So, I didn't get the job in New Zealand. I was not that surprised at that point, since it had been so long, still, I was a little disappointed. (Right now, I kind of just want to move back to Hawaii and start some sort of business.)
I was growing a beard for a while, but it was way too itchy, and I kept waiting for it to stop itching, but it didn't, so I shaved it all off except the goatee. My hair is longer than it's been in a while, and I am not sure how long that is going to last. Maybe not until the weekend. The beard was kind of a response to the hair, so shaving one may affect the other. We'll see. I may post some beard pictures and let people vote for their favorite look. Maybe it is to make up for the fact that I don't wear a tie to work.
The Beard.
One more day of classes. I am kind of burnt out, so that is good. I am almost finished with my current list of job applications, although I am sure there will be more. Just finished one phone interview that went well, but I find I am not always the best judge.
Just went and got an Indiana drivers license since my California one expires on my birthday. Not sure how I feel about that.
We just found out yesterday we have mice. The girls opened up their advent calendar bags to find that someone had been helping themselves to their chocolate. Bekah responded by buying one of just about every kind of mouse trap, poison, bomb, projectile weaponry in the store.
Although, I can hardly blame them for coming inside. It's been snowy here, and this week dropped into the teens and twenties. More snow this weekend.
We're really forward to Christmas at Enoch and Amy's, although I have kind of a lot of work to do before the next semester starts.
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when we got back from NZ, our house was infested with rats. we watched them march from our bathroom, through our bedroom, and down the hall to the kitchen to get a midnight snack. A bunch of rat poison under the house took care of the problem in about 3 days. I put poison under there about every 4 months when we start to hear scratching and nibbling in our ceilings and walls.
I must say, the goatee looks good. Too bad the NZ job didn't pan out. We were so excited about that and are bummed we won't be visiting you in Christchurch. Good luck with the job hunt.
i vote for the hair. also, we had mice and found the traditional mouse trap to work best. (we tried several kinds too.) if i had an under the house i'd try ephraim's suggestion. hope you get a job somewhere fun.
The mice may have been a false alarm. Bekah is thinking that the hanging bag might have gotten crushed in the door, making the chocolate crushed and crumby, like mice had nibbled of half. Although Miriam also swears she heard something the other night. Also, nothing has been touched since.
Why not start a business in Hawaii? You and Jake can do it together, since his situation isn't so hot. I want him to apply to jobs but I'm not envying the work you've gone through for that. So maybe it's ok.
I like the hair and not sure how I feel about the goatee. I'd like to see how the whole beard looks.
I hope you don't have mice. Poison works, but then they die in places you can't get to and you have phantom smells for weeks. According to studies done about traps, traditional traps work better than any other trap. But it does have to be the right size. We miss mice if they're too small or too big for our trap.
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