No two people are not on fire...

So friends, I am now officially a resident of Texas. Well I don't know what it legally takes to be considered a resident but in my opinion if your car is registered in TX and you have a TX DL and live there, then that is what it takes. So today my TX DL came in the mail officially sealing the deal (well in my book). I like Texas because they have better photographers at the DMV/Dept of Public Saftey than California.

Um and if you are my friend in CA and we havn't talked recently, you should call me.

The End.

PS. I promise pictures of the new car will come soon. In the mean time just look at pictures of a 08 Mitsubishi Lancer and pretend your looking at my car :)

A tour of my home (via pictures)

So my picture plan is moving to plan B, Facebook. Should be up soon.

And now the moment we've all been waiting for...

okay so maybe it's not that dramatic. I am finally ready to take your all on a pictoral tour of my new residence here in Fort Worth, TX. However, appartently blogger is not, it is being very very picky about uploading my pictures so be patient as it may take some time to get all my pics uploaded. Also I will try and get some pics of my new car up as well. (While it is still new, before it also gets totalled, because seriously this metroplex is like the craziest driving I've ever done, it should be a sport like extreme driving, and I should get a prize for only totalling one car and getting no other tickets or accidents in my month of driving here.) I'll try to get pictures up soon but this is taking longer than I thought sorry.

When in Texas, do as the Texans and ....Wait...What?

So here I am, I have been a Fort Worth resident for about a week and a half now. The day I went to my second interview for the job I am at, I walked out of my interview completely confident that this would be my job and that day I said to myself "I live in Fort Worth and I love it." Since then I have had to remind myself of that decision a couple times but for the most part life is good.

My job is cool, I am a Violence Prevention Facilitator, I basically work at local middle schools teaching things like Problem Solving, Empathy, Anger Management and Resisting peer pressure and gang pressure. So far so good, I'm not actually in classes for two more weeks, so things are kinda dragging at work, as I feel pretty preped, I already wrote my syllabus and everyone of my lesson plans for the entire semester. The only thing left is to buy a few more supplies for a couple activites but that's no big. I am really excited about starting schools. In my last job I was will kids so broken down and damaged that my goal was just to help them stabalize so they didn't lose placement, so prevention is something new, and something I can appreciate the importance of.

My apt is ummm...well they say if you lie enough you start to believe it. So with that said, my apartment couldn't be better. Okay I have never searched for an apartment before, a mistake was bound to happen. And after it all, I am so much more appreciative of my amazing former roommate who found us an amazing apartment last year. I also was extremely rushed by work. But the good news is I am only in a six month lease which means in march I am free to move about the city! And I have six months to find myself an awesome crib, with no pressure and with my new found apartment wisdom. So Silver Lining.

I really do like Fort Worth for the most part, although it is very different than I imagined, and I suppose that is my fault. Stereotypes are never something to be considered when building expectations regardless if they generally do come from some shred of the truth. I think I expected a big city but with the southern charm. I got the big city, now its not really that dirty or trashy, at least not compared to LA, but along with the big city I got big city people. Not the southern hospitatlity people, the same old rude, rushed, self concerned people I could find in CA. Oh well at least I'll fit in :) But there are the exceptions, so I guess I just have to work twice as hard to find them, I found them in CA and although I don't ever expect to find friends that top my CA ones, I might could (this is Texas saying which I loathe due to it's redundency, however I cannot help but laugh at also) find some that'll do, lol.

Ya'll come back now ya hear! (Texan for Peace Out Homies)

Jen

When life hands you lemonades, make lemonades.

Yay! So it is official I am now empoyed, woot! I got a job at a counseling agency in Fort Worth and am going to go apartment hunting tomorrow. This is the official start of my Adult life outside riverside (because I want it to be the start of something but technically speaking my adult life started 1 year ago, so I have labeled that year Riverside adult life.) I'm really excited right now, I am going to training in a couple of days then I will let everyone know more about what I do.

He's from Texas yo, they tried to annex themselves. They defintely be hatin' on the contintental United States

So I've been chillin' with Nikki the past couple days, nothing new, just the same old "I don't know what to do with my life" stress that it's been for the past 2 years. 2 YEARS! Seems like enough time to figure something out, unfortuntely this is apparently a problem I lack the power to solve. When I got to OK I really thought I would stay this time, and I still might. I am not going crazy at my parent's house (most of the time). I'm a little bored but nothin' major. However I have scouted out Northeast Texas and found no jobs (except the one I turned down) and the more I'm here in Norman (the OKC area) the more I wonder if I want to live in this area. Thus eliminating all the major metropolitan areas in the region of my family. So now I wonder if I will go back, it's really expensive and that trips me up, and I don't want to be moving all over the place because that looks bad on my Resume. But I am going to go check out some jobs here in Norman on Monday and at least see how that goes. I really could use some wisdom and guidance so if anyone wants to say a few prayers for me I would defintely be grateful. Thanks a bunch!

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I don't know.