first day of work

isn't it weird how starting a new job is like starting school?

first of all, it feels odd getting dropped off. because erik and i only have one car he has to drop me off in the afternoon and pick me back up at night. (12-9 shift. blahhh!)

then it's awkward because there are obviously the people who share too much and you have to decide which ones are going to be your new friends. the crazy goth roller derby girl? the woman with the crazed frizzy hair who can only talk about how terrible her divorce was and how he left her with 3 kids and she has to battle him for everything? maybe not.

thankfully i settled on kaylee, a 22 year old who lives in lubbock and is working at at&t because her mom and her aunt have both previously worked there.
so making friends (at least for now) is accomplished.

up next is trying not to fall asleep when we go over all the wonderful information that is the world of a customer service rep at a call center.

*** luckily for me, i got to come home to a wonderful cooked meal. :)

Maxey Pad Park

ok, so it's really just maxey park.
trying to get out of the house when you aren't working and have no money leaves limited options. i thought it would be nice to check out this park i had seen once when i was interviewing... a little fresh air, get us out of the house and away from our computers for a bit, maybe a little exercise?
no.
this place looked worse than the dumps back at home. AND PEOPLE WERE FISHING THERE? all i could think is what are you going to catch? a mutated frog with 17 heads and 8 legs? a diaper?
when i think of parks, at least parks in new hampshire, they are well maintained, clean. trash goes in the trash can, not the pond.
not cool. one less thing to do in lubbock.

Rosa's Fine Dining

so erik and i have officially had our second fight. (our first fight involved an apple core in my salad bowl)
fight#2 started out like this.
me: honey, i want burritos! let's get burritos for dinner!*
him: ok, where should we go?
(i don't know lubbock! are you kidding me? i just moved here too!)
so i decided it was best that we ask my friend's husband where we could get good burritos like chipolte or dos amigos; not that he, being a true texan, would know what i meant by that.
he suggested rosa's cafe. they're cheap and good. my fave.
then he told me they were located on quaker and 4th.... me thinking i have great direction skills took it from there. let me also state that this was erik's second time driving in texas and we had my friend's two year old babbling in the backseat.
and scene:
me: baby, just get on the loop and go to quaker.
him: o the loop, like by our place.
driving. driving. driving. driving.
quaker.
him: ok so which way do we go?
me: uhhhh... i don't know i've never been there before. take a right so you're on quaker and we'll figure it out.
head scratching...
me: uhhh.... i think we're really supposed to be more towards 4th. (the street we live on, we were currently at 73rd....) we can just ride up quaker.
17 million stop lights later.
we stop to get gas.
erik has by this point become less chatty.
7 more stop lights.
me: well, the address says 4407 4th so i think we should go right...
(erik still being a good sport but obviously waaaaaaaay less happy)
me: i think we should turn around. this is tech. i don't think rosa's would be in tech.
him: why don't you just look it up and tell me which way i'm supposed to go?!?!?
me: baby! i've never been there before! how am i supposed to know these things?! can't you just find some place to turn around?
him: why don't you figure out where we're going so i don't have to keep turning around!!
me, mopey and grumpy and a bit hungry: look it's right there!

thankfully we made it in ok.
and then we got the food. this food was the most disgusting pile of dirty grease i've ever encountered. we thought taco bell was bad, taco bell was heaven compared to this place.
we got two chicken burritos. the only way to describe them was to say that they were like sweaty, dirty balls. it was, no joke, slimy chicken meat wrapped in this gummy tortilla that was about 4 inches long. within two bites, we were sick to our stomachs and ready to leave.

the greatest part was on the way out we followed lubbock's finest, all of which apparently meet and dine at rosa's.

then we drove about 2 seconds down the road to united, where we picked up a frozen pizza. the same united, might i add, that we had walked to from our apartment the day before...

*all conversation stemmed from emily's crazed memory

Newwww BLLLOGGGG

so i haven't blogged in a while...

when i started blogging it was because there was so much going on in my crazy hectic life, i needed some sort of outlet to realize that it was all happening.
now, my story is a bit different. currently i am laying on the floor of what has been deemed the game room of my brand spanking new fiance and my townhouse. now there's so much going on in my life that i want to document it all so i can keep it forever.
for starters, i just moved to lubbock, tx. i got engaged a little over a month ago to the most amazing man i've ever met. we fell in love in under 2 weeks. we have been living in our little bamf townhouse for 2 whole days now. we have absolutely nothing but our computers and ourselves to entertain with. i am just days away from starting a new career at at&t, but in the mean time i'm occupying my days by playing mahjong and planning a wedding we currently can not afford. basically, i have my hands full with nothing and it's driving me a wee bit crazy but i couldn't be happier.