Lately

Okay, so I haven't posted in a while and I think it's high time for an update. So as I'm sure most of you know, Andrew was gone for a month Armying it up in Washington. It totally sucked for me, but it would have sucked way worse if I didn't have awesome friends and family. I just wanted to say thanks to Lisa and Stephen and Em and Shawn for inviting me to hang out with them, as well as to all my amazing aunties and cousins, especially Auntie Nani for letting me sleep over at my house. My family also came up for a week (the first week in July) and I got to hang out with them a lot (though not as much as I would have liked because I got a job at Vivint, but more on that later) which was awesome. So anyway, lots of good times, mostly just hanging out with all our various family that lives up here, though we did go the 4th of July Rodeo in Oakley (not on the 4th though, on the 6th), and that was a lot of fun. I've never been to a rodeo, at least not that I can remember, and it was actually way cool. I quite enjoyed having my family here, though I kinda skipped class a lot. It was just for one week though, so whatevs ;). And, just so you think I didn't fall way behind in school from skipping class, I'm taking a statistics class and an organic chemistry class, and I skipped the statistics class three times, and then had a test earlier this week. I didn't study that much, and I missed like five homework assignments from that same week (we have an assignment like every other day), so you'd think I wouldn't have done very well on the test, but you'd be wrong. I got a 94. I only got a 91 on the first test, and I actually felt more prepared for that one. How did that happen? Beats me. I was quite proud of myself though.

Anyway, okay so I got a job at Vivint at the end of the first week that Andrew was gone, and I started the three week training you have to do for Customer Care (they combined their customer support and tech support departments a few months ago and now call on customer care) Monday of the second week. It kinda worked out perfect, cause my last day of training would have been the day Andrew got back. The training wasn't so bad, at least until they put us on the phones. At the end of the first week they let us listen in on real calls, but then the third week they basically just threw us to the wolves and had us taking calls all by ourselves for four hours. I wasn't too excited about that. On my very first call that I took by myself, I got cussed out by a lady who was super mad because her panel had frozen. Needless to say, I was traumatized. I will admit that I sat there and cried a little bit after that call. I'm a little sensitive. Most of the calls weren't actually that bad, but I just always worried that I would get an angry customer, or that I wouldn't know how to help them, which happened a lot, because I feel like the training didn't teach us anything useful. I mean I know it's best to learn by doing, but seriously, they could have at least taught us how to use the computer program we have to use. Well, they taught us a little bit, but not enough. So anyway, I learned that I am not cut out for a call center job. Don't get me wrong, Vivint is a pretty sweet place to work and they have super awesome perks, but it takes a certain kind of person to work there (at least in Customer Care), and I am not that kind of person. So I quit earlier this week. I know, I'm lame. I couldn't hack it. Andrew was pretty understanding about