Old Job... New Job

For the past two years and six months I have worked for KFC and A&W. Despite the embarrassment of working there i've had for the past seven months or so. I absolutely loved this job. It was amazing for high school being able to work nights and having an extremely flexible job. Not to mention working 40 hours a week for my junior and senior year in high school. I still don't know how I did it and was able to get good grades in school. Here are some lovely pictures :)

Who knew I would get a CHAMPS card for this?! I was very clumsy when I worked there.

In our spare time at worked we liked to try and fit in small boxes or fridges and take pictures :)

I absolutely loved this job while I worked for it but after being married it isn't the best way to bring in money. So after graduating Dental Assisting school I have spent almost six months trying to find a job dental assisting. About five or six interviews later... still no job. The phone call always ended like this "we found someone with two years working experience." But really how am I suppose to get experience if no one will hire me?! After a lot of frustration I decided to just find any other job while still interning and looking for a job as a dental assistant.

The day we had a photoshoot, getting my teeth cleaned and pretending to study :)

My new job is at ROI Solutions, the same place Hunter works. They had a new campaign start up so they hired about 35 new people...

Now I work for Moultrie feeders which sells deer feeders, fish feeders, and trail cameras to take pictures of deer or anything else that walks by. A lot of people use them as security for their homes. Some people are lucky and get pictures like this.....

So people call in when something on their camera isn't working and we troubleshoot the problem and help them fix it. We also will do orders on line for them :) We deal with a lot of people in the southern states that we call "Bubba" who is a southern older person who doesn't know how to use technology ;) Here are some fun phone calls we've had so far...

Bubba: I've put the batteries in and the SD card and I can't get the dang thing to turn on!!!!

CS agent: did you press the power button?

Bubba: awwwww shi*

(If you are wondering, yes he forgot to press the power button)

Bubba: I can't get the camera to turn on.

CS agent: Look at the batteries and make sure they are all put in correctly cause if one is in the wrong way the camera wont turn on.

Bubba: well I put them in there right so it should be turning on!

CS agent: Check the batteries cause that is most likely what it is.

Bubba: aww man I hate to say this but it worked.. you were right.

Bubba: the camera took six pictures in one day and it hasn't taken any in 24 hours!

CS agent: have you ever thought that maybe an animal didn't walk by?

Bubba: oh I didn't think of that...

Most of the phone calls in the day go like that so it is entertaining but sometimes very annoying when they wont try what you're telling them. Or they don't even have the camera with them and they say it isn't working yet they left it in the woods three hours away when they know its not working.. how are we suppose to help them fix it?! Overall I love it, it is really easy and entertaining....

So this is me until I get a dental assisting job :)

One Year

No we haven't been married for a year... but it has been a year since we met. To some of you that might seem crazy that we are married and had not even known each other for a year. But when its love, there's nothing you can do about it:)

Hunter got home from his mission from Detroit on June 23, 2010. On that day my sister texted me and said she wanted to set me up with somone. She has set me up before and it didn't go so well ;) So I said I don't know.. and she said it was her friend Nicole & Jay's brother and she said he just returned home from a mission (yay!) and sent me this picture...

How could I say no to that!?!? So I said "Yes Please!!" After a few weeks of not hearing anything about going on a date or anything I was bummed out. Let's face it.. he is such a good lookin man! Then one day I was working a 12 hour shift at work and finally was able to go one break. I grabbed my phone and saw that I had a text message from a new number.. It said Hi Kelli, this is Hunter Chamberlain... and thats all I had to see and I was so excited!! He just said a little bit about himself and what he likes to do and I remember feeling bad because that text was from five hours ago... so I texted back hoping he would text real soon! He tells me now that he didn't think that I would text him back at all because it had been so long. We texted for awhile that day and were trying to set up a date but my work schedule was so crazy working 6 days a week. (after we were engaged and talked about how we met he said he didn't believe that I actually worked those hours and thought I was just putting off going out with him... not true :) ) Then a week or two later we set up a date for Friday August 13, 2010. We met at my sister Kari's house and I was hoping he wasn't there yet.. but he was. One look at him and I fell in love instantly. We ate pizza then played a mario game on the nintendo. which Hunter and I lost everytime. Then we randomly decided to go see knight and day. We rode over to the theatre in his car and before we got in and he went to the drivers side and I was thinking he wasn't going to open the door for me, but then he said Dont touch that door!! And I stopped not sure what he was meaning and Hunter walked around to the passenger side of the car and opened it for me. Hunter thought I didn't like him at all, and neither did the other couple that was there. But walking into the movie theatre I wasn't sure if Hunter would pay for me or not, so I was talking to Kari telling her I didn't have money and she said she would pay for me if he didn't. But sure enough he did pay for the both of us. The whole movie Kari kept nudging me and telling me to hold his hand or lay on his shoulder. And believe me I wanted to.. and Hunter says he did to. But we didn't. We left the movie and dropped me off at Kari's house.. we did one of those side hugs with a person you just met and he said he had a lot of fun and we should do it again real soon, and I agreed. But I was wondering if it would really happen or not. After this day we never missed a day of texting.. aside for the two weeks he left me to go hunting. It's funny talking about how we both knew that we were going to get married because I went to work and talked to my friend Whitney and she said what if you guys got married.. and I said its not if... its when. And Hunter talked to his friend Jeremy the night after and said that he was going to marry me. So this is a story of Love at first sight.. if you don't believe in love at first sight, you should. Cause thats how we fell in love :)

Sorry for the long post.. but this blog is acting as our journal :) And I dont want to forget any details.

Air Conditioning

In an earlier post I mentioned how we learned we didn't have air conditioning in our apartment. All summer long it has been 80 degree's everyday, if not warmer. So a few weeks ago we couldn't take the heat anymore and we called home depot to see if they would give us a refund on our swamp cooler we bought. When we first bought it the guy told us we would love it and it would keep our whole place nice and cool, but during the conversation on the phone the guy said that the little swamp cooler works good for a house that already has air conditioning but not to cool down a whole apartment. That would have been nice to know before we bought it... people should just be honest instead of just trying to make a sale. :) Then we went to sears and plugged in two different air conditioners. A frigidaire and a Kenmore. After trying them both out we decided on the Kenmore. It was blowing out freezing air. So we took it home and installed it.

How hot it was before....

Installing the Air conditioner

This is how cool it stays now :)

We absolutely love our new air conditioner!! It's so nice to actually wrap up in a blanket and still feel cold. Thank you to my dad who went with us to Home Depot, Sear's, and back to our apartment to help set it up!!