Breakfast On Pluto

Its been awhile since we have updated! Lets see...
We are officially settled in Florida! The drive to Orlando was relatively uneventful. Rob drove our 16 foot van packed with stuff, and Kaje drove the car with the two cats meowing away. Packing was a nightmare and we ended up packing until 2 in the morning, and then waking up at 7 and packing and cleaning. We finally got out around 11 and drove through the pouring rain to South Carolina, where we got to see James and Emily and their two cats, who are MUCH bigger than Dexter and Oscar. And they know fun tricks. As we were talking, James mentioned his company had an operation in Orlando, and offered to see if there were any openings in Florida. Since we are on unemployment right now, any jobs sound great. The next day we drove down to Florida. Dexter loves riding in the car and fell asleep right away, but Oscar does not like riding in the car and was meowing loudly, until Kaje put on classical music. The second the music started, he fell asleep. Once the classical music was done, he woke up and started meowing loudly. So she put more classical music on. Asleep. We don't know why he does this.

Now we are in Florida, we've had a chance to drive around, we went to the beach in Daytona and Rob found he actually likes the ocean as long as he doesn't think about sharks, but we are waiting until warmer weather to go swimming, so we just waded. We also walked around Downtown Disney and got Kaje the first candied apple she has had in 13 years. What we like about Florida- its warm (not too warm now, it started out in the 80s but its now in the 70s and getting colder), not humid, the scenery is new with palm trees, we can go to the beach, and there are new things to do. What we don't like about Florida- everybody and their mother come up and talk to you for no reason, and no one in the entire state can drive. We have seen more stupid accidents or near accidents in the 2 weeks we have been here than ever in our lives.

So it turns out James' company had an opening, Rob got himself an interview and nailed it. We found out on Friday that he was hired, and they wanted him to start training in Atlanta, GA on Monday! So Rob has driven up to Atlanta and will be there for three weeks, getting home sometime after Thanksgiving. Kaje is enjoying her birthday and thanksgiving in Florida, but will go up to NH for a week to see her family.

Thats all for now. We had awesome pictures but Rob took the camera card with him.
So you will have to wait.

In less than 11 hours, we will be leaving our little home of 6 months and moving to Florida. We've been packing all day long and somehow, we aren't done yet. Probably because we are trying to put our things in some semblance of organization while we pack, so its taking eons longer than we thought it would. So much trash. :-) Anyways, our new home awaits us, with 70 degree winters (yay from kaje and boo from rob) and a hopefully awesome condo with more space. If you want our new address, email us and we will be happy to provide it. No, our phone numbers aren't changing. And feel free to come visit. Pictures of our move and our new digs will be posted later.

Love, Kaje and Rob

Well, in the past few weeks we've been up to Willard twice to see Ashley and the kids, went camping, and decided that we are moving to Orlando. Rob has some contacts down there, and Kaje has interviewed for the Disney college program which will get her work inside the park. She has an audition in October for performing, and we should know shortly after that if she got in. Pray that we find jobs quickly because we aren't counting on unemployment. Date of move: October 23rd.

Also we found the most wonderful way to make broccoli, and Rob doesn't want anything else now but that. Except the pressure is too great to make it as good as the first time.

Anyways, here are some pictures from the last while. We have pictures from camping and you can see those on Kaje's facebook account, since there are too many to upload here.

So I just paid for a round trip ticket and hotel stay at Orlando. No, not for vacation. I found two auditions for DisneyWorld (the only ones coming up until October) and since Orlando is the golden land of opportunity at the moment, I thought now might be a good time to squeeze those in before I resign myself to yet another boring adult job. After much searching and researching, I found a round trip and 2 nights at a hotel close to the park with a free shuttle for $237 bucks. (Well, $247 but then I found a coupon that gave me another ten off...) Not bad, not bad.

Its been...lets see, Joseph was back in September...almost a year since I have auditioned for anything, and even longer since I've auditioned for anything professional. Thank God nothing requires singing this time, but I do need to have a short monologue prepared along with a headshot and resume. I need a new headshot.

Auditions suck, especially professional ones. Especially Disney ones. Inside the park, its the happiest place on earth. Just outside to the left, in the rehearsal facility, its the most traumatizing place on earth. Where adults go to cry. And still, I'm ecstatic to do something remotely productive towards my career again. Even though I have more than a glimmer of an idea that I'll be shot down immediately. Whatever. Rejection is just an occupational hazard.

Oh yeah. I leave on Wednesday.

Rob and I killing Zombies...

