Short and sweet

Hi Barb,



Thanks for your newsy posts today. I just got home from a day out shopping with C, and we were headed out to dinner when T showed up for a beer. He and J will visit for a bit now, so I thought I'd respond before your bedtime.



Basic info: C graduated in June and continued working at her job for the University until last Friday. She was only able to work there until school started, since being a student is a job requirement. She was starting to get a little nervous as the summer came to an end and she didn't have a permanent "real" job lined up. By the end of the second week in September, she had two offers on the table; one was for Purina, an administrative asst. job in Portland, in her field. The other is for a company called Translations.com; they translate manuals and websites and such for people who work internationally. They are based in NY, but have a main office in Corvallis. They actually hunted her down; it's not in her field but they found her resume on Monster.com and thought she would be perfect for the position of Associate Project Manager (the title itself kicks butt over the Purina job). Both companies really wanted her, which made it nice for her. She finally chose the job in Corvallis, which was a huge financial bonus for her, not having to move. She was all ready to argue for $1000 over the lowest salary on their offered pay scale when they offered her $3000p over! She was able to finish out her old job and will start the new one on Wednesday of this week. She just came up for a few days to visit before it won't be so easy to do so. Today I took her out shopping for "business casual" clothes and she totally scored on lots of good stuff. We went out to lunch and to a new mall near the airport; the original plan was to go up to the city, This was botched by the flat tired we got about 5 miles from the house, and the subsequent 1.5 hours spent changing the tire then buying new tires at Les Schwab, at which point we decided against driving so far so late in the morning.

We're going to Outback tonight - it was the only place we could all agree upon. Even M is going. Who is being a royal s**t today. Surprise surprise. Anyway, more late, hopefully, if I'm up for writing when I get home. Last night I was up for 4 hours in the middle of the night for reasons I'll go into later. Maybe.

Sleep well - after such a lovely dinner!
Love,
A