First Day

I finished my first day of work. It wasn't as awful as I was expecting but that was mostly because I spent the majority of the day doing security training and paperwork. The only part that was truly awful about the day was when I listened to several new coworkers telling me all the things they were expecting me to miraculously fix or make for them. (None of which I have the slightest clue of how to do.) I shouldn't be surprised at those things anymore because that's how it plays out every time I start a new job. I just hope I can figure out how to do all the things for which they are hoping before they figure out that I'm just winging it. THAT'S the part that stresses me out so badly.

Uhgg...

I need to be going to bed right now but I don't want to. Going to sleep brings me that much closer to having to start my new job tomorrow. I've been trying not to think about it for the past 10 days and I think I've been fairly successful. About 10 minutes ago my mind began to wander into the unknown of tomorrow and my mood has soured considerably in that short space of time.

How wonderful it would be to be independently wealthy.

Well I had better get ready for bed now. *sigh*

Good Times with Gib

My brother and his friend (Nate) came down to play around for a few days. All we did was surf, golf and go to a Padres game. I wish I'd managed to get actual surfing pictures but that never happened so you'll have to just be happy with this on of the boys sitting in front of the car full of surf boards. I know I had a great time surfing and I *think* everybody else did too.

On Friday night, after exhausting ourselves with surfing we decided to take in a MLB game. It was the Padres vs. Cubs. The Padres won! 4 to 0. It also just so happened to be the 25th anniversary of when the Padres won their division and went to the World Series. Unfortunately they didn't win the World Series but hey, at least they got there at some point in their history. (Actually they got to the world series twice in their history, 1984 and 1998, both times losing.) Anyway, because it was the 25th anniversary they celebrated with a rather spectacular fireworks show after the game, which we thoroughly enjoyed.

The next day there was more surfing and then we golfed at a really ghetto [read: cheap] golf course. The course was fairly difficult but it was just dry and brown and covered in squirrel holes. I lost my ball down the holes a couple of times. In the end Gib won, followed by Nate, followed by me and then Mr X. (Mr X was being kind to me by playing his worst ever so I would look better, I think.)

Ocean Beach Market

Yesterday evening Mr X and I met up with the Nye family and ventured out to the Ocean Beach Farmer's Market. When I lived in OB many years ago, I remembered this market as being energetic, fun and having an extensive selection from which to choose. Today that memory was dashed as I found the market overcrowded, generic and expensive. Now I'm left to wonder, was it always like this and was I just a naive fool before or has the OB market's quality just really gone downhill? I'm inclined to believe the latter.

ABQ Visitors

Some friends of ours from ABQ came to visit for a couple days this week. They were very thoughtful guests and it was a pleasure to be able to reconnect with them. This is a picture of their lovely little family. The day they left they were headed up to spend the day gallivanting around Disneyland with their enthusiastic daughter....as you've undoubtedly already deduced from her attire:

Green Valley Lake Cabin

Last weekend we stayed in a cabin at Green Valley Lake. It's up near Big Bear in CA. The cabin was called "WHALEROCK" and it was everything we were hoping it would be. Here are some pictures from our weekend:

This was the sign at the front of the drive way.

This was the front of the cabin. I loved it.

The kitchen and entryway.

The living room and the adorable fireplace.

The bedroom came complete with a patchwork quilt. Very appropriate.

It was a couple minute walk to the lake. This is what it looked like. It's stocked regularly with fish and it seemed like it would have been nearly impossibly NOT to catch a fish. We didn't fish because we don't have our CA fishing licenses.

Instead we rented a rowboat and paddled around the lake for a good long while. It was really nice.

Tidbit

I was looking at my 'tags' for all of my posts and I saw that "Mr X" is tagged by far the most often: 80 times. Well that makes sense as he's my highest priority. What was very telling was the next highest category: FOOD - 51 tags. So I guess in my life Mr X is #1 and food is #2. No wonder I'm chunking right up these days.