Finally Here, FInally Settled

Well, it's been quite a while since my last blog entry. THings have been CRAZY. My last day in D.C. I started to feel a little sick. Just a little scratchy throat. No biggy. Or I thought... I was down and out for three days. Literally couldn't get off the couch. And getting home from D.C. was no fun feat either. Got to the D.C. airport with plenty of time to spare. Things seemed to be going well and the flight was on time. We boarded and began to make our long taxi to the runway. Almost there, we all the sudden stop. And for five minutes we all sit there until the captin finally announces that there is a mechanical problem and we will have to taxi BACK to the gate and have mechanics come fix it. It will be at least a 20 minute delay. An hour and 20 minutes later, we finally left. Which made things difficult for me because by the time we arrived in the twin cities, my connecting flight into Rapid City had already taken off. So, I had to head to the rebooking desk and when I finally got rebooked.... I had an 8 hour layover. TO top it off, I kept getting sicker and sicker by the hour. When finally arriving in Rapid and getting to my vehicle, what do you know... the low tire indicator light pops on. I didn't even care and drove home regardless of whether I was ruining a tire or not. That was one long day.

I was pretty upset because I had so much to do before moving. I was unable to pack anything until the day we moved because I was so sick. In the midst of it, another indicator light kept coming on in my Kia, so my father graciously offered to take it to Rapid City for me to have it fixed and to have the tire fixed. Thanks dad! So, the next morning we packed everything up and as I'm walking out the door bawling, I get a text from Verizon telling me to contact them. I thought, "oh, I must be late on my payment and just need to call the payment center" So, I call the payment center literally on my way to my vehicle to leave, and get told I have a balance of $496! I thought, there must be some mistake. So I call as we're leaving Newcastle to talk to someone. I finally talk to an actual human being and am told that there is no mistake, that the charges are for texting. I thought I had an unlimited texting plan but apparently I don't and text 1,800 times last month with my limit being 500. Ouch!!! I was fuming the whole way to Sheridan about it, but resentfully paid the bill AND changed my plan to unlimited texting. Then... (yes it doesn't stop there) as we're leaving Gillette, I realize that something feels funny with my steering wheel. I look down and the people at Kia PUT THE THING ON CROOKID. I was so mad that now I was inconvenianced with that as well. So, I will have to go back to Rapid soon to get that pulled off and put back on CORRECTLY soon or it will drive me nuts!

The actual move itself went just fine. Had me moved in and I pretty much had everything put away by the end of that day. Thank God I was feeling better. So, I had a few days to relax before I headed to my first day of work. Once everyone left me in SHeridan, I found myself standing there not knowing what to do or remembering what it was like to have my own things, alone time, and my own bed. However, I couldn't think of anything to do so was glad when one of my good friends popped by for a quick visit on her way through. I was really excited to actually get cabel and internet cause I had NOTHING to do, so finally the cabel guy arrives at the beginning of the week and when he goes to hook up my internet, everything seemed just fine and it showed full internet connection, but my computer wouldn't access a web page. YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME! That guy spent two hours at my house trying to figure out what the problem was until telling me I would have to take it to the computer store. SO I wisked it down there real quick hoping there was some simple solution but was sorely dissappointed when I was told that they would have to keep it for 3 days and I would have to pay near 200 bucks to fix it. After such a steep phone bill as well, I was not excited for this inconveniance either. NOt excited at all. But, I need me some facebook and blogging so I left it and got it back just a couple days ago.

Oh yeah, I also locked myself out of my new garage in the last week and I locked myself in it as well. That's a whole other story though.

Work has gone great. Very different being in a managment position and staff coming to me for the final decision, the kids looking to me as the leader, and having the authority to be that leader. It's a lot of responsibility though and I find myself sad when I'm handing all my fun activities to the line staff and seeing how excited the youth are to do such a fun activity and know I don't get to teach it. Now, I go to my office and have other responsibilities while the direct care staff teach my fun activities. It's like I have passed the torch. I have so much to learn but am excited for the challenge.

Sorry I have no pictures up for this one. How BORING! BUt, I've been so busy and really haven't had time. Now that I have a computer back and some time on my hands, you will be hearing from me more on this thing. Unfortanately, I will not be able to share all my fun stories from work and I"m sure you can imagine they can be pretty colorful working in a place like I do, but because of strong confidentiality policies, just can't share anything. Hopefully my personal life remains exciting. I am going to start reffing volleyball within the next couple weeks. I"m sure I'll do something horribly wrong and have a great story to share about how a parent started screaming at me etc, etc, etc.