So we officially said no to DJing in Los Angeles, and no to Big Ten in Chicago, and are just crossing our fingers in hope that God has a plan for us and will reveal that plan in a timely manner. We are looking into the Orlando area so I can get back into theater-Disney arm has a large reach in that area with the theme park and cruise lines and such, and Rob can get decent film work or whatever else he decides to do. More importantly it will not get to negative 12 during the winter! So the job hunt has begun, and if anything exciting happens we will post! Other than that, its just living one day at a time on the farm, which is doing well, and trying to get this library thing off the ground and onto the money making boat. We really want a project or hobby to get into but there really isn't time right now! :-)

My computer is a piece, and add to that two annoying animals and you got a huge explosion. Long story short a cat fell of my desk behind my computer and knocked the sound card out while it was running and shorted the system out entirely, after a lot of tinkering and taking apart and reassembling I guessed that it might have just been the power supply. Luckily it was. I got a new one at Micro Center (AWESOME STORE, and a hot swap dock to check the integrity of all the hard drives. They were fine minus the fact that windows was corrupted beyond recovery. Also luckily i had installed a a key logger on my desk top and recovered my XP code so i was able to reinstall the OS and get it working but it took till right now and I am still transferring files....... lame.

So we tuned into the CRC webcast channel and were trying to watch the youth group service today and an ad pops up on the bottom of the screen, a somewhat sketchy ad, so we clicked on it and this happened.

I dont think i want to do media anymore, i think id be happier as something as mundane as an accountant.

I just shaved with a razer for the first time in my life and all my skin still works

Excuse this post, its really just a venting/worry forum. The last few weeks have been hard. The peppers are finally ready for harvest, which means long hours. And while I help when I can (I did work 14 hours a few days ago) its mostly Rob out there doing everything. For example, today he left at 6:30 or 7 AM to go to work, and came back at 10:30, grabbed a shower, and went to bed at 11:30. Which means I got to see him a whole half an hour in between. I'm not a fan. I knew this would happen with farming and I'm not complaining really because I know it has to be done. It just kind of stinks that the average person gets 6PM-6AM with their spouse, plus all day Saturdays and Sundays, and I'm getting a half an hour here and there M-S and then Sundays when he doesn't have to water. I miss my husband.

Also Robert is way to busy to think about this now, but I'm stressing out on what on earth is going to happen after this month. We have pretty much ruled out the Big Ten, because Rob doesn't like the job or Chicago and I hate the cold. We have the option to move to Los Angeles for this radio job I picked up, if the money is good enough, but I'm slightly terrified of laying our whole life on the line for this. What if something doesn't work out? What if Rob can't find a job? What if housing doesn't work out and we spend all our money trying to stay afloat? I don't mind moving anywhere for Roberts jobs, but asking him to do that for mine makes me feel horrible and guilty and nervous, because if something goes wrong its my fault. And we have one month, really, to figure all this out, and that month is spent mostly trying to worry about the farm and not us. So I'm scared of suddenly looking at the time and either committing to another month in Cincinnati, which I don't want to do, or getting up and moving and completely changing our life again.

I'm scared. And stressed. And I really hate money.

I don't really update this very often but ash insists. Ok, not much going, trying desperately to get this pepper thing in order and falling on my face pretty frequently, though i guess its better than the mud puddle uncle steve fell into today. Every time i get a handle on something there is something new i didn't consider or didn't even know about, but i think im getting better. Kaje's got some exciting stuff going on and a possible job pulling in more cash than me which I'm all about, something about a sugar momma just appeals to me. What else, we went to the zoo a few days ago, did the entire place in under an hour and half, and let me ask you what kind of zoo doesn't have penguins? A lame one, and what kind of father stands next to you while his annoying 8 year old son crawls through your legs and doesn't even say sorry but avoids eye contact and acts like it never happened? not a great one I;d venture, that did happen, it was in the cat house, and it did make me very uncomfortable. Thats all for now.

Heres that pic you wanted to see

Just a few more days until the wedding, and then we can get back to real life...we are looking forward to it.

If he doesnt look like a baby bear in this photo i dont know what does. Anyway we just got back from a long..long weekend at a friends wedding, one of my groomsman as a matter of fact. He's cool the wedding interesting, way different from what ours is going to be, but it was nice. The reception was a blast, i dont really think i could tell you what happened with me, Kaje might be able to suffice to say I ended up in the middle of a few dancing circles got some cheers and did an impromptu break dance. Thats all i got for now.

We found him this way we didnt put him here.

oh the sweet rejection...