Looooong Week

Wow have I been busy. Too busy. This week consisted of lots of work, spanish homework, spanish test, beach cleaning, more work, more spanish homework, and trying to find time for hanging out with friends.

I finished up my training at work on Tuesday and Wednesday I jumped right into being a real person. Had meetings to go to, people to yell at, paperwork to fill out and organize, and an office to stock with supplies... it's been good. I still like it a lot, which, well, I'm really happy about.

Of course, it makes it so I have little time to do much else at night. Did a good amount of running as always. Starting biking too, I think I might try to start biking 50-100 miles a week. Idk, that might be a little too far fetched, but we'll see how it goes. (I also really need to get a new seat post because my mom's is too small.)

Friday night finally brought some downtime so I hung out with Brian and Andrew... watched Die Hard... that's always fun. Saturday had to clean the beach house with Mom and Bets, which was fine, but then hanging out on the beach after sucked because there were a million flies and the water was cold. Oh well. Last night though a bunch of us went to New Brunswick to watch Sabeel and Chorno and others play music, which was really cool.

ANNNNDDDDDDD of course the balloon festival:) Saturday night the balloons were really really really great. Seeing the whole sky littered with them is just an amazing sight. I really love them. And the 5k run this morning went well, although it was seriously over priced. I mean c'mon, $40.00?... oh well though... I did come in 4th at least:)

Now I'm hopefully going to find someone to go see Inception with. All I've heard is good things from everyone, but that also means that everyone has seen it already. Maybe I'll go with my parents or something.

And then another busy week ahead of me. Hopefully my motorcycle will finally be out of the shop though so I can go on some weekend rides.

This turned out to be a longer post than others, I guess there has just been a lot going on... probably a good thing.

Week End Fun

The weekend was good. There was a good amount of productivity and enough relaxing time too, a little too much at some points I think.

Friday night was spent swimming at Laura's with friends. The water was so warm and wonderful, especially in the heat. Plus I got to ride my dirt bike on the street a few times, and that's always a hoot. After swimming we proceeded to eat and drink at the Crocodile Inn, which was fun, but honestly the food was pretty bad. Hah, oh well.

Saturday I ran in the middle of the heat, which was a mistake, but then we found our way to a bridge jump in Three Bridges that far exceeded our expectations. Water was at least 75 degrees, and it was just tons of fun for everyone. Then a small BBQ at my house, followed by polar cub and then hours of watching The Office.

Hah, watched hours of the Office on Sunday too, and spent time with the Fam for my Mom's B-day. Don't love lazy Sundays, but I suppose some people would probably tell me they're good for me and to enjoy them.

Another busy week of work ahead, but I am looking forward to it. And then of course next weekend is the balloon festival:)

First Week of Work

Well, I have officially finished my first week of work in the corporate world, and I have to say that it went well.

I spent most of the week training on how to do all kinds of paperwork including writing contracts, writing up purchase orders, write daily logs and weekly reports... there is a lot writing involved, so i guess it's a good thing I have a degree in english, hah:) I'm actually getting more and more excited about this as I go. They're going to utilize me a lot for writing up lots of things based on architecture drawings and specs sheets and other hands on stuff, so I will have to be extremely familiar with the site plans, which I think is really cool.

I got my own laptop and will be getting my own phone, so all is going well.

Also made it to the Royal Wednesday night for Rob's birthday, but haven't done much else because work is pretty draining. Well, been doing my running of course, and starting biking a lot too.

I'm looking forward to the weekend, which will start as soon as I am finished taking a spanish test.

That's all for now:)

Jobs and Running

I'll start with the running.

Went to Belmar today with Ed and Cait O'Neill to run the Belmar Five (as in 5 miles). Considering I was at a bar last night, have been as busy as I have been, and that there were 2,200 runners, I was more than happy with 144th place. Finished in 34:45. Oh, also had to carry my soaking wet shirt for the race because it was too heavy to wear after it down-poured 10 minutes before the start and I didn't have anywhere to keep it. The not fun part of the day was Ed losing his car key and us having to wait around for 2 hours for his wife to bring a spare. Oh well.

Now about jobs. Yesterday at the end of work I was offered an Assistant Project Manager position at another site in Franklin. Considering my lack of job options and my need for money, I gratefully accepted the position. (It comes with a starting salary of $42,500 a year plus full benefits/holidays/vacation.) Honestly, I am pretty excited about it, and will continue working on my car and trying to write while I get a substantial footing in the real world.

That's all for now.