We bought a new car!
It's nice :)
But I think it's hubby's, for sure.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Deli times.
It's been a couple weeks, I'm a terrible blogger.
So let's see...
First of all, I ended up going to the emergency room for that bladder infection...it got a lot worse and hubby made me go. Thank God I'm on his Tricare or I'd be screwed. Did you know emergency room visits are $600? Neither did I.
They did a pregnancy test too because it had been a while since I'd had a period, and guess who's pregnant?!
Not me.
Thank God.
Anyway, last week I put in an application at a local french cheese company, and they called me in and they hired me. So I'm just going to be working there on the weekends, but they've been training me, so I've been working during the week. My first day was Wednesday, and man...they just throw you right into it. Everybody there does everything. They all cook, they all do dishes, they all wait on tables, bus tables, you name it, they do it. And they work like a well oiled machine because most of them have been there for years.
So Wednesday I worked a 9 hour shift, and for the first half I mainly just washed dishes because everybody just seemed to know what they were doing, and everybody was already doing everything. So I just tried to fit in where I was needed, and nobody was doing dishes, so I did that. And then I walked around and got people's dishes and bussed tables. And then I slowly started to take some of the orders out, and then about halfway through the shift, after it started to slow down a little (it was crazy busy that day) I started to take people's orders, and I made a few orders as well. Then Jeannie, the main person that I work with, showed me how to close everything for the day. The deli is only open 11-3:30, so generally I get out of there at about 4:30.
Yesterday, Thursday, I went in at 10, so most of the slicing had already been done, and I just wrapped the meat up and packaged some cheese and an hour later the deli opened. It wasn't as busy as Wednesday but we had the same amount of people, so this time I kinda didn't know what to do sometimes...and I hadn't gotten a lot of sleep the night before (which I'll explain soon), so I was pretty tired and a little sluggish. I was doing my best to keep up but I just felt kinda exhausted and run down, and one of the managers told me I needed to do things faster, in a nice way, but it still kinda made me feel crappy, so I wasn't feeling really good about the job yesterday.
Today was a lot better though. I seemed to get a little more into the swing of it. Started out the day by just doing sort of odds and ends. I came in at 10:30 and the deli opened a half an hour later. People were just kinda trickling in and it was manageable for just me and Deb, the short order cook for the mornings. I would take the orders, get the side dishes ready for her, take the orders out. And then more orders started coming in, and more people started coming back to help, so I would find something that needed to be done, and somebody else would be doing it. And I started to feel out of place again...but not as much as Thursday. And I seemed to do a lot more things right, which made me feel better about tomorrow.
Tomorrow is Saturday, and apparently weekends are totally insane there, which makes sense because this is a big tourist town, and Kenzie, the brie manager, was telling me that on Saturday I was going to be on my own. And I was like ...on my own? What? And I'm still not sure what exactly she means by that. Because then she told me that someone else would be there to help me. And I'm like ...you mean I'll be there to help that person right? I don't know. I mean, I'm nervous...I hope it's not more than I can handle, but I guess we'll just find out. Maybe she meant that I'd be on my own after the deli closes. Like, maybe that other person will go home when it closes at 3:30, and I'll have to close alone, which I can do. That's not really a big deal, but if she means on my own like, the other woman goes home at 1...I'm screwed. That means I'll have to be making all the sandwiches, and I don't even know the sandwiches. I know like three of them. And it generally starts slowing down around 2 or 2:30, but on a Saturday I don't know how it'll be.
Oh, and tomorrow we have a group of 40 people coming in at 12. Tomorrow is going to be completely crazy. I have Sunday off though, so that's good news. Yayyyyyyy.
Jen is moving back to Washington and she's leaving early tomorrow morning, and she's going to stay with me and Hubby tomorrow night, so that'll be fun, and I'm glad I'm not working on Sunday morning so I won't have to go to bed at 10 o'clock.
