I jest, I jest. But it has been quite an adjustment to getting up every day between 6:15 and 6:30 and heading in to work. I'm enjoying working at SUPERVALU pretty well, I've been in a lot of training thus far and have done only a bit of what I imagine will be my eventual "work". Some of the training is quite interesting, like research on consumer segmentation. Some of the training is deadly dull, like some of the internals which involve sitting in a windowless conference room for several hours, watching an instructor use a website or program.
In other news, I don't have much to report. We had a lovely weekend in Carpenter--we took Ann out for the big 21st bithday, we went to church, and Jordan took some engagement photos of us (hopefully some of them turned out well! And I mean that not in a technical sense, but in a I-hope-I-think-I-look-good way, of course. Jordan is a very talented photographer!) and, true to form, I forgot my coat at the Glanzer farm house. I think that if I were to drop off the face of the earth today, the Glanzers would remember me best as "the girl who left things at our house". I didn't need the jacket and it could have stayed in South Dakota until we went back, but before I even knew it, it was in the mail!
Tomorrow, Jason is scheduled to come over to watch Game 1 of the World Series. I'm very excited that the match-up is Rays-Phillies. Nothing could have made the baseball season end on a lower note than if the Red Sox were in the Fall Classic. This weekend, I am trying to schedule tours of potential wedding sites so that we can hopefully pin down a date soon!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Nervous
I start my new job tomorrow, and I'm nervous! What if no one likes me? What if I have to eat lunch in the cafeteria by myself? I'm not going to have any friends!!!
It really feels like the first day of school to me. I'm so nervous. I don't know what it's going to be like! My first day at HTA was similarly stressful and that was SUCH a small company. This is a huge company!!!
Sad as it is--although all the unemployment time made me a little crazy and bored, I really got used to having the free time. I would wake up around 9, bum around on the internet, apply for jobs, check the mail, make lunch, maybe hang out with a friend, apply for a few more jobs, watch TV and knit, and then wait for Ryan to get home and make dinner.
Not anymore, my friends! I am going to have to get back into the swing of things of waking up at 6:30, being at work by 8am, working working working, lunch, working, working, working, and then coming home. So weird! So normal! So.... profitable!
It's been a pretty good weekend of baseball, football, drinking, Indian food, snuggling, and knitting. Satisfactory, but I'm so weirded out that I have to put on dressy clothes tomorrow and go to a JOB! It'll be good though. Ryan and I need money to pay for our wedding!
Oh, man, wedding stuff. I have been having some pretty intense wedding dreams lately. A week ago I had a dream where it was a week before the wedding and we hadn't planned ANYTHING. Not a reception hall, or a ceremony site, or a caterer, or a DJ, or anything! And I would tell people about my problems and they would say, "Sorry, dear! You should have planned this earlier!"
On Thursday night I had a dream where Ryan and I were at a wedding expo, and there was a huuuuuuuuge line of caterers that had samples of chicken, fish and beef. You had to try EVERY dish before you could move on, and a lot of the caterers were doing things, so you could only get some samples....and it was so stressful! I had to go back and forth and back and forth to try to get every sample from every caterer so that I could move one to different caterers!
On Friday night I dreamt that I ordered ORANGE bridesmaid dresses! In the dream, this salesgirl convinced me that orange dresses would go really well with purple, green and blue everything else (clearly my subconsious is insane) and I believed it. Then, in the dream, Sarah and I went to meet the salesgirl to pick up the dresses and Sarah FLIPPED OUT at me. She was so mad over the orange dresses! I told her about the dream on Saturday morning and she said, "You better believe that I'd be mad over orange bridesmaid dresses!!"
So, obviously, my subconsious is VERY upset at me that I haven't been very "on" about wedding planning and my inner self thinks that I am dropping the ball on the whole thing!
To counter my subconscious, I HAVE been wedding planning! I went to a meeting at the Blaisdell Manor and if was very pretty and pretty ridiculously expensive! Ryan and I are still trying to figure out what we think is an "acceptable" amount to spend on our wedding, but it sure would be nice if either the Glanzers or the Poulters stumbled upon a previously-unknown fortune and paying for everything, no questions asked.
Alas.
Wish me luck on my first day tomorrow!
It really feels like the first day of school to me. I'm so nervous. I don't know what it's going to be like! My first day at HTA was similarly stressful and that was SUCH a small company. This is a huge company!!!
Sad as it is--although all the unemployment time made me a little crazy and bored, I really got used to having the free time. I would wake up around 9, bum around on the internet, apply for jobs, check the mail, make lunch, maybe hang out with a friend, apply for a few more jobs, watch TV and knit, and then wait for Ryan to get home and make dinner.
Not anymore, my friends! I am going to have to get back into the swing of things of waking up at 6:30, being at work by 8am, working working working, lunch, working, working, working, and then coming home. So weird! So normal! So.... profitable!
It's been a pretty good weekend of baseball, football, drinking, Indian food, snuggling, and knitting. Satisfactory, but I'm so weirded out that I have to put on dressy clothes tomorrow and go to a JOB! It'll be good though. Ryan and I need money to pay for our wedding!
Oh, man, wedding stuff. I have been having some pretty intense wedding dreams lately. A week ago I had a dream where it was a week before the wedding and we hadn't planned ANYTHING. Not a reception hall, or a ceremony site, or a caterer, or a DJ, or anything! And I would tell people about my problems and they would say, "Sorry, dear! You should have planned this earlier!"
On Thursday night I had a dream where Ryan and I were at a wedding expo, and there was a huuuuuuuuge line of caterers that had samples of chicken, fish and beef. You had to try EVERY dish before you could move on, and a lot of the caterers were doing things, so you could only get some samples....and it was so stressful! I had to go back and forth and back and forth to try to get every sample from every caterer so that I could move one to different caterers!
