It's still a little surprising that we're already in the year 2011. I'm finally getting used to the idea, but I remember being in elementary school and thinking that the year 2000 seemed far away!
After Christmas break I think I got the January blues for several days when I realized that the next work holiday I had isn't until May. My work is still going well for the most part. I like being an instructional designer, but I think I would like it more if I did it less. Fortunately, I do enjoy the content I'm working with and I feel that I'm contributing to something worthwhile and meaningful and helpful for families.
Basically I'm in the thick of scripting and deadlines for this project until May. Because we're doing so many courses there are two contractors that are helping out with this project. One of these contractors happens to be a girl in my ward. She was looking for a job a few months ago and I mentioned my company was looking for contractors. She applied, was interviewed, and then hired for the beginning of the January. She was assigned to my project so I'm now working on the tricky balance of being both friend and supervisor. The nice benefit of her being hired is that we started carpooling to work and that is saving time and gas money, so I'm grateful for that arrangement.
To help me have something to look forward to, Jason and I planned this year's vacations. I don't get a lot of time off for work during the year, but I'm trying to get what I can out of the days that I have. So, we're taking two trips. The end of May we'll spend a week in New York City with Jason's brother and his family, and then we'll fly to Buffalo to see my sister and her family for a weekend before we fly back. The other trip is a big family reunion in San Antonio for a week during July. A week ago we spent several days shopping for plane tickets to get the best price possible and I think we did pretty well. May seems far away right now, but hopefully it will come quickly. I'm excited for both of our trips! I know they will both be so fun and I'm looking forward to see our out-of-state family.
Jason's last day of seminary was on Friday. He was kind of sad to say good-bye to his students. He doesn't regret the decision of choosing another career, but change is still hard and not knowing what comes next is difficult. He'll be looking for a job as well as checking out graduate schools full time now and I don't envy him at all--job hunting is one of my least favorite things to do. We're grateful for everyone's prayers and advice.
Things have been pretty low-key since Christmas. We're doing a free month trial of Netflix so we've been watching a movie every weekend for the last several weeks. We've seen Toy Story 3, How to Train a Dragon, and Inception. Toy Story 3 was our favorite of the three. I actually didn't make it all the way through Inception. It was a little too intense for me, so I just had Jason give me the detailed version of the second half of the movie. He did a good job so I felt like I watched the whole thing. What a complex and complicated movie!
In the last couple of weeks we've also played games a couple times--once with my parents and once with our friends the Gurrels. We enjoyed learning a new game called Citadels. It was so fun that I hope to play it again soon.
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