Oh, and the reason I didn't get much sleep on Wednesday night? Hubby and I went to Hillsboro right after I got off work to look at cars and ended up buying a 2000 Ford Mustang, and we didn't get home until after midnight, and I didn't get to sleep until about 2 am. And woke up six and a half hours later for work. And I'm used to a lot more sleep than that.
Anyway, I'll try to update more, and I'll post some pictures of the new car.
So let's see...
First of all, I ended up going to the emergency room for that bladder infection...it got a lot worse and hubby made me go. Thank God I'm on his Tricare or I'd be screwed. Did you know emergency room visits are $600? Neither did I.
They did a pregnancy test too because it had been a while since I'd had a period, and guess who's pregnant?!
Not me.
Thank God.
Anyway, last week I put in an application at a local french cheese company, and they called me in and they hired me. So I'm just going to be working there on the weekends, but they've been training me, so I've been working during the week. My first day was Wednesday, and man...they just throw you right into it. Everybody there does everything. They all cook, they all do dishes, they all wait on tables, bus tables, you name it, they do it. And they work like a well oiled machine because most of them have been there for years.
So Wednesday I worked a 9 hour shift, and for the first half I mainly just washed dishes because everybody just seemed to know what they were doing, and everybody was already doing everything. So I just tried to fit in where I was needed, and nobody was doing dishes, so I did that. And then I walked around and got people's dishes and bussed tables. And then I slowly started to take some of the orders out, and then about halfway through the shift, after it started to slow down a little (it was crazy busy that day) I started to take people's orders, and I made a few orders as well. Then Jeannie, the main person that I work with, showed me how to close everything for the day. The deli is only open 11-3:30, so generally I get out of there at about 4:30.
Yesterday, Thursday, I went in at 10, so most of the slicing had already been done, and I just wrapped the meat up and packaged some cheese and an hour later the deli opened. It wasn't as busy as Wednesday but we had the same amount of people, so this time I kinda didn't know what to do sometimes...and I hadn't gotten a lot of sleep the night before (which I'll explain soon), so I was pretty tired and a little sluggish. I was doing my best to keep up but I just felt kinda exhausted and run down, and one of the managers told me I needed to do things faster, in a nice way, but it still kinda made me feel crappy, so I wasn't feeling really good about the job yesterday.
Today was a lot better though. I seemed to get a little more into the swing of it. Started out the day by just doing sort of odds and ends. I came in at 10:30 and the deli opened a half an hour later. People were just kinda trickling in and it was manageable for just me and Deb, the short order cook for the mornings. I would take the orders, get the side dishes ready for her, take the orders out. And then more orders started coming in, and more people started coming back to help, so I would find something that needed to be done, and somebody else would be doing it. And I started to feel out of place again...but not as much as Thursday. And I seemed to do a lot more things right, which made me feel better about tomorrow.
Tomorrow is Saturday, and apparently weekends are totally insane there, which makes sense because this is a big tourist town, and Kenzie, the brie manager, was telling me that on Saturday I was going to be on my own. And I was like ...on my own? What? And I'm still not sure what exactly she means by that. Because then she told me that someone else would be there to help me. And I'm like ...you mean I'll be there to help that person right? I don't know. I mean, I'm nervous...I hope it's not more than I can handle, but I guess we'll just find out. Maybe she meant that I'd be on my own after the deli closes. Like, maybe that other person will go home when it closes at 3:30, and I'll have to close alone, which I can do. That's not really a big deal, but if she means on my own like, the other woman goes home at 1...I'm screwed. That means I'll have to be making all the sandwiches, and I don't even know the sandwiches. I know like three of them. And it generally starts slowing down around 2 or 2:30, but on a Saturday I don't know how it'll be.
Oh, and tomorrow we have a group of 40 people coming in at 12. Tomorrow is going to be completely crazy. I have Sunday off though, so that's good news. Yayyyyyyy.