On Friday night I dreamt that I ordered ORANGE bridesmaid dresses! In the dream, this salesgirl convinced me that orange dresses would go really well with purple, green and blue everything else (clearly my subconsious is insane) and I believed it. Then, in the dream, Sarah and I went to meet the salesgirl to pick up the dresses and Sarah FLIPPED OUT at me. She was so mad over the orange dresses! I told her about the dream on Saturday morning and she said, "You better believe that I'd be mad over orange bridesmaid dresses!!"
So, obviously, my subconsious is VERY upset at me that I haven't been very "on" about wedding planning and my inner self thinks that I am dropping the ball on the whole thing!
To counter my subconscious, I HAVE been wedding planning! I went to a meeting at the Blaisdell Manor and if was very pretty and pretty ridiculously expensive! Ryan and I are still trying to figure out what we think is an "acceptable" amount to spend on our wedding, but it sure would be nice if either the Glanzers or the Poulters stumbled upon a previously-unknown fortune and paying for everything, no questions asked.
Alas.
Wish me luck on my first day tomorrow!
Monday, October 6, 2008
A job, a blog, and a gift registry
• Yes, it's true! On Monday, I start a one-year contract for Supervalu Corporation. They own Cub Foods and many other supermarket chains, as well as produce their own generic-brand grocery products. My title is something incredibly generic like "Business Specialist" but the important part is that I'll be doing your general exciting office stuff, and making more money than I did at HTA.
I'll be working in the building that used to house Best Buy's corporate headquarters, and it's really cool! Very bold colors, there's a test kitchen where they perform consumer marketing panels, and it's a huge building. It'll be a very different environment from the teeny little office that HTA was in. With any luck, I will have coworkers who are around my age!
• I've been posting at Babes Love Baseball for a week or two now, and I'm having a blast! Most days there are lots of emails that go back-and-forth between myself and other cool, baseball-loving girls. It's awesome and I'm having a great time!
• Yesterday, Ryan and I went to Target at the Quarry to start our gift registry (which you can view here). It was exhausting! I thought it would be such a fun, lovely time for us as a couple. It was, for the most part: we picked out a sweet tv (someone buy it for us! ;)) and a DVD-VHS combo player, and sheets, and a duvet, and towels and bath mats and place mats....
...and somewhere in there I became overwhelmed by all of the choices! How many of each thing ought we register for? What colors (apparently that's blues and greens)? Should we go for mix-and-match colors or all the same? HOW DO WE DO THIS?????
Now that I'm thinking about it while sitting on the couch, it doesn't seem so hard. But in the moment, after having been there for an hour discussing the benefits of registering or not for luggage and tool sets, it seemed like mission impossible.
The real difficulty here is that Ryan and I don't know where we'll be living in six months, never mind six years from now! So things like shelves and storage which we may or may not want and find useful in our new place, we don't know if we will have room for them, if they'll be useful in our home, etc. I think we'll be living in an apartment for a few years before we can buy any kind of house.
Ryan did a great job of trying to keep me calm and keep us on track, but I understand that he doesn't really care about all this stuff. I don't know that I care all that much about it, either. But I know that I want place mats and dishes and a nice rug and all that stuff, I just haven't figured out quite what I want. There are too many choices! Usually when I shop for "big ticket"-type things, I research and research and find reviews and opinions until my eyes bleed. But I can't possibly do that for every little item we'll be registering for or I'll go insane!
Seriously, buy us the TV. Or a kegerator! That would be awesome.
I'll be working in the building that used to house Best Buy's corporate headquarters, and it's really cool! Very bold colors, there's a test kitchen where they perform consumer marketing panels, and it's a huge building. It'll be a very different environment from the teeny little office that HTA was in. With any luck, I will have coworkers who are around my age!
• I've been posting at Babes Love Baseball for a week or two now, and I'm having a blast! Most days there are lots of emails that go back-and-forth between myself and other cool, baseball-loving girls. It's awesome and I'm having a great time!
• Yesterday, Ryan and I went to Target at the Quarry to start our gift registry (which you can view here). It was exhausting! I thought it would be such a fun, lovely time for us as a couple. It was, for the most part: we picked out a sweet tv (someone buy it for us! ;)) and a DVD-VHS combo player, and sheets, and a duvet, and towels and bath mats and place mats....
...and somewhere in there I became overwhelmed by all of the choices! How many of each thing ought we register for? What colors (apparently that's blues and greens)? Should we go for mix-and-match colors or all the same? HOW DO WE DO THIS?????
Now that I'm thinking about it while sitting on the couch, it doesn't seem so hard. But in the moment, after having been there for an hour discussing the benefits of registering or not for luggage and tool sets, it seemed like mission impossible.
The real difficulty here is that Ryan and I don't know where we'll be living in six months, never mind six years from now! So things like shelves and storage which we may or may not want and find useful in our new place, we don't know if we will have room for them, if they'll be useful in our home, etc. I think we'll be living in an apartment for a few years before we can buy any kind of house.
Ryan did a great job of trying to keep me calm and keep us on track, but I understand that he doesn't really care about all this stuff. I don't know that I care all that much about it, either. But I know that I want place mats and dishes and a nice rug and all that stuff, I just haven't figured out quite what I want. There are too many choices! Usually when I shop for "big ticket"-type things, I research and research and find reviews and opinions until my eyes bleed. But I can't possibly do that for every little item we'll be registering for or I'll go insane!
Seriously, buy us the TV. Or a kegerator! That would be awesome.
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