We're having a cold front!

Yep and its pretty freakin fabulous. :)  The highs have been in the 80's and lows in the 50's and 60's. And I thought I was just going to have to ignore all of those people talking about the wonders of fall b/c I was sure we wouldn't see any fall until December!  I like being wrong about things like this. I do love cooler weather (of course I mean anything less than 90-but-feels-like-150). Yay for fall! :)

Now if only I lived close enough to visit this beautiful place. I do miss NC!

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Have a fabulous weekend!

And I've learned so much already

I've only been to work 8 days now and I feel like I've learned so much. Not necessarily about the job but lots about Houston. Here are some fun facts.

1. Baylor College of Medicine is NOT a part of Baylor College
2. There are two, yes two, fabulous-amazing looking cupcake stores less than a mile from my office - what are they trying to do here?? 




Image from Celebrity Cupcake - right down the street.


3. My office is on a major thoroughfare in Houston so I also have the best tex-mex place in Houston across the street (or so says the new boss), and all the shopping a girl could want less than a mile from my office - again, really? Do you know how much I love tex-mex AND shopping?
4. I left the house at 6am my first day to make sure I got to orientation by 8am. I arrived at 7am. I left the next day at 6am in the pouring rain and arrived by 6:45am. Traffic is strange here and a bit finnicky.
5. Shadow (we named our foster dog) should have the name Houdini - each of the first two days I worked I came home to her outside of her crate, where I put her before I left - she's really talented. The third day I put her in the laundry room and she destroyed it - now need to replace the door, molding, and ironing board cover.
6. Gracie felt left out of the fun of destruction and ate our bathroom door which will have to have pieces replaced. Lesson here - the dogs are less destructive together.
7. There are something like 6 or 7 hospitals in the Texas Medical Center - about a mile from my office. See the large complex below. (It includes Texas Children's Hospital where Jen Arnold works - she's on the Little Couple on TLC - yes, I like the show, mainly b/c she's in Houston!)



From http://www.north-houston.com/developers/healthcare.html


Ok, that's all for now - I'll update about other busy things going on in our lives later in the week.

A job? What's a job?

In preparation for starting my new job on Monday (eeks), I've decided to share some random tidbits with you. Thanks to being in school for the last 21 out of 23 years of my life, I have an interesting job history. (Yep, I know this dates me - I'm sort of like a tree with a lot of circles). My last full time job ended in 2005 so although I've worked my hiney off for the last however many years I haven't actually gone to one job every day in 5 years. I sort of feel like its the first day of school all over again! I'm excited and nervous and worried (its hereditary) and hopeful and really excited!

Oh yeah, my last job was at NC State - and they won last night!

On another note, I'm introducing our foster who is feeling so well these days that she's turned into quite the handful. She's slowly getting used to things around here and we are slowly getting used to her crazy level of energy! We are having trouble with names, primarily b/c the husband is ridiculous when it comes to naming dogs - I've come up with multiple lists of dog names and he responds with 'no' to all of them. Since its becoming harder to try to teach/train, etc a dog with no name, she will be named today. We'll keep you posted!

Hope y'all have a great weekend!!

Weekend fun

This past weekend was surreal in a lot of ways. We did things we haven't in a long time - like watch NC State football with people from NC State, who we've gone to games with, who we've lived with. We also cooked for our friends - something we both love doing. I went to Ikea with a really good friend, and not the husband (he was especially happy about this one). We talked and hung out with friends and it was easy because we're friends who've known each other since college. And wow, it was pretty amazing. We needed it. I miss these moments that we had so often before and have so rarely now. I would give a lot for a little moment with about 100 people right now - all of whom live in Alabama or further east. Love you all!

And for the fun of it - some pics of our visitors (not from the weekend b/c we are terrible at remembering to take pictures).

Hope your week is starting off well!!