NY and Bust

The first (almost) week in NY has been... fairly uneventful, actually. My cousins, Sam and Sabrina, were over at Rick's house Sunday and Monday night, so it was nice to finally get to meet them and hang out for a bit. But mostly it's been a lot of chilling around the house. Rick works nights, so it's been nice to have the house quiet and empty at a relatively early hour so I can crash, or start working on something and not bother anyone.

My new store is - interesting. Definitely a different culture and mindset out here. And I'll just put it this way: I was trained very, very well to do everything according to standard and to make the customer my number one priority. So at this store, I look great! There are a lot of different and strong personalities working at the store, but they're all friendly and I have no problems with any of them.

Long Island really hasn't turned out to be all that different from Oregon. So far, I've talked to some random lady in Starbucks about Apple computers, I've sat and read at (several) Starbucks, I chopped up some firewood for Rick, and I still buy cigarettes from Indian people! On the way to Starbucks today, some guy's car died, so another guy and I got out and helped him push it, and people totally open doors for each other! It's practically the same place. Oh, and I brought the Oregon weather with me, apparently: 66º and sprinkling today! So much for the beach on my day off.

I'm really looking forward to next week at this point. Probably because they were unsure of my availability and training, I was only on the schedule three days this week. I did manage to pick up a short shift on Friday, but it's still not much. Without having work, and without knowing anyone on the Island yet, I pretty much just sit around and get kinda bored. So once work picks up, and hopefully after I visit this church on Sunday, I'll have a little bit more going on.

On a side note, I just ran out to my car to grab some stuff. I left my computer sitting inside, and started talking to some random guy about the area. See? This place is totally chill. The thing I have noticed, though, and yes, this is totally a shout out and props to Southern Oregon, we totally have the cutest baristas there. I'm telling ya, haven't met anyone out here that's as pretty. Oregon girls are prettier ;)

That's a week in Long Island, I think. Rick's got a huge backyard, and a pool, and a gym downstairs, so once the weather gets nice and I find an actual schedule, I'll have a lot more to do. And once I get paid and get my balance about the $30 or whatever it's at, I'll be making a little trip into the city, I think.

Hope all is well back in Oregon!