It would appear that I have slacked off somewhat in my goal to be a regular blogger. Oh well, that's how life goes. Work's going good - I've been on my own for 2 days now and nothing has come to a screeching halt. Well, kindof, but it's because of the weather, not something I did. Monday I took my mentor to the airport, and Tuesday the company paid me to take the COO and his family to the airport. I like this job. Seriously though, it's a really good job. I can show up pretty much anytime in the morning (or afternoon), leave just about whenever I want, everybody's friends, and it's just nice to go to work.

We've been steadily getting unpacked and organized (mostly thanks to Lex), and I've started commuting more and more from Rockaway. I haven't done the round trip in one day yet, but I'm getting closer. The highways closest to us were closed Monday, so I had to drive ~140 miles up through Astoria and down into Portland that way. It took me four and a half hours, which isn't bad considering 90% of the way was packed snow/ice. Fortunately the highways opened up again and I was able to go back to Rockaway and get Lexie for Christmas.

Snow?!? In PORTLAND?!?!?!?

As you can guess from the title, it snowed here. Lots (okay, maybe not North Pole lots, but seriously, this is Portland Oregon and it's snowing!) The roads are all iced up, and I'm surprised I haven't seen any accidents or heard sirens. That'll probably be tomorrow when people *have* to go out to go to work. But yeah, it's crazy. We're supposed to get like 3-4 inches by the time all's said and done.

So it's been awhile since I've posted - I missed posting last Saturday (I don't remember why), so here it is. I started work yesterday at BeyondWords, working in the warehouse. My days are mostly spent filling book orders and shipping them, as well as rearranging the warehouse (they're adding a conference room and the warehouse is shrinking). The people are super friendly, and the work's pretty decent.

Lex and I are mostly moved into our house in Rockaway - there remains one, maybe two more loads before we're completely moved in. The last big push on that was this last weekend. The hard part now is finding a place for everything and organizing it all. We haven't been to our branch out there yet (the Neah-kah-nie Branch) - we were in Rockaway, but Lex was sick and we got to Rockaway at like 11:30 pm Saturday, after working all day. This week though.

At some point I'll figure out how to put pictures up (once I get pictures) of the house, and also of the wedding and other stuff. For now, you'll just have to suffer my writing.

Cheerio