Moving On
By now, the news has been announced at D's company, so I can blog that D has decided to leave his current job for another one. He made the decision when it became clear that, due to the reorg of the company, he'd be on the road much of the time. Not wanting to travel and be away from home that much, he found himself more open to a company that had approached him about taking over their Portland office. I am relieved that he'll not be traveling much, whereas before we were looking at pretty much weekly travel, often to the East Coast.
It was tough not saying anything on the blog about D's job change and the resulting changes (namely the Mexico trip - see section below). It felt like I was keeping this huge secret. I don't like secrets, so I'm happy that it was announced this afternoon.
Mexico
Which leads to my next little bit of news. We'll be in Mexico for much of January. Yep, the woman who recently said that two weeks was too long to be on vacation with a two-year-old is now going on an over-two-week vacation a month after making that statement. It's probably the only trip we'll be able to make down there as a family until Christmas 2010, so we had to take advantage of the opportunity.
I'm excited to be in Mexico; I'm bummed to be bumped out of my routine; I'm excited to have D around for pretty much the whole month of January; I'm bummed to miss out on another Heathens' Brunch; I'm excited to go to Super Burro in Loreto again; I'm bummed to miss out on any girls' nights that may occur in my absense; and I'm excited to enjoy our home down there with its newly installed water softener. Mostly, I'm just excited and grateful to get a last-minute, unexpected trip to Mexico.
Workouts & Dog Walks
I'm doing great on the dog walks, but not so good on the workouts. However, I'm doing fairly well with my eating. No binging, no eating in the evenings, no excessive snacking. I even said no to a tasty treat at RHG's house today - that's progress! And I ordered stir fried vegetables vs a grilled brie sandwich at lunch today. I hope that tomorrow will be both a dog walk and workout day. We'll see.
I hope he's coming to Tripwire!
ReplyDeleteVacations rock! But this will make the second time in a row when we've hosted Sunday brunch and you've missed it. Methinks there is a conspiracy. Congrats to D on the job change!
ReplyDelete@Darren - You'll just have to wait and see! (Just kidding. It's not Tripwire.)
ReplyDelete@Christie - I know! I was so bummed when I realized we'd miss the one at your house for a second time in a row! Boo!!
I have not been invited to the January heathens brunch. boo!!
ReplyDeleteMe neither! Has a date been set and you've just chosen to totally mix up the guest list? :)
ReplyDeleteCongats on the job change... that is very exciting. I was not looking forward to all that travel, on your behalf of course.
@Rachele and Amber - for the record, Christie has not, to my knowledge, selected a Heathens' Brunch date. I'm personally hoping for a Jan. 31 date since that is still January. We'll be back by then. :) However, I wouldn't expect such a date to be selected solely for us.
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