We're UP! (on the market that is)

View from the street, not pictured is our 1 car detached garage and nice fenced backyard!

After lots of hard work we finally have our house on the market! We have been working so hard this past month (hence why I haven't been blogging much) just trying to get everything perfect and I have to say that if we were looking for a house I would definately buy our cutie little place! I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little bit sad to be selling our place.

If anyone in the St. Louis metro area is looking for a great little house with lots of updates let's make a deal!


Bedroom 1 (upstairs) is bright and airy with 2 windows and beautiful wood floors. Also has a cable tv hookup

Bedroom 2 (upstairs) is comfy and fun. This room also has a nice walk-in closet.

Bedroom 2 (again) has beautiful wood floors just like the first bedroom as well as a cable hook up.

This is our living room, it's very comfy and has high ceilings and lots of character. It also opens up into the dining room. The carpets are about 2 years old but were recently profesionally cleaned and look like they're brand new!

View from Living room into dining room

That's all I have time for now, I will update more pics of the rest of the house later as time allows.
Please pray that our house will sell.....quickly!

Oh computers!

I ordered some new memory for my PowerBook that came in the mail yesterday and I'm so scared to put it in my computer all by myself. I looks like it's pretty easy, but I'm still afraid of messing things up! I've never actually opened up my computer before.

After having my computer crash last week I lost everything. Luckily I had all of my files saved on an external hard drive, but all of my software is gone and I can't find the discs for any of them.

Does anyone where the best place to get MS Office (really all I need is Word and Excel) inexpensively for a Mac is? It sucks that we've already bought these programs. I think Steve must have thrown them out when we were packing to move not realizing how important they are.

I need to get a few other programs as well, but really Office is the one I REALLY need right now!

Another 3 bite the dust...

Yesterday we had another "termination party" at work. They let 3 more people go. I just don't get it!
We're a relatively small company and although we have quite a few people working at our plants our corporate office only has about 40 employee's.
Since I've been there (not even a year) they've "eliminated" the positions of about 13 people at our corporate office. They say the position is no longer necessary and they were forced to get rid of people, but then just weeks later they hire someone new for the position....apparently it's a necessary position again. It's all politics really.

One of the guys they let go yesterday got married just last week and it was his first day back from his honeymoon....he hadn't even been at work for an hour and half when they let him go. I felt so bad for him as he's not only a really nice guy but also really good at his job. What a way to say congrats on your recent wedding eh?

I just makes me really glad that I'll be leaving in a few months. Realistically my job isn't in danger, they couldn't really eliminate my position and I'm confident that they wouldn't find fault in the job that I do. Even if they were to decide to give me the axe, I really wouldn't stress too much about it as I'm going to be leaving in a few months anyway. It just makes me sad though for the people that really didn't see this coming and don't' know what to do next.
A few months ago they had a day where they got rid of 5 employee's and from that group 2 of them had been at the company for more than 15 years, just weeks later they hired some new younger faces. What a way to say thanks for you dedication huh?

I know it's not really the smartest to blog about your job, but since I haven't mentioned the company name and at this point will be leaving in a few months anyway I don't really see the harm in it. I'm just frustrated. I don't understand why as a society all we same to care about is money anymore and it doesn't matter if we throw away our integrity or the value we place on people as long as we get to the top of that darn corporate ladder.

When it all comes down to it, it's really just about a dollar bill. I have to say a big "NO THANKS" to all of that. I like money like anyone else, but I have to say that I would much rather go to bed with a clear conscience at night knowing that I placed more value on the people around me then what's in my bank account.

It's no wonder why there's starving children in Africa....us American's don't even have the decency to take care of each other and treat our neighbors with respect let alone think about some innocent child on the other side of the earth!

Okay....all of this has got me off the topic and now I'm ready to rant and rave about how self absorbed our society is, so I better end this here before I get all worked up.