Just wanted to check in quickly. The boy just went down for his nap and I have 2 hours before people might start coming over (it’s quasi-game night, don’tchya know) but I didn’t want to leave you all waiting with collectively held breath any longer – haha – that’s right, you can exhale, sort of. So the interview went very well and Dan’s more smitten with Dream Company than ever, but we don’t have a definite answer yet. They are hiring a slew of people – and while he has no reason to believe he won’t get the job, we don’t have it in writing yet or anything. If Assuming they hire him, he’d likely start the first Monday in June.

They will pay for our relocation, via reimbursement. So there’s the fine line of we’ll be getting the money back, but we have to actually have the money to pay with initially – and don’t know how long it will take them to pay us back… They will not be helping us pay out the remainder of our lease, which is too bad, but okay. The apartment we are leaning towards offers the first month’s rent for free which will help a bit with the initial costs. I think we’d likely move out a week or so before he’d start working? I’m not sure how long it would take a moving company to get our stuff to Dream City from here, we’ll have to call and see. We’re thinking about flying the three of us to Dream City and staying in a hotel until the moving truck arrives – which Dream Company will pay for. I’m very nervous about getting the health insurance / doctor hooplah switched over. By June I will be seven months pregnant. So so close. Plenty of time in theory, but how long will this all take, you know? Ugh. So there’s that.

I’m ready to start planning but I can only plan in theory until we get that job offer. Still, I think we’ll get the job offer. I just hope they hurry up! They said 1-2 weeks like they have with every other step of this process so I’m hoping that means it will be soon but it could be 2 weeks. I really hope he gets this because he loves the company… and if he doesn’t, we’re kind of stuck back at level one – with no real prospects. Stupid economy.

I liked Dream City, by the way, from what I saw. I think the whole thing got very real once we got there – it wasn’t a magical fairy tale land like it was allowed to be in my imagination but I did really like the apartments and most of the city (does anyone really like the urban down town parts of cities? It’s not like I’d be getting an apartment in those areas anyway) and the people we met, apartment leasing people, hotel staff, etc. were all friendly enough in a I’m paid to be nice to you kind of way. I know I don’t sound as excited as I should. It’s real now. And I’m bone tired – we got home at midnight last night and it’s been go go go since then. A nice weekend, but busy with a lot to do in the coming weeks. Alright, I’d better start cleaning for my company. 🙂 Hope you are all having a great weekend!