Wish me luck Guys!

Thats awesome news Shell!! Good luck! Although, I'm sure you'll do fine. Keep us updated as things move along.

Sometimes you can find short-term, already furnished apartments, kept for situations like yours. Can you get an apartment guide from either of those 2 cities? You might even be able to get reimbursed for any expenses incurred due to moving for your job. At the very least, save all your receipts and write expenses off your taxes next year.

I mean all your receipts, even for any boxes or packaging you buy to help you move.

Good point Bren! Whenever I move I save receipts for everything- boxes, tape, rental truck, gas, hotels, etc. that I needed in order to get where I'm going, in order to write off on taxes.

Good luck, Shell. Breda is right about saving those receipts. When it comes to taxes, every write-off helps.

Thank you so much! I was shocked when I logged on and there were 23 replies! I feel so loved!

As for the tax write off thing, I don't know diddly about taxes and sure didn't know I could write my moving expenses off! Sounds like a good thing to me!

As for when or where I'm moving, I won't know until I have my formal interview. That when he will explain everything in much more detail including what to do for housing. I'm just trying to plan ahead a bit, so I have a bit of a jump start on things. I've done some searching on the web about apartments in Lincoln (Columbus doesn't have much stuff listed on the net though ) and there is a lot available with a hefty price tag. Thank God most places accept cats with a deposit of course! Brenda mentioned apartment guides, I don't know where to look for those. Would supermarkets or even WalMart have those? It's definitely going to be a big change with moving to a big city...I'm spoiled with my little town.

Daniela, I am a bit nervous to be moving away from home. Nothing major, but bit scared of the unknown. Lincoln is only 80 miles away, so it's not like I'm half way across the nation or anything. It's just far enough away, but yet close enough to come home every once in a while. Mom is really taking it hard. She knows that her little girl needs to move on with her life, but yet she feels she needs to nuture (sp?) me forever. That's just how Mom's are! She's sad that I'm moving away, but it's not like I will forget all about my family. She just has that fear for some reason. Dad is really happy about it. He's actually more excited than I am!

Thank you all for the encouraging words and wishes of luck. I will need them! I'll keep you all updated on the current events. It'll be an exciting adventure!

Shell, I have taken my self and moved to strange citys often. The hard part of it is feeling away from your family. And feeling like I am out here in the middle of nowhere. But no education is ever wasted!Some one told me that once and I never forgot it. you go girl!

You will do great Shell - You will make an amazing manager!

Thanks Guys!

Just a little update:
Nicki (my store manager) came to me on Friday. She said that I have been accepted, but I won't be going until September. I still don't know where my training session will be, but it looks like I will definitely going! At first I was kind of upset that I won't be going right away, but the more I thought about it the more it works my way. At least I have June, July and August to save up some money. Next week, I will officially OWN my car...so I will have quite a bit more money in the bank. At least this way, I won't have to take out a loan from the bank so I could pay my deposits and etc when I move. The first thing I plan on buying is a computer...I'll miss you guys too much if I don't buy my own!

Well...just thought I'd give ya'll a little update on what's going on!

Thats great news Shell! congratulations! You will have some time to prepare this way . How exciting!

shell,can you buy it at Walmarts? And get a decount?[sp] That would help you.

Yeah...but honestly I don't know how good the quality is!
We don't get many returned to our store, but I've always got my other computers through an actual "computer store" like Gateway or Dell. I do get a discount, it's only 10%, but it is better than nothing. I think right now we've got 2 different ones at my store. One is approx. $500 and the other one is $700. That is for the whole schabang...monitor, tower and printer. That's a pretty good deal. I'd save either 50 or 70 bucks with my discount.

I'm going to check out Gateway and Dell to see what they've got to offer. Anyone ever bought a Dell? I've got a Gateway PC and it's fairly good...sometimes!

I have the HP from Walmart,and I never had any problems,I love it!

Thanks Sherral...I'll look into them too! Plus, if it saves me money..I'm all for that!

I have got a Gateway. Only because we have a gateway store with service department.So I have someplace to bring it back to. I ordered a Dell on line, and It came with out the mouse. I spent 2 hrs on the phone trying to get the mouse, then i said screw it and sent it back with out ever turning it on. It might of been good, but you know, service is everything!

I agree. I had problems only once with this computer and that was back in March. It took many hours of tech support for them to tell me that they needed to fix it. Plus since there is no longer a service place in Nebraska for Gateways, I had to ship it to them in South Dakota at my expense. I wasn't very happy at the time, but considering that I haven't had many problems with it..it was worth it.

This is so great to hear, I'm very happy for you!!! I hope everything moves along swiftly and easyily!!! Congrats!!!!

Great news Shell!!

Good luck with all the changes.

Shell, I'd been wondering what had happened, but figured if I just kept going through the threads, I'd find out.


YAY!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! You must be so excited and nervous all at the same time.... I know you were excited to get going, but I'm glad you'll have the summer to save up, get comfortable with the idea... and 80 miles away isn't that bad. You can make a few trips and check out apartments and stuff without feeling like you're in a rush.

I don't know how it works there, but when I needed to move when I lived in Queens, the best way to go about it WAS NOT the paper. It was to just go to buildings I liked, buzz the superintendent, and find out if anything was available. With a little money, I'd get a call when someone moved out of a building I wanted to live in...

In many smaller towns, a lot of homes were converted to accomodate apartments. Accomodations like that are often posted on bulletin boards at supermarkets and laundromats. Just thoughts for you....

Again, congrats. YOU GO GIRL!!!!!

Shell, keep us posted of how its going and all!