Jen's Journeys: January 2012

It's been awhile I know! Life has been crazy and so much has changed! I have not had Internet at home in over a month and want to take advantage of this time at ROOTS to update my blog and hopefully get back on track with it. I still don't have Internet and wont until January 18th sometime between 8am-12pm. One of the biggest updates that many of you already know is that I have moved! ( I will be putting some pictures up at the end of this blog). I moved in over Christmas weekend and quickly got settled. I was so excited the day the package came from AT&T with my UVerse Internet equipment. I chose to do self set-up and save the $100 but after searching for a good 30 minutes I realized that my new home did not have a phone jack anywhere in the house! So now they have to come out and install and jack and so a real install. Luckily my landlord is paying the charges!

Let me rewind a little bit! November was an eventful month for me! I was in a wedding on 11-11-11, my apartment got broken into while I was sleeping (hence why I moved!), and I made a last minute road trip to Minnesota for Thanksgiving! I was planning on spending some time with my dear friends the Schallers the weekend before Thanksgiving and at the last minute decided to take the week off and drive up to Minnesota. It was a great trip! I got to see so many people that I love and it was good to be surrounded by people who know and love me!

December flew by! At Thanksgiving I knew I only had a little over a month till I had to be out of my apartment and had no idea where I was moving to. I spent a couple of days just driving around looking for rent houses. One Sunday I was driving around for about 3 hours getting discouraged. The sun had set and I still had no good leads! I just prayed that God would bring me to the perfect place. I called a friend and we decided to go eat. As we were driving to Uncle Julios I saw a FOR RENT sign in front of the cutest little house. I pulled over and wrote down the number. I called the next day and long story short I moved in on December 22! I love the house, it's a little 2 bedroom one bath built in the 1940's but updated inside. It has a big fenced in back yard for Daisy to run and play, AND the best part it's 1.1 miles from my office! I out a total of 34 miles on my car all of last week! I go home for lunch pretty much every day and just love being that close. It was exactly what I was looking for!

That's really all the updates. I've been extremely busy at work. I have been short staffed for the last two months and I had to (unfortunately) let someone go right before Christmas. I have been covering the holes and therefore have been very busy. I had two new staff start last week so we should bee good soon! But that's been my life lately... working a lot and trying to spend time with people I love. I will try to be better at my Thankful for TODAY postings.... even if I have to do them at work!

Here are some pics of my house! Hope you like it!