When my wife and I started a blog a few months ago, I knew it would serve as a good way for us to express our thoughts and feelings about our upcoming move and as a first-hand historical source for us to look back to of all the things surrounding our move. I also expected that we'd get some feedback along the way. In another blog I have, sometimes random people would stop by and comment, and with the relatively-more-interesting topic of this blog, I was looking forward to the occasional anonymous visitor here, who would answer some of our questions, challenge some of our reasons, and offer support. So far, though, the only feedback has been from one of the few people we told about the blog. Anyway, I hope some people will run across this blog sometime soon and start commenting.

Damn it, now I'm the one that likes my job. I really wish I didn't like it so much. The people here are just the nicest, friendliest people I've ever worked with and my boss is so awesome. She's funny and understanding and tries to be your friend. I know she thinks very highly of me and would like for me to stay. She has offered me a chance to get into a much better paying position here if I'm interested. She keeps asking about our move and if we've decided or not. I never know what to say to her.

If only this job could be relocated to Seattle. I just know I'm going to miss the people here and her job offer makes it even harder to make myself move. I know we have to, but I just wish I didn't have this heartache and I just wish we could have moved earlier this past summer, when we were initially thinking about moving.

Well, I have my first phone interview today with a company called Sharebuilder. It's not for a specific position available right at this moment, but they may have openings in a few months. I don't know what to expect really. It'll be good practice.

I'm also going to send my resume to this one company I found that is very similar to where I work now. I'm hoping to get in the operations area of any type of financial firm. I like working with new accounts and IRAs.

There one other company I've been trying to contact, but haven't have much luck so far. As it gets closer and closer I'm just going to have to start applying to anything I find. At some point I will get desperate enough to accept almost any financial-oriented job, as long as the hours aren't ridiculous. I wouldn't be happy working more than 45 hours a week. The main goal is to get up there, and so far we aren't doing that good of a job. I'm having more luck than Troy, but it still isn't much better.

We've changed out the old, canned look of this blog for a look that we feel better reflects our mental image of the Northwest and some of the things we're looking forward to seeing when we move there. The pictures show various facets of the Northwest, including the natural beauty, and the cities of Seattle and Portland. Anyway, we may make more changes later, but for now we should probably focus on how we're going to get up there.