Change is on the horizon, maybe?

Wow!  I don't even know where to begin.  Our life has literally been turned upside down over the past couple of weeks.  I can't even begin to fully grasp everything that has happened.  So, here it goes...

Andy found out a couple of weeks ago that he was not going to be the boys' basketball coach anymore.  It was a huge blow.  I mean, really?  Why not?  The excuse of not winning enough games is a lousy one since our football team has won only 6 games in the last four years.  And the head football coach isn't going anywhere...  Andy was given the option of just coaching cross country and track.  Well, that's not going to work for him.  The whole reason Andy got into education was because he wanted to coach basketball.  If you take that away from him, then he might as well start looking for another profession.  And that's exactly what we're doing... sort of.

A new profession isn't totally correct.  Andy is still going to stay in education at the moment.  The golfing industry is still option and still something he is working towards, but it may be delayed for the time being.  However, we can't stay at our current school.  There are too many changes taking place that we don't want to be a part of.  And unfortunately, we have been unhappy at our current school for quite a while now.

I have been wanting to move closer to my mom and step-dad for the past few years.  A three and a half hour drive is just fun, and I probably visit them at most six times a year which is not near enough.  Andy and I have been talking about possibly moving to the Katy area for the past six months.  He was looking for potential golf jobs in that area.  We will probably never move from the Houston area mostly because we want to stay close to Andy's parents as well and his dad must be within an hour of the medical district due to his chemo treatments.

So, we began the application process for Katy ISD.  Andy submitted his cover letter and resume to several of the coaches who had basketball (girls or boys) positions open.  He heard back almost immediately from the girls head coach at Katy Taylor HS.  She emailed him back and said that they would be conducting interviews the next week.  Well, she forgot that TAKS testing was this past week, so she called him Monday for a phone interview instead.  The phone interview went extremely well!!  Andy was very pumped up after he got off the phone.  He said it was so nice for someone to actually want him as a coach on their staff.  The next day he received a more formal email that requested an interview with one of the assistant principals and the head coach for Friday.

We both took off of work on Friday because we figured it couldn't hurt to look at some houses for sale in the area... just in case.  Andy had told the head coach the number one reason he wouldn't take the job would be if I couldn't find a teaching job.  She said that Katy ISD was a tough district to get a job in but that they were family-friendly. 

I have more to write, but we are not ready to share everything yet.  So, you'll have to bear with me like this is a suspense novel or something. 

New Eliptical

Two years ago Andy and I purchased a treadmill via Craigslist.  We had finally decided it was too hot to run outside during the summertime in Texas.  I mean, seriously, we would have had to get up at 1:00am for it to only be in 80s with no sun if we didn't want to "die" in the heat during normal waking hours.  We loved the treadmill!!  It just wasn't durable enough for how much we used it, so we ended up selling it in a garage sale.  Ever since then, we have mentioned over and over again that we needed to purchase either another treadmill or an eliptical.

Tuesday we broke down and bought an eliptical.  Sears was running a special on their workout equipment, and we could finance it on a Sears credit card paying no interest for 12 months.  Perfect deal!  We chose the eliptical over the treadmill for a couple of reasons... One, Andy has horrible knees.  So horrible that he should have had knee replacement surgery when he was 17 years old.  The eliptical would be less impact and jarring on his knees and mine too.  Second, a really good treadmill is 2000+ dollars and that's just not in our budget right now.

We went to the Sears in Humble, but they didn't have one in stock for us to take home that day.  And of course, we didn't want to wait for them to ship it to us.  So, we drove an extra 30ish minutes to Willowbrook Mall to pick up one (the only one) that was available.  Andy was such a good sport and put it together that night.  He had read some reviews that it took about an hour to put it together.  Ha!  They were lying.  It took over two hours, but it's together and has already been used by both of us.  We love it, even though it is crammed in our bedroom for now.

I'm glad he always has tow straps in the truck!

That box was HEAVY!!

 

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Home Organization

Our house is small, like 1400 sq. ft. small.  For our first home, we love it!  It really is a great house for us right now; however, we always feel like everything is cluttered.  If you know either of us, we are anti-clutter and actually very organized and neat people.  We tend to neglect our home though.  This past weekend we got a wild hair and decided to do some major re-organization in the kitchen/dining area.

We bought two shelves for the pantry door.  We wanted to free up some space in the actual pantry so that some of the larger appliances/things that were left out on the counter could have a permanent home somewhere other than the counter.

 

Next to the sink we had some office type things on the counter.  I told Andy that we should put a little shelf above the trash can, like what you do in the entryway to a home.  Plus, it gave us a place to put our modem which has been sitting on a step stool next to the trash can.  It turned out perfectly!  We cleared off TONS of counter space which makes me very excited!

New Golf Clubs

Andy's golf clubs are over 10 years old, probably more like 15 years old.  Who would have thought that technology would affect the golfing industry, but it has.  Andy talks all the time about how technology has improved the golf balls themselves, how a club can hit the ball more accurately, or how a club can make the ball have more of an arc as it travels through the air.  Craziness to me, but vital for good golfers.  We decided that if Andy is going to improve his golf game, then he desperately needed new clubs.

Here is a picture of his old clubs, all cleaned up.  He is selling them for $200 - Titleist 681 Forged Blades... if you know of anyone interested in purchasing them.

 

 

He searched for several weeks for the perfect set, brand and style. He did tons of research, and finally decided to stick with Titleist. They are definitely the upper-end brand in golf, so he knew he needed to buy a used set. He is so great at finding good deals on the internet via Ebay, Craigslist, or whatever. He found his new set through Ebay, but it was a company selling them instead of a single owner which makes the purchase a little more reliable.  It always concerns me when random people are selling their things because you really never know what you're going to get until you get it.  He is quite fond of them, but unfortunately, he hasn't had a chance to hit them due to the weather and tweaking his wrist.  Hopefully soon though!

Here is the pic of his new golf clubs and his new grips.  We had two $10 off coupons at Golfsmith for the grips - woohoo!

Titleist CB710