So this new job is going to be so so fun! I work swing so it is 3-11:30. There has been so much paper work, fingerprinting, just general running around to get my License work for Oregon, and training/orientation, that I am just ready to start loving on old people! Their days revolve around food mainly wich is great because that is how my life works as well. However I just have to deal with dinner (at 5 p.m.) and I get to take all the time I want. Stoping and talking with them, sitting down and really getting to know my clients is going to be my favorite part I can already tell.
Anyway, this place I am working at is amazing! It is were all the CEO's, presidents, and just general rich people of Portland retire. It is a 26 acre campus full of green and flowers and the nicest stuff I have ever seen. It is right on the river with great views from everywhere. There are about 5 main building and they all connect through sky bridges, so you never have to walk out in the rain if you don't want to. There are Japanese gardens, residents gardens, tree groves, pathways, the list just keeps going on and on. We took several tours yesterday and still I only know how to get to my "neighborhood" and back.
I work in Wisteria Neighborhood. (in my head I call is wisteria lane). You start at the manor or the plaza when you first move in to the community but as you age and need a bit more help you move into the neighborhoods.
Anyway I am so so thankful for this job. The residents never have to leave, there is a bank, restaurant, grocery store, clothing store, movies, library, etc. I love it!
Anyway the new apt. I am moving in with some girls I grew up with, Bailey and Olivia. They have another girl named Kaley living with them. Bailey and Kaley are sharing a room and Olivia and I would share. I am almost positive about this but we will see. I want to wait for Katie to come because I want as much time as possible with her and Savvy. Oh and ps I will probably be working so morning I get Kate! Back off! I am staking my territory now!! Love
Friday, August 29, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
New Job
I am leaving in about one minute for orientation! I am a little nervous. Supposedly I am doing it with like three or four exchange students that are very smart and very giggly.
Hmm.....I don't know how I feel about that. Well pray for me and I love you all.
Hmm.....I don't know how I feel about that. Well pray for me and I love you all.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Did I take it too far?
So I need your personal views whether or not I took this situation too far or not.
Today, for my new job (yay!) I had to take a u/a test (I had to pee in a cup). However that was not the issue. when all was said and done, I was very pleased with the result (very clear).
However, while I was walking out of the backroom to the exit I hear a very excited "kimber!" as i was turning around my question I posed to myself was who do I know that calls me kimber? So I turned around and looked this very excited girl up and down and had no idea who she was. i tried real hard to pull off the "...oh...yeah...hi! how are you?" she seemed so excited to see me that she did not even notice my lack of enthusiasm due to the fact that I had no idea who she was. She carried on with "oh i can't believe you were going to walk out of this office without saying hi first!" I was so completely lost at this point. Stunned is probably a better word.
She then asked me the normal questions like what are you up to these days, the tricky part for a response was, what in my life does she care about? Church, school,...ect. I had no idea. So I explained my reason for getting a drug test wich seemed enough for her because she chatted on about her job. A moment later we were interrupted by a nurse saying "oh you two know each other?" I just looked at her and smiled unintelligently and looked at my new/old friend and waited for the response. I think my mouth dropped a little when the response was "oh yeah she is my brothers ex girlfriend."
ok a few problems with this statment. 1. I have never had a boyfriend 2. i have not lived in portland for quite some time 3. i had never seen this girl in my whole life
at this point in the conversation I had made the decision to be as non-commital as possible for the sake of the poor girl when she realized i was none of the things she claimed me as.
So while I was looking for an escape route to this continualy awkward (only for me) situation, she turned to me and goes "kimber you really have changed" (yeah lady because you have no idea who I am but at this point I was in far too deep to turn back),then she decided it was a good idea to grab my hand and and take me over to her desk to show me her children. she showed me the youngest and was like look shaila, you remember her right?
i just stared. her response to my blank look was (or what i would like to say, non-commital look) was oh of course you don't! she was just born. (silly me). Then she started talking about her other girl. Her words were "of course you remember her!" with my reponse of "oh wow she is beautiful"
"she asked the question she has grown huh?" my response "yep she sure has grown i am sure"
while our little reunion was winding down there were a few more awkward questions about her dad and her brother (apperently ex boyfriend) that i (with skilled) avoided.
while walking away after our departure and promises to see each other again my last words were "tell her brother I say hi". I really did not want her to think I was bitter.
Today, for my new job (yay!) I had to take a u/a test (I had to pee in a cup). However that was not the issue. when all was said and done, I was very pleased with the result (very clear).
However, while I was walking out of the backroom to the exit I hear a very excited "kimber!" as i was turning around my question I posed to myself was who do I know that calls me kimber? So I turned around and looked this very excited girl up and down and had no idea who she was. i tried real hard to pull off the "...oh...yeah...hi! how are you?" she seemed so excited to see me that she did not even notice my lack of enthusiasm due to the fact that I had no idea who she was. She carried on with "oh i can't believe you were going to walk out of this office without saying hi first!" I was so completely lost at this point. Stunned is probably a better word.
