all work... and play

all work:

it's been a while - sorry.

i've been trying to get used to the hours, or schedule, at the new job.

last week seemed to be a bit unorganized: lunch shift one day, dinner shift the next, morning shift again, then a double shift, oh and another morning shift after having worked all day the day before - it is exhausting. 

but i do like love it.

tips are awesome.

coworkers are nice.

management is laid back.

and the atmosphere, altogether, is fun.

just to brag a little:

one of my managers told me that him and the other manager had been talking and think that i am "doing a great job, and keep up the good work."

also, i'm only used to storm lake, iowa, small town, small restaurants, kind of tips. so my first week of serving on my own, it was like christmas for me when i was averaging $15, $18, and even $25 per hour during my shifts - SCORE!

...and play

a couple of weekends ago, keifer and i went on a party bus for one of his friend's birthday.

that was definitely something different, but fun.

we went bar hoping to three small bars in the west des moines area before heading downtown where we ended our night at one other bar before catching a cab back home. 

we also just had a date night at the funny bone comedy club, which was a good time and something new to me as well. 

and with keifer's birthday coming up, we might even be going to a hockey game.

(lots of things to do in a bigger city that are new to me)

just a couple of side notes:

- easton has finally warmed up to whitney (for those of you that have forgot, that is my roommate). 

- dillon moved back home for good this time ha. so i enjoy getting to see him more often, being he lives with keifer... we actually just had a lunch date this last week at joe's crab shack (50% off our meals, so why wouldn't we).

- i'm going to have to say the biggest perk for me though, right now, is living ten minutes from erin's salon and thirty minutes from her, shane, and the girls - it's only a matter of short time before she bans me from seeing her more than once a month ha.

- i've come to the realization that i can't be as busy or tired as i say i am when i point out to myself that i finished the first season of sons of anarchy in five days and about to finish the second season today, which would only have taken me four days to finish it. ha.

- i live in a bad location. 

ok, no it's a good location as far as the part of des moines and neighborhood that i live in. but bad because i am four minutes from valley west mall and ten minutes from jordan creek mall. shopping addicts and people with credit cards (both of which are me) should never live anywhere remotely that close to malls.

and while i do miss all my family back in the (712), as things begin falling more and more into place, i couldn't be happier with the decision i made.