Smooth Move (we hope!)

Everything is still going as planned for The Big Move!  The cats are climbing all over the boxes we have stacked throughout the house, the final few fixer-upper projects are getting done, we sold and donated a bunch of extra stuff that we didn't want to move, we reserved a truck and a storage unit over near the in-law's for a month, and we're planning our route across the country for July.  Which, South Dakota in July?  Yuck.  But I'm not complaining as long as I get where I want to be!
 

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Mom is thinking about flying out at the end of June too, so I can have some company in the car besides just the cats yowling in the back.  (Thank god for sedatives.)  ( For the cats.)  (Although some for Mom might not be a bad idea either...)  (Kidding Mom!!)  If we didn't have the pets with us, we would want to take a side-trip to Mount Rushmore and some of the historical sites along the way, but it'd be way too hot to leave anybody in the cars while we were sight-seeing.  We'll just have to save it for another time.

In other news, I still have a little bit of hope for going back to work.  I called the financial company that manages our 401(k)'s to roll over the funds into an IRA with my bank, and they told me that I wasn't terminated after all - my company had accidentally sent in a termination notice for me to the financial company, but called a couple of days later to correct the mistake, but the financial company had already sent me a notice in the mail about rolling over the funds.  So, long story short, I'm going to try to schedule a meeting with my boss and the president for next week to talk more about the possibility of working remotely.  There's still a slight chance it could work out, and it would be the absolute ideal situation (aka, holy shit it would be frakking AWESOMESAUCE).  I'm outlining some ideas to talk about and planning my attack (tasteful-yet-low-cut-shirt, professional-yet-endearing-and guilt-rendering-demeanor, etc etc).  Wish me luck!!