Hi all! Sorry for not posting in a while. Hope everyone had great holidays! It is hard to believe January is already half way up! We have been pretty busy since getting home from our Christmas trip home to Michigan. We had a quiet New Year's at home this year. Dave surprised me with a bottle of champagne (cheap from the Cub down the block, but still fun to celebrate!) and we snuggled up in bed to watch the ball drop on our laptop. I believe it was about 11:30pm EST that our TV cut out and we couldn't find any channel that had any balls dropping, so we resorted to webTV. The same but on a smaller screen. :)
After our little break from work and school, we have been in full swing since January 2nd. Dave has started is T8 training (trimester 8 out of 10). He is working at an office in Plymouth, about 5 minutes from the office I am currently employed at. He is adjusting, working on a few marketing projects, networking and getting some of the office training, too. He picked this office out himself to train in. He's had 2 full weeks of it so far and is enjoying it, but is also ready for more of a challenge. I'm sure in the coming weeks the docs will throw more at him once they see his confidence and skill levels!
Work has been pretty busy for me at Revolution. We have about 4 events planned for this month. A usual month will hold 1 maybe 2 workshops, so this month has been about double the work load. I'm not complaining though, I really do love it. This job lets me use all of my talents while having a blast with patients and all the kids! So much fun! I have also begun some training for my job promotion. Christina is expecting her first in April, so I will be assuming her manager position around that time. We have been doing a little training so far this month, but that will come full fledged in February where I'll learn the ins and outs of insurance. Woohoo! (not) Even with the insurance side of things, we're off to a great start. 2010 is going to be a great year! :)
We are still hoping to move up north about 30 minutes. So get this... The other night we posted our apartment on Craig's List (finally, had been putting it off for about a month) and the next morning we had heard back from 3 people! So we set up meetings this weekend. One couple came by today, super cute, about our age with the same hobbies and interests. They appreciated that we were also an organic family. I thought that was pretty cool. We're keeping our fingers crossed that they contact us in the near future to take our place! We think they would be very happy here! Once someone wants our place, we'll have to pick out an apartment up in Brooklyn Park like..in 24hours or something ridiculous like that and get moved, BECAUSE we are attending a Maximized Living seminar in Florida the 27-31. We are hoping to be moved out before the seminar.
I also just got home tonight from the first day of my last Rakowski Nutrition and Detox seminar. One more day left to certification!! I passed my third of 4 tests and got the results a couple weeks ago from that one. This final test is on the male and female reproductive organs, how to detox them, estrogen toxicity in both males and females, how to treat prostate cancer...that sort of stuff. I love to learn about this all, but will be glad to be done. Honestly I can't sit for that long anymore and don't know how I did it in college! haha, anyone else feel that way??
That kind of sums up our January so far. Oh yeah, I forgot to put on here that we have purchased a second car. We bought Dan and Allison's car (our friends who had the cutest triplets recently). Dan just graduated from Northwestern this December and is now in Florida training in the same program Dave and I will train in next year. We purchased their Chevy Cavalier after they upgraded to a van (for obvious reasons :). It will get us through the next couple years at least. It's good we got it when we did, because car pooling got impossible around that time, I believe the end of November..
Have a great rest of your weekends! Dave sends his love to all, as do I!
- E
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HI Elise
I'd just pop you an email if I could figure out how...
I'm Andrea (Helminen) Haverinen. You may not remember me, but that's OK. I'm a Cal grad, 2001. I'm cousins with the Tervo clan, siblings are Russell, Evelyn, Daniel. I'm not sure what class you were in.
Anyhow, I am now farming in northern Minnesota, raising organic hogs. We direct market our pork to families like yours, mostly between Fargo and the Twin Cities. To make this short, I was wondering if you'd be interested in trying some of our organic pork, or if you'd have some contacts in and around the Twin Cities who might be.
Send me a reply with an answer, some way or another. I'm not pushy, just looking for more people who might be interested in supporting the local sustainable farms here in Minnesota.
andrea@oakpostranch.com
website: oakpostranch.com
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