Old friends, new jobs

Computer still not working, darkness reigns across the land... will we ever see my silly Cedric pics again?

On a brighter note, my friend from 5th grade has come up to spend the weekend with me and we are having a fine time. We spent the day in downtown Paso Robles, shopped and got some cheese for dinner.

Had a little grazing feast and then I taught her cribbage, at which she promptly kicked my ass. I'm not going to call her any names though, because she's going to read this. Good game, Lish!

We played some extremely lopsided Wii games, both beating each other soundly at different things. And now we have retreated to our respective laptops: she downloading my CD collection and me, well, blogging.

Partying and sleepovers are different when you're 32. The food is better, and I can have as many sodas as I want. The music is better because we have taste now, and NKOTB may have gotten back together, but not in my home. I am enjoying it a lot more than when I was a child because I know I'm not going to get my face written on when I fall asleep... hopefully.

I start my shiny new job on Monday at 4pm. Feel free to come and witness me conquering a new frontier! I'll make you a latte and sell you a mug or something...

I went and did my uniform shopping on Thursday and found stuff that fit me fine. I ignored the size on the labels and therefore enjoyed myself thoroughly. Ah, the secret to my complete shopping satisfaction, finally revealed!!

slideshow fun

Does not Compute

My computer caught a virus. It is bad. I have no way to access my files. I only backed up my wedding photos, and not the billion silly pictures of my life that had tucked in all safe in my hard drive. I am sad.

I know that I am not the first person that this has happened to, and that makes me feel a little better. But still. IT SUCKS.

What really sucks is that my husband worked on the computer for TEN HOURS (not an exaggeration, he's a tenacious man) and then when he thought it might be all better... he turned it on, and it made the same noise it made TEN HOURS BEFORE.

Nightmare!

There's still a computer in the house and at the store, so I am still able to communicate with the outside world. (What, a phone you say? Surely you jest. Hello 1985! Unless it's a text message.)

And I'm still able to get my blog fixes. I have the standards that I check constantly (see "blogs I dig" to the right) and now I have a new blogfriend. Go here: http://www.giddygirlie.com/ and check her blog out if you're into funny.

I will soon put her on my "blogs I dig" but I feel she must get a special mention as she is the first person who I know that I have never met. I have finally entered the 21st century, and look ma! No myspace.

(Yes that's right. I'm not on myspace. I know that's grounds for some kind of social outcastery but I just can't do it.)

Anyways!

I am going to miss my pictures and music if they can't be saved. I am keeping my fingers crossed that I will get home and Gabe will be all like "it's fixed honey. I truly am your knight in shining armor. Can I have a sandwich?" And I'll be all "sure" because I always like making sandwiches.

Got the Call

Finally got the call from Starbucks.

I should start in the next week or so... YAY!

Thanks for all your good luck, well wishes and general positive mojo.

Signs Point to Yes

The gal that did my second interview said she was 99.9% sure I'd be getting a call by Friday, telling me I got the job. That's pretty exciting news.

(It is not, however, the reason why I can't sleep. I don't normally post at 12:30am, but unfortunately my back is killing me. It's been worse, but it hardly ever keeps me up. Frankly, very little can keep me up once I've decided to sleep. So I'm very disturbed that my attempt this evening/early morning has been foiled.)

So if I start, it will probably be the end of next week. I am looking forward to it! I get to do a little bit of clothes shopping. It's for boring clothes and I'm about 10 pounds heavier than I want to be but still, shopping is shopping. And I get to make a little bit of money. And I get to add a little structure to my life. There's a lot of upside in this for me, for my little family.

Plus, if I get the job I won't have to process the feelings of rejection I dealt with when TJ's didn't hire me! I don't like rejection much...

Believe me, I'll let you know the second I do when I officially have the job. Wheeeee!

Just for fun: Here's a picture of Cedric, chilling with Tinker Bell at the Animal Kingdom. Yeah, he's got it like that...

Wha...?

Ok so I think I'm a little disoriented.

I spent the first few days of our honeymoon with this familiar feeling of dread. I realized about the 2nd or 3rd day that I was on emotional auto-pilot. See, I've spent the past 13 years doing that. I always had to go back to my job at the end of my travels. I would start worrying about how bad work was going to suck when I had to go back, thus casting a pall over what would be a lovely time if I could only stay present.

Then I remembered that I don't work there any more! Oh the joy! That didn't stop the feeling from coming back over and over, of course. But I always had a way to get rid of it.

Now we're home and I feel a little out of sorts. Guilty that I don't have to go back to grindstone, maybe? At any rate, I'm not sure what to do with myself. I have a 2nd interview with Starbucks tomorrow and I'm hoping that I get the job for plenty of reasons.

I haven't really settled into a meeting routine yet, and the one meeting I try to go to for sure is during my interview tomorrow evening. I was going to a meeting in San Luis on Fridays but it's too far to drive with gas being what it is... It's silly to go that far for a meeting when there's plenty of good ones literally down the street. I also don't have a sponsor up here yet. I asked some one but they live 40 miles away. Again, silly.

The awesome thing is that I'm really happy. As out of sorts as I might be, it's mostly because I'm being inundated with good stuff.

I hope you have enjoyed my stream-of-consciousness/journal entry/confession/update...

Wish me luck

I called yesterday and made a second interview appointment at Starbucks for Tuesday at 5pm.

Today I am in the store, and after having had a great day yesterday... today=nothing. Nada. Zip.

Bummer. Maybe next week...

I am happy that it's Friday and I get to spend the weekend with my hubby. Hopefully he won't need to work too much, and we get to watch the Angels-Dodgers series. Like, as it's happening. Which we don't usually get to do, thanks to the miracle of DVR and full lives.

I am missing my friends after having just seen a little of a few of them... I've had some nibbles at a few of my friends/relatives visiting up here but nothing solid yet. My mom is coming out in July, I hope that works out.

I met with a gal for dinner and it went well. It's amazing how much women can talk! I don't even remember everything we talked about but it was nice just to get to know some one a little. I am so comfortable with the friends I already have, I resist wanting to get new ones, but that's just being stubborn and silly.

It's about one hundred degrees here and I wish I had this crazy awesome thing or even this ever so slightly less fun toy. Why oh WHY did they not have these when I was a kid? We put down garbage bags on the lawn to pretend like we had a Slip n Slide. There's room in our front yard but no kids to explain why we have a water bouncer on our lawn. Alas, the water park in Paso isn't open until next weekend. So I guess I will just have to turn on the sprinklers and pretend I am four years old again as I run through them.

Wish you were here!

Have a great weekend what ever you end up doing. :)

Small town job hunt

I applied at Starbucks before we went on vacation, and I hadn't heard anything from them. So I went in yesterday and lo and behold the manager (Brandi) that I got the original application from was there.

She whipped out a clipboard when I asked about jobs and said "I've got space at noon for an interview." I went in at noon and it went very well. So well in fact that when I went to meet a potential friend for dinner, Brandi was in the restaurant (small town!) and told me she'd call me today to set up a second interview.

Well, she didn't call and I forgot to call til right now and she's already gone. I'll get on that tomorrow.

Disney photos

Greetings from WDW

Checking in with Cedric... my husband's waiting in our convertible.

Later, Cedric hangs with the gals...

I think Snow White has a thing for our gnome friend...

We spent a little time at Epcot.

Minnie has a beautiful butterfly collection!

My hubby, doing as the Norwegians do.

Cedric in Asia, somewhere...

Dinosaurs make nice hats.

As you can see, we are having fun.

Funny hats are funny