Merry Christmas to ME!!!

Miracle of all miracles: someone has decided to take a chance and give me employment!! Oh yeah. I start Monday and I am stoked. I was starting to worry that it was going to take another 6 months. I had a couple of interviews with no job offers and I was starting to wonder if I was going to need personality coaching. I will be doing the same thing I did at West Coast Radiology and they seem like a great company.

So if anyone needs an MRI or a CT... you know who to call!

What's even more amazing is that this experienced helped strengthen Dane's testimony. My dad gave a lesson in church on the principles and blessings of tithing. Afterwards, Dane decided to start paying a faithful tithe. Not a week went by before we were blessed financially. Getting this job really helped us and it was possible because of our decision to be full tithe payers.

Dane and I were having fun taking pictures on the Mac tonight - yes, we have nothing better to do. It's been a long time since we had any real pictures taken (wedding) or even just vacation pictures (May). Our camera broke on our last trip and we haven't gotten it fixed yet. Thus, Mac pics are all you get for now.


This is Dane's creepy "Lock up your daughters" pose. Not like gross 2000's delinquent but more cowboys and indians era.


This is my "I think I'm cool 'Gotcha' point" pose. There should be a sound bite with it. Do it for me "tchk"!



These are our super hero/villan shots. Dane is incredible red man. He gets really red when he gets angry and then his eyes shoot out white hot lasers. Mine is the best impersonation of a japanese anime character. I'm akuma howaido, white devil. It took me forever to get my eyes huge. I wasn't able to get my mouth big too.

So after running around in circles trying to find a path to psychology-hood, we've finally determined the path to Dr. Dane. We have found a program, Masters of Social Work, at the University of Washington that will be perfect. We called a contact person there and got the skinny on what they look for when picking students. Pretty much it will boil down to his entrance essay - which we will rock. I can't think of any person better suited to psychology than Dane... they'll have to accept him. Now I just have to think of back up plans, and I hope it will be easier than finding UW's program. Its really ridiculous how hard just finding a program is. It must be the first hurdle a grad student jumps, "If they can't find us, then they must not be smart enough for our program!" Well guess what, WE FOUND YOU!!!!

So far the job search for myself has been unsuccessful. I have had two interviews and one is scheduled for tomorrow. I am too optimistic I think. After each interview my family would ask how it went. And miss suzy sunshine was positive that they were going to offer it to her. And yet, I feel no shame at not getting the jobs... I think its because of my short attention span. I'm sure everything will work out in the end.

Dane and I decided to give up on Christmas this year lol. We had a budget before going to Black Friday a month ago - we blew most of it on $5 DVD's. There will be no surprises this year as we know all the gifts already. Dane currently can't drive so I'm driving everywhere (including christmas gift shopping), and that made it impossible for being secretive. I got him a Kobe jersey online and I'm worried it isn't going to get here on time... I ordered over a month ago and after I had bought it the estimated time it was going to arrive was january something. I guess its on back order or something. I'm optimistic.