Sunday, March 22, 2009

Getting back on it

Sorry, it's has been almost two months since I've posted.  Not a good sign but it's due to being really busy handling our transition to Germany.  The short of it is Jennifer is already in Landstuhl,  our house in Atlanta is on the market (three weeks on market come this Monday), my workplace (AT&T) has been served notice, and we're both really exhausted.  Jennifer is settling into her position well.  She is working a lot to catch up with work and also to get a handle on her management position.  She claims its a lot more of reviewing other peoples work and less field engineering work...I think getting a handle on the deliverables for a staff of fifteen in addition to providing effective leadership will be a real challenge.  But I think she is up for it.  I on the other hand am trying to tie up loose ends at work and keep the house in a good showing state while also providing the illusion that we don't have a dog when in fact we do (Klause).  I told Jenn I could handle this maybe another month but after that something has to give.  It's a chore as I have to spend a good fifteen to thirty minutes cleaning up and hiding his bed in the morning as a real estate agent could call on any day for an appointment (that same day).  We are praying darn hard that the house will sell.   It would really simplify a lot of things to have it go really quick.  Despite it being a horrible economic environment, we are getting good volume of traffic (have had almost ten showings) up to now and the feedback has been good.  I am thinking we may need to lower the price to discount the top con on folks feedback list-a small backyard.  We will see.