So much to do...the time is coming too soon.

So I just downloaded picture off my camera, and they date clear back to the first of the year....  How can that be.  That means I haven't really blogged anything in the present time in months.  Sad sad news.

And really there is so much other things I should be doing now, like PACKING!! But the plan is to get some boxes this afternoon and then maybe I can get started with that one.   The other thing I have on my planner today is that my coworkers are through us a Going Away party!  Isn't that so nice.  They are like my family away from family.  They were the ones that threw my baby shower and spoil me like crazy.  I'm really going to miss them so much. I've made some really great friends here, and I hope that they take the opportunity to come stay with us for a vacation sometime.

As the time has gotten closer for us to move, I have been really much more sad than I had ever thought that I'd be.  I mean really Chad is done with school and I no longer have to be the main breadwinner.  I thought I'd be jumping up and down.  But I realize that I'm going to have to find another job, and I can't even imagine finding the great friends and work environment that I've found at Pullman Regional Hospital.  And the customer service is always great!  I'm so proud to be a part of it.  The staffing is ideal and I'm not sure there are other facilities that are as dedicated to customers instead of making a profit as they are.

I was able to do my year evaluation with my boss the other day, and she was so encouraging to me.  She was told that me that I'd be able to survive just fine in a bigger ICU, where I'll be having a phone interview next week.  It makes me nervous.  So say some prayers for me please.

But with all of this said.  Chad and I are really excited to starting this part of our journey...(and realize that we should have been even tighter on our budget and not have had as many student loans).  Isn't that always the way it goes though.  You don't realize until when you have to start paying them back how much there is to pay.  But it'll be nice that I can get a job also and just focus on the loans and pay them off faster. The other thing that we're loving already is the housing market and cost of living being more what we're used to.  Just waiting for all our financing to go through for the house that we found and have negotiated on.  So again pray that I get hired for the job, so that for sure we can get our loan!!  Yeah I don't have an ulcer from worrying about this at all.  I'm just extremely happy (blessed) to have our house in Pullman all set to close on the 14th of May.  Now just to go start packing.

Schwan's man

So I'm not sure how many of you know about the Schwan's man, but since I've married Chad I've come to know more and more about the Schwan's man. Within the first few months of our marriage when Chad would come grocery shopping with me we'd walk by the ice cream section and he'd always say, "We need to get some GOOD ice cream!" So I would go on to tell him to pick out whatever kind he wanted. "Oh they don't have good ice cream here, we can only get GOOD ice cream from the Schwan's man." Well with living in a such a small little apartment and not having lots of room in the freezer we only bought a 1/2 gallon once.

So recently Chad has been back on his Schwan's man kick again. (I'm sure the Barnes' are just laughing hysterically at this time, cause we told them about Chad's obsession with Schwan's man very early in our friendship, probably ever since Chad's birthday that Oct '06 when we met them a few months earlier. They had never heard of Schwan's ice cream and Chad had to tell them how wonderful it was and how they were missing out. I don't remember if they ever got a chance to taste any?) So anyway, I just about started laughing at loud when Wednesday evening Chad answered the door and the Schwan's man addressed Chad by name and asked him if there was anything we wanted. Now I'm not sure if it's just a sales man thing to know who your customer's names are, or that Chad and I have been ordering ice cream enough lately that he knows Chad on a first name basis!! He has been coming by every 2 weeks for the last few months!! And we have the cute little neon orange stickers on the calendar to mark the every other Wednesday, just so we don't forget. Chad was disappointed a few weeks ago that my Dr's appointment was so late in the day on a Schwan's man Wednesday that I might not be at the house when the Schwan's man would come so we could get our ice cream we ordered! Good thing though, Chad made it home early enough from rotations that we got our ice cream order anyway. I'm sure that Chad counts that as a blessing for sure.

I have to admit though, I've gotten quite fond of the the great ice cream and the chicken cordon bleu and chicken Parmesan entrees they sell too. It's just nice sometimes to not have to cook anything for dinner. So we have a few in the freezer to help appease those urges when the baby comes. So if you haven't had the opportunity to taste Schwan's ice cream, Chad and I urge you to try it!!! And if you need recommendations of what to try first. We can do that too!!! But try at your own disgression, cause your husband's might start getting very excited when they see the Schwan's man truck where ever they might see one!