler. I did well the first game and then sucked at the next. True form for Casey.

Tomorrow is a new day on the job search. I'm meeting with a new recruiting company. We'll see what kind of opportunities they have. I'll be glad for the process to be over though. I need a winning lottery ticket.

Hope y'all had a great weekend and have a great week. I'm looking forward to having some company this weekend!!!

Yay, Slumdog!

Hola. Checking in with ya again.

Hope you had a fab weekend. I did and of course it goes by so quickly.

We had dinner at home on Friday night and just chilled. After some landlord chores at Hal's duplex on Saturday, we headed to a late lunch and realized that we hadnt seen any of the Oscar nominated films. So, we changed that. I was torn between Milk and Slumdog Millionaire. After checking the showtimes, it was an easy decision considering Milk wasnt being shown at the only theater I can think of for that type of movie.

We got there about 15 minutes before showtime, but it was still hard to find 2 seats. A fun random thing was that we ended up sitting only 2 seats away from some friends.
The movie was awesome and it deserved to win some Oscars. I obviously cant compare it to the other nominees in each category, but you should check it out if you havent already. I loved the flashback storytelling aspect. I really loved the ending but wont spoil it for those who havent seen it.

I'll wrap this up with something that excites very few of you except me... we came home & caught a Preds game on TV... and we won in overtime. Every win is crucial at this point. I was a little ticked that neither of us won a trip to see the Preds on the road in Chicago but C'est la vie!!!

Hope you have a great week. There are 3 Preds games. Not sure I'm going to any but send positive thoughts their way.

Happy Prez's Day!

I hope everyone is enjoying your President's Day holiday--assuming you have the day off. Kind of a nonsensical holiday in my opinion, but I used to enjoy a paid day off anyway.

I also hope you had a Happy Valentine's Day! Hal & I arent usually into getting caught up in the mania of commercial holidays and this year was no exception. We dont care about cards or gifts and lovey dovey patrons at restaurants, so we stayed home all day. We had a friend come over to play cards that night and that's the extent. Note to my card playing friend, I dont take losing lightly and will make sure that doesnt happen again.

I mentioned in my last blog that we had some hockey games last week. They were exciting. We lost to Detroit pretty badly--BOO, Red Wings. We went back on Thursday for Hal's bday and saw one of the most exciting games so far this year. The Preds tied up the game with only 3 seconds left and won the game in an overtime/shoot-out. Woo Hoo. We didnt go Saturday night, but they again won in a shoot-out against the best team in the league. Let's hope they win again tonight. We are really close to edging into the last spot to make it into the playoffs. I'm excited to go tonight!!!

I've bored all the non-hockey fans (most of the people who read this blog), so I'll wrap this up.

Have a good week!!!

Spring-tease

Hey, y'all! It's been a few weeks since I've checked in on here!

Still no major breaking news to report, but I wanted to say hi so you guys & gals dont think I've totally forgot about blogging.

I'm happy to be on my porch right now enjoying the beautiful weather. We've had plenty of cold days recently, but it's 60 right now and will be for the next week or so. It's even going to be around 70 on Sunday... woo hoo... It gets me in the spring mindset. The birds are even out & about hootin' & hollerin.'


Still nothing to announce on the job front. I hope that changes soon. I've had a couple of opportunities over the past couple of weeks, so that's definitely promising after over 6 months of not a lot of anything happening. For the record, I'd never want to be a stay at home person...it gets old. It's always nice to be around other people during the day (in my opinion at least).

We have been going to some hockey games recently and have two upcoming games next week. The Predators are battling for a basement spot to be eligible for the playoffs (the regular season ends in April). They just need to keep winning games. Next week, we are going to seem them play Detroit (a big rival for any team) and we are going to a game on Hal's birthday (next Thursday). I wont publicly tell how much closer he is getting to retirement.

Aside from the weather, I'm looking forward to this weekend. We're going to hang out somewhere tomorrow to celebrate (read drink) a friends birthday. Always fun!

I could keep rambling on in the post, but it would just be about the people and dogs walking by on the street, so I'll wrap this up.

Hope you are all doing well!!