The journey has officially begun.... for one of us, that is!
After a crazy weekend getting everything packed and in the moving truck, Cory
set off for Silverthorne, CO on Tuesday October 29th. Since the
townhouse we will be renting is a lot smaller than our house, we really tried
to downsize the amount of things we have. A lot of furniture was given to one
of our friends, 3 trips were taken with car loads of things to Goodwill, and
some things were thrown away. Despite the downsizing, we were still left with a
very full 16ft moving truck!
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| Packed to the brim! |
Unfortunately, since our house hasn't sold and I still haven't gotten a job,
I wasn't able to move out with Cory. We just don't want to be in a situation where we are paying rent and a mortgage on only one income. Things are looking up since my last post,
though! I had an interview via skype for a position in labor and delivery at a hospital
in Vail. Afterward they made me send these surveys to all of my references to
fill out about me. It took a while, but the surveys were submitted on Thursday,
so now I am just waiting to hear back. The position with the Nurse Family Partnership program that I talked about in a previous post was no longer available. They hired from within and made a part-time employee change to full-time, so that job is off the table. We did have a very positive showing on
our house on Saturday. The other realtor said the people really liked our
house, but since his clients just started their search they wanted to look at
some other houses, too. Hopefully they look at some other houses and then
realize our house is the one for them! I know God has a plan for who will live in
our house after us, I'm just hoping it's someone who can move in sooner rather
than later!
Back to Cory's drive out to Colorado... He was really hoping to just make the whole thing all in one shot, although we didn't tell any of our family that because they would be worried sick and would think he was crazy! He left around 7am and made it to the western side of Denver at about 1:00am the next morning. He was only an hour and a half away from his final destination, but it was snowing, laying on the roads, and all the big rig guys were pulled over putting chains on their tires... this all lead Cory to believe it would probably be best in the interest of safety to hang out in Denver until the morning sun could melt some of the snow and make his trek up the mountain a little easier. I also failed to mention that the motor in the rental truck was only slightly bigger than the one in his jeep, and was hauling all of our belongings AND the jeep, so we were slightly concerned about it actually being able to make it up the mountain... but it did! Cory left in the morning and made it to his final destination by 10:00am.
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| Welcome to Silverthorne, CO! |
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| Driving around looking at the gorgeous views |
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| My handsome hubby! <3 |
Cory had his first day of work at the car dealership this past Friday, November 1st. He said he really likes it so far. I am so happy for him! He is such a hard worker and if he is going to be working hard and putting in long hours I want it to be somewhere that he loves working. So far he has sent me a video and one picture of our new place. Here is the one photo he sent:
Yes, that is my desk that our TV is sitting on. In the process of getting rid of some furniture we found ourselves in the situation of having one TV stand and two TVs. Once I get out there we are going to buy a new TV stand, but for now, my desk will suffice. I have my laptop with me in Nashville, anyway, so at least it's being useful! I believe the apartment is going to be, let's see, how should I put it..... cozy. Haha! We were blessed with being able to buy our house in Nashville as a foreclosure so we were able to get a pretty decent sized house. Our new place is probably 1/2 the size, if not a little smaller. But, as Cory said to me on the phone earlier this week, "I would live in an efficiency apartment to live here!" We really don't need that big of a space, but I think I'll miss being able to invite a lot of people over at once.
Today was Cory's first day off of work since he had to work on Saturday, and he went snowboarding! I'm so jealous! It was Keystone's opening day so he went to A. Basin instead and found it was far less crowded.
I want to go snowboarding, too! I'm really hoping that things work out and I can join him soon. I miss my hubby and I am just ready to be moved and to start getting settled in. I'm over this whole "transition" period. And I'm really over sleeping in an almost empty house on an air mattress. It was fun to joke about it before it happened, but 5 days in and my back hurts, I'm sick of easy food, and I'm bored... hence this nice long blog post! At least I have these two to keep me company:
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| Chance is the one sound asleep, Remy is the one resting her head on Chance. |
It's been kind of boring and lonely without Cory being here and not much to do. I am very thankful for my friends and thankful I have the pups at home so I at least have something to interact with when I'm home. Saturday was a beautiful day out so we decided to go to Bledsoe Creek State Park for a hike. It was lovely being surrounded by the fall colors!
I think that's it for now! Cory was able to go to the local Snowboarders and Skiers for Christ get together this Sunday. He had a good time and I'm hoping we can make a lot of friends there. I'm also hoping that I can move out to Colorado soon so that my pictures of fall in TN will change to pictures of the winter in CO! Please pray that I will be able to move out there soon.... and for fresh pow for Cory to shred! :o)
