All your questions answered

Good news travels fast! Minutes after my first post the congratulations came rushing in into our inboxes and over our phones. And of course you all immediately had questions. I know I was a little vague on details in my first post, but that’s because we didn’t have many. To be honest we didn’t have any – not until after 4 PM that day. I figure the best subject for my second post is to answer all your burning questions.

Here are the top questions asked Monday and their corresponding answers:

When are you moving?
We’re not sure yet. We don’t want to move to a rental property when we know we can afford to buy, so we’re on the hunt for a home (Yippy! – You don’t know how long Cameron and I have been cursing Bay Area home pricing.) We’ve both started the hunt online and Cameron even had some time yesterday after a project in Fairfield to drive the area we’re looking to move and determine where the good and bad areas are. This brings me to burning question number 2….

What part of Sac are you looking to move to?
We were originally thinking about the Natomas area, before we got the details of Cameron’s new position’s territory and a territory that might be opening up. Currently, Cameron’s job is what we’re calling a bench position. He’ll be supporting other people who have designated territories in the northern Central Valley region. Once a territory opens up (i.e. someone with a territory decides they want to do something different), Cameron will have the opportunity to take control of that territory. For those of you unfamiliar with the Sac region, Natomas is in the North Western part, which would have placed us closer to Marysville and Chico. We have since found out Cameron’s supportive territory would be more south, covering other metro areas other than Sacramento (if you can call them metros) such as Stockton, Lodi and Modesto. And that’s the same area a territory may become available for Cameron to take over soon. So the decided city is Elk Grove, which in the Sac region would be considered South West. We’ll look to get as south as we can. This location is actually better from me when I need to commute to the Bay Area for my job…..

What about your job, Sarah?
I’m going to be able to keep my job. My boss is going to allow me to work remotely with me commuting down to Sunnyvale one day a week and one week of each month. There’s a hotel next door to my building, so for that one week I would get up early Monday and stay at the hotel through Thursday night, driving home Friday after work. Technically, this should not be an issue as I am a contractor and so my “office” is my home, but her boss seems to think if he can’t see you, you’re not working, so ever since I started at my job, I’ve worked in my little cubicle. All of this in a nutshell means we’re keeping the move on the DL when it comes to my job - no one but my boss knows about the move and we hope that when we do get “found out,” it will have been long enough to prove its working and why mess with something that works?

The last question that has been on your minds is if the move is going to affect the Wedding?
Absolutely not! We’re already well into the details and planning of the wedding to let it affect it. You may think we’re crazy with all we have on our plate now, but we’re looking forward to our wedding and wouldn’t postpone it for the world. I’m just going to be busy with all the projects I have already started for the wedding and the new projects I am now planning because of the move. We don’t have a move date yet, so I’m not too stressed, just looking forward to it.

That’s about it for the burning questions you all seemed to have. Keep an eye out for more updates about the move, the wedding, my projects and our adventures!

Love always,
Sarah