Labor Day

Well, we've successfully survived our first month of mayhem.  Chris has started his new position, I'm currently just teaching, and we've now done two of our five weddings for the year.  :)

The new position requires Chris being on the 430 train, so this is taking a bit of adjustment.  It doesn't help that we have so much unusual stuff going on so a routine is difficult to start.  Hopefully next week (as in Monday 13) we will be able to get into a routine enough that we stop going crazy.  He's managing the stockroom, and so far the first two weeks of the semester went well.  He's got the usual complaints about training his replacement and stuff, but that's just kinks to be sorted out. 

I'm working at Westwood still.  I'm teaching Earth Science again this term.  I've been asked to teach both Earth and Physical Science next term, so that would take me to Christmas in terms of having a job.  It doesn't pay well, but the work is fairly straight forward and allows me a LOT of flexibility (which is a blessing right now with all the weddings) and possibly a different part time job.  As opposed to having to take a ton of time off for all the weddings I've got this fall, I'm simply scheduling different times to have the classes.  :)  I'm actually thinking of doing a barrista gig for a while since I'm already up at 430 with Chris, being at work by 5 wouldn't be such a big deal.  Plus it would be nice to be on a similar sleep schedule. 

The zoo is mostly done now.  I'll go back in October for extra money, but that will be all.  It ended up well, we got a TON of surveys and I didn't kill anyone.  Chris still contends that I need to find a research position so that I can not have to deal with the general public -- my patience for not trying and not reading have gone down significantly.  So, me doing a barrista thing may not work so well, but we'll see. 


I still need to get my dress altered for John and Lauren's wedding.  I haven't had time with the zoo gig.  The zoo ended last Tuesday and then I had to do nothing but wedding stuff for this coming weekend. 

As one of our crazy things that have happened the past month -- we had friends get married here.  Chris and I were the best man and maid of honor, so it was really quite fun.  We got to play Barbie and Ken.  It was a nice ceremony that was close to here.  It was nice to see everyone and here are a few pictures from the wedding. 

The wedding cake!  It was apparently delicious, and most people ate about 5 slices.  The top two layers are a chocolate gluten free, with the bottom layer being a carrot cake.  Chris salivated over the carrot cake, and couldn't believe it was gluten free! 

I suppose if you make anyone up enough they look good, right?  This was before the ceremony.  It was outdoors and about fifteen minutes before the ceremony it started sprinkling, so we got to play inside a few more minutes. 

What else do you do at a wedding?  I'm starting to get Chris to dance with me some, and from this angle you can kind of see the intricacy of my hair.  It only took a lady two hours to get my hair done...

Anyway, 430 comes early in the morning so I'm going to go now.  I realized that the past few posts have mainly been picture posts without much commentary.  One of these days I may go back and update the posts, but it will be next week at the earliest.  I'm off to New York this coming weekend for Lauren's shower.  I'm looking forward to meeting my mom, Ida, Nola Jane, and Maegan there.  We'll have an interesting weekend that will hopefully bring its own sets of pictures and stories.

Have a good week.