Hello California!

Alright friends. It's truth time. I feel I owe my readers, if I have any left, an explanation to my prolonged absence. As you may recall, I was laid off my full time office job last October. It was pretty life shattering and looking back on it, it is more than clear that it put me into a bit of a depression. Probably somewhere around two months ago I also received word that the school I had been coaching cheer at no longer had the funds to pay my position come the end of this school year. Needless to say, I was devastated. Getting laid off two jobs in six months was far from fun for me. I had a long time to think about what I wanted to do with my life and had considered many things including moving out of state, maybe even out of the country.

Then the light at the end of the tunnel arrived.

Recently I landed a job as the community coordinator for Kaboodle.com Any long time reader of my blog knows how passionate I have been about this site for a long time! In fact, my kaboodle profile tells me I've been on there since January 17, 2007. You seen me talk about kaboodle many times on this blog, clearly I'm a big fan. So I'm pretty stoked to have this opportunity to join the Kaboodle team and do something that I've been passionate about for so long!

So this is the reason for my recent to move to California, this is where Kaboodle headquarters are located. I'm stoked to be out here and I already love the place. I can't wait to start my new job tomorrow!

Monday, my sister, dad and niece drove me and my belongings out to Sunnyvale. Many of you may have followed this roadtrip on my Twitter. I took many, many photos that day and would like to share them with you in the form of a slideshow.



...and as long as we're on the topic, I think you should all sign up for an account on Kaboodle and check it out. It's been my favorite website for years, maybe it's time you find out why! Be sure to add me as a friend when you do!

Short on time

Sorry, I've been quite absent since my last post a week ago! I've had quite the busy week. I'm taking a quit little break to post this.

This week was Spirit Week at the school I coach at. All week at practice was spent preparing for the big spirit assembly.

The assembly was nothing short of wow. I've never seen anything like it. In high school, I always thought my school had a pretty spirited student body. Since I have started coaching, I have to say that this school's spirit outshines my high school every time.

I wanted to share these photos and videos so that you can all see just how awesome this student body is. We had to take a girl out of the routines last minute so unfortunately the routines weren't as polished as they could have been.












Another thing keeping me busy is the fact that I am moving! In fact, I'm probably moving as you read this. I've been busy organizing, cleaning and packing all week. I probably should have been purging as well, but I think I will wait till I unpack in my new place.








Wish me luck in my move, next time you hear from me, I'll be living in a brand new place!

This weekend will be nuts!

Tomorrow is the big day!
I'm moving!

Right now I'm just enjoying a little downtime because tomorrow morning is the start of a jam packed weekend. Its crazy how much I have to do this weekend. If I survive I'll be sure to share the highlights and perhaps some pictures!

So stay tuned...

Picky, picky.

As I'm gearing up for the big move at the end of the week, I've been doing a lot of de-junkifying. I've thrown out so much old junk and cleared out a lot of old stuff to be given away.

I came up with two huge bags and a huge box of clothing and such. I decided to give the local consignment shop, Plato's Closet a try. I took EVERYTHING I was getting rid of there, knowing full well how picky they are.

Or so I thought.

I can't even begin to count how many different items I had in those two bags and 1 box, it was probably somewhere around 100 or so.
They took nine items.
Nine.

Apparently I either dress too poorly for Plato's Closet or I just don't take very good care of my clothes.
Ah, it cracked me up that pretty much nothing I had was good enough for them.
Oh well, at least my first experience with Plato's Closet was an interesting one.

Long day.

I got the keys to the place where I'll be living in just nine days. That kind of put my time frame into perspective. I decided that I should probably start packing, so I did. I packed three boxes. Go me!

Its been a long day though and I'm exhausted, so thats all I'll share for today.