As a great deal of you most likely know, Kimmi and I are officially back living and working in SLC. I’d like to declare that my slackness in updating my blog is entirely due to the fact that we’ve been quite busy re-acclimating to some sort of normalcy in our day to day life. I can’t say that we are fully back to that point, but when the day comes that you start getting people coming up to you and asking why we haven’t updated our blog in so long, you know it’s time to take a few minutes and give a bit of an update.
I’ll warn you in advance that if you were looking forward to some lovely photos that you are so used to seeing on our blog then you will most likely be sorely disappointed. I anticipate this post to be entirely words. Truly one of the worst parts about moving is that you lose all competency as to where your stuff is or what box you packed which item. Such is the story with our camera charger. The battery on the camera is dead and we are 50% sure as to which box the charger is packed in but we are 0% sure as to where the box is placed inside Ken and Linda’s garage. In the next few days we should be relocating all the boxes currently residing in the garage to our newly built shed(see below), so we should be able to find the cord at that point (or at least we’ll know for sure if it’s in the box we think it is in).
Upon leaving the lovely town of Twin Falls we have placed our beloved home for sale and until the house sells we will not be able to purchase a new home (because who wants to pay two mortgage payments!! Not me). So until that bitter sweet day arrives we have planted our roots in the basement of Kimmi’s parents house in Murray. Our living arrangements may be tight, but I can’t complain to its freeness and the fact that on most nights Kimmi’s mom makes a fantastic home cooked meal for dinner. Due to our lack of storage space almost all of our known possessions are stored in the garage. Not wanting to plug up Ken and Linda’s garage for a few months Kimmi came up with a brilliant idea. Instead of throwing perfectly good money away to the monthly fee of a storage unit we would purchase a relatively inexpensive shed to erect on the side of the house and store all the stuff in there. Then after we find a new place to live we can either take the shed with us, sell the shed to Ken and Linda to use at their own personal convenience, OR sell it to Joe Schmo on craigslist. Thus saving the all mighty $$.
We spent a great deal of our Thanksgiving weekend building this shed and after hundreds and hundreds of screws and bolts we were almost completely done! It took about two more after work evenings to complete the entire project. I must point out that Kimmi is a fantastic site supervisor. She kept me from the frustration of trying to decipher the gibberish (a.k.a. Instructions) as well as keeping me from the many times that I felt that I knew best and wanted to jimmy rig a solution to a problem that could easily be solved by referring to the above gibberish. Granted, my ideas would have worked, but in the long run I probably would have made it worse. I think we spent a good 10 hours building this thing not including the time I spent building a lovely wooden foundation for it to rest on. When it is done we will be ready to free the garage from the clutter that is our stuff and of course replace it with the items that are our cars. I think Kimmi and I could both do without having to go start our frigid cars each morning so we don’t die of frostbite on the way to the Trax station.
Yes you did read correctly, we are taking Trax to work every day! This is especially new and unusual for me due to the fact that I used to have a dead set resolve to never in my life ride Utah’s light rail system. Not that I don’t think Trax is a wonderful thing for Salt Lake, I just liked the look on peoples face when I told them of my quest (since for so long Trax had no convenience for me). It was easy to go these 10 years without riding the thing. Oh well, 10 years is a pretty good run. Anyway on to what we’re doing in life. Kimmi has a great job at the University of Utah Hospital in their H&I Lab. Don’t ask me to spell out what the letters “H” and “I” mean because I can barely say them as words let alone put them on paper. All I know is that she works in the lab that deals with organ transplants where she gets to test their compatibilities to potential patients. She loves it. Not only is it something new and exciting for her to learn but she doesn’t have to work ridiculous hours. We are starting to live what a great majority of the world calls a normal life. 8 to 5 Monday through Friday with weekends and holidays off! It’s great.
As for me, after deciding to give up the car business, I applied myself to much pondering and research as to what I wanted to do with my future professional career. It was quite odd to be 26 and not have an answer to the question so commonly asked throughout childhood “what do you want to be when you grow up?” Anyway, among my searching, I found myself continually drawn wherever I looked to the Procurement & Purchasing profession. Upon deciding that this was my new calling in life I began applying to a bunch of jobs here, there, and everywhere. I soon had the frightful realization that I wasn’t exactly looking for a new career during the best time of US history. Thankfully my grandfather caught word that I was looking for a job and it just so happened he is currently heading up a ginormous worldwide organization. Like the fantastic grandfather that he is, he lined me up a few interviews in a few of the departmental areas I was interested in and Voila! I’m now working for the Church in their Materials Management Department! Specifically I work on a team called the Global Supply Chain Management Team who at the moment are spearheading the effort to create an e-store for the Distribution Center in order to replace the old one and make it more user-friendly and more widely used. I would tell you more about what I do but I doubt you’d find it as fascinating as Kimmi’s organ transplant stuff. Regardless I must say that I am extremely pleased with the job and I lavish in the plethora of knowledge I get to work around on a daily basis. Truly it’s like being in college again, without the nasty amount of tests and homework that I so hated.
Anyway, life is good and what an incredibly interesting year it’s been at the Mark & Kimmi Dibb home! It’s not every day you flip your world upside down but we’ve come out on the other side alive and happy. We are excited to back in Utah among friends and family. Of course we are sad to leave our house behind in Idaho and the close friends we made there but in the long run we feel it’s the best move for ourselves and our one-day down the road family. I hope I did a good enough job authoring our update. If you have any questions don’t be shy to ask. I probably forgot something! Sorry again that it’s all just words. Maybe I’ll try to find some photo that we took on our camera before it gave up the ghost.
Here you go! I felt bad that I didn't post any photos so I found this one that we took at Ken and Linda's house before the camera died....this is Beatrice's new favorite place to sleep.
3 comments:
Thanks for the long awaited post!!! We enjoy reading what you guys are up to now that we don't see you much! I'll be waiting for the pics of the shed...... :)
That is officially the longest post I have ever read! And...I read the entire thing! You should be proud! Especially since I had an incredibly long and painful day in clinic with two class four patients that had terribly nasty teeth. Although...I do have to say, you had me laughing. It was a really great post!
Welcome Home. Mark, Clayton eats at the COB often so you should look for him. No he doesn't work there but he sneaks in every once in a while.
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