Creature of the Night

Hello again family, friends and all we hold dear.

This month has seen a lot of progress on the house and new changes at work. We are just about completely done with the pantry, but we have already moved food into it. Mike and his dad worked on the doors last Saturday and they are looking sharp. We also changed a few of the locks in and around the house and got several of the others rekeyed. We went from seven different keys to two. It feels very nice to not have to haul around the MASSIVE key chain that held the several dozen keys to the house. (We didn't find out about the janitor sized key chain until the day we closed on the house)

Things continue to go well with Mike and Assure sign. It sounds like Mike and his coworker are going to have a chance to go back and clean up some of the code that they've worked on in the past few releases of the project. Mike was really hoping this would happen. It will make it a lot easier for them to work with the application in the future because they will make it more streamline for future application. Please be praying that this program takes off. It has the potential to be so nice for the environment and just for general business efficiency in general. Mike is also keeping busy with his deacon-in-training duties. This week and the week before he helped with counting the offering and lock-up of the facilities after service. He's also helping to train some of the other deacons on a new program that will keep track of the help provided by the church.

Things are going well for me as well. As you can see from the title of the post, I've just switched over to night shifts and I think I'm going to like it. It is a very different (more relaxed) pace from days, so it should be good. I'm working 7 in the evening to 7 in the morning. I have a few more weeks of orientation and then I am on my own. However, currently my preceptors have been hands off, so I'm handling most things just fine on my own. It is incredible the learning curve that happens after graduation. There are so many things that they never covered in school. I would almost dare to say I've learned as much since I graduated as I had during the nursing program, and I've only scratched the surface. I'm enrolled in all sorts of classes, getting all sorts of certifications and we're switching to a new computer charting program soon, so my brain is trying to keep pace soaking things up.

In other news, we get to see our niece and sister-in-law briefly this month, but it's a nice treat. We have a few fun events coming up, some camping, weddings, vacation time and the fun of the holidays!! We love this time of year and this year we have the added fun of decorating the new house and using the fireplace and attic fan. We'll keep you posted...

A Long Time Coming

Hello again all. Apologies for the long silence. We have found that being new home owners, both working full time and taking time for family, friends and church leaves us feeling stretched a little thin. Work is going well for both of us. Mike continues to be one of three programers that could revolutionize online document signing. Not only could this project be very green friendly saving so much extra paper, but it has already been an incredible time saver for their clients. The product is AssureSign. It is online document signing that is hosted by a third party, 3PV. This has the potential to completely replace faxing. One of their clients trialing the product saw a decrease in turn around time of their document signing from 48 hours with traditional faxing to 2 hours with AssureSign. Click on the link and check it out. 3PV



I am continuing to learn and settle into the 12 hour shifts on the Mother Baby floor at Florida Hospital, Altamonte. They said when we graduated we would find out just how much we didn't know. They were right. My preceptors, managers and coworkers say I'm doing well, but some days I feel like I'm barely keeping my head above water. In October I'll be transitioning to nights, which will be its own challenge. Please be praying that it will be a smooth transition and that if it is not right for me, God will open up a position for me on days.



As far as the house goes, there is always another project waiting, but we have already accomplished a lot. The new pantry is nearly finished, most of the decorating is done, baseboards are cut and we recently acquired a kitchen table (which happens to be the one that I grew up with, so that's a treat). Things are on their way. In the coming weeks and months we hope to get the quarter round in, the crown moulding up, the wall between the kitchen and dining room down and eventually the kitchen redone. The yard is another work in progress made more difficult by brown dying weeds after a round of Scott's, a lost battle with chinch bugs in the side hard and ongoing mole problems. We think we're going to have to resod at least the side yard, but we'll probably do that in late spring.


Check out the before and after shots of our house under the chynoweth web album.