WELCOME TO THE YEAR TWO-THOUSAND-FOURTEEN, BLOGGERS!
I realize it's already February, and I haven't posted anything in quite some time, but HERE WE ARE! How does the time pass so very quickly? OH THAT'S RIGHT, I'm constantly busy. That goes for my boyfriend Vincent, and his sister Taryn (our other roommate in this lovely Phoenix household), too. This semester is my second at Arizona State University, and Vincent's first! Taryn is currently working on the second semester of her Master's degree at George Washington University online. Phoenix is better than ever this year! Well, minus the shitty Sprint coverage around home.
School is keeping me busier than every this year, and I'm kind of alright with it. I'm finally working on Kinesiology classes for my upper division classes, and I'm extremely interested in learning more and more. My anatomy class that I took in North Carolina didn't transfer over to ASU, therefore, I'm taking it ALL OVER AGAIN. But it's kind of exciting...Arizona teaches things differently, and I'm enjoying anatomy more than ever.
As for work, I'm a cocktail in the bar now! I started around 5 months ago, I'd say, and I'm working on getting into bartending. That's where the money's at! Thankfully one of our newest managers, Debbie, loves me and she's pretty amazing. She might be the best manager we've ever had in my time at Red Robin. Well, Dawn was amazing too, but I wasn't serving then, so I'm not completely sure of that. I'm still training people to serve pretty often. I go back and forth about training...it's fun, but also a pain in the ass at times. My biggest "beef," you could say, is the fact that as CLC's, we don't get paid very much more for training others. And it's supposed to be an honor to train, right? For the meantime, I'm fine. There's tons of other things to worry about. The past month or two I've been serving on the floor a hell of a lot, and haven't had much time in the bar to practice drinks and get more experience. Hopefully that will change soon. I love being in the bar...it's a completely different atmosphere, and I thrive in it. Overall, I think I'm becoming a rockstar at work...not to toot my own horn or anything, but I'm pretty badass. Vincent will say every now and then that I don't really WORK at my job, but he's never worked in the serving industry like this. Pizza places are completely different than a restaurant, and I truly love my job. I love the people I work with, mostly. It's going to make it pretty difficult to move on one day into a "big girl job" that's associated with my major.
This past December I got to go back to NC to visit my family and a few close friends. I left Arizona on the 27th, and returned on January 2nd. In the time I spent in NC, I really got to reconnect with my older brother, and spent plenty of time with my mom, grandma, and two nieces. My brother's separated from his wife for right now. They've been having some personal issues, and I'm pretty sure they're going to get divorced down the road. My brother moved into my mom's old house, with his daughters living with him most of the week. My mom moved in with my grandma down the street. It was really delightful to have my family all in one place, for once. I also got to visit my uncle in Durham. Along with my mom and grandma, we took a day trip up to visit him, and it was the first time any of us had seen him since shortly before I moved to Arizona two and a half years ago. Honestly, the best part of my trip aside from seeing my family, was seeing my best friend Kelly, and her six month old baby boy, Jackson. He's my little sweetheart, and I've never loved a baby boy like I love him. He's absolutely adorable. I'm not sure I've ever told you all about Kelly. We went to high school together for a year or two, then she decided to go back to homeschooling. I flew out to NC in September of 2012 to be a bridesmaid in her wedding, then flew back to Arizona two days later. You see, Kelly and I don't get to talk very often. We're both extremely busy, as she's trying to finish up her bachelor's degree, take care of her son and husband, and who knows what else! However, things are different between Kelly and I than they were between Amara and I. Kelly and I don't seem to see anything as a lack of time together...we always pick up right where we left off, and don't feel out-of-the-loop. With Amara, I felt like things were awkward and missing...I wish they weren't, but they were. I love her to pieces, honestly I do, but it's just different nowadays.
Well, that's all I've got for now, bloggers. I'll work on keeping up with you more often.
HAPPY FEBRUARY, 2014!
