The Traveling Kind

Well I think everyone knows by now that my contract with Dell Children's Hospital was canceled by the hospital. That was 12 days ago now and I still don't have a new job. Normally what would happen if a contract was canceled is that my recruiter would submit me to pretty much any available PICU day jobs throughout the country and I'd go to the first one that offered me a job. However, a decision we made in regards to our housing and the fact that we want to stay in Austin is kind of limiting my options. Lucky for me, (hopefully not for bad/sad reasons) a traveler currently on contract with Dell is not going to be able to finish his/her contract. This led to the the Dell director contacting me again and asking if I was interested in coming back and finishing out that contract. Of course I said yes but due to all the junk that has to be done between my company and the hospital I don't have an official offer yet. I could still potentially not start work again until next we...

Ugh. I really didn't want this to my next post but I'm getting a lot of folks asking about our tiny house, so I guess I can't put it off...and it's been a month so that's fair. So about that tiny house. Remember how I said we had everything figured out and we're doing this and we spit shook on it and everything? Well, long story short: no tiny house for us right now. In the end, it all came down to funding. Which I never even considered because my income is sufficient and my credit is great. As it turns out banks don't like that we don't have a house and you can't see my "housing income" from my company on my W2. Oh, and we haven't had a loan that big before. Uh, duh. It would technically be our first house, of course we haven't had a loan that big before. But you can't tell 'em that. I'll say more about that later. Okay, so here's the long version: CHAPTER ONE: The Home and Garden Show On June 20th - I'll n...