Just your (un)average girl

Tomorrow is our last day of training and we got them to switch us to the morning shift so that we can leave around 3 and head home (3 hours away)- all about that!

Things have been good here, went to dinner with most of my co workers tonight, i was the dd and second eldest (and only sober one). Should be fun lol, but they are all really awesome people- they said that they cannot believe I will be 30 this month, they said not a day over 24 (which is most of them) so HOLLA!

I CANNOT WAIT to be back home though! I am really looking into getting a little scooter to drive around town in. I mean, i cannot go over 50mph with the speed limits anyway and it will save HUGE on gas.. so getting to work and even to my sis and even The Man’s house… oh man, it will be great! So looking into getting one when I get back. 

The Man is getting a new motorcycle tomorrow (fingers crossed) and so I asked if we can still hang out and he said yeah we can hang, but I won’t be able to drive with you… it just doesn’t go that slow.. hahah 

AND AN AWESOME MOMENT*****  I took the money I had saved for the house that didn’t happen, that I kept for the move that didn’t happen and used it to pay off the debt I had accumulated over the months (years) and I am happy to say I feel like a grown up now! 

So many positives in life and I am loving every single one of them.. including the feeling of missing people. It is really great to be gone for a few days and to miss people and have them miss you and look forward to seeing them tomorrow… I mean my sis just got the Iphone5 and has been sending me pix of the babies and I am like OMG I AM GOING TO SQUEEZE THEM! 

So yeah… tomorrow, last day of training, setting up the store Sun-Tues and soft opening is Wed! Kinda cool to be part of the pioneers of something so much more than a retail chain. So.Much.More. 

hahah i thought i went in at 1 today and it is 12!!  I am already fucking up and it’s the third day… oye.

Sun cut short, off to shower now lol 

hanging out by the pool…

.. at the hotel. I do not have to be into work until 1 today, so i figured i would get some sun in the process.. real rough life I live people… real rough. 

So i get done here around 6:15 Fri night and then have about a 3 hour drive home and Sat morning my uncle and popa are bringing my bed set from my mom’s house to my new place! and I just need to move my clothes from my sis to there.. it is only about 10 min away. 

And DSW said I have to use this $10 coupon by Sunday, so I guess I will HAVE to go Sat there to get new shoes for work (happy feet that I can wear sandals!) Sat night The Man and I have the new-to-me-house to ourselves because the Roomie will be going out with someone to a dinner cruise… I texted him immediately to tell him we would have the house to ourselves and he said…” sounds like just what we need :) “

He is pretty great. I want to make us dinner but I do not want to stress any with the move and such and I will have to work on Sunday ( I asked for the later shift so I could sleep in with him). 

I am one pretty fortunate lady. I am not going to say lucky because luck has nothing to do with it. I am blessed and fortunate and so incredibly grateful. 

Now, i am going to work on finances and get some rays. Hope you are all well! 

Tonight I went to dinner and coffee with an old friend from college. Hard to believe it was 7 years ago when we last saw each other, but we picked right up where we left off and I talked about The Man for a good portion of the evening… we were approached by a stranger at Starbucks that just wanted to listen to us interact so that he could “guess” our signs and we let him.. Of course… and then all I wanted to do after a good day was come back to the hotel and say goodnight to The Man, but i think he has fallen asleep. Oh the dooms of this work schedule. Part of me wants to call back and wake him up, but i am sure I will crash soon and then I am afraid he won’t be able to go back to sleep lol…  Oh well… working the afternoon shift tomorrow, so may go lay out by the pool in the morning or what not. 

Oh, did i tell you there is a Cortney, Chloe and Kim team at my job now… i told everyone that if they need us they can just yell “Kardashians”… and I hate that I was the one that realized we all three were here. 

Day 1 on the job

It wasn’t too bad. The first half I was a little upset because I found out that the girl that got the position I applied for just graduated and worked at Best Buy for the last 4 years and I have about 10 years more experience on her and didn’t get the position and even the PART TIMER in that “management” position was a photographer at the local baby hospital. 

I just kinda feel like they mixed up my paperwork or something or I got the shaft. 

Overall though, I know I will succeed; it is was just kind of a low blow. I mean I don’t get the job because someone has more time in, i get it… I am not as qualified but when I clearly should have gotten a chance at it first, kinda… eh.  I am not mad at her or anything, I mean she didn’t do anything but take the job, but anywho.. 

We get a pretty sweet discount and I think that overall things are going to go well. Tomorrow morning I work for 5 hours and then maybe some pool time and dinner with an old college friend I haven’t seen in about 7 years??!?!  Oh man, i felt old being with the 20 year old roomie that I have and the 23 yr old co-workers, but 7 years since college just really stung. ha 

I just want to get excited about this job again… I know it is a great fit and I know I was selected for a reason… and I just have to believe that there will be an opportunity to grow and to allow my ego to step aside and just enjoy this. 

30 this month.. holla!

So my job (yes, JOB) sent me to Palm Beach for training this week in the only other FL store. Drove the 3 hours this morning and will be up in a hotel for the week with co workers. Should be an interesting week.
I haven’t been around ‘high end’ individuals for some time, but I can play the part, part time- I believe in Alex and Ani and what they represent. I am not happy with being away from home for a week but so happy to have this opportunity.

Beach for a week, free hotel and food allowance. Moving into my new place (my friend’s house) on Sat when I get back, the Man is still amazing, and new store opens Wednesday… 23 days until I turn 30.

Life.. It’s what’s happening :)

The Man just told me that he just found out his grandma passed last night. She had cancer but really how much can you prepare?

I forgot what helplessness felt like…

I want to just take this away from him but I know life doesn’t work that way..
’ you must know life to know decay..’ -Mumford

Worth the wait.

This man.

  I can’t even say that i didn’t know what i was missing until I met him because I always knew exactly what was missing. I knew that someone out there had to be the one that would make it so I knew why all the rest didn’t work out. What it was like to communicate and not cower. To feel together when we are apart and to know that respect for each other goes well beyond opening car doors and bill paying. That someone can look at you and you hold back tears because all you want to do is cry.. to express such a grand emotion from inside that it starts to come from your eyes. Joy. Not feeling like someone completes you because you are enough on your own, but that someone accepts that enough and enjoys that enough and you wonder what it is in 20 years that will make you annoyed, and wonder how anything could really make you that upset. Because you’ve waited. You’ve patiently waited. You put yourself first. You worked on you. And while everyone else seemed to be having fun, you went to family events and weddings alone because you were content with yourself in this world. You would wait. Maybe another 40 years, but you would wait because you knew someone like this did exist and you didn’t give up and you didn’t settle down and you told yourself that it would be worth it. And then when he kisses you.. on your mouth.. your nose.. your forehead… you know. This is what you waited for. 

And you are grateful. And you express that. All the wrongs end up making a right in the end. And you lay there thinking to yourself that this is what it was all for. You don’t fool yourself into thinking he is perfect. That’s not fair. But you allow yourself to think about that first fight. That first time you get hurt by some lack of communication and then you realize that those things can be corrected. You just know.. as you lie there.. that this man is in your life to prove that waiting was worth it. That unicorns exist. And that even though you hold on to hurt you never knew was still there, he doesn’t hold it against you, but helps you work through it. Just.By.Being.Himself. 

I say this to anyone out there in an unhealthy relationship.. with someone or yourself… They are out there. But you have to get yourself right to appreciate them and it is worth the wait.