Archive for the ‘Sabbatical’ Category

I have the BEST husband in the world!

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Imagine a stressful work week at a job where you are not really happy. Then your ding dong wife has a month of vacation and gets to do NOTHING?! Talk about potential to be crabby. Now add this unemployed wifey wanting you to do home improvement projects at night when you come home. After you cook you and her dinner. Double crabby potential. Multiply that by 4 days and it is Thursday night. If you are Paul, Super Husband, here is what you do:

Laundry Room "renovation." We had one shelf that had all that stuff on it. Paul moved the shelf up, then added the 2nd one. DOUBLING our storage space--WHOOOO HOOOOOO!!!

Not to mention he is funny and super-cute:

Paul wears his goggles instead of sunglasses on our way back from an open water swim practice.

Collateral damage

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

There are little things you don’t think about when you go to make transitions. One of the little things I think about when I decided to quit my job is dry cleaning. The dry cleaner I used was in Burlington, while we obviously live in Greensboro. The cleaner was very convenient to work and they had a 24 hour drop off service where you just stick the bag in a drop slot. I liked having the bag b/c I just hung it near the washer/dryer and when I had something to go, I just put it in the bag. When the bag is full, off it goes.

But now I need to take the bag back since driving 45 minutes away to just drop off dry cleaning is crazy. Then I need to find a new one. Do I pick closer to the house? Risk relying on Paul to drop off and pick up (love you Bixby!)? Wait until I start my new job and get a dry cleaner near there? If I do that, what do I do with the couple things I have now?

It kind of makes me laugh that now that I am on “sabbatical,” this is one of my most pressing “worries.” Local peeps: any recommendations for dry cleaners?