News, News, and more News…. *EDIT*

Well I went to my doctor’s appointment on Friday and he said he wants me to have a CAT scan and colonoscopy done.  I’m not too thrilled about this, but if this is what needs to be done to find out what’s wrong then so be it. I’m going in for my colonoscopy next wednesday, and I haven’t had my CAT scan scheduled yet, but that’ll be coming up soon too. The receptionist is mailing me the instructions on what I have to buy to prep for my colonoscopy the day before.  I know for sure that I have to be on a liquid diet the day before the procedure and I’m pretty sure I’ll have to take a laxative too.     I’m not looking forward to that, but oh well, I’ll deal.  The receptionist also said I’ll have to be at the hospital at 6:30 in the morning. She said I should be done by 7:30 and I’ll be able to leave sometime around 8:30. Dave is going to call his boss this week (Dave’s out of town till Friday AGAIN) and tell him that he’ll do work from home that day so he can watch Keira while I rest. I think we’ve figure out that my parents will watch Keira Tuesday night and then my mom will drop her at my grandma’s Wednesday morning on her way to work. That way we don’t have to wake Keira up at 5:30 to get to the hospital on time.  I really just want next week to be over already. Tuesday is going to suck big time with not being able to eat anything and having to run to the bathroom all day and I’m sure Wednesday I’ll be tired and feeling crappy. Ok just skip over to next Friday and I’ll be good. 

I do have an update on Dave’s job offer from KPMG. They sent him a salary scale last Friday. It’s a bit lower than what we had expected. Dave wrote them back and said, "Thank you for responding to my request for the salary scales.  However, we do not seem to be on the same page in regards to compensation.  Thank you for your time." .  An hour later Dave received another email from one of the managing partners there and he went into a whole spiel about the benefits and he had already raised the offer. He also said that Dave would be reviewed this October and his salary would increase from there as well.  He and I talked about it all weekend, and decided to still consider this offer. It’s not a bad offer by any means, but we still have to consider a lot of things before we just jump into this. Dave wrote them back asking more questions about the compensation and about future advancement in the company.   I really think Dave is going to take this offer. I’m excited and I hope that we hear a response from them soon.     

Gotta read some faves and find food.

****  Dave received another email last night answering all his questions.  They said they would pay for all of our moving expenses, plus our plane tickets to fly there. They also would give Dave a ten day paid "settling in" period.  They said if they can get to place of some common ground, they would like to fly Dave out there for a couple days so they could meet and Dave could see the office. He said then providing that they were all on the same page, they would make Dave a formal offer of employment.  I’m excited, but I know my family won’t be. My mom is supposed to come stay the night with me tonight and so I called her to tell her that I scheduled my CAT scan for next week. I also told her that Dave had received another email from KPMG and they wanted to fly him up. She was less then thrilled about the news. I told her we could talk about it more tonight when she comes over and she was quiet. I asked her , " You’re still coming right?"  she responded, "I don’t know."    WTF? So because I’m not going to live in this shit hole town for the rest of my life, she’s going to be mad at me and not come see me??   I replied, " What now you’re not going to come?" again she responded "I don’t know."     Me-" So what, now you’re mad at me?" She said "No."   Me- "So are you coming to see me then."   my mom- "Yeah I guess."          I knew it wasn’t going to be easy to tell her. I know telling the rest of my family isn’t going to be easy either. I don’t expect them to be jumping for joy about this, but I would like them to support our decision. We’ve thought a lot about this and if they can’t understand why we’re doing this, then that’s not my fault.   Dave and I always knew we would move somewhere else eventually and my parents knew this. I’ve been keeping my mom updated about this job ever since Dave first started talking to them at the beginning of this month, so it’s not like this the first time she’s heard about it. This is a hard enough decision without having my mom making me feel guilty about it. 

I need to go get Keira down for a nap.