Less than a month :)

26 more days until full-time status!!

So excited and can not wait!  (Neither can my bank account, lol.)

In other, not so exciting news, I found out that my training class will be from 6am to 2:30pm.  So....SO LONG social life.  I need AT LEAST 8 hours to be functional.  Going to bed at 9pm is going to be an adjustment.  

10

10 am to 10 pm with a 2 hour break making my shift 10 hours long.  

My feet hurt...when do I get to just sit at a desk all day? lol

Life In Color

Amazingly fun and amazingly COLD!!

If only they could have heated up the paint, lol.

There is only this one pic of me b/c it was too cold to be posing for more.  I was soaked!

My life's frusterations....and my not-so-conventional answers

I've been a bit stressed lately.  The job search hadn't been going very well (more on that in a minute) and my dog/living situation hasn't been ideal.  To explain....

I moved into a small studio behind a house that has 2 resident dogs.  Girl and boy.  Sasha has, thus far, always lived and has been left in a house that has at least a few other animals to keep her company.  Unfortunately, she wasn't getting along with the girl dog in the house.  Fights that I'm sure where more noisy than they were actually hurtful kept breaking out but none of us wanted to 'test' the limits of either dog.  So...Sasha is going to have to stay back here in my apt.  You'd think she'd be ok.  Bed and 'couch' to sleep on.  All the water and food she could eat or drink.  Silence to catch up on her beauty sleep.  Not quite....

And all the while I am worried.  For her, for us.  I wasn't really sure if, because of the tension with the dogs, they were going to ask me to start looking for another place to stay.  
 
But after much deliberation and a hardy "go ahead" from my landlords, I looked at fixing the issue the only way I could see fit....

I got the dog a cat.

Ok, so maybe I've been making out really well with this arrangement too.  I can honestly tell you though, this is the best kitten/cat that I have ever had.  She took to the dog after only 2 hours.  And Sasha couldn't stop licking and grooming her.  

Over the last few days that I've left both of them here in the back, I've noticed that the dog isn't as frantic when I come home after having been gone for a few hours.  And as the kitten (I've named her Olive because of her green eyes) grows, I'm hoping that the friendship will stay in tact and I'll have to yell at Sasha less for playing too rough.

On the job front news.....

I got the job with Royal Caribbean!!  But....

They hired so many new people they had to split the training class up.  I am on the wait list for the most recent class starting on Oct. 14th.  I am a definite on the class that starts Nov. 25.  I'm hoping they can squeeze me in earlier but even if they can't, I'm part-timing at the fish house so I should be ok until then.

So...that's been my recent life.  The weather is definitely changing and getting rainy but I still love it up here. :)

Hope everyone is doing well!