It's Official!

This is a couple month old 'Official' note, that I'm sure those of you who are reading this are well aware of, but the purpose of this blog was to record our Boston experience.  So without further ado...

Dave got a full time job, and we're sticking around in Boston!

All of November and the first few weeks in December were quite stressful for us. Our lease was ending December 17, and we needed to know where we'd be. Is there a way we can stay in Boston? Should we rent our house? If we move back to MI, what job could Dave have there? Are we ready to move back to MI? Should we just go to another state completely?

Dave's contract job had been going great. His 'bosses' really liked him and said he was a great fit, and Dave loved it, too. We felt good that this would turn into full time. Well, mid November, Dave was told there was no funds for a full time job so this would end Dec 31... and hopefully there would be money for Dave to start FT later in the year.

Well how can you plan on getting FT months from now.  We kicked it into high gear. Dave contacting various contracting companies in Boston, researching jobs back in MI, me prepping to pack everything up. But we weren't satisfied with our 3 month experiment, and we just didn't want to go back to MI. For our family and friends reading this, please know that this is nothing against you (!!) - we just wanted to have more time to explore!  We even started looking pretty in depth in moving out to Colo.

Six days after hearing there were no funds for a FT position, Dave was called into the boss's office. Someone on their team in NY quit, and they got the ok to use some of those funds for Dave!! Ok, change of plans.  Now we had to find a new and cheaper apartment within two weeks (first one we checked out we signed!) and figure out what to do with our house.  Thankfully we had been in talks with some friends and found a great renter (yay Susan!), and overall should be a good deal on both sides.

It was unreal. Our minds so focused on moving away again, and then set on sticking around and all that went into that. Even thinking about it now kind of stresses me out. :) Those were some intense weeks trying to plan and re-plan our life, but it's worked out, and we're both so glad to still be here.

Thinking of this whole process thus far always reminds me of what my aunt said when I told her we were moving to Beantown....'That is amazing! I have such great feelings about you going there. It's going to be wonderful.'

Courtesy: http://www.alsponline.org/?page=Boston

Tip of the Day: Since I just threw out 'Beantown' and had a recent convo with a coworker, I thought I'd give some background. In the colonial days, Boston was overflowing with molasses (literally! There was even a molasses incident on the North End that flooded streets with molasses - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster) and sugar cane from the Caribbean. So what to do, besides make rum? Bake some beans in molasses - Beantown it became.