What Cody did at his Florida Conference...

A couple weeks ago, Cody was gone for a couple of days to man a booth and be a presenter about non-destructive testing.  Knowing Cody like we all do, he can't sit still.  He has to go exploring.  While exploring, he visited the beach and took these pictures...

Looks stormy, but it wasn't.

Cody's Corona picture.

Cody was thinking about me while he was there.

He also brought back some pretty sand dollars and conch shells!  When we have our beach house, we'll be able to display them.

Woo-hoo!

So, I was layed off from my job that I had for almost 2 years in April.  I was sad to go, but I was able to focus on school, plan our wedding, help some family friends get organized before re-opening their business, AND hang out with friends.  During that time, I also started looking for a job (but not too hard).  I had planned to do the job search in June so that I would have enough time to work on my resume, send it out, have interviews, and then start my job a week after Cody and I got married.  I didn't want to start a new job and then ask for a week off as soon as I was hired, so to me it was a perfect plan!  

Well, the plan was a success!  In June, a friend of mine informed me that her office was hiring and that I should send in my resume.  Well, two interviews and two personality tests later, they offered the job to me!  I am very excited about this.  It is essentially a receptionist position for Keller Williams International.  I will work (beginning July 28) at their headquarters! I am very nervous about this job because being a receptionist is waaaaaay more than answering phones and greeting people.  At my last job, I was a back-up receptionist when our regular receptionist had doctor appointments, vacation or lunch and I know that this will be a tough job.  I am looking forward to starting something new again.  Is it bad that I have had jobs in so many random fields other than my degree?  I would like to consider myself well rounded and that I can pretty much learn and do anything if I put myself out there.

I think the thing that I will miss most about not having a job for the past 3 1/2 months is about Cody.  Every morning, right before he leaves for work, he wakes me up with a kiss on the cheek and tells me "bye", that he loves me, and he hopes I have a good day.  Now we will have to adjust to getting up at the same time and getting ready for work together.  Yay!  I can't wait to start this new phase of our life!

My Sweetness

Last night as I was brushing my hair before going out to Posse, Cody said, "You look so pretty when you brush your hair."  It was such a simple statement, but it was so sweet and made me smile to myself and thank God for him.  He knows just what to say to make me feel better about myself probably without realizing what he is doing.

What's in a name?

For a while now, I have wanted to blog about what's been going on with me/us.  Here it is, 2 weeks after our wedding and I'm actually doing it!  The funny thing is that what has been holding me back is trying to pick out a URL that was unique to us!  So, here is the explanation of Zeecee and Jofe (pronounced yo-fee).

One day while I was working at the front desk at the vet clinic, I had a client come in and she was quite talkative!  Somehow we started talking about the meaning of words and she said that in Hebrew or Yiddish (my memory is already failing me) Zeecee meant beautiful.  She told me that I was zeecee!  What a compliment!  She also told me that I was jofe which means nice.  Basically it stuck with me.  At that time, Cody and I didn't really have any pet names for each other and I was trying to think of something cute and creative.  Eureka!  The lady helped me out!  When I saw Cody later that day, I told him about what the lady had said and he agreed with her.  I became Zeecee and he became Jofe.  We were pretty good about calling each other that for a short while, but reverted back to our usual "Hun" or "Beb".  Occasionally he'll remember and call me Zeecee.  He's so sweet for remembering something that was so small of a thing a couple years ago, but meant so much to me!