New School, New Job

Ahhhh! I feel like so much is going on and I'm just swimming along with it.

On Sunday this happened:

I'm a full on quilter now! And can I just say, MAN it is hard! Anyways we stole some knowledge and these quilting frames from our wonderful neighbors across the street. She makes quilts for the church humanitarian aid. Anyways, it was a huge help for me to figure out how to finish this thing because let me tell you - the universe DID NOT want me to finish. For reals though. The pinning and tying went pretty well so then I folded and pinned in the edges to sew later.

Monday after work (I'll get to how that went!) I sat down to finally finish my quilt. I sewed almost the entire thing before the universe started to hate me. I had about three feet of edging left and my needle breaks. It hit a pin, I totally understand that, I'll pull the pins out better. Change the needle, tie the threads, re thread and sew again. 

THE NEEDLE BREAKS AGAIN. But there is NO PIN IN SIGHT. It SOMEHOW broke on the fabric. Haha I'll be honest, I was pretty mad. Seriously, how does that happen? I tie the threads, get a new needle, rethread and start where I left off.

I'm so flustered that I'm not paying attention and my top thread runs out. All I have left is crappy thread that makes my machine go crazy so all that my mom and I can scrape up is a bobbin with some okay thread on it. I re thread again and start where I left off.

Then our of no where when I am like TWO INCHES from finishing, the bobbin (my actually bottom thread) runs out. ARE. YOU. KIDDINGME? asdflkjfjdkslfh. I'm desperate and throw some crappy thread in the bottom, finish it and walk away until my desire to burn it (or my sewing machine) goes away.

Ha.... BUT on the brightside- I'm done! Whoohoo! Who's laughing now universe? Take that!

In other news, Dan started school this week! He switches off school and work every other day but so far it seems to be going well. Looks like it'll be hard and challenging, but hey, it's graduate school, it's SUPPOSED to be!

First day of school picture!

And the last bit of news is that I started my job. From day 1, and actually even from the interviews, I knew I was going to love it. I was constantly telling Dan, 'I REALLLLLYYYY want this job!!!' and I'm so glad I got it. On the first day I was only shadowing and observing but holy. cow. this company is amazing. Their customer service is impeccable and they truly are looking to fill customers needs, not just sell the services. I am so excited to be apart of this company and to be apart of this culture!

I wish I had seriously considered switching my financial institution long long long ago. Before Dan and I got married I was banking with (Insert bank here) and to be honest, I had the worst experience ever. I personally just wished I had a financial institution like ICCU to work with me at the time. I had no idea that I shouldn't have to be paying a monthly fee to have an account and constantly be worrying about my minimum balance. Credit unions by themselves are so much more personal and it's so cool to see the members truly trust us at ICCU. That would have made me life so much easier.

Anyways! So I shadowed the first day, met everyone and was beyond impressed. I got keys with made me feel important too. Second day I went to training. Even though technology was hating us that day, we got everything some that we needed to. The projector light bulb exploded so we all huddled around a computer for explanation. I felt like it all went really well! And I was all balanced during the training examples so I'm off to a good start! I have really enjoyed training and shadowing, I love my coworkers and I'm super excited!

Okay and can I just take a moment to talk about Pretty Little Liars? 

Don't read on if you're not caught up.

Like I don't even know what to do with myself! I actually have convinced myself that Ezra was just doing his own investigating and following Aria to figure out if A is back and he get super upset when he see the lair because he hates A terrorizing Aria. PLEASE LET THAT BE TRUE. I'm just saying, they need to give me some dang good motive to make this believable because right now, I'm not sold. I would just like to echo some of the best reactions I saw on twitter.

The End.