The Charlotte's crew @ brunch
Adam's new office in the second bedroom
the reading nook and Adam's books in 2nd room
My bookcase in the living room. Can you tell we like books?Ok! We've had a lot going on the last few weeks!
Adam is on his third (fourth?) full week of classes. He's had two tests about which he feels relatively confident. There've also been multiple book reports, handouts, memorization projects, and TONS of reading. He (and I) is still trying to figure how to juggle this new workload along with Starbucks, interning, and family. For a while, it was like he'd been hit by a truck, but now he's beginning to find a rhythm, has developed a schedule. He had to take a pretty hefty pay cut, Sbux couldn't justify keeping a supervisor who only worked 20 hours. Not only has he been dropped to barista, he's being paid what a barista who'd been there just over a year would be paid. Not cool. On the up side, his financial aid check just came through. Thank you, God!
Work at Charlotte's has been interesting. The owner has been in a bad mood for about a month and know one is sure entirely why. We did all have a really good time at the Race for the Cure last weekend. Krysta took everyone to a fancy brunch afterwards. I like to occasionally pretend I'm a Foodie, and I know this place used top-shelf ingredients. I don't know if it's just that my palette isn't refined enough to appreciate the subtlety of heirloom tomatoes versus regular ones, but everything tasted very bland to me. Ah well. This morning Krysta called me into her office to tell me that she was going to put me in charge of our new Prom line come this next spring. Starting the 6th, I'll be going to marketing meetings, making contacts at local highschools, and developing procedures for how we're going to run this line. I'm excited, it's a new challenge!
Lunacy is still very interesting. We've had a very tense patch where it felt like no one could make a decision, but I think we're finally on a forward trajectory. I still love the artistic side, reading plays prepping for shows, I'm currently writing our season brochure for next year. The business side is just not something I want to add to my stress over. There it is.
Church has been pretty stable. We just passed our 1st anniversary as a separate service. Adam will be preaching on his birthday at the Portland Rescue Mission, Village has taken over the service there on the second Friday of each month, and Adam has to preach in public at least three times this semester for his classes.
Life is busy! We love and miss all of you!
