fridays are travis's half-days at work. he goes in first thing in the morning and leaves by noon. this particular friday, he ended up staying a little later. jackie cooper was having a cookout and travis's friend chris {of chris and monica, the couple with whom we went to dinner at osaka a few weeks ago} asked him to stay and eat with the jci team. instead of lunch with travis, i put on another load of laundry. =/ i've become quite "domestic" lately ... and i don't mind, for the most part. the other day travis told me i was such a good housewife; i told him housewives don't have jobs ... he wasn't thrilled with that idea {not right now anyway}. i didn't ever think i would really like staying at home, but i think i could get on board with the concept quickly. if we were in a position that one salary would support the lifestyle to which we are/would like to be accustomed to, then i would totally be a stay-at-home woman.
i heard from brad first thing friday morning, well i got a voicemail from him ... since i was once again sleeping in. {and i was doing so well when i first started staying at home}. he just said he would like to make me an offer, that he had a pretty full day, but for me to call any time. so i got up, took a shower, and gave him a call. i had to leave a voicemail, too, and then there was nothing to do but wait. i felt like i had been waiting forever already {even though it had only been six days}.
justin and lindsay needed more help moving -- their move turned into a bit of a nightmare! justin's tahoe wouldn't start that morning. we had loaded it up on thursday so he could take a load first thing in the morning when lindsay left for school, pick up a trailer from his friend in stilwell on the way back and take a couple final loads that afternoon. on friday morning it just wouldn't start, though, so he had to get it into the shop. around 1:00 he told me it would be ready "soon."
when travis got home we piddled around the apartment for a bit waiting to hear from justin. it was taking a while so we headed out to get custard at freckles {i know; i may have a problem}. the sweet and salty just sounded so darn good, and i never did have lunch, so i figured i had saved my calories and could splurge a little. we drove around, enjoyed our custard and then headed to muskogee. by this time it was almost 5:00. i had talked to justin again and he said the tahoe should be ready by the end of the day, but that he would call me. either way, he said he was going to need our help, because he would need to borrow our car if the tahoe didn't get finished in time.
when we got to muskogee there was no one at the house ... lindsay wasn't home yet and justin was with my dad picking up the tahoe. the new renter for their home was at the house having "dish network" installed. we didn't want to chat up a stranger, so we drove around waiting to hear from justin. an hour later he and lindsay still weren't home. i called and he and my dad were picking up a trailer. sheesh. we drove around some more, ran in best buy to look at tvs {and wiis, and the new xbox, and playstation 3s}, and then headed to hastings. we looked at magazines for a bit and then travis visited with our friend danny. it had been almost three hours and we found out lindsay was going to the races to watch their friend eddie since it was his last night to race ... so we headed home. my poor brother. what a crappy, crappy day. we had just gotten on the turnpike and were almost to the toll when he called to tell me he was back at the house. he understood if we didn't help that night since we were well on our way home. since it was 8:00 he was just going to move everything over to my parent's pool hall and move it to arkansas in the morning so the renter could be in the house on saturday. as it turned out, the renter backed out at the last minute. even after having been at the house almost the entire time we were in muskogee. poor leach family. i think anything that could have gone wrong with their move, did.
we were supposed to hang out with chris and monica, but had cancelled with them to help justin and lindsay. by the time we got home the evening was pretty well spent. we watched oceans 11 {love that movie} and then headed to bed.
oh! and i finally heard from brad as we were driving to muskogee. he offered me the position and is working to get me a relocation package ... so it looks like i'll be moving to edmond. i'm not sure how i feel about it to be honest. i don't have a start date yet, since he wants to get all of the details worked out. i do know that i'll be training in stillwater {where i first started} before actually going to edmond. i'm sure the next few weeks will be interesting ...
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