Thanksgiving is almost here!

Not that this is news to anyone, but it's almost Thanksgiving!  It's always a busy time of year, getting food ready, planning strategy so as not to gain ten pounds in a weekend, and travel.

Both mine & hubby's family come from the same town, so we always have two Thanksgivings. 

Not really sure where this post is going.

I suppose I should write something coherent now

Oh well, probably not going to happen.  I'm excited to see hubby tonight- his Thanksgiving break started this afternoon!

Decisions, Decisions

My adventures with moving, selling a house, buying & fixing a car, and hauling things seem to have slowed down substantially.  Whew.

Now we're in the process of deciding what I'm going to do for the next (give or take) three years.  I have two choices:

A:  Keep the very good job that I currently have and continue living with my parents.  Positives: Job is well--paying, flexible schedule, continuous, boarding for horse partially/completely paid for; able to completely pay for school as we go, able to save for down payment on house/acreage.  Negatives:  Living apart from husband, traveling every weekend, missing family events.

B:  Find a job & move to Des Moines.  Positives: would live with hubby, new city-opportunities to meet new people, new places, ect.  Negatives:  Finding a new job in DM, missing family events, horse board more expensive, will need to find new job again when hubby's done with school; school loan debt (not likely to find a job that pays as well as current job), will need work longer after hubby's done with school to pay off loans & save-so will need to start family later.

Personally, I'm leaning towards option A- it will require some sacrifices, but I think we'd be in a better position after hubby's done with school- I think it is more in line with our goal of owning an acreage, being debt (except for mortgage) free, starting a family, and being a stay-at-home mom.

And incidentally, I hate spelling the word decisions!  For some reason, it never looks like it's spelled correctly.

Becoming a Truck Driver

Growing up, I wanted to try every career possible.  Chef, airline stewardess, vet, truckdriver, ect.  Some of those I wanted to do as a long-term career (vet) and some I only wanted to try.  I wanted to be an airline stewardess for 2-3 years so I could travel everywhere.  I only wanted to be a truck driver for a day- just to see what it would be like.

In a somewhat limited way, I got to be truckdriver the past two weekends.  Granted, it was no semi & definitely not as long as a semi-trailer, but it was quite a bit bigger than anything I've ever hauled.  One weekend I hauled a 25 foot culvert back from DM for my brother (it stuck off the trailer on both ends & I had to be careful turning left so the culvert didn't ram into the back of the truck).  I think that is the closest I want to get to being a truckdriver.  It was scary!

Then I picked up a snow plow from DM.  That was quite a bit simpler as it fit into the back of the truck bed.

I got one item crossed of my (non-existent) bucket list!