New job!

Heather: The job is going well. I am the assistant shop manager (not assistant to the manager) at the Octagon Art Center. Click Here for their website. Their annual Octagon Art Festival was Sunday. I helped make coffee in the morning and followed my boss (the shop manager) Ruth as she went around dropping off old work to shop artists and meeting new possible shop artists. We got some really great new artists. I relieved her Monday afternoon so she could rest. I was so embarrassed to learn this morning when I called her to make Christmas plans that I'd made two mistakes on the receipts - on practically my first day manning the shop alone.

The neighbors got a puppy that they named Lucy that likes to run around the neighborhood whenever it escapes from the grasp of its owners. Friday night when it was time for the cats to come in, Lucy was loose and Xerxes was hiding from her. So the neighbor and I were simultaneously looking for our pets. They happened to be having a Presidential Debate party and invited us over after the respective animal was returned to the bosom of the appropriate family. We agreed to go and luckily, it was a party of Obama supporters, so we all had a great time. They invited us over Thursday for the VP debates (which should be a riot).

Growing up in the country, then in a geriatric neighborhood on Harrington St, then in Macon where you can live between a drug dealer with a crazy wife and a 20-member group of Asian China Buffet employees, then moving to another Geriatric but now rich retired neighborhood I never really got the point of socializing with your neighbors. It's kinda nice being next to some young like-minded folks.

Normalcy settles in

Heather: Here it is, over two weeks since my last posting. Life has become normal again. We have adopted habits and have settled into a routine. Each day is more and more similar to the last. I'm not complaining - this is a good thing. We're making roots here in Iowa. We've gotten to know several of Jamie's co-workers. I start my new job on Wednesday. (I'll tell you all about it then).

My parents came to see us two weekends ago. We went to Des Moines, showed them around campus and ate out. It was a great visit. My work is coming along - my first glaze firing at CASA will be soon. The weather is changing; it feels like fall already. I no longer feel like I'm in a new place. Everything feels familiar again. What I miss the most is the good friends we left behind. We miss you guys so much!!