Wow this blogging thing has really dropped off my radar lately. Sorry about that.
The last time I posted was September, and it's now mid-June. A full 9 months have passed since I last wrote.
Well! Where to begin?
Certainly the last months of 2010 were uneventful. Even the Christmas holidays were fairly quiet.
After hosting our extended family in 2009 so they could see our new house, Christmas celebrations in 2010 returned to my parents' house.
New Year's passed uneventfully. splorp! and I are not much for parties, so we just prepared ourselves a wonderful meal and stayed in - barely making it to midnight.
January 2011, however, had a number of surprises for us.
First off, on his first day back to work in January, splorp! was called (along with perhaps 2 dozen of his coworkers) into a conference room, while the rest of the staff were directed to larger meeting down the hall.
The results of that meeting? splorp! and the smaller group were cordially invited to join the rest of the company in the offices in Texas, and please take the rest of the day off to think about it, and oh by-the-way there's a trip scheduled for you and your wife to tour the new city and see the if you like it, here it's already paid for ... And the rest of the California staff was laid off due to the pending relocation of the entire company to the Texas office.
...
[enter shocked silence]
...
Wait! it gets better.
Not only did we suddenly had to decide if we wanted to move to Texas, but splorp! had to tell them our decision very quickly - within 2 weeks, in fact. And then they wanted him to begin work at the new office "yesterday." Which turned out to be an absolute drop-dead-date of March 1.
If we said yes, then in less than a month and a half I had to quit my job, and we had to pack up our entire house into a 26 foot moving truck, ship splorp!'s car ahead of us, and move 1,500 miles with the dog and the bird.
...
[sensation of being overwhelmed]
...
(to be continued ...)
The last time I posted was September, and it's now mid-June. A full 9 months have passed since I last wrote.
Well! Where to begin?
Certainly the last months of 2010 were uneventful. Even the Christmas holidays were fairly quiet.
After hosting our extended family in 2009 so they could see our new house, Christmas celebrations in 2010 returned to my parents' house.
New Year's passed uneventfully. splorp! and I are not much for parties, so we just prepared ourselves a wonderful meal and stayed in - barely making it to midnight.
January 2011, however, had a number of surprises for us.
First off, on his first day back to work in January, splorp! was called (along with perhaps 2 dozen of his coworkers) into a conference room, while the rest of the staff were directed to larger meeting down the hall.
The results of that meeting? splorp! and the smaller group were cordially invited to join the rest of the company in the offices in Texas, and please take the rest of the day off to think about it, and oh by-the-way there's a trip scheduled for you and your wife to tour the new city and see the if you like it, here it's already paid for ... And the rest of the California staff was laid off due to the pending relocation of the entire company to the Texas office.
...
[enter shocked silence]
...
Wait! it gets better.
Not only did we suddenly had to decide if we wanted to move to Texas, but splorp! had to tell them our decision very quickly - within 2 weeks, in fact. And then they wanted him to begin work at the new office "yesterday." Which turned out to be an absolute drop-dead-date of March 1.
If we said yes, then in less than a month and a half I had to quit my job, and we had to pack up our entire house into a 26 foot moving truck, ship splorp!'s car ahead of us, and move 1,500 miles with the dog and the bird.
...
[sensation of being overwhelmed]
...
(to be continued ...)
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