Life Goes On

I realize two posts on the same day is a little excessive, but I'm waiting for Amber to get home, and without her I'm lost. So this is a great way to fill the time. I thought since we didn't send out a christmas letter, I could use my blog for said purposes and if someone doesn't read this, well, I don't know what to do for them. If you know me, and know others that know me, let them know about this.

2008
Amber and I started 2008 by getting two puppies. Both Scottish Terriers of course. Persie (pronounced like the weesley brother from Harry Potter) is a black scotty, and she's all about being outside on an adventure. Lolly is white, and she's all about cuddle time. I don't think I would have believed dogs could have such differet personalities if it weren't for these two. Ironically enough, they are night and day.

The puppies were an appeasement of Ambers extreme desire to be pregnant. Not just pregnant, like already 8 months pregnant and ready to give birth. Amber isn't exactly the patient type. If you haven't seen us with them yet, you'll know we spoil our dogs tremendously, in fact, I've already spent more time bathing these two than I did bathing Tory (my cocker spaniel growing up) for her entire life.

Shortly thereafter we discovered two very good friends, Zack and Brenda VanValkenburg (SP?) They have a miniature schnauzer named Jazzy, and we spent considerable time with them going to the dog park in Parleys Canyon. Good times.

In June, for our anniversary, Amber and I bought a Wii. That has been a lot of fun, and the source of many an enjoyable game night with friends. I highly recommend it as a perfect family friendly system.

Sometime around May, Amber expressed the desire to live in Utah county to be near cousins. I wasn't exactly in love with SLC so I said OK. Amber started working for the Provo - Orem Chamber of Commerce and commuted back and forth for a month or so until our contract in SLC expired and we were able to move south. We ended up renting a home from my old boss, Priz, it's a lovely three bedroom home with a basement apartment. Life got a little dicey here, because Amber and I wanted to buy the house, but the appraisal came through at way less so in the end, we didn't. Michael Albright moved into one of the bedrooms and has been a room mate ever since August, and when the renters of the basement apartment moved out, Ryan and Becky Rust moved in. Having all of them close has been great. It's like a non stop party over here.

After a few months at the Chamber, Amber switched jobs because she was very unhappy with her boss, and started working for Spin Media Marketing as an office manager and event planner. She's been very happy there ever since and is doing a great job. Her boss gave her an Iphone as a bonus not to long ago (lucky!)

As for me, my company has gone through quite a few convolutions. The french company that was in the process of buying us defaulted in July and we've been limping along ever since trying to get funding. We've started doing business under a new banner, we're now NVH Technologies. NVH stands for noise vibration and harshness, its an industry term.

Around November I started working for Orange Soda, as an inside phone sales man. It's not a glamorous job, but it helps pay the bills while we're looking for funding and I've discovered that I'm pretty good at it. In January I was the second highest performer, and won a water bottle because of it. (I'm actually pretty excited about that, it has a google label on it.)

Thanksgiving was held with Amber's side of the family and was pretty fun. I was introduced to craps and really enjoyed it. A lot. Christmas was in Idaho. We froze. Froze bad.

New years was pretty low key. In fact, I don't think I made it all the way to midnight awake.

And that was 2008. I'll try to be better about keeping this up to date. I'm back in the game.