Tanner with his camera inside Diamondhead Crater
Tanner at Waikiki
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Fast Forward
My how time flies :) Let's see, where to start this time...
I guess we'll start off with the good news. We both scored awesome jobs and the move to Hawaii is on!!! November 1st is the big day. Can't wait!
Aren will be with URS in Honolulu. He'll have a LOT more variety with this job and the travel opportunities sound great. Guam, Korea, Japan. Can't beat that although I hope they don't take him too soon or keep him too long. I've gotten rather used to the 2-3 day Indy trips but I'm not sure I'd do so well with a 1-2 weeker.
I will be working with the University of Hawaii Marine Ecology folks at Coconut Island. Still sounds strange. I haven't spent much time in the ocean since I was about 12 or so. And I've never been diving which happens to be requirement of the job I will have to work on as soon as I get there. Weird. Sounds really cool though. I will be working on mapping the coral reefs in the northwestern islands and modeling in 3D. Sounds like I will have plenty of inter island travel which rocks. I think that will help immensely with getting to know the place and fending off the "rock fever" everyone likes to warn you about. Most of all I'm really looking forward to working with people that actually care about their job. Academia sounds really good right now.
It's really interesting watching peoples reactions when you tell them you're moving to Hawaii. You get everything from the people who get really excited and "Oh my God, that is SO cool!" to some people who just say "Oh, really." It's the difference between "I'm really happy for you!" and "Bitch." As people who live in Minnesota, they picture Mai Tais and hammocks hanging from palm trees. The evil part of me loves that they think that though :)
What you don't get from people in MN but we got constantly from the islanders when we were there in September was the very suspicious "Why?" They know the other side of living there. That with all the beaches, and natural beauty, and idyllic weather is still life. We will be much less financially comfortable than we are now, we will still have bills, and work, and school and after school and all the things that families deal with. We will however have plenty of beach time on the weekends too :)
Well I had more to say but this editor decided to loose a bunch of text. Errr... Instead of try to peice it all ack together, I will just leave it at good night for now and I will try my best to post again before Christmas :)
I guess we'll start off with the good news. We both scored awesome jobs and the move to Hawaii is on!!! November 1st is the big day. Can't wait!
Aren will be with URS in Honolulu. He'll have a LOT more variety with this job and the travel opportunities sound great. Guam, Korea, Japan. Can't beat that although I hope they don't take him too soon or keep him too long. I've gotten rather used to the 2-3 day Indy trips but I'm not sure I'd do so well with a 1-2 weeker.
I will be working with the University of Hawaii Marine Ecology folks at Coconut Island. Still sounds strange. I haven't spent much time in the ocean since I was about 12 or so. And I've never been diving which happens to be requirement of the job I will have to work on as soon as I get there. Weird. Sounds really cool though. I will be working on mapping the coral reefs in the northwestern islands and modeling in 3D. Sounds like I will have plenty of inter island travel which rocks. I think that will help immensely with getting to know the place and fending off the "rock fever" everyone likes to warn you about. Most of all I'm really looking forward to working with people that actually care about their job. Academia sounds really good right now.
It's really interesting watching peoples reactions when you tell them you're moving to Hawaii. You get everything from the people who get really excited and "Oh my God, that is SO cool!" to some people who just say "Oh, really." It's the difference between "I'm really happy for you!" and "Bitch." As people who live in Minnesota, they picture Mai Tais and hammocks hanging from palm trees. The evil part of me loves that they think that though :)
What you don't get from people in MN but we got constantly from the islanders when we were there in September was the very suspicious "Why?" They know the other side of living there. That with all the beaches, and natural beauty, and idyllic weather is still life. We will be much less financially comfortable than we are now, we will still have bills, and work, and school and after school and all the things that families deal with. We will however have plenty of beach time on the weekends too :)
Well I had more to say but this editor decided to loose a bunch of text. Errr... Instead of try to peice it all ack together, I will just leave it at good night for now and I will try my best to post again before Christmas :)
Sunday, August 20, 2006
First Post
Not really sure how one starts out a blog but I guess I'll take a stab at it.
Since blogs are becoming such a popular thing, I figured now would be a good time to get one of these things going. I remember how crucial the caring bridge page was when Tanner was in the hospital. It let us communicate to friends and family directly without the phone ringing off the hook. So now that we are on the brink of such a huge life changing move, I think this would be a good way to keep those that care, in the know.
As for now, we are still begging for interviews for our trip in two weeks. Actually, two weeks from right now as I write this, assuming Northwest doesn't go on strike or some other delay creeps in, we will be arriving in Honolulu for a jam packed week of interviews, neighborhood scouting, preschool tours, price comparing, and everything else that we can think of to prepare us for our move. Hopefully we'll have some time for the beach and the pool too. Tanner's pretty excited. I'm not sure how jazzed he'll be after about the third hour on the plane but hopefully some DVD's and activity books will by us at least a few hours of occupation.
I'm getting a little anxious about the whole thing considering everything that needs to be done before we can cruise. Our goal is to have the house on the market by then. Good luck with that. Still need to paint the bathroom, trim out some windows, paint the north wall in our bedroom, put up all the fixtures in the upstairs bathroom, clean the place, mow the yard, weed all sorts of massive growing things out of every nook and cranny, and various other odds and ends. Not to mention find a realtor, go to Milwaukee for the Cleven Fam reunion and spend a week with Aren's parents before we go. Did I mention Aren leaves for a four days in Indy in the morning? Like I said, good luck with that.
The good news is that despite a mid-afternoon breakdown due to being completely overwhelmed with it all, I think we got some things done this weekend. The basement looks presentable again and most of the trim made it on the windows. The reality is that it probably won't ALL get done. I'll have to live with that. But something tells me that once I get off that plane two weeks from now, all thoughts of the stress from MN will fade and a new mission will take over. I'm looking forward to that...
Since blogs are becoming such a popular thing, I figured now would be a good time to get one of these things going. I remember how crucial the caring bridge page was when Tanner was in the hospital. It let us communicate to friends and family directly without the phone ringing off the hook. So now that we are on the brink of such a huge life changing move, I think this would be a good way to keep those that care, in the know.
As for now, we are still begging for interviews for our trip in two weeks. Actually, two weeks from right now as I write this, assuming Northwest doesn't go on strike or some other delay creeps in, we will be arriving in Honolulu for a jam packed week of interviews, neighborhood scouting, preschool tours, price comparing, and everything else that we can think of to prepare us for our move. Hopefully we'll have some time for the beach and the pool too. Tanner's pretty excited. I'm not sure how jazzed he'll be after about the third hour on the plane but hopefully some DVD's and activity books will by us at least a few hours of occupation.
I'm getting a little anxious about the whole thing considering everything that needs to be done before we can cruise. Our goal is to have the house on the market by then. Good luck with that. Still need to paint the bathroom, trim out some windows, paint the north wall in our bedroom, put up all the fixtures in the upstairs bathroom, clean the place, mow the yard, weed all sorts of massive growing things out of every nook and cranny, and various other odds and ends. Not to mention find a realtor, go to Milwaukee for the Cleven Fam reunion and spend a week with Aren's parents before we go. Did I mention Aren leaves for a four days in Indy in the morning? Like I said, good luck with that.
The good news is that despite a mid-afternoon breakdown due to being completely overwhelmed with it all, I think we got some things done this weekend. The basement looks presentable again and most of the trim made it on the windows. The reality is that it probably won't ALL get done. I'll have to live with that. But something tells me that once I get off that plane two weeks from now, all thoughts of the stress from MN will fade and a new mission will take over. I'm looking forward to that...
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