Team Mitchell takes a hit

I have a few things to talk about so lets get started,
Lets start with the cruddy stuff, So we can end on positive note.

On Thursday Jillian found out the her boss had been let go from her position.
Because Jillian was only there to support her boss, Jillian's position will note be required. Jillian is being made redundant.
Jillian's boss was very sorry that she had put Jillian in this position and reassured Jillian was the greatest employee she had ever had and would do everything in her power to help Jillian get another job.
Jillian's boss has to the end of the week and Jillian has to the end of August. Jillian will get a severance package as well.
After the initial shock, Jillian got right back up to her high spirited self and has applied to over 20 jobs already and has been offered a job at one of the Hospitals she works with.
Jillian remains in high spirits and is seeing this as an opportunity to expand her networking, social circles (as her future job may have more than one person in the office) and to find a job that she will really enjoy.
As soon as Natalie (Jillian's sister) found out the news, She put her nose to the grind stone and came up with two possible leads. They are both very exciting leads, but I will I keep them under my hat for now, so I am not to jinx them.
I think Jillian has nothing to worry about with her references and ability. I think anyone who hires her is lucky to have her and I think they will see that in the interview.

Okay lets talk about some fun stuff...

Thursday started off on an average note but ended quite well..
I got to get a skate in as usual, but it was refreshing in the sense I got to clear my mind.
After Jillian got from work (which she finished early, cause what are they going to do fire her. hahaha.). We hung out with Jillian's Little Savanna
We all went to the local Mall/ forum/ shopping center to spend some birthday money I had left over. And guess what for?? yes it was skateboarding equipment. A new deck and a new set of
trucks.









But before I got to feed my skateboarding addiction. We all went to the park with the pooches and had a delicious dinner. It was nice to have Savanna around to relieve the tension of Jillian's day.

Friday I can not remember. I think we both worked?

That Saturday we had already made plans we couldn't get out not that we really wanted to.
We went to Jillian's cousin's boyfriends football game. It was very fun and way more entertaining when you know a cat out there.
We unfortunately had to leave early, kind of bitter sweet.
As we had a dinner to go out to with a bunch of friends. My friend Nick(with broken leg who is actually walking like a champ now) had one stipulation,
We had to eat out side due to the heat. But Murphy's Law step in and made it ran. hahah. We still had a great dinner and a our friends were super supportive
for Jillian. Which I am sure made her very happy.

Sunday we both worked, JIllian played soft ball and played a great game from what I hear. We had our usual sunday dinner which still is what I look forward to every sunday dinner.

The next week played out pretty much the same work, skateboarding, work, oh we had dinner with the Hodgii and Momma Bill and Big Poppa we played cranium.
It was super fun, boys verses girls. and lets just testosterone rules.

Friday 31st is where the action starts up again for Jillian and I.
Jillian's Little Savanna was in a musical at 1:00pm. and it was adorable. It was for a two week camp where they had to build the set, costumes and learn all the lines. In just two weeks. It was
amazing and we were so proud of Savanna.









Later on that day about 4:45pm
Our friends got married.
Jillian and I felt so lucky as they had only selected a few people to be there for the ceremony. We were two of the lucky 14 who got share this occasion.
It was just a civil ceremony as they already have a wedding planned for the same day next year. It was for visa purposes as they are both Canadian.
Any way this gave them an excuse to have a pre mini wedding night.
The judge who performed the service was so nice and made the ceremony very special.
We all got dressed up still. After the ceremony we all went out for a grand dinner. Where they served the newly weds with a beautiful substitute for a wedding cake.
Which some how we all turned the happy birthday song into happy wedding quite successfully.
Our friends have quite a taste for dance music. So after dinner we all headed out to a club and danced the night away.
It was really a spectacular night.
laughs, drinks, tears and a wedding.









Saturday Jillian and I both worked.
Lets just say I was running at about 67% as we didn't get in until 3 in the morning and I had had a few red bull vodka's aka my devils drink.
After we finished work Jillian and I headed over to Big Poppa's and Momma bill's for a beautiful dinner and a game of cards called "spades".
Again it was a battle of the sexes and this time Estrogen gets to wear the winning grin.

Today Jillian and I have to work, Jillian has another soft we have the Sunday dinner up at Brother and Sister in-laws place. They live near by a small lake, so the family got to have a swim and play around in the water before dinner. It was such a great end to the week end.

I hope you all are well
Matty

Picking berries

Hello there,
I hope you all doing berry well. Pun intended.
Here is a picture of Jillian and I helping picking berries for "Momma bill's Jam".
Jillian said I was great at picking berries due to the fact I was an imigrant.





--Matty3stars--

The tortoise and the scare

Ready Set GO!!!!

