Guess what?! We are moving.
Idaho Falls, ID is where we are going to be calling home for hopefully
the next couple of years. Devin got a
job at Melaleuca and he starts on August 3, 2015. What a process that was!! Devin applied for
the position back in June and it was seriously A MONTH LONG PROCESS!! So..it
started out with a lady named Kym. Devin
met her at the career day up at USU back in like March. Devin gave her his resume and she went nuts! She
started circling all these things on his resume saying that he was a perfect
match for a position that was coming up.
Then that was the end of it! Well…
the end of May, Devin applies for the MIT job.
Manager in Training. This Kym
lady calls him while he is at the farm and kind of does a phone interview. Then he’s going to interview up there the
next Tuesday. He gets there and the
facility is HUGE! It’s seriously like a castle.
Dev says that when he met this Kym lady, that she took him on a tour for
like half an hour. When they got back to
the conference room, Dev asked her if she was going to interview him or just
give him the tour. She said that she had
been interviewing him since he got there.
His confused face was showing, I’m sure, because the next thing that she
says is “I’m an ex-FBI profiler”.. uhh what?! That’s not something you want to
hear in a job interview.. he interviewed with a few people and then he had to
go back up the next week and do it all over again!! He got to talk to the COS!
(chief of staffing) According to Kym, if you didn’t pass the other interviews,
you didn’t even talk to the COS. It went
really well with him. NOW THE WAITING
GAME STARTS! Ugh.. if any of you know me, I was DYING!! My anxiety was off the
charts waiting to hear back from them.
Every day I kept calling Dev asking “have you heard anything yet??” and
it seemed like an eternity before he called me to tell me that he had heard
from them. So on June 26, 2015,
(seriously like 2 weeks after his last interview..) Devin texted me saying that
he had got a call from Melaleuca. He
thought that it was me calling (because I’m always calling..) and he BARELY
missed the phone call. There was one problem. They didn’t leave a voicemail. He calls back and the lady who answered the
phone said that without a message, she doesn’t know who called him. He thought that it would have been Kym. The receptionist transferred him to Kyms
department and another lady answered. Well..
guess what. Kym doesn’t work there
anymore! That’s why it took so long to hear back from her!! The lady called and
said that she wanted to offer Devin the job.
As you can already guess, he accepted it.
Apartment hunting:
As soon as we found out that Devin got the job, we decided that
we would go up on the 2nd of July and go apartment shopping. WHAT A NIGHTMARE!! I enjoy shopping. But that?.. that SUCKED! Never grow up. We started at 8 AM and we finally got back to
grandma and grandpas at 5PM. We had
these apartment viewings scheduled and they just didn’t feel right. There was one that we absolutely LOVED in
Shelley, but they wanted like $1500.00 by July 20th.. I think we
could do better than that… at one point, there was an apartment that we didn’t even
want to waste our time on because the pics looked kind of old. (the ones that we did see..) and at lunch Dev
just had a feeling that we should go and look at it. So we went.
When you got to the apartment complex, it seriously looked like a
hotel. In fact, I am like 99% sure that
it was an old retirement center. We looked
at the apartment and it was very, very nice inside. But when you walked out of the apartment, it
felt like a hotel. I did not like
that. It was a 1 bedroom apartment that
was basically in a hotel room. We had another one in the back of our
heads. It was a two bedroom apartment
and cheap. I loved it. Devin didn’t though. By this time I was seriously in tears. This was the only day we were going to be
able to come up for a couple of weeks and we HAD to go home with an
apartment. So we said a prayer. We prayed and then we waited. Devin wanted to go back to the one bedroom apartment
and take a look again. I was fine doing
that. We went back and the lady was kind
enough to let us look at the apartment, just the two of us. I felt
at peace when we went back. I felt like I
would be safe in this apartment. We went
back to talk to manager and she told us that it was fair game. (The thing with
this apartment is that a guy was supposedly sending in a deposit for it. But the manager was giving him til 4 PM and
if she didn’t hear from him, then it was fair game.) Whoever could get her the
deposit first, could get the apartment.
We wanted the apartment. So we
HURRIED to the nearest Zion’s Bank (like 2 minutes away) and got a cashiers
check. The poor lady trying to help us
was having printing problems and it felt like it was taking FOREVER! We went
back, signed the application papers and waited to get approved. Of course we got approved, I mean, it’s not
like we’re terrible people haha. That was
that. Now of course, I am IN LOVE with the thing that I cant wait to go and
start setting up and decorating! Haha J As of July 20th, we will have our apartment
and we will be on our way to Idaho Falls the last week of July!!
Work – Last day:
Ok, so I seriously loved my job. I bill for doctors and I loved it. I loved the girls that I worked with and
knowing that I would have to leave them seriously just broke my heart. After I put my two weeks in officially, there
were days were I would just come home and cry.
My boss was amazing. Mad at me
for leaving, but amazing. The girls that
I worked with are so sweet and so incredible.
Well yesterday (July 17th) was my last day. I’ve been training my replacement all week
and for some reason, the first half of yesterday went by very quickly. Before I knew it, it was lunch and we were
eating Jack’s Pizza. Delicious, by the
way.. After lunch the day seriously DRUG ON.. I knew that I would be leaving
and it just made me sick. I’ve never had
a job that I have liked as much as this job.
I didn’t even know that it was possible to wake up in the morning and be
excited and willing to go to work. My
doctors were so awesome to work with and their patients were so sweet. Obviously you have your bad days where you
talk to someone who is a having a bad day..but all the good days made up for
those couple bad ones. When it was time
to leave, I went and I hugged my boss. I
held it together pretty well. I kind of
choked up but I didn’t cry. Then I hugged
the next girl and I just broke down.
Even today, I think about the fact that I’m not going to work on Monday
and I cry. It’s kind of embarrassing
actually. I hugged the rest of the girls
and I left. I cried the whole way home
and I cried last night and I cried a little bit today. (what can I say.. I am A HUGE BABY) I know it will be ok. I just feel like we were family there. It’s never easy leaving family. (if I was that bad at work, picture in your
head how bad it will be when we leave our actual families…) I’m grateful for
the friendships that I made at work and for the experiences that I learned. I will forever love them and consider them
not only coworkers but some of my best friends.
I’m excited for this opportunity that Dev has to start this new job and
for us to start this new adventure together.
I know that it will be hard, but it will definitely be worth it.
This is the front of the apartment complex
The center of the complex
Funny enough, these two windows are the windows to our apartments
This is our kitchen and part of the family room. I dont know why I was such a ding-dong and only took one picture of the place...
