Jobs, houses, change…

This is my first real blog post since we’ve moved! Real as in not over my camera phone, because those tend to be rather short as I can only type so much on my phone before I get bored. So anywhoo, we’re up here in Northern Idaho now, yay! We’re mostly moved into our rental house, which has lots of space, but is a little old and scary in a North Idaho sort of way. Bonsai is enjoying all the windowsills the place has; she spends most of her time sitting in them and hissing annoyedly at all the stray cats that wander past. I’ve been doing lots of unpacking, and the house feels more comfortable and homelike now. We cooked our first meal here tonight, pasta marinara and cheesy garlic biscuits, and that really helped it feel more like a home. It’s hard to get really comfortable though when we know we’re going to be trying to move into a more permanent home later this fall if everything goes well.

I’ve run around Sandpoint the last two days job hunting, filling out applications, faxing them, dropping them off… I hate job hunting. I don’t have one particular skill set that I really excell at; rather I’m a direct result of my liberal arts education in that I’m good at lots of things and can learn quickly, but I can’t prove it and I still have to go through the learning process at a new job. I have three different resumes… depending on what sort of job I’m applying for. Plus is means I can’t really reuse my cover letters too much either. Ugh. I think i’ll feel a lot better though once I have a job to kind of settle me into a routine again. This last week has just been crazy with packing, moving, seeing family again, unpacking… I dont do the housewife thing very well. I get bored and feel guilty because I don’t think i’m doing enough around the house when Mike is off at work bringing home the bread, so to speak. I’d much rather my contribution be mainly through the money my job brings. I certainly don’t mind doing stuff around the house on the weekends, and cooking dinner sometimes, but I don’t really get too much satisfaction out of it - not in ratio to the amount of motivation it takes me to get into it! Which is why I still haven’t unpacked all the dishes… I like paper plates :).