My first week at work

So I have officially finished my first week at work. 
Cool things about work
1)  I make significantly more money than I did at my old job
2) While I have 3 schools instead of 2 I have about the same number of students and maybe a few less 3) My office rocks.  I had pretty much given up on ever having as cool of an office as I had at CE (view of our small pond and courtyard).  My office now, is on a row of offices with all the other psychologists.  The building is gorgeous and only two years old.  I share with one other person.  I have my own desk, my own bookcase, and the test library has every test I could ever want to give to a child. 
4) The other psychs I work with seem really great.  I've had lunch with several different groups of people this week who are all really nice (there are about 16 of us).  Once school starts most people have 1 office day a week (to actually get some paperwork done at work).
5) The central office where I work is called MCPEC.  One of the awesome people I work with stated "We call ourselves the McPeccers".  Sweet. 
Uncool things about work: 
1) Going to have to dress significantly nicer than in Lakota.  Doesn't look like people here are really into casual Fridays.  Or realizing "hey it's summer, wear whatever you want to".  Not So Much.  Because my office is at central office people take it up a notch. 
2) Seem to be lots of random rules.  For instance, you can snack in your office, but not eat lunch in it.  You cannot exit the side door.  You have to sign in and out.  You have to turn in a weekly and a monthly log.
Overall, far more cool things than uncool things. 

Snakes on a plane

So here's the story of my last few minutes in Oxford.  I ran by the bank to get the ridiculous amount of money orders our rental company made us get rather than a good old check (more on our new place to come).  I was in the US Bank and a middle aged guy from College Corner walked in.  He had on a cut off shirt, some old jeans and looked to have been working pretty hard all day long.  The one thing that made me stare:  he was wearing a "snakes on a plane" t-shirt (with the sleeves cut off).  For those of you who don't know the Snakes on a Plane were a flag football team the psychology deptartment had about 4ish years ago.  The shirt is kelly green with a giant snake on a football field (the team was around the time of the movie and a play on words).  There were probably about 15-20 shirts made-- ever, since the design was created just for our team...

I asked the guy where he got the shirt (he didn't remember).  Thinking about it now I'm guessing someone donated their shirt to the family resource center (I think it was Jim from the name of the back of the shirt).  So even though we have left Oxford, our time as a fantasy team lives on, with the guy in College Corner. :)

Moving....

So I'm leaving on Thursday night to sign the lease on Friday in GA.  Hence the lack of posting about our new place.  We found a place.  It's a 3 bedroom/2 bath house with a fireplace in the living room and a fenced in backyard.  Everyone cheer for Dean and Watson!  But I have about 1 minute before packing most resume again.  Thanks so our awesome friends for helping with the packing last night :)

Cute things Dean has said lately:

Dean:  We're going to Georgia? 
Me:  Yep, we're moving to Georgia.
Dean:  Is Don coming to Georgia?
Me: No buddy.  (how sad)

Dean:  What's that? (in reference to our neighbor's blazer)
Me:  A car.
Dean:  That's not a car.
Me:  Well, that's really a SUV.
Dean:  An SOB? 
Me:  Dying laughing....

Way down yonder on the Chattahoochee

So we're here.  We looked at some places on Saturday (no pictures of those places b/c most were too scary to pull out the camera for) and rode around all over town.  We found an area that we'd like to live in (really nice and not scary :) and have driven by the outside of some available houses in our price range.  The real estate place opens on Monday and we're going to go by then to see the interior.  So far so good!  We have already found a good BBQ restaurant (Country BBQ).  Pictures of the BBQ sandwich, pork ribs, and banana pudding (in a mason jar).  It was awesome.

There is also a great park right by the neighborhood we want to live in. Pictures attached. I was afraid we wouldn't find anything we liked as much as Oxford Community Park, but it is really pretty and we had a blast!

 This is Joanna's favorite way to hold her head (she does it all the time).

 The bridge to the playground

The non flat terrain :)

A tale of two dresses

Okay- so the dreaded event happened.  The dress doesn't fit...The dress I'm referring to is the bridesmaids dress for H'.s wedding in September.  I had to try it on while pregnant (very pregnant).  And try to guess what size I would be when I was done.  And I've actually lost all the weight from the pregnancy.  I can fit into my regular clothes (even jeans).  When I weighed at the doctor's I was 1 pound less than before getting pregnant. The fit of the waist of the dress, check, the hips, check.  The one exception- the boobs.  I'm thinking no matter how much dieting it is unlikely I will get rid of the breastfeeding boobs.  So one other awesome thing I've learned about Columbus is that there is a David's Bridal there (totally the reason we're moving there).  So while looking for a house this weekend I will also be trying on new dresses (and praying it gets here in time- no worries H., the first one got here super fast).

Joanna- Look Mommy, I totally fit in my dress

Light in August

Just as a preface, I don't think anything I have to say is going to be earth shattering, but I've loved reading megh's and L.'s blogs to know what is going on with them so I'm going to do the same about our move back down South.

So my days as a stay at home mom are quickly coming to an end.  I've actually enjoyed it far more this time.  I think partly because of the weather- more fun to stay home in the summer, and also because I've had Dean to talk to/hang out with.  Tomorrow we leave to go down to Columbus to look for a rental house.  Hopefully we'll find some places that aren't horrible, I'll post pictures.  Next weekend we move.  The following Monday I start my new job.  Yep.  With a 2.5 year old and a 7 week old.  With all the time we've spend in Oxford who would've thought the ending would be so fast.  I moved out of my offices at work yesterday, turned in my computer and keys, and that was that.  It really sucks not to be able to say goodbye in person to most of the people I worked with for 4 years.  But while I've enjoyed Lakota, I'm definently ready to be closer to home.  And it doesn't hurt to be leaving when my salary would basically be frozen for 3 years (or reduced if extended days are cut further).  So yay for a raise :)      

Off to the library because apparently their "truckies" are so much cooler than the ones at home...