She then asked me the normal questions like what are you up to these days, the tricky part for a response was, what in my life does she care about? Church, school,...ect. I had no idea. So I explained my reason for getting a drug test wich seemed enough for her because she chatted on about her job. A moment later we were interrupted by a nurse saying "oh you two know each other?" I just looked at her and smiled unintelligently and looked at my new/old friend and waited for the response. I think my mouth dropped a little when the response was "oh yeah she is my brothers ex girlfriend."
ok a few problems with this statment. 1. I have never had a boyfriend 2. i have not lived in portland for quite some time 3. i had never seen this girl in my whole life
at this point in the conversation I had made the decision to be as non-commital as possible for the sake of the poor girl when she realized i was none of the things she claimed me as.
So while I was looking for an escape route to this continualy awkward (only for me) situation, she turned to me and goes "kimber you really have changed" (yeah lady because you have no idea who I am but at this point I was in far too deep to turn back),then she decided it was a good idea to grab my hand and and take me over to her desk to show me her children. she showed me the youngest and was like look shaila, you remember her right?
i just stared. her response to my blank look was (or what i would like to say, non-commital look) was oh of course you don't! she was just born. (silly me). Then she started talking about her other girl. Her words were "of course you remember her!" with my reponse of "oh wow she is beautiful"
"she asked the question she has grown huh?" my response "yep she sure has grown i am sure"
while our little reunion was winding down there were a few more awkward questions about her dad and her brother (apperently ex boyfriend) that i (with skilled) avoided.
while walking away after our departure and promises to see each other again my last words were "tell her brother I say hi". I really did not want her to think I was bitter.
Monday, August 25, 2008
The Swiss come to visit!
So my the story of my friend Sam.
One cold and wet rainy Oregon coast day (is there any other kind?), three really bored eighth grade (almost freshman) girls were wandering around the oh so chilly beach. No boys, no sun, no fun! But wait, was that a boy (maybe they were slightly boy crazy) in the distance? "oh no" said one girl "we are on the Oregon beach! There are never cute boys here!!"
Well as it turns out that girl was very very wrong.
It was Bailey, Stephanie, and I and we decided we wanted to pursue a friendship with this boy (cute or not we were desperate). So Stephanie came up with the idea to yell random names until maybe he would respond to one. Bailey and I decided to bash on that idea for a few minutes, and then followed through. We shouted Tom! Elliott! Ralph! Steven! and other varieties of names.
Finally I got bored with this silly game and with bravery that surprised even me, I walked right up to him and asked if he would like to hang out with our little trio. And oh my was that a good idea!
We had found our self our very own, very cute, very foreign, Swiss boy! All that night we hung out and talked about how to say funny words, we went on an adventure that required me to (some would call it stealing) borrow my parents car (no license quite yet...sorry mommy!). Well it could not last long he was going home to very next day so goodbye to him...or so we thought.
Luckily we are the technology generation and through a variety of myspace, email, and face book we have kept in contact these long years. Finally Sam thought it had been long enough since he had seen his favor tie American girls and he flew out to see us. He is here now and will be here another two weeks.
Much to all of our dismay he has a girlfriend. We plan on taking him to see all of the beautiful Portland so if you guys have any ideas for fun adventures let me know!
One cold and wet rainy Oregon coast day (is there any other kind?), three really bored eighth grade (almost freshman) girls were wandering around the oh so chilly beach. No boys, no sun, no fun! But wait, was that a boy (maybe they were slightly boy crazy) in the distance? "oh no" said one girl "we are on the Oregon beach! There are never cute boys here!!"
Well as it turns out that girl was very very wrong.
It was Bailey, Stephanie, and I and we decided we wanted to pursue a friendship with this boy (cute or not we were desperate). So Stephanie came up with the idea to yell random names until maybe he would respond to one. Bailey and I decided to bash on that idea for a few minutes, and then followed through. We shouted Tom! Elliott! Ralph! Steven! and other varieties of names.
Finally I got bored with this silly game and with bravery that surprised even me, I walked right up to him and asked if he would like to hang out with our little trio. And oh my was that a good idea!
We had found our self our very own, very cute, very foreign, Swiss boy! All that night we hung out and talked about how to say funny words, we went on an adventure that required me to (some would call it stealing) borrow my parents car (no license quite yet...sorry mommy!). Well it could not last long he was going home to very next day so goodbye to him...or so we thought.
Luckily we are the technology generation and through a variety of myspace, email, and face book we have kept in contact these long years. Finally Sam thought it had been long enough since he had seen his favor tie American girls and he flew out to see us. He is here now and will be here another two weeks.
Much to all of our dismay he has a girlfriend. We plan on taking him to see all of the beautiful Portland so if you guys have any ideas for fun adventures let me know!
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Disneyland?? Oh no...we are poor!!
Did I slave away all day in the heat while my family moved?? Nope! i went to hang out with my cousin. Enchanted forest! (otherwise known as the "poor man's Disneyland" was invaded last weekend by Patty, C.J., and myself. We rode rickety, old rides, we got scared out of our minds by the haunted house (you had to be at least two to get in...yikes!), it was quite to party. To top off the wonderful adventurous day, we went home ate food and watched a movie!
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