It's been awhile!

Life lately has been chaos!

I signed up for 18 hours of summer classes. And I looked at the schedule before school started and I was so excited that I had a month break between the summer and fall quarters. About a week in, after it was too late to drop classes, I realized that the reason I get a month break is because they condense my normal 12 week classes into 8 week long classes.

It was super stressful - A&P, Gen Chem and Biology along with an online Psych course. Many Chemistry lab notes and notebooks were thrown across the room. I totally woke up in the middle of the night more than once pulling out my hair. But I ended up with straight As and a 4.0 (thanks to my profs throwing in some hefty curves!).

Jeff and I moved to a new place. We (I) kinda have dog fever. We could only have two pets in our old place, and they had breed restrictions. So we found a place that will let us have our two cats and any dog we want and moved in over the weekend. We finished everything up tonight - all of our pictures are hung and everything is put away. I'll take pictures tomorrow and post them soon.

In the meantime, here are some pictures of our new deck and the monstas. They've made some new friends really quickly. : ) And on Friday, they'll have another new friend that they'll probably be less excited about. ; )

*gasp* Look! Mom got us snacks! There's one for me and one for you!

Ooooh, they look delicous!

My snack sure is pretty!

Hey, who is that?!

I sure don't like that little look on his face!

The Series of Unfortunate Events seems to be O-V-E-R!

Even so, I am knocking on wood and keeping my fingers and toes crossed. For at least another month.

The past few months have been the longest ever! Jeff was offered a job in Oregon back in April. I quit my job in May, since were were supposed to be able to move at the end of the month and Jeff could start work in July-ish. Through a series of unfortunate events (mainly bad luck and then his boss being out of town mixed with some other things), we've been stuck here in Boston doing nothing half of the time wishing we could get the heck out of here.

On Friday, we finally got an OK to push Jeff's start date back to October. Considering he was supposed to start in July, which got pushed back to September we were pretty nervous that they'd say "Hell no you can't change your date. We've wasted enough time with you!" Thankfully, they were cool with it.

*huge sigh of relief*

And today, Jeff got the OK from his MIT boss to move at the end of this week. I'm planning on going back to school for a PharmD, and school starts in September. Obviously, the whole October thing doesn't work for me. So, we're driving out at the end of this week. And Jeff will fly back to finish his thesis and do his defense then will fly back to Oregon and start his new job.

I didn't want to jinx anything by posting this too early, so that's why I waited. Believe me when I say that our luck hasn't been so great lately. And I was not going to screw around with it!