Mini Update

It seems like all I ever do now is little updates... Sorry, but we're still getting settled in. Malachi and I are looking for work. I might just start substitute teaching, or I may try to find some other regular job. I haven't actually decided yet. We'll see. Malachi is looking for work too. I don't know what he's going to get, but he's applying everywhere in the area. He doesn't really care what he gets as long as it pays! He's probably going to stay at CBU. It'll work out, but it'll be rough for a bit. The apt is nice-- better than I expected, so we're content. We're in the process of collecting furniture for the pad. We've got a dining room table, but no chairs, a couch, coffee table and chair for the living room, and a bed and one dress (we might need one more) for our room. We're short a few pieces, but we're managing. We were so happy to find that we left 75% of our dishes in AK. <- sarcasm. I've been buying things here and there, but it sucks because we don't have complete sets. We have the coffee cups and soup bowls from our Pfalstaph (sp???) set and the plates from our Arcoroc set. The end. It's pretty sad. I feel like I did in college, where none of my dishes or matched and I really didn't care. Except for now, I do care. It kinda sucks. I'm so thrilled to be down here, especially for shopping purposes. We did most of our first shopping at the 99 Cent Only store. I loooove it. We got half and half, cereal, chips, milk, bagels, bread, 6 packs of soda, and a ton of other stuff for-- you guessed it-- 99 cents each. It's awesome. Also, they sell artichokes for a buck fifty here as opposed to 3 fifty in AK. And I bought a bag of 5 avocados at the 99 Cents Only store instead of spending 2 bucks per fruit. I love it. It's so much easier to be frugal here. We're not pregnant, obviously, or I would have said something by now. We're still trying. I don't have much patience (duh) so something better happen quick like or I'll have to adopt. Malachi's friend Ron and Michele live down here and we're going to have erev shabbat with them tomorrow. Hopefully that will go well. We'll probably check out congregations this weekend. I think there are enough options in the area that we should be able to find something we like. Let's see... we went to the beach last week. It was fun but it took 4 days to get the majority of the sand out of my dreads. That sucked. Next time I'll wear a swim cap. We all had a blast. Erica and Malachi lathered up with sunblock and neither of them burned too badly. I got a bit pink, but the next day it was a fab tan. I love being half black. Muwahahaha. I had a weird dream last night that I was on a cruise and befriended Britney Spears and we wen't to the spa and got massages and mudbaths. It was weird... Not that that has anything to do with anything... We'll I have to get going for now. I'm going to do some job hunting and maybe some more unpacking. I'm planning to email you guys with my phone number and address, if you don't have it already. If you don't get an email from me (or you know I don't have your email) just send me a message and I'll send you my contact info.