Yay! I finally feel like a Twinian. Or whatever you call people who live in the Twin Cities. After some research, we found a bank near our home and set up an account there, about two weeks ago. They told us it would be a week to ten days for us to get our bank cards. We waited and waited, and finally today they came. Now we can close our account with our old bank and transfer all our payment accounts for loans, car, etc to our new account. Life will be easier to keep track of. We didn't want to close our old account before getting the cards so that we could still access our money easily. This feels like a new strange sort of freedom.
More good news from today: I was called for another job interview! I applied for the position that I've been filling the last two weeks, and now I may be able to keep it for the school year. It would be such a blessing to have a job within walking distance, and with set hours each day, and a bonus that I have already had time to develop a relationship with the students and teachers I have been working with. I'll be doing little jigs for days, I'm sure.
On Sunday my husband, Doc, and I ended up helping a lady whose car had a flat tire get to work. She didn't have money to fix the tire, so we scrounged up some cash and change and gave her whatever we had. Hopefully her day got better, because ours sure did after that! On our way home we found a string of antique stores, many of which were having sales. We stopped to check them out because we needed new chairs for the dining room. We didn't purchase any chairs, because a quick call to my mother-in-law revealed there free chairs waiting for us elsewhere (yay, free!). However, we were able to find a nightstand for the Doc, which is something he had been looking for.
The nightstand wasn't so significant, though. As we were shopping the antique stores we smelled something delicious and stumbled upon this little hole-in-the-wall restaurant called The Blue Door... presumably because the door to the building is blue. Their main item is the blucy, which is a burger with cheese inside rather than on top of the beef. Very good stuff! We ordered cajun fries on the side and they were totally worth it. It was a fairly inexpensive place to eat, had friendly service, and good food. It is rather cramped, but it's a pub. The only thing I would warn would be to make sure to order burgers well-done, because they tend to be pretty red in the middle. Don't let that deter you, though. If you're ever in the St. Paul area, go find it! It's worth it.
Dinner tonight: leftovers that need to be eaten! Then a little "clean the fridge" party after dinner, and we should have more room in there (and tupperware). Sorry for the short synopses of life. Maybe I'll write again tomorrow if I'm not feeling so brain dead. I was sick yesterday, after all.
Blog #13, done!
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