Getting a job and getting a cat

Hello there!

It's me again! I know that it took a while for me to enter my second entry... but my past week wasn't as easy going as I thought it was going to be, as I thought last weekend. So instead of telling you about all the wonderful sightseeing I thought I would've done, I'll go ahead and tell you about my past week. :)

The first half of the week I spent preparing job interviews, going to job interviews and writing thank you letter for previous interviews. I went through 6 interviews this week, that makes a total of 10 interviews in a week. In the beginning I was quite nervous, because I really haven't interviewed since I first started working for Luna in 2001. But thanks to some preperation help from a recruiter I was able to catch the employers' attention. By Wednesday this week I recieved 2 great offers and on Thursday I accepted the Staff Accountant position at the international proffessional services firm Rödl & Partner (mainly a CPA firm = revisionsbyrå). What made this opportunity so interesting for me is the fact that the firms origins are German and therefore many of the clients and my collegues will be German. For me it's simply a dream job to have the possiblity to combine both accounting and German. Anyway I'll be starting my new job in downtown Atlanta on June 1st, that's this coming Friday. For the first 2 weeks I will go through a planned introduction and I have a mentor assigned to me. I must say that I very excited about starting this new job, in a new company and with lots of new international people!

So except for driving Charles to school and picking him up every day (we still haven't organized how he will be taking himself to school, because I will be the master of the car :) ) my time has been focused on the job situation. On Friday I actually treated myself to some shopping at Lenox Square. I didn't buy very much, I think I was a little overwhelmed by all the great shops and all the sales. To anyone who is looking for some great shopping - you'd better get over here! Friday evening I joined Charles with some of his classmates at a nice bar, where I enjoyed some great iced tea (I was driving) out on the terasse in the 80 degree warm air. That is something that I just love here... and that's the heat. During the days it's about 85 degrees (30 C) with clear skyes and a beaming sun and in the evenings it stays around 75 degrees (25 C). I know that summer has hardly started here and it's going to get very very hot, but luckily we do have an air conditioner. :) That's me with our Ford Focus.

After Friday, Charles and I decided to go to a couple of animal shelters to look for a cat who needed a new home. We both really wanted a cat, we would actually love to have a dog as well but that will definitely have to wait. There are so many animal shelters in Atlanta, you can't even imagine. We finally visited 3 shelters and went home with a pretty good idea of which one we wanted to take home. We agreed that we would adopt Casey the next day, a shy little 1 year old grey-brown tabby, who was hiding at the top of a shelf at the Atlanta Pet Rescue Center. So after speaking to one of the volunteers this morning we agreed to come and pick Casey up. Casey (who by the way has had several different names since we got her, but I think we've finally decided for Casey) seems to just love it here with us. The only thing that gets me a little stressed out is the fact that cats usually live until they're about 15 years old.... and if Casey is about a year old that means that she will theoretically live until I'm 43 years old!!!! It's that crazy?!? I know I'm a little paranoid... :) Well, the main thing is that Casey will be a great pet companion and so far it's promissing. Here a couple of pictures from our drive to the animal shelters and back at home with Casey.






















Well I hope you all had a great weekend and had the opportunity to enjoy some spring weather. I sure need to get out in the sun a little more this week! Talk to you soon and take care!