Rutland, VT

So here is a small summary of my first two days in my new home of Rutland, VT. Jess and I are purchasing a house in West Rutland, but before the mortgage gets done, I need a paycheck from my new job. So we are living in the most swanky hotel in town, the Best Western Suites. Its basically a one bedroom apartment. The day one portion was sent to my old co-workers at The Baptist and copied, because I'm a lazy fuck.

Day one went quite well. I unpacked most of the whole dang truck myself into the storage shed. Jess's job was to return her head to normal for her interviews, so I did my husbandly duties and unpacked most the truck myself. Unfortunately I failed at one thing.... I unpacked a 15 ft truck into a 20 ft shed and came up 3 ft short, so we will need to rent another storage shed. Either that or unpack everything and re-pack it... screw that, 60 dollars will fix my packing failure. The hotel room is nice, like a one bedroom apartment. Jess did well in her first interview and came back wanting the job real bad. She will hear back in the next few days. Interview number two is tonight. (interview one was the elementary school and interview two is the head librarian at the place where the picture was taken) I'm quite happy how things are going. I'm not very sore and we are in Rutland. Wednesday will be fun for the two of us... No more unpacking the truck, no more interviews. Jess will unpack the apartment/hotel room and I will find a big hill to bike up (and back down of course).


Day two:
So we started the day with another complimentary breakfast (I'm going to miss not having a free breakfast). Jess and I stopped by Godards furniture (the owners of the storage shed) and we got another shed to keep everything else... (it turned out to be a good thing that we have the extra space). Jess and I moved the damn couch and I rolled the couch over my ankle for good measures. I came out OK, but I was pretty close to breaking my ankle, which would have been wonderful since we have no insurance currently. My knee also started hurting... a lot. I drove the moving truck to the drop off, which just like the pickup, was a tool rental shop. Long story, but I want to buy an electric lawn mower for the new house. The drop off place had an electric mower real cheap and we now have the room to store it for a month, so its a deal I wont pass up... tomorrow. Back to the hotel for a nap. I got antsy so I decided to visit the new employer and it was cool. They were excited to see me and I got to look at my training schedule. In addition to me, they also hired two new grads from UVM. So I will be sharing the bottom of the totem pole with some other people. The rest of the day has been about getting Jess ready for her next interview. Some time earlier in the day, Jess's first interview called her up to talk about teaching certification crap and mentioned they talked to one of Jess's references. We are trying not to get excited, but generally people only check references if they want to hire you (right?). Hopefully Jess will have a job in the next few days. I'm currently chillin while Jess is interviewing and I am hoping to put some pedals on one of the bikes for a ride around town tomorrow.
Life is feeling pretty good right now.