Forgive the pictures please!
I posted some pictures my future landlord sent before we went to Atlanta to view the house. I finally got around to resizing them and posting them. The former tenant had a thing for the southwest apparently. Brian says “it just looks really southern” LOL … he’s right. Anyway, there they are to give you an idea of our new domicile.
AT&T. What’s the deal with AT&T and Atlanta? The first trip I took down there, we stayed at my good friend Cherri’s house (Thanks Cherri, BTW!!) in Buford. You’d think with all the crazy AT&T commercials with their annoying bars, there wouldn’t be a place on Earth that didn’t have bars. Well, apparently Cherri’s house doesn’t like AT&T. As soon as we drove around her subdivision, the bars fell to 1. Then the moment we got in her house, NO BARS!! WTH? We just thought it was a freak thing, maybe she lives behind a weird hill or something. Then Cam and Freddy move into Freddy’s new apartment… different part of town, but same story. NO BARS. So I hope Atlanta figures out this AT&T problem. I’m wondering if the new house has bars, I didn’t look to check. I should have.
I found a new online community for me, it’s for northwest Atlanta mommies. I’ve been having a blast over there, I felt “at home” instantly … it’s making me feel more and more that Atlanta was a great decision for us, and for me personally.
Speaking of St. Louis, leaving, and great decisions…Cam sent me an email today from dice.com.
This is a graph detailing IT jobs coming into St. Louis through this particular job search engine. In this particular write-up, it was also mentioned that “since July 2008, the number of tech jobs in St. Louis posted on Dice declined nearly 55 percent, from 987 last year to 446 last month.”
And also “The overall employment picture for St. Louis looks bleak. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the city¿s unemployment rate was at 9.9 percent in June, up from the 9 percent recorded in May.”
So with this in mind, I am very very glad that Cam found thìs job in Atlanta, that he’s moving us … even though I know I will miss a lot of things in St. Louis… our unified family is what’s really important… and I see a great future for us in Atlanta.
