Guess who got married

Well, after almost 5 years, Brenda and I are finally married. We got married IN Disneyworld Magic Kingdom - right in from on Cinderella's castle. Both of our parents were there for us, and my Mom did the ceremony (she's an ordained minister).

It was a blast, and what memories...

Below are a few photos for you to see...

6 month Update

Well, after the craziness of October, things are finally settling down 'round here. I now manage one employee and have begun to make a name for myself. I got a decent review and got a bonus with my annual review to boot - Yeah me!!!

Things are better now than they were, I managed to make some adjustments in my monthly child support payments, so that ended up giving me another $600 a month for my expenses, and boy did I need it.

I've made some real great allies in the ship captains, and am planning on taking a cruise in a few weeks. I'm going to get the "royal treatment" for my efforts in helping the port captains, so it should be fun.

Brenda and I are planning to get married in July, and on a cruise no less. My mother will perform the ceremony (she's an ordained minister) and we're going to have her folks and my folks and her kids here for the ceremony.

All in all, things are looking up and we're both getting to a better place. Brenda loves her job as a forensic accountant, and boy some of her clients have money to burn. She handles divorce cases and spend her time doing lifestyle analyses. She then see how much they spend and where it all goes. I can't even fathom some of these guy's house payments...$13K month for a nice place near the beach, and they eat out to the tune of a few thousand a month....god would I love that lifestyle....NOT!!!

Anyway, I figured an update was due, so here it is....Enjoy!!

Well....the bad news is done

Well...the last month has been absolute hell....we were planning to layoff 11 people in our department and I got involved in the process. I'm still there and I have a heaping helping of new responsibilities added to what I'm already doing.

The worst part is that my boss got the axe...and I didn't know until it was too late to warn him about it. all in all, it was done ok, not well, and I ended up being at the office for 11+ hours, trying to pick up the pieces, shut down holes, and basically think of anything else that could go wrong.

I'm going to be having someone report to me....so it looks like I may be moving up a little...only time will tell.

So time to drink until I can't feel anything and rest and recouperate the rest of the weekend.

Week 11 in Miami

Well it's been a exciting couple of weeks. I made my 90 days with flying colors and got my signing bonus. So I decided to treat myself right and bought a car.

I ended up with a Toyota MR2 Spyder Convertable...woo hoo...it's my mid-life crisis car :) and I got the car with only 38K miles...less than 6K /yr previous one owner....spectra blue mica...gotta love it!!!!

Brenda and I got the kids shipped back to Tacoma on the 23rd of August and we've been settling into our DINK lifestyle. She got a job last week and started yesterday. It's with a great CPA firm and so far things are looking up.

We haven't done much since the kids left...too little money and no motivation to go anywhere....but I think we'll be taking a morning drive through the everglades with the top down before too long.

We're about 5 minutes from the beach and that rocks. We live in a very nice apartment complex in a very quiet community.

That's about all for now....I'll try and catch up with more details later....

Ok...here's the scoop

Jeez, life has gotten terribly complicated the last couple of weeks. My job is great, but there is a lack of urgency to accomplish much. We have deadlines and meet them, but for the back-end cleanup and/or anything else that doesn't have a firm deadline seems to slide by.

I work with a lot of great people, but it's readily apparent that I'm going to have to learn Spanish. About 1/2 of the office are ESL, and that's great, but I feel lost sometimes.

The book thing is getting out of hand too, I've been working hard with the DE, and we're making headway, but DAMN....she's needy and really doesn't seem to have her head screwed on right. I've become her emotional dumping ground for all her issues. I guess I'm just a sucker for a sob story. She's nice and all, but I can't see myself being friendly with her after the book is done.

Brenda is all set to move on down in July, and I'm excited to have her here. I've been playing bachelor for the last three weeks, and have thoroughly enjoyed it. I get up, I go to work, I come home, I eat if I feel like it, work on the GDFM book until late, and then I go to bed...I don't have to worry about anybody else but me, and lately I have really enjoyed it.

Anyhow, enough ranting for now...

Finally...

Well, here it is, my FIRST blog. Lord knows how I wanted to avoid getting this connected to the rest of the world, but since I'm leaving Portland and heading to Miami, I thought I might actually need to keep ya'll in the loop.

Not much else...except...I'm going to Miami...I'm going to Miami....

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