So Far, So Good

We made it.  Everything with the move went semi-eventless.  I'll start from the beginning.

For the past 2 weeks, we've been packing up everything when we've had the time.  After finals we kicked it into gear and started working hard.  Fast forward to Tuesday.  The temperature -15 (for a high!).  The windchill -40.  What better day to load the Uhaul?  We wouldn't have been able to do it without the help of Trevor and Amber.  If you're reading this, THANK YOU!  Trevor is a human tetris machine.  Anyways, the next day we go to leave, and the Uhaul has a flat tire on the rear passenger side.  It wasn't completely flat, but it was getting there.  So we take it down to Aberdeen and it hadn't lost anymore air, so I thought we'd be all right.

We weren't.

As I was filling up on gas (which would be a usual occurrence) I saw a guy looking at his tires.  Just out of the blue, I asked him if he could look at our tire as well.  Long story short, he's a tire salesman and he was shocked we hadn't already shredded the tire.  So we took the truck to the Uhaul place, got it filled up, and an hour later, hit the road.

I miss cruise control and being able to go over hills at more than 60 MPH.

The truck sucked gas like nothing I've ever seen.  in 550 miles, we had to stop 4 times to fill it up.  That's crazy!  Granted, we had the back completely full and it was towing our car.  I'm just extremely happy gas is 1.59 instead of 3.59!  What a difference!

So we make it to Crete, and I'm figuring with a handful of people, we can unload everything in a couple hours.  Boy, I was wrong.  We had 11 people show up and it took us 45 minutes from start to finish.  And the icing on the cake is that only a couple of our breakables got broken.  They weren't anything special, so that is good.

The next day (Thursday) we go to a couple of interviews that were pretty much guaranteed jobs.  Long story short, the earliest the first job starts is February, and the other job starts in March!  Uh oh.  After we found that out, we went to almost every business in town, picked up applications, and are turning them in today (Friday).

So, please pray that these jobs work out because we know that this is the right place for us.

If you are wondering about the house, we are unpacking our last boxes today and I will give the grand tour.  I'll post it on here once I get it finished.

Well, this is a long post so I should stop it before it gets any longer.

Our Trip to Crete

Over Thanksgiving break, we went to Crete.  While we were there, we looked for jobs and houses.  Long story short, we found a house, but still no jobs.

The house is nice and small.  I would classify it as 1 bedroom with an kitchen, living room, basement, and a tiny bedroom that would be more like an office.  We might be able to fit a bed in there, but more than likely it will become an office.  The floors are all hardwood and the kitchen is linoleum.  The basement has hookups for a washer and dryer.  It also has a room below the basement to use as either a pantry or storm cellar.  I think we should use it as a sweat shop and make some money on the side.  We have a garage, but we won't ever use it because we bottom out every time we pull into the driveway...

The landlord is still working on the house so just ignore all the construction stuff.