New job!

So I DID finally get a job!! One that I really, really wanted and am very excited about. I know that it will be a lot of hard work and I may wish I could move up quicker than I will actually get to, but I am very excited.

I had to go through two phone interviews as well as a "working interview" which was very scary. If I can do that, I can do anything! I had to go work with the other keepers for almost an entire day. I really liked all of them though and enjoyed the work. So now, it is looking for somewhere to live. I have had an offer to stay with some...friends of friends in a very nice house on a lake so I think I may take them up on that for at least a month while I try to discover where it will be safe to live in Houston. I can't wait to have my own place though and cook my own food. Someday.

I finally will have income of my own at least!

I am going out tonight and then headed to CStat for the Aggie football game tomorrow! This will be the last one I will go to for a while since I will begin working weekends when I start in about a week. On sunday I am going to drive around Houston and check out places to live. Life is still stressful but something finally went right!

Opportunities

I had a second interview with a zoo and now am going to work/meet the team. I'm not sure exactly what this entails but hopefully it all goes well. It is kinda nerve racking not really knowing what to expect that day. I am driving and staying with a family friend the night before so that I don't have to deal with a super long drive and horrible traffic the morning of. I'm excited to actually have an opportunity!

My weekend trip was very fun and very worth it. I'm glad that we went. We got to see several pieces of history, such as the grassy knoll where JFK was shot. It creates a lot of food for thought and I have been trying to learn more about those important events in our nation's history.

Baby steps

Well, I have a second interview next week with a zoo. I am not holding my breath though because they interviewed a million applicants. They interviewed someone every thirty minutes for three whole days. So....I wonder how many others got the second interview as well. It's probably all a waste of time anyway because of the economy I'm sure some zookeeper that has been doing this for 10 years applied as well. Oh well, it would be nice.

I also am going to start volunteering at the local zoo here on Monday. It is not AZA accredited but it will still be some sort of animal care experience. Other than that, I have applied to a million others but not heard anything.

I am headed to Dallas for the rest of the weekend. I get to lounge by a pool and go see a play. Not too shabby. I also have some excellent books that in my currently unemployed status I may actually have time to read. One is 20 Something 20 Everything. by Christine Hassler. It is supposed to help with a woman's "quarter-life crises" which I guess means when you get into the real world and realize that nothing ever goes the way you planned.

The other one was written by a woman in my sorority and is called "Designed by Success" to help women in the work place. Eventually I will get to them.

I hope everyone enjoys the long weekend!

I need a job. You would think that with all of the thousands of jobs that I have applied for, that something would work out. I wonder how many I have actually applied for. I should have kept count. Looks like I am going to be living in down town Austin soon in a box shared with Leslie, the resident homeless man, so that we can split rent. :(

Little accomplishments

Today I put up those curtain holder backythingys all by myself! I'm very proud. I also got my room as organized as it is going to be while I am living at my parent's house. I went through a lot of old stuff and found some interesting things from high school. Lots of notes and things.

I would like to have a job. Someday, perhaps. During my cleanings I also came across some blank canvases and some modeling clay as well as paint. Now that I have nothing to fill my days with I guess I will be trying out my artistic abilities. Will let you know how it goes.

First post

Howdy!!

I now have a blog! I went to see the movie "Post Grad" today that has Alexis Bledel in it. It was really good and exactly fits my life right now. Except for the ending. The ending was completely unrealistic and the true ending would have been if she had moved all the way across country for a boy only to find that he had another girl in his room already. Shame shame on the director for continuing the fairy tale fantasy. The rest of it was funny though, especially when she finds out that being a college graduate means close to nothing and how difficult it is to move back home and try to fit into your old life.

I think I am at a stage in my life where I need to learn patience. "Everything is made beautiful in its' time." I just have to learn to wait and enjoy the moment of where I am now. Some day, possibly soon, I will look back on this time of my life and wish that I could go back to the days where my Mom cooked my meals, I had free rent and nothing to do with my days. However, it is very hard to adjust to that when I feel that I should be taking care of my self now but am not able to.

Here is a link to a wonderful video that my Mom sent me. I love it. Says so much that is so true. Things like that just remind me that I know I was called to work with animals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H17edn_RZoY