First Day Down

Just got home from my first day at work, and I am pleasantly surprised! There were a few boring parts, but overall it was really kick-back and fun at times. We just had to sit and listen to presentations, participate in a few icebreaker games, and walk the tour of the building. One really nice thing was the lunch they provided for us! So, an awesome first day!

My weekend was awesome as well... went up on Friday to see my mom, uncle, and cousins. Saturday we went to SF with my two best friends and busted a mission to decide where to eat and how to get back to the car without a ticket. Then we had dessert in town... good times. It was nice to be able to finally see MY friends again.

I finally got my Urban Decay Naked Palette! I love it... I seriously opened it up to use it the first time and didn't know where to start! Obviously they're all nude shades so I will experiment with them all this week :-) Can't wait to experiment with outfits, too... and my birthday is coming up!!

Got a Job!!!

Exciting news..... well obviously you can tell by the title of this post, but I have a job! Woo-hoo! I have been sitting around moping about it for months and now I only have 4 days left until my first day :-) I am so stoked to start working!! I don't know too much about it yet, but I will definitely keep you up to date on how I like it, etc.

Ok, second order of business... I am going to go visit family and friends this weekend! Trav and I are leaving on Friday night to go see my mom, and then sometime Saturday we are going on a double date to SF with my two besties! We are thinking of trying out an Ethiopian restaurant, so I'll have to report on that as well. I'm just really glad to get away, it'll be my last little trip before I start work. I will have weekends off while I'm in training, but I have to have one last get-away.

STILL don't have the Naked palette. I'm waiting for the local Macy's to get it in still. Luckily, it's permanent so I will get it eventually. Just stinks that I thought I'd get it the first week of August and I still don't have it.

OMG! Also, Blondie is due to have puppies in a week or so... there's nothing else I want to say about that other than I'm terrified I won't be here when she goes into delivery :-/ Oh... and besides the fact that I'm keeping one :-)

Annndddd... my birthday is coming up! Yay. I need to go shopping for work clothes. Preferably F21... it's only half an hour away!! For some reason, for all this time I've been here, I thought it was going to be a mission to get there. Good thing though since I don't really have money right now to buy a new wardrobe. YAY for new jobs, though!! All in good time..

Already August!?

Can't believe it's already August first! That means my birthday is in 28 days! I'm so excited :-)

One thing that's got me down is my job search, though. I've had 5 interviews with 3 different companies (not counting phone interviews) since I started looking after the wedding. The bad part is that's actually pretty good. There's one company I realllly really want to work for, their benefits are just awesome! So please pray that I get it. Just sent out a thank you letter today for the group interview I did with them last Monday. I just want a job so I can actually feel busy and feel like there's some meaning in my day to day life. Plus we want to get a house soon. I feel like we're just stuck here right now and it stinks :-/

Anyway, on a lighter note, now that it is the first week of August I am expecting a call from Macy's letting me know when the new Urban Decay Naked Palette will be in! It's my birthday present to myself, lol. I'm so excited to get it because it's got well over $200 worth of eyeshadows, liner, and primer potion for only $44. The SA at Macy's told me they are only getting 100 units in this week so as soon as they call me I am jetting down there!

Married!

I can't believe I have been married for three weeks now! I have to say that it's actually about the same as before... the only real change is the piece of paper and getting to call each other "husband" and "wife." And life down here with his parents is... busy. I really feel bad that I haven't posted anything for so long :-(

Speaking of being busy, Travis' mom and I are leaving today to visit my mom! It'll be the first time I've seen my mom and my grandma since we stopped at her house briefly on our honeymoon (we decided to make Sunday through Wednesday after the wedding a long trip down the coast and we needed to do laundry and say goodbye to my grandpa before he went home). We should get there sometime tonight, sit around with some munchies and some drinks and have girl time, and then go hopping with grandma tomorrow! I'm especially looking forward to visiting Bath and Body Works because their Semi Annual Sale just started today. I think I want to buy some more Butterfly Flower lotion or shower gel, since I used up my entire bottle last summer. It's a great floral/subtle-y fruity scent. It sort of smells like honeysuckle mixed with bananas and coconut, so of course I love it!

While us girls are in the bay, Travis and Todd have a camping/fishing trip planned for this weekend. Then the four of us (me, Trav, Todd, and Laurie) will be leaving on the 25th for a 4 day camping trip, sort of a birthday celebration for Travis and Todd since they both have birthdays coming up. I really can't wait for the big trip! I hope we go somewhere near the water :-)

Getting Ready...

To move, that is! We have already started packing, have most of the small stuff taken care of, and we load it all into the truck on Monday. Doing it all little by little over the past couple of weeks has made things seem easier, but I'm still not looking forward to the deep-cleaning once everything is out. My top three challenges are going to be cleaning out the oven (found out the self-cleaning function doesn't work on ours), cleaning the blinds, and detailing the bathroom. Ugh.

I'm just trying to keep my focus on Wednesday, because then we'll be down there and getting settled in and we'll never have to worry about cleaning this apartment again! I will really miss this place, it is one of the most beautiful apartments I have lived in. Definitely will miss our little garden area out back and the separate garage that's been so nice for getting the camping stuff, etc. out of our main living space.

Another more short-term thing I am looking forward to is something that should be coming in the mail tomorrow! I ordered the Urban Decay Ammo Palette from Sephora--last Wednesday night--and I can't wait for it to get in. I can't believe it's actually taken over a week for me to get a Sephora order... but it's the first time I've ordered while living here, so maybe that's just normal. All I can really hope for is that it comes on or before Monday, or else I might not get it! How sad. Hopefully it does come tomorrow, because then I can play with it for a few and then maybe do my own review on it!

A Quick One!

I just wanted to do a real quick blog before Travis gets home from work. We gave our 30 days notice to our landlords today, although we are really moving out in 2 weeks. Yesterday I went to Target to get a bunch of cleaning supplies, so hopefully I don't have to put too much more elbow grease into cleaning than usual. I know I'll be sore from helping Travis move stuff into the big truck. I also got these (yay!):

Pretty gold flip flops

... I saw them in this YouTube video :-)

...and some sunglasses that are not on the Target website, and it's 10:30 right now so I won't take a picture of them (maybe later).

So, I just wanted to share those couple of things :-) Good night!

Moving & Makeup

Just found out we are moving at the end of this month! Which means it is time to start packing, packing, packing. I seriously hate moving. When we get down there, we are going to be staying in Travis' parents' trailer until we can find our own place to move into. We aren't going to be able to look at places beforehand so this is a way we can take our time looking and also save up for the deposit. On the other hand, that means we are going to have very limited living space!

One of the first things I did in preparation for our new living arrangements is to consolidate my makeup collection a little. Whatever I don't think I'll be using this summer will go into storage, and my absolute must-haves are going into a 3-drawer see-thru rubbermaid/sterilite
unit. I bought mine a while ago from Target, during the back-to-college promotion. I think it was around $10 or so.

The way I pared down my stash was by devoting the top drawer to makeup, the middle drawer to body care/perfume, and the bottom drawer to hair styling tools and products. I can't believe I narrowed down all of my products so much! It was especially hard to decide which Bath and Body Works products I wanted to keep out for the summer. I decided I'll be wearing plenty of Exotic Coconut! My choice perfumes for this summer are DKNY Be Delicious (of course), Britney Spears' Fantasy, Circus Fantasy, and Curious.

I hope I can find the perfect spot for my little stash! Next thing we need to figure out is where to put all of our clothes :-/