Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Some of Summer - in Photos
Ashley Moved away - so she had an 80's going away party!
Tom Petty came to the Gorge! (Jess, Amanda, Me)
Missie got married, so naturally, we had a bachelorette party! (Me, Jill, Lindsey, Missie, Molly, Karissa, Missie's cousin, Brooke)
Jessica got Married, thus, bachelorette #2! (Amanda, Me, Monique, Sarah)
The beautiful bride, Jessica!
There were props at Jessica's wedding. So funny (Amanda, Me)
I really enjoyed the props.
In the mean time - Nick and Trooper worked...
Trooper is super helpful!
Not sure what this is, but I am sure it was complex.
The fence nick build at our house. He welded all the metal and build everything, design to finish.
New Beginnings
I know that I never mentioned it, but I changed jobs. I left AKT (public accounting) at the end of August and started my new job as a controller for a steel erection company in early September. I am now in my 3rd week and finally starting to settle into my new role. I was terrified to leave my old job because I had been there for 4 years (almost) and I felt comfortable there. Leaving meant giving up that comfort and possibly not liking my new job.
There were many reasons why I felt the need to leave public accounting. Let me first say that if I had wanted to stay in public accounting, I certainly would have stayed at AKT and can't imagine doing that kind of work anywhere else.
*The hours - Nick and I both had stressful jobs. We both had busy season. His busy season stretched from June - October, mine was January - April. Busy season on both counts consisted of 6 days a week, 12 hour + days. As you can see, that left us with November, December and May to have time to be with each other. It just wasn't working anymore.
*The hours in conjunction with wanting a family - While our family hasn't grow yet, we know that we want to expand it in the future. As noted above, neither one of us had much free time from some type of busy schedule. In an effort to decrease one of our busy schedules, it made sense that one of us would switch to something less stress filled. It naturally, made sense that it would be me.
*The work - Long term, I wasn't able to see myself doing the public accounting thing. I looked upward at the positions I would be promoted to and realized that I really wasn't all that interested in doing any of the jobs above me.
*The future - I feel like learning things that will benefit me in the future is a good idea. While public accounting provided me with invaluable skills and knowledge, long term, I didn't see myself doing that job or holding that career. I believe that the job I have now is filling in skills that will be adventageous in the future and that the job that I have now will also mold into my future plans in a more positive way.
So there you go, my new job - a big and very welcome change. So far, I really like it. I have so much variety in my day and I have so much more time. I feel like I can finally do many of the things that I want to do. Take a photography class, work on my house decorating and the like, learn how to cook better, have a nice yard, etc. It is very exciting.
There were many reasons why I felt the need to leave public accounting. Let me first say that if I had wanted to stay in public accounting, I certainly would have stayed at AKT and can't imagine doing that kind of work anywhere else.
*The hours - Nick and I both had stressful jobs. We both had busy season. His busy season stretched from June - October, mine was January - April. Busy season on both counts consisted of 6 days a week, 12 hour + days. As you can see, that left us with November, December and May to have time to be with each other. It just wasn't working anymore.
*The hours in conjunction with wanting a family - While our family hasn't grow yet, we know that we want to expand it in the future. As noted above, neither one of us had much free time from some type of busy schedule. In an effort to decrease one of our busy schedules, it made sense that one of us would switch to something less stress filled. It naturally, made sense that it would be me.
*The work - Long term, I wasn't able to see myself doing the public accounting thing. I looked upward at the positions I would be promoted to and realized that I really wasn't all that interested in doing any of the jobs above me.
*The future - I feel like learning things that will benefit me in the future is a good idea. While public accounting provided me with invaluable skills and knowledge, long term, I didn't see myself doing that job or holding that career. I believe that the job I have now is filling in skills that will be adventageous in the future and that the job that I have now will also mold into my future plans in a more positive way.
So there you go, my new job - a big and very welcome change. So far, I really like it. I have so much variety in my day and I have so much more time. I feel like I can finally do many of the things that I want to do. Take a photography class, work on my house decorating and the like, learn how to cook better, have a nice yard, etc. It is very exciting.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Hood To Coast 2010
Nick pulled the airstream over and we stayed the night at the Cannon Beach RV resort. While it did not live up the the awesomeness that was Crown Villa in Bend, it was pretty ok.
Trooper had his first Ocean beach experience. He thought it was the greatest thing EVER. He loved spashing in the shallow river, rolling in the sand, chasing the birds and barking at people. I myself did not enjoy it as much as I might have wanted to, my foot began to hurt pretty bad throughout the day and walking in Sand just made it worse.
I saw Dr. Sandmeier at the Portland Clinic, an Ortho with an amazing bedside manner - how nice! He thinks it is a swollen tendon (beats the break I thought it was) and offered a boot or an MRI. I took the boot. If the MRI showed a tendon issue, I would have been booted anyway - so why not try the boot first, before I have to pay all kinds of money for an MRI? So, I can't run for a while. At least I can still spin, swim, lift and row.
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