Jen is moving back to Washington and she's leaving early tomorrow morning, and she's going to stay with me and Hubby tomorrow night, so that'll be fun, and I'm glad I'm not working on Sunday morning so I won't have to go to bed at 10 o'clock.
Oh, and the reason I didn't get much sleep on Wednesday night? Hubby and I went to Hillsboro right after I got off work to look at cars and ended up buying a 2000 Ford Mustang, and we didn't get home until after midnight, and I didn't get to sleep until about 2 am. And woke up six and a half hours later for work. And I'm used to a lot more sleep than that.
Anyway, I'll try to update more, and I'll post some pictures of the new car.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Peeing in Oregon.
Well, we're all moved in. We drove all day Tuesday and unpacked everything that night, then he had leave until Friday, so we spent a couple days together, getting the house together, going grocery shopping, exploring the town.
He went back to work yesterday and when I woke up I felt like I was starting to get a UTI...yay. So I did what I always do for that, I took a couple vitamin c pills, like five cranberry pills, drank a gallon of cranberry juice and just continued drinking water all day. It seemed to be working but I still had it last night. I had to get up a few times during the night to pee...yay. And this morning I woke up peeing blood! So how was your day? haha.
No, but seriously. It does feel a little better, like I don't feel the constant urge to pee, but when I do pee it still burns like the dickins and I'm totally bleeding. Kidney infection? Quite possibly. Unfortunately, hubby has his truck and he's at work until tomorrow evening. And I'm not sure if I'm on his health insurance or not yet. So I don't really want to go to the doctor, but if I start getting nauseous or get a fever or lower back pain, I'll just walk down to the nearest doctor's office, fees be damned. I don't want a kidney infection. That would be no fun at all.
So that's been my first few days in Oregon. Yayyyy.
Ow! I have to pee.
I'll update more later.
He went back to work yesterday and when I woke up I felt like I was starting to get a UTI...yay. So I did what I always do for that, I took a couple vitamin c pills, like five cranberry pills, drank a gallon of cranberry juice and just continued drinking water all day. It seemed to be working but I still had it last night. I had to get up a few times during the night to pee...yay. And this morning I woke up peeing blood! So how was your day? haha.
No, but seriously. It does feel a little better, like I don't feel the constant urge to pee, but when I do pee it still burns like the dickins and I'm totally bleeding. Kidney infection? Quite possibly. Unfortunately, hubby has his truck and he's at work until tomorrow evening. And I'm not sure if I'm on his health insurance or not yet. So I don't really want to go to the doctor, but if I start getting nauseous or get a fever or lower back pain, I'll just walk down to the nearest doctor's office, fees be damned. I don't want a kidney infection. That would be no fun at all.
So that's been my first few days in Oregon. Yayyyy.
Ow! I have to pee.
I'll update more later.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
My house!
Here's the front door, there were trees in front of our house (hence the shadows) but the landlord had to cut them down because they were pushing up the side walk. Sadface. But it's alright, at least we'll have flat sidewalks.
The hallway, to our left we have a coat closet (and not seen in the photo, to the left is the kitchen) further up is the entrance to the living room. Straight ahead, we have our master bedroom, and then the bathroom (not seen in the photograph to the right is the spare bedroom).
This is the view of the living room from the kitchen. It's really big, I'm pumped! I want to put a little dining table and a couple chairs on the wall separating the kitchen and the living room.
This is our little kitchen! With dishwasher and all! Yayyyy.
In the back is our washer and dryer area, then the opening to the living room, and then the counter that will soon be filled with assorted kitchen appliances.
So, all in all, hubby did good.
I love our new house. It's the perfect size for us, and we've got a little guest room for anybody (godwilling somebody) who wants to visit! :)
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Moving woes.
So, it's looking like the moving date is going to be August 31st. God willing.
This is, of course, assuming that Hubby finds us a place to live. It's hard to find listings for anything online, because this is such a small town, so I've been relying on him to check out the local paper and go look at places. This is hard for me, because I'm such a control freak. But I've been doing my darndest to just settle back and let him take the reigns.
