Forthcoming, Ensuing, Impending

Poor blog... fallen by the wayside...

So here's what's happening.  Our Lovely Landlord put our house on the market a mere two weeks ago.  We showed it for her three times, and she is now negotiating an agreement with a Lovely Family to rent-to-own.  We really shouldn't have worried about the house not being desirable, because come on!

Bye, cute house!  If we could put you on a flatbed and haul you across the country, we would!

So... we have to pack up and move out by June 1!  We knew there was a chance it would be soon, but I think we were ignoring the actual number of days on the calendar.  Let the OMGWTF begin!

The plan is this: put our stuff in storage here in Toledo, load up the pets and a couple suitcases, and head for the in-law's place outside Cleveland for about month.  B promised he would help them paint their house this summer, so we'll spend June working on that and continuing the job search out west.  We've both put in quite a few applications out there already, in Seattle, one or two in Spokane, and all over Oregon, so if either of us line something up then we're golden.  If not, we'll head out there around the end of June/mid-July anyway and crash at either my Lovely Nephew's or my Lovely Mother's house north of Spokane until we figure out where we'll be living and working.

Of course, the best laid plans of mice and men.... but we'll keep our fingers crossed and pray against wrenches.

Out of sight, out of mind

Distractions have been easy to come by.  I've hardly been online these past few days - Google Reader is overflowing, I post to Twitter maybe once a day, and I give Facebook a once-over in the morning with my coffee and that's about it.  I've been watching NCIS from the beginning, crocheting, and the weather has finally turned spring-ish too.  I've been spending my days outside planting things that will more than likely (a) not come up at all, (b) get dug up by squirrels, or (c) freeze when we get hit with a freak frost in May.  But at least I'm getting some sun!
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The countdown begins...
B and I have started the job search.  He had a phone interview today for a job that would send him out in the wilds of central Oregon for three months this summer.  I sent my resume to Starbucks for a marketing job, emailed a prof I knew vaguely about a potential new position at my alma mater, and I keep looking in Seattle, Portland, Bend, Spokane, Missoula, you name it.  I also keep my fingers crossed that something good will happen at my old workplace and I'll get a happy phone call one day soon.

Lovely Landlord is putting our house up for sale in the next couple of weeks.  We've made arrangements with her to show the house ourselves, plus we still have a few projects that we promised to complete too.  Tomorrow I'm going to try to scrounge some boxes from the old workplace so we can start packing, and put a few things on Craigslist.

In unrelated news, we think Jake may have figured out how to nose open the clasp on the gate to our kitchen.  He managed to get in there last night and couldn't get out again... so he of course got into the trash, ate the cat food, mistook the basement floor for the toilet, and now he has the nastiest gas ever.  My dog may have a cast-iron stomach, but holy lord, he's melting the paint right off the walls!