We're Still Here

Honestly, I don’t know why I try to keep a blog when I know that it will be months in between blogs. However, I think it’s nice to actually post things that are going on every once in a while; like once a year. I thought that once I graduated college I would have more time and inspiration to blog, but I was completely wrong. I’ve thought about blogging lots of time, but when I get down to putting in the effort and the time to update my little area in cyberspace, I fail. I’d rather watch Chuck or play with my dog. (Yes, we now have a dog.)

Seeing that I haven’t updated the Wasson blog in quite a long time, I’ll provide a brief list of things that have happened since the last posting.

1.We Bought a House! Many of you know that on the last day of January we bought a house in Albuquerque. It was a great deal, in a prime location, and the perfect house for us. It’s a two-story, four-bedroom house on the NE side of Albuquerque. Steve can get to work in about 10 minutes, which makes him extremely happy. Our yard is HUGE and sometimes it’s a bit overwhelming with how much maintenance it needs. We’re hoping to remedy that sometime next year. Although we have been in the house for almost 9 months, we have yet to completely unpack. We’re working on that.
2.Steve became the real Scuba Steve. Fulfilling a longtime dream, Steve received his open water scuba diving certification in March as a birthday present. His training included two weekends of intense class work, pool dives, and then the final open water dives. His open water dives took us to the Blue Hole in Santa Rosa, NM. I had never been to Santa Rosa, and in all honesty, it’s not much of a town, but the Blue Hole is interesting. You should check it out if you ever get a chance.
3.I Graduated from College. After five marvelous years at New Mexico Tech, I finally finished my degree in May. I received a Bachelors of Science in Technical Communication with a minor in Biology. Sounds pretty cool, huh?
4.Steve and I ventured to Mexico. As a graduation present and an early wedding anniversary present, Steve and I vacationed in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with my mom, stepdad, and grandma. It was such a fun week. We stayed in this Americanized resort on the beach that my mom owns a timeshare with. During the week, Steve and I kayaked into the ocean, ate interesting food, experienced a booze cruise, watch seagulls ravage for food, swam in the ocean, went on a pirate ship cruise, went on a canopy zip line tour, ate lots of Mexican food, and swam in the ocean some more. Since Steve was able to Scuba dive, he scuba dived once during the week with a company called Vallarta Adventures. While Steve scuba dived, I relaxed on a beach and snorkeled for three hours. I fell in love with snorkeling.
5.I Got a Full-Time Job. Upon graduating and returning from Mexico, I accepted a full-time position with a technology company in Albuquerque. I had been working with them as an intern since December, and they liked me enough to hire me on full-time. So far, I love my job. I especially like the travelling involved. I don’t have to travel extensively, but when I do get to travel I get to either go to cool places or go see and be apart of awesome events. Having a full-time job right after I graduated was such a blessing, and I don’t take it for granted.
6.We’re Selling the Socorro House. Since I’m no longer going to NM Tech, Steve and I decided to sell our house in Socorro. We thought about renting it out, but after little deliberation, decided that it was best if we just sell the darn thing. We spent many weekends in the summer doing yard work, painting, and shampooing carpets. As of date, we have accepted an offer and should be (God-willing) closing in the middle of December. We are super excited!
7. We decided that we like Seattle, but we just would never live there. In July, I went to Seattle for work. At the end of the week, Steve flew out and we spend four days in the Seattle area. We visited Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Ranier, the downtown area, and the Experience Music Project (EMP), which I highly suggest you visit if you ever get to go to Seattle. Oh, yeah, we saw the Space Needle too. We also were quite adventurous and camped on the East side of the Cascade Mountains one night. We originally wanted to camp two nights, but the first night it was raining too much, so we searched for three hours for a hotel room in Tacoma. We loved the Seattle area, but we decided that we don’t think we could ever live there because of all the traffic. The traffic was horrendous! It took us three hours to get from Seattle to Tacoma, and their only 30 some miles apart! I don’t complain about the traffic in Albuquerque as much as I used to.
8.We added a new member to our family. No, we did not have a kid. Better, we got a dog. When we returned from Seattle, we got Flower, a cute black Labrador Retriever mix. She’s mostly lab, but she has a bit of chow and pit bull in her. She has been such a treat to have around. She’s named after the skunk in the Disney movie Bambi. The name is very suiting since she is mostly black with this distinct white stripe down the middle of her face and she loves to fart and stink up her surroundings. Flower loves walks, busy bones, playing football, playing Frisbee, and jumping on Steve. Actually, it’s quite evident that she loves Steve more than me.
9.Steve is still in school. We had hoped that Steve would be graduating in December, but things started to pick up at his work and he opted only to take two classes instead of the three that he needed. Because of this, he won’t graduate until May. At first, it was a little disheartening, but there has been more positives than known negatives by doing this. Steve is definitely excited to almost be done. He really hates school right now.
10.I’m going back to school (hopefully). For some crazy reason, I decided that I want to pursue a Masters degree. I struggled with this decision for months, and we finally decided that it’d be best for me to go ahead and pursue a Master’s rather than not doing and one day regretting it. With that said, I’m planning on starting in the Spring at UNM’s Anderson School of Management to get an MBA with a concentration in Marketing. I should know in a couple of weeks if they are going to let me give them my money for the next four years. Since I want to continue working full-time, I’m going to only go to school part-time, so it’s going to take me four wonderful years. Yes, I know, I am crazy.

Well, I think that brings things up to speed. We have some exciting activities coming up in the next month such as a trip to Phoenix for Thanksgiving and to see Van Halen, closing on the Socorro house, and having our first Christmas in our Albuquerque house. Hopefully, I will keep up the blogging and let you know how these things turned out. Until next time!

God Bless!
~ Carmelita