This is a video of Thomas' speech from the Oktoberfest tasting, on his last day of work!
What a week for Thomas! He finished up his career at Carolina Brewery on Wednesday with an Oktoberfest tasting, and an epic pie-ing. At the Brewery, on your last day, you get a pie for each year you have worked there... Thomas worked there for nine years (almost exactly). There are, of course, pictures below. Wednesday night celebrations were cut short, however, because he had to be at the airport by 5:30am Thursday to fly to Denver. He arrived in Denver around 10:30 mountain time, and it turns out, went straight to work! Jeremy, the production manager at Oskar Blues, picked Thomas up and they went to the facility in Longmont. They took him to lunch, and then threw him on the canning line for a little while. After touring all of their facilities and getting to know some folks, they went to dinner. The next day, Thomas went on a mountain biking ride with a bunch of the guys that work there, then helped out brewing a batch of beer. Long story short, he absolutely LOVED it, and they LOVED him. They are emailing him the paperwork for his new position as Packaging Manager tomorrow, and he will fax it back! They also want him back in Colorado ASAP to train there until the facility in Brevard will be ready to open up. I'm so proud of him! We'll have to live apart for a while, but that's okay, lots of people have to do that for a little while, and we'll get through it. As the director of my Graduate Program said, "Sometimes the biggest changes in life happen all at once, and that's okay". So we think he will probably be headed back to Colorado after Liam's birthday (which is September 21) on September 22nd. Little Liam and I will probably go to Colorado for Thanksgiving when I have some time off from teaching.
There's not much happening with me. I'm still not teaching, my first day of actual teaching isn't until September 11th. I'm still doing some training, which kind of frustrates me, but I guess it's necessary. Liam went to stay with Gramps and Cookie (Thomas' parents) while Thomas was in Colorado, since I was working all day Thursday and Friday, plus driving two hours. He came home with new shoes and what seems to be a whole new wardrobe. What a lucky little guy (perhaps I should go stay with Gramps and Cookie for a few days!).
I've not had much time for knitting, so I haven't any finished product pictures to put up. I'm finishing up a project for Harrison Patrick Dean (who was born yesterday!), and I'll post pictures of that as soon as I get it to his mommy, Laura Grace. I've also started a few projects for Thomas -he's going to be living in the mountains of Colorado for the fall, then the mountains of North Carolina for the winter... the man needs knitted clothing to keep him warm! As soon as I finish that stuff I'll post pictures. Anyhow, that's it for now... as things begin to change, I'm sure these posts will be much more interesting!
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| That's me, waiting with the first pie while Thomas' nieces mustard his head! |
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| More mustarding! |
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| As the wife, I thought it was only fair that I got to throw the first pie. |
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| Two pies at once! |
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| And another... |
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| And after nine pies, I'm not sure who got the worst of it, Thomas or the parking lot... |
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| I may have kissed him, even though he was covered in pie... |
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| It's true, I kissed him... |
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| Isn't he handsome? |
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| And this is the breakfast that was brought to me in bed this morning. Love my husband! |
