Wow. I can't even believe it's been 7 years since I've thought about this blog. I don't really know what's brought me here today other than the universe thought it was time. I also hate when I get into a blog myself and it just stops. So I've decided to give an update.
It's been a learning process coping with the grief from losing my Mother during my time away. I started a new job shortly after the funeral. It's been a definite distraction and I'm still there to this day. I'm grateful for this job even though it's been trying at times and challenging especially in the beginning. I've given up pharmacy and begun dispatching with a local public transit agency. It's been much better for my feet and bursitis. In the last year I've transitioned to the Asst Transit Manager and hired and trained 2 new dispatchers. Even though I'm assistant, I am actually doing everything a transit manager does but getting paid less. Long story. My employers are a bit dysfunctional and I obviously must be too to allow myself to get into this position. Luckily my husband makes a good wage and mine is not our main source of income so for now I am in a holding pattern career wise.
On the homefront, we'd been saving for a quite a few years to build our dream home. Just as covid was hitting we were ready to go forward on starting a floor plan. Needless to say that was a long drawn out process of waiting and wondering when would be the optimal time to get a building mortgage. The cost and availability of lumber along with everything else was skyrocketing by the day. After a long delay we decided we could lock in our interest rate and got a really good rate. We began prepping the land we had purchased in a small town about 30 minutes from where we were currently living and the basement and foundation slowly started to come together.
We had designed a pre-fab home that's built in a factory in 2 parts and shipped to the construction site where it was joined together and then finished on site with things like drywalling. We also had to get plumbing and electrical hooked up, a deck built on the back and my husband installed all the flooring, painted inside every room and over time drywalled and painted the entire basement.
We built this house around our dogs. It was all planned with them in mind. Three acres, privacy fenced with a full basement grooming salon and training space. It's everything we ever wanted in our new house and to see it come to life has been surreal. After talking about it for so many years and now living in it is awesome. We still have things nearly 3 years later needing completed like the rubber flooring in the basement, an outdoor shed, landscaping and some drain tiling in the backyard but it's a process and we are blessed. I think that's enough for now.
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