FuzzyTummyRumblings

OK kids- sorry.  It's been a LONG time since I updated, I know.  Sorry.  Anyway.  The girl and I are back from Oregon and our much-needed (and much enjoyed) vacation.  Merry's family is spectacular and made the vacation about a million times better than it would have been otherwise.  Thank you so much.  So much.  We took about 450 pictures which I will be putting  up at some point... but for right now, you can look at Carley's Snapfish album.  We went to Maltnomah Falls and climbed the whole damn thing (totally worth the sore butt the next day) and went to Tillamook and the cheese factory.  The best part of this trip, for me, was the Ocean.  We went to Pacific City (I think) and to Terell's family's beach house for an afternoon.  We played in tide pools, ran from the surf, searched for sand dollars, and basically had a good time.  The best part- I have never seen Carley so happy as when she was running around on the beach in Oregon.  She was just elated to be back "home" and by the ocean.  I've never seen her so happy and that made it a great thing for me as well.  I love seeing her happy like that. 
Four days after we returned from OR, I started my new job at a relatively small (200ish employees) company here in Springs that I'm thoroughly enjoying.  I have cool co-workers (mostlY) and I actually enjoy my work so far.  The starting pay is higher than Current was after three raises and I enjoy the work even more than I enjoyed the AR job.  It's still not quite as fast-paced as the warehouse job was but the range of duties and expectations is so much wider that it totally makes up for it.  I have plenty of freedom, lots of responsibility, and the company is growing fast.  That means that things change frequently and ideas and suggestions are taken into account and acted upon in a relatively timely manner.  It's very VERY cool so far.
Also- I'm a little worried aboutmy cheer gym. Last year, tryouts were poorly publicized and not very well executed.  Because of this, we only had two teams which were both fairly small.  I can't let people like Cassie and Kristin do so little this year.  They have so much potential that a high-school squad simply can't bring to fruition.  I want our gym to succeed in such a huge way that it hurts to see it falling apart.  I love what I do and I love the kids I work with.  Cassie is a great co-worker and a dear friend and I don't want to see things fall apart at the gym.  Blah.  I don't think that it will collapse, but if there isn't a full high-school team this year, we'll lose Cas and Kris and I'm not so ok with that.
Finally- I want a new computer.  I have some options.  I can drop a large sum on a computer that will be incredibly powerful/useful/adaptable but very expensive and with no warantee. Paul (the future brother in law) can get me a badass discount at Best Buy. But I won't get as much power or flexibility there.  Also- Dell has a discount outlet thing.  The selection is acceptable, the prices are wonderful.  But Dell doesn't sell AMD processors (not a fan of intel) and at the Dell Outlet, there is no customizability and the selection is only varied over time.  Basically watch and see if what you want shows up.  My computer is increasingly switching from slow to unreliable.  Slow I can handle.  I whine, but it works.  Unreliable is another story.  I keep my finances, thousands of pictures, music, corrospondence, and my writing on my computer.  I can't risk it falling to pieces on me.  So I am adding that to my shopping list.  Crap.
Ok I'm done whining.