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colowyo0809
Lovin' The Homestead
So, we are settling in. The hunky house fixer came by yesterday and fixed the shower heads. One was just loose, the other he actually had to do work on The clips for the secondary shower insert won't be in until Thursday, and then he will replace those with ones that actually work. He is supposed to look under the house today (I hope) to figure out why the pipes are gurgling and occasionally spewing into the master bathtub (and all this is several hours after we run anything!).
Our brand new washer and dryer units should be here sometime between now and 9am this morning We went to best buy Saturday and bought them cause they were on sale and they had good ratings when I looked them up online before hand
Later today we have to go down to insurance and sign the papers. It's gonna be cheaper here than it was in Colorado so The one bad thing about it is that we have Farmers Insurance and we do our renters through them. In CO and WY and I believe MT (and we lived in either houses, apartments or mobile homes with foundations on private property) it was directly through Farmers, but here it's through Farmers somebody or other (because we live in a mobile home in a mobile park). And, this means that if something happens instead of getting full replacement value in today's dollars for anything needing to be replaced we will only get what the item is currently worth at depreciated value So, lets hope nothing happens in the next year or so until we move out
SO was so excited yesterday. He got to help his manager do interviews and select the last of the employees! Granted, at this point anyone who isn't a Store Manager through a Department Manager is being hired as a temp with the option of staying on full time, but still. They are looking at the employees they selected yesterday as people they'd like to have stick around so that's awesome. Wednesday SO will help K (his manager) do the new hire paperwork (with the new hires) and Friday they will be doing the new hire paperwork for the employees from Wichita! Their first day in the store is this Saturday, that's when they start setting everything up and all. It's actually kind of cool, the company decided they were not lowering the starting wage for the Kansas stores, so they are keeping starting wages the same across the entire company. And for regular employees that's $10 an hour! Which, apparently around here is a big deal
Tomorrow we have the tv/net/phone people coming to hook us up, so that will be nice. I bought my headset telephone system and computer headset off Walmart.com (yes, I'm aware of the hypocrisy, but it was $20 cheaper for the same phone if I bought through them, and I didn't have to pay shipping because it is being shipped to the store). So, once those come in I can apply for my at home job and start saving money for the new move.
We went to the Farmers Market Saturday (apparently the one here runs through the middle of November so that's cool) and we bought a couple squashes and some sweet potatoes (both orange and purple! ) and I bought a whole chicken from a nice older lady that I thought might be Mennonite or Huderite (sp?) but turns out she was old german baptist. Had the chicken for dinner last night along with mashed sweet taters (mashed with honey and Irish butter) and it was good!! Was almost $20 for the chicken, but it was good food, and I picked that carcass clean! I should have saved the bones, but a) I'm not really at a place to start doing that yet and b) our freezer is kinda small and it doesn't have a rack in it.
Ok, that's enough for now
Our brand new washer and dryer units should be here sometime between now and 9am this morning We went to best buy Saturday and bought them cause they were on sale and they had good ratings when I looked them up online before hand
Later today we have to go down to insurance and sign the papers. It's gonna be cheaper here than it was in Colorado so The one bad thing about it is that we have Farmers Insurance and we do our renters through them. In CO and WY and I believe MT (and we lived in either houses, apartments or mobile homes with foundations on private property) it was directly through Farmers, but here it's through Farmers somebody or other (because we live in a mobile home in a mobile park). And, this means that if something happens instead of getting full replacement value in today's dollars for anything needing to be replaced we will only get what the item is currently worth at depreciated value So, lets hope nothing happens in the next year or so until we move out
SO was so excited yesterday. He got to help his manager do interviews and select the last of the employees! Granted, at this point anyone who isn't a Store Manager through a Department Manager is being hired as a temp with the option of staying on full time, but still. They are looking at the employees they selected yesterday as people they'd like to have stick around so that's awesome. Wednesday SO will help K (his manager) do the new hire paperwork (with the new hires) and Friday they will be doing the new hire paperwork for the employees from Wichita! Their first day in the store is this Saturday, that's when they start setting everything up and all. It's actually kind of cool, the company decided they were not lowering the starting wage for the Kansas stores, so they are keeping starting wages the same across the entire company. And for regular employees that's $10 an hour! Which, apparently around here is a big deal
Tomorrow we have the tv/net/phone people coming to hook us up, so that will be nice. I bought my headset telephone system and computer headset off Walmart.com (yes, I'm aware of the hypocrisy, but it was $20 cheaper for the same phone if I bought through them, and I didn't have to pay shipping because it is being shipped to the store). So, once those come in I can apply for my at home job and start saving money for the new move.
We went to the Farmers Market Saturday (apparently the one here runs through the middle of November so that's cool) and we bought a couple squashes and some sweet potatoes (both orange and purple! ) and I bought a whole chicken from a nice older lady that I thought might be Mennonite or Huderite (sp?) but turns out she was old german baptist. Had the chicken for dinner last night along with mashed sweet taters (mashed with honey and Irish butter) and it was good!! Was almost $20 for the chicken, but it was good food, and I picked that carcass clean! I should have saved the bones, but a) I'm not really at a place to start doing that yet and b) our freezer is kinda small and it doesn't have a rack in it.
Ok, that's enough for now