So much to talk about (Sulphur (poor Aggie), Crawfish Boil , Promotion, New Job, & Knocked Up)

Ok so I know its been a while since I've updated my blog. Lets just say life has been hectic. So I"ll go in reverse order:

Last night, Kristen & I saw the movie "Knocked Up." That has to be one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. I'd say on par with Wedding Crashers & Old School. Maybe even better because it doesn't get caught up in a romantic comedy plot. Two thumbs way up!

While I was on vacation down in Sulphur, I found out I'd be getting a new assignment. Starting this week, I'll be in the refinery's Long Range Planning group. My official title will be "Long Range Planning Analyst." I'll be doing the monthly Lookback & Backcast reports. These are reports that detail how the refinery did compared to what was planned for each month. It's a pretty sweet move, maybe a little sooner than I had anticipated. This is exactly the kind of job that I hope launches me to a job in Houston.

Separately, I got a promotion a couple of months back that I forgot to talk about. I'm real excited about it! Thats one of the cool things about the refinery, you can get a promotion up a technical career ladder without changing jobs... (hmm, but I ended up changing jobs, hmm.)

Sulphur, Ok, we went back down to Sulphur for a week to celebrate Kristen's youngest sister's (Klaire) high school graduation.

It was a fun week. I got to hang with my family, friends, and Kristen's family. I also went on a plant tour of the Grace catalyst plant. It's the plant that makes the catalyst my plant uses in California. (Small world, huh?)

A really cool part of the trip was a crawfish boil for Klaire and her cousin Stephanie celebrating their high school graduation. We boiled 550 lbs of crawfish. It was really cool. I learned to boil crawfish! Check out these pics. The other really fun part was playing Flip Cup (you know the drinking game). The best part was seeing Kristen's grandma & mom playing Flip Cup with all of us!!

The only bummer of the Sulphur trip was another "Poor Aggie" story. His breath had been very bad for a couple of days so when I brought him to the vet to get the "ok to travel" clearance from the vet (he flies with us when we go to Sulphur) the vet said he maybe needed his teeth cleaned. So when we got to Sulphur we went to Kristen's family vet who looked at him and said we was way past "maybe" needing a cleaning. In fact, the vet removed 12 of Aggie's teeth. Poor Aggie. He already had a lot of teeth removed from A.R.F. before we adopted him. Now he's down to two K-9s and a few molars in the back.