Okay I forgot to add this the other and it quite a funny little story.
The Other day I get back from a skate and it is quite warm, the pooches are sprawled out on our new footon couch and Chinchilla (the tortoise) is bashing at tank. Which means I want out and me being a big softy I am, I let her out. I was plugging away at the computer and realize I have not seen the shelled one in quite a while. I get up and to look for her and remember the back door is open. I cruise over to the back door, thinking "oh we have it all fenced up for the dogs, Chinchilla will be out there kicking around". I am sure you are guessing it right now. Yep Chinchilla was MIA.
I look around the fence to see if there is any holes and guess what there was...
So I frantically start the one man search party. Inside the house Quickly. Just to make sure.
Once realizing that there is no way she could be indoors.
I try to get the pooches to pick up Chinchilla's scent. But to no avail, they seriously just look up at me with a dumbfounded face. Lucky they are so cute.
So I head outside searching under and over everything all while I am making kissing sounds and calling my Tortoise like it was a dog. Again Nothing. At this point I am getting pretty worried.
I then call in for back up. Yep I called in a yank tank "Jillianator".
Jillian heads home early from work to join the search party. We both search until Jillian has to go to work at her other job. At this point I am getting pretty down and as Jillian heads off for work I start making a missing tortoise poster. Yes you heard right I was making a missing tortoise poster.
Then I hear Jillian calling my name from the car park out the front, So I ran outside to meet her almost crushing one of the pooches in the process. As I meet Jillian I see she has a tortoise in her hands. A sigh of relief..
Jillian said that she was driving out the car park slowly just to make sure that she didn't run Chinchilla over and saw the sun glisten off Chinchilla's shell.
Jillian later told me that where Chinchills was heading. meaning that Chinchilla must of been twice as far away from where She was found, so probably about 30 to 50 meters from our front doors and add another 20 on top of that as she had to go from the back to the front of the house. After all that Chinchilla is safe and sound. And now I think that the tortoise won the race against the hare on it's on merits, based on what I have seen Chinchills is capible of.
Over and out
Matty

July 13th 2009

Is it a bird? is it a plane? NO it's just me..

Yes is true, In the last week I have gone from a two eyed freak to a four eyed freak.
I noticed that awhile ago that my eyes were getting really tired when I was at the computer for to long. and that my left was acting up more than my right. And for everyone playing at home my left was the one I messed around with in the car accident Feb 3rd 2003. The doctor said that my eyes are not working together due to the car accident. I only have to wear them for the computer t.v and reading.
I have been wearing them just under a week now and I am Still getting used to them.

Over the week Jillian has been studying for her first exam for her prerequisites of chemistry. Her test is on Wednesday night. I think she will pass with flying colors!!
Jillian has also once again working her butt off at two jobs, but still somehow manages to find time to hang out with friends and family, study, go to her friends bridal shower an hour away and all with a smile on her face.

I have been working on my new website, working and I just started TAing again (which I love to do), skating and hanging out with some friends from school. My friends from school were Kenny, Mariette, Jenny and her girlfriend Sloan. We all went out to a bar called Katie's pub to give Jenny a great send off as she is moving to St Louis. We had a great time, many any laugh's were had.
I have a couple of projects boiling up which I am very excited about. I will fill you cats in when I know if they are coming to fruition.
I also recieved a very exciting gift from my close friends The Leahy's. It was 3 skateboards all with interlocking graphics of a local skate spot. I was very excited and will post a picture when I have put them up.

well that is it.. oh not it's not.. JIllian and I took Big Poppa aka My father in-law to the Seattle Science Center to see a 3d imax documentry about the ocean called "Under the Sea" as his fathers day gift. It was fun we also got to see a little skate comp that was being held at a new Seattle Skate park. Plus we went to Pike place Markets. very fun day.

Well I think that is it. here is a photo of my new eyes...

July four and more...

Oh, say! can you see..............

For the fourth of July weekend, Jillian and I headed out to our friend Allison's family lake cabin in Spokane (Eastern Washington).
The lake cabin was a delight. Allison's family was very welcoming into the cabin and even more so to the small community they have out there.
Over the weekend we not only got to celebrate fourth of July, we were also given the chance to celebrate Allison's quarter century b'day (which was on the 3rd.).

The weekend was full of fun and games here is just a few...
swimming, skiing, knee boarding, paddle boating, Frisbee, football into the water, inner tubing, bobbing on floating chairs, cranium, dice games, cards, scrabble and more.

We were able to go on the neighbors party boat and watch all the fireworks for July 4th. Which By the way were set off by other neighbors. Some that I have never seen before.

Here is just a sample of the week end...

























It was a great weekend....

3 years and counting

ABC easy as 123,

Well as we all know there is not much worth having that comes easy. And our marriage was no exception.
with long distance between us, friends and family, moving countries, family tragedies and on top of all that a normal marriage. It felt that this anniversary was a mile stone for us. Feeling that our love is stronger than ever and still growing.

Our anniversary is was Wednesday the 1st of July. But because both of us had to work on that night. We decided to celebrate a day earlier by going to a fancy restaurant called "Cafe Juanita".
It is just around the corner from our house, So we were able to get dressed up and walk there.
It was a great dinner with Jillian and I reminiscing over the last 3 years.
While we were reminiscing, we had a lovely dinner and desert.














We forgot to take a picture in the restaurant. So we took one on the way out.