I was up until 1:00 AM last night caulking baseboards upstairs. Rachel spent the evening painting what had been caulked already. This morning she woke up and said she was too exhausted to continue. It’s been hard for me because of my herniated disc. I’ve been in a lot of pain. We decided to hire a painter. We paid a painter nearly $3000 in May to paint rooms downstairs. We called the same guy. He’s going to finish painting...

I felt a lot happier today at work. Chatting with Dan yesterday changed my attitude. It gave me confidence. I also read a good blog post this morning title “Everything is my fault”. The gist of it is that you should take responsibility for EVERYTHING. Because in some way you can have an effect on every situation you find unpleasant in your life. I wasn’t taking enough responsibility for the stats project at work. I need to own...

On my way to work this morning I wrote a letter to Dan. I had no intention of giving the letter to Dan, but I wanted to get all my thoughts and feelings out. By the time I got to work I decided to set up a meeting with him. Luckily his afternoon was open and I spent an hour and a half chatting with him. I’m glad I did. Dan has a way of calling me out and chastising me in a way that motivates and inspires me to do better. Joel has a way of...

Last night as Rachel and I were laying down to go to bed, the bottom of our bed frame snapped and we dropped about a foot. It was such long frustrating day but we some how managed to laugh about it. We pulled the mattress on to the floor and went to bed. I had a hard time waking up. I just didn’t want to go to work. That’s when I realized that I need to start looking around for another job. I don’t want to hate waking up and...

For the past year and half I have really loved my job. The past few weeks I’ve been very frustrated. Today seemed to be going well. I have a couple of meetings with Joel. The first one we went over a number of ticket items I had questions on that I needed to get done. I thought it went well. Then in the afternoon I had another meeting with Joel. He told me that in my position I needed to step up, work extra hours, be on call after hours...

We got a counter offer with the price of 287,000. We accepted. Our house is under contract! I’m so excited. After church tonight we had a world-wide leadership broadcast that was a training or new mission presidents. They invited all members that wanted to attend and we wanted to attend. I know we shouldn’t covet callings, but a mission president calling sounds awesome and I secretly aspire to it. After the training I got my...

On Thursday I received a voice message from a real estate agent saying they found my for sale by owner listing on Zillow.com for our old house on Hillside Circle.  I planned to have Tim Andreoli list the house for us, but I decided to put it for sale by owner to see if we got any interest until our tenants moved out and we were able to get in, clean it up and take some good photos to list it properly. Honestly I wasn’t expecting much and...