Parents to St. Louis

St. Louis Arch

It's official now, Conoco Phillips is transferring Jay to their St. Louis division to be a director of Human Resources starting as soon as July 1st. We've known about the possibility for a little while now, but only recently has it been made a sure deal. Of course this makes things kind of crazy around my parents' house now. Mom's in a flurry trying to get the house on the market (as if she really needs to work at it, it looks amazing as ever). Jay's having to make lots of plane trips now. He's currently in Denver, but he'll be flying very frequently back and forth to St. Louis to get everything ready for the transfer. Part of this is also so he can check out some neighboorhoods and possible houses to buy. Speaking of that, mom has made very clear that she wants a "real fireplace" this time, not some imitation that you flip a switch on the wall and fire magically appears, lol. I'm pretty sure she'll get what she wants this time around. It sounds like they may be there until he retires. This move won't affect what I'm doing much, I'll still be here in Houston going to school until I graduate next summer. Residency is still up in the air, but I'm hoping to stay around here and close to Kristi. This does mean that I get to see some new cities on occasion, holidays in St. Louis, maybe some road trips to Chicago where I've been before. That sort of thing should be fun. It's kind of exciting, I'm happy for them to get out of Houston and on to something different, and it is a rather nice promotion for Jay as well. We're hoping that with this new job he won't have to fly nearly as much if at all. That would be great if that's the case. We'll see, i'll keep everyone updated.