Sunday: the mornings conversation

Amanda: I sequestered your waterbottles to use as cooler coolers. Hehe, I've never been able to use that word twice in a row.

Ben: Compared to using the water bottles in the fridge, would you consider them cooler cooler coolers?

Thursday: almost Friday

Yay! It's almost Friday. I'll admit, this week hasn't been that bad. But it is rather depressing packing everything up for the possibility that it'll never be looked at again. The tension is high because everyone has their own idea for how things need to be done (which will really, really matter if we start working again down the road) and because there is a limited amount of time to do things.

The weather has turned warm though, which has been wonderful.

The layoffs were on Tuesday. Neither Ben nor I nor any of our friends got laid off, but we both know people that did, which is sad.

Last night I was in rough shape...two cankersores and two foot owies. They all seem to be better today.

Tuesday: movie night

Tonight we had a movie night with our bible study and watched "yes man." It was actually a pretty funny movie. And everyone brought snacks and we chatted a while afterwards...it was fun.

Monday: rumors, take 4

Today, rumors were dispelled as the stop work came through. It actually came through on Friday, but everyone was nice enough not to tell me over the weekend.

Everyone, at least in my small department, seemed in good spirits though. We sat around until 2pm, at which point we finally got some direction. It looks like we are going to have two weeks to close everything up and get documentation in order, and I expect we'll need most of that time. My tech lead thinks it'll be easy to place us in other jobs for now, although my manager seemed rather silent today (silent as in not around) so it's hard to know for sure.

In some ways, this might work out for the best...management doesn't want to get rid of us in case we get to go back to work, but if it is a termination then we will hopefully all have other jobs that we're already doing to get us through this uncertain time.

Also, in some ways it's nice that it happened so everyone can stop being on an emotional roller coaster.

Saturday: annivesary weekend day 2

Today was a very relaxing day. Our plan was to read by the two finger lakes that we were seeing this trip, and we did read at one. But it was so windy and cloudy that if you sat still for long you quickly got cold. So we kept changing our location until finally the sun came out for 15 min. Then we decided it was time for lunch.

Friday: happy annivesary!

Today we celebrated our 5th anniversary by taking off from work and then going up to a bed and breakfast.



On our way to a nice dinner we saw this sign! We tried getting a pic with both of us in it, but it didn't quite work out.

Thursday: good rumors

Today there were a few good rumors for once. The rumor is that the stop work was a false rumor that got leaked, and for some reason people thought this one was valid.

I proceeded to get the rumor weed song stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

"I'm a rumor weed
(he's a rumor weed)
I'm a rumor weed
(he's a rumor weed)
A tiny little story is all i need to make a big mess
( he's a rumor weed)

(So what is a rumor)
Starts as a story
maybe it's true, maybe not
but once you repeat it
it's hard to defeat it
now look at the mess that you've got" ~The W's

And in case you're keeping score, which I am, the optimists in my group are up 2-0 to the pessimists.