PCS- Setting up a satellite office

I was a little nervous about telling my boss I was moving.  Truth is, she's more like a really good friend than a boss.  And I really hadn't been working that long with her when we got orders to move.  So I wasn't sure how she'd take the news of us moving.  She's had really bad staff in the past and she's now got 2 paralegals, Brenda is my partner in crime, and she's really understanding how smoothly her office can run when you have efficient help.  So I told her....Brenda already knew.  The thing about Brenda and me....well, we are really close and so I told her before Janna because she and I have a friendship that has been a long one.  Anyway, I told Janna and also said that I would do contract work for her until she found someone she was comfortable with to take my place.  Then she asked me how long I wanted to work for them.  I told her as long as she needed me and that I really didn't want to leave the firm.  Then she said "How about setting up a satellite office in your home there?  You could set everything up online and work from home."  It just kinda flourished into this opportunity I was really beginning to like the sound of.  Turth is, I've never really had a boss who was willing to do something like this for me.  The last boss I had just either gave me money or bought me stuff when she thought I was unhappy.  I want a boss that values me so much she's willing to spend extra money to keep me....and that is exactly what I got.

So, I've been busy setting up everything we need to to make sure I can function from home.  I've been making alot of checklists!  I like lists...I'm such a nerd...but that's a different story.  :) We've also hired an in office person...basically someone who can do the stuff in the office that I can't because I'm not physically there.  And she fits in well in the office so that's a blessing!  I have started Adventures in North Carolina!  I am going to blog along the way and hopefully it'll be some amusement for y'all!

New House

As many of you know, we are moving.  We got orders for Ft. Bragg and honestly, we are happy about it.  We have been at Ft. Hood for 10 years and we are ready for a change.  We decided to sell the house in Texas and buy a new one is North Carolina.  So we began house hunting.....a daunting task, really.  And a difficult one to do from Texas.  Thankfully, we had an amazing realtor in North Carolina.  So after looking at tons of houses online, we finally found a few that we liked; one in particular.  So over spring break, Nick and I flew out to Fayetteville to house hunt.  After a VERY long day getting to Fayetteville, we finally arrived on Sunday, Mar. 11th and began our house hunting expedition.  We looked at the one house we loved on Monday but also felt like we needed to look at some more.  So we spent most of the day Tuesday looking at houses....and we came back to the first house we loved.  So now we wait to close on it.  And while we wait...we are constantly trying to figure out what we want to do to make it our own.  It will be a work in progress...as most of our things are.  We did quite alot of work on the Texas house before putting it on the market.  And I'm hoping the Texas house sells quickly too. 

I said earlier that I was happy to be moving.  I'm not happy to be leaving my close friends behind.  I have formed more roots here at Ft. Hood than any other place we've lived.  It will be hard to leave my friends that have become more like family than just friends but Texas is home for us and we will always come back.  And having seen the town we'll be living in, I'm excited about it and all the possibilities it brings.  I am going to post pictures of the new house on Facebook so check me out over there!