Yeah, that ended five days ago. He hadn't even turned in our marriage license so we could start getting the basic allowance for housing! So on Monday I not so subtly reminded him to pick up a copy, mail me one (so I can change my driver's license and social security card and bank account) and to turn one in so we could get the ball rolling. Thank jebus he picked up the copies, but did he turn one in? Of course he didn't. FRUSTRATING. He says he mailed me a copy but I'm not sure if he really did or not. I hope to god he did.
If he doesn't turn in our marriage license soon, we are SO not going to have the BAH by the time he comes here. He's putting in his chit for the last week of August, to visit his family, meet the rest of mine, and then help me move. But I can't really move all my stuff and myself if we don't have a place to live!
And has he looked for a place to live? Nope.
Not a lick.
He went for a four hour bike ride yesterday.
It's like, k cool honey, I understand you need some down time. I get that. But I don't want to live in a card board box!!!
So I went online and found the local paper online and checked out the classifieds and gave him the numbers to all the places that looked good and asked him to please please check them out. Which he was supposed to do yesterday.
But like I said...4 hour bike ride.
SIGH. What am I going to do with him?
And this is the man I'm having children with?!
This is, of course, assuming that Hubby finds us a place to live. It's hard to find listings for anything online, because this is such a small town, so I've been relying on him to check out the local paper and go look at places. This is hard for me, because I'm such a control freak. But I've been doing my darndest to just settle back and let him take the reigns.
Yeah, that ended five days ago. He hadn't even turned in our marriage license so we could start getting the basic allowance for housing! So on Monday I not so subtly reminded him to pick up a copy, mail me one (so I can change my driver's license and social security card and bank account) and to turn one in so we could get the ball rolling. Thank jebus he picked up the copies, but did he turn one in? Of course he didn't. FRUSTRATING. He says he mailed me a copy but I'm not sure if he really did or not. I hope to god he did.
If he doesn't turn in our marriage license soon, we are SO not going to have the BAH by the time he comes here. He's putting in his chit for the last week of August, to visit his family, meet the rest of mine, and then help me move. But I can't really move all my stuff and myself if we don't have a place to live!
And has he looked for a place to live? Nope.
Not a lick.
He went for a four hour bike ride yesterday.
It's like, k cool honey, I understand you need some down time. I get that. But I don't want to live in a card board box!!!
So I went online and found the local paper online and checked out the classifieds and gave him the numbers to all the places that looked good and asked him to please please check them out. Which he was supposed to do yesterday.
But like I said...4 hour bike ride.
SIGH. What am I going to do with him?
And this is the man I'm having children with?!
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Monday, August 2, 2010
I got hitched!
So...hubby and I got married on Saturday.
I'll post pictures as soon as I get them, one of our witnesses was kind enough to take some. Apparently she took like 80.
We got married in Hillsboro, Oregon on the steps of the Courthouse, in the middle of a farmer's market. With two girls he works with at the station as witnesses. And a dog. And all of Hillsboro milling around and bartering over heads of lettuce.
It was great though. :)
I'm happy.
My shoe broke right before the ceremony.
That night we went ice skating and saw the movie Inception, which was AWESOME.
I don't feel married.
I dunno...I guess it just hasn't hit me yet.
I'll post pictures as soon as I get them, one of our witnesses was kind enough to take some. Apparently she took like 80.
We got married in Hillsboro, Oregon on the steps of the Courthouse, in the middle of a farmer's market. With two girls he works with at the station as witnesses. And a dog. And all of Hillsboro milling around and bartering over heads of lettuce.
It was great though. :)
I'm happy.
My shoe broke right before the ceremony.
That night we went ice skating and saw the movie Inception, which was AWESOME.
I don't feel married.
I dunno...I guess it just hasn't hit me yet.
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