Friday, November 07, 2008

Winter's Coming

So back home (in Spearfish, my second home), they got a few feet of snow over the last couple of days, and roads have shut down, no traveling.  My folks were supposed to come out today to visit for a long weekend, but ended up having to postpone their trip by one day (hopefully only one day!), so we don't get to see them until tomorrow night.  Bummer.  But, that gives us extra time to get the apartment cleaned up!  Yay!

I'm so glad that we did not get the feet and feet of snow here!  To be perfectly honest, I am kind of scared of driving my new car in the snow.  I got it in the spring/summer, and I haven't driven a manual transmission in over 5 years.  I sometimes squeak the tires just driving on rain-slicked roads, going from a stop to a start.  I am just going to have to drive extra super careful right away until I get used to how it handles. 

I'm excited for my folks to come out!  This will be the first time they've visited us since they initially helped us move all of our stuff out here in the Uhaul and Dad's truck.  And it will be the first time I've gotten to see them since we went back home for a week in June.  I think we're going to do a tour of a beer brewery, find Dad some beer brewing supplies, go to the infamous Mall of America (on a weekday, NOT the weekend), maybe the Minnesota Zoo. 

Work is starting to get better.  The new guy started this Monday, but of course is still in training, and will be for an additional two weeks.  Once training is over, then he will get his own caseload.  My caseload was decreased a teeny bit when some of my groups were given to a co-worker, and it has helped out tremendously.  I'm still not caught up to where I want to be, but I feel like I can breathe again when I look at what work I have to do for the day.

Sorry about no pictures yet of the Halloween costumes.  I have a couple of Aaron's robot costume on my camera that I have yet to load onto the computer, as well as one picture of the two of us at my co-worker's party that she took.  Just need to get them on the computer so I can link them on here.  It's about 6am right now, and I was just quick posting before I had to start getting ready for work!

Have a great weekend!
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