Housewife, Work, and Other Updates

 Everything's been going pretty well here in the Pollock home. Gary's been working his tail off at his job doing so many different tasks and assignments it's crazy. Sometimes he has to fix a problem late at night if it arises. I call him a superhero because of how hard he works. He'll be leaving me again for a week next month on a business trip in Houston. After Houston he'll be going to Costa Mesa. Busy man!

     Emilee, not so much. I'm just doing wifely duties but mostly have more free time than I'd like. It's nice having free time, but at the same time, it's not nice. I've been lazy about exercise. Well, actual breaking-a-sweat exercise. Our apartment has been looking pretty good lately though because of my free time, which is a good thing. The storage closet has been cleaned out as well as our walk-in closet, under our bed, and other various places that needed deep cleaning and organizing. I've also been on top of chores like none other. So yes, our place is pretty darn clean and neat.

     I am looking for some good work though, so we can really start adding more money to savings. Since we're out of debt, our main focus right now is just tossing money into savings to prepare for anything big in our future to arrive, whether it's a house, baby, whatever, or possibly a new car if needed. Right now we really don't have a need for a new car since our cars seem to be working just fine. Not having a car payment is pretty darn nice. But you know, just in case something breaks down we want to make sure we have the funds to get a new car if necessary.

     A local  (okay, so a little further than local) humane society contacted me for some testing to work for them as an animal control officer. The training is fully provided and it makes a lot of money; there's also a lot of overtime. If hired, they'll send me to a PC 832 course and POST level 3 course. But we'll see. I already went in for testing last week but haven't heard back. It was a basic and simple test (just simple math and a few judgement questions). It's kind of sad though; after, I realized I probably got a couple of the math questions wrong. It was easy division and multiplication so I don't know why I messed up, but as I went over the questions in my head, I realized I did. I tested in the dispatch office and there was a lot of loud talking and distractions, but it shouldn't be an excuse. So I'm kind of embarrassed. Oh, well.

      There have also been a lot of other opportunities I'm waiting to hear back from as well. One of them is vet tech position. They provide all the textbook training (getting paid to train for something most people learn in classes is really awesome). It's a really neat idea. They work through multiple veterinary clinics, hospitals, pet stores, etc, so every shift is a new location. The traveling sounds really nice, but that's IF they reimburse for gas. Otherwise traveling all over our area and Los Angeles might hurt (they even work for a clinic in Bakersfield) and may not be worth it. It's $20/hr, so we'll see about that and all the details.

     In other news, Gary and I decided to get ourselves a Playstation Move.

 It's actually pretty fun and decent. It reads a little better than the Wii, granted you have the right games. This sports one is definitely fun. Gary also purchased a Playstation Move sharpshooter:

The neat thing about this is when your body moves (like, let's say you turn the gun to the right), it all moves with you. It's really awesome and puts you right in the action. It's nice having a Gamefly account (like Netflix for games), so we can always try games out and decided if we want to buy them. So we have some games that should arrive today that we can test out.


 Anyway, I don't think there's much else to update! Life is going amazing as usual. I found new cat food from Blue Buffalo called Basics. It's made special for cats with allergies and food sensitivities. I am really thrilled about this. So next week I'll slowly introduce it into the cats' diets so I can fully switch them. It doesn't have eggs, wheat, dairy, soy or corn. It's a limited ingredient formula. I'm really looking forward to it since the cats have food sensitivities (to the point of throwing up sometimes after eating). So yay! And it's still holistic food without by-products or fillers or anything of the like. I'm just debating between turkey, duck or fish. I might try out duck first and see how they like it.

Okay, that's all! I'm SOOOO excited about fall and am extremely tempted to pull out and start on the fall decorations. I'll give it a few more days (first day of fall is on the 22nd). The weather has been amazing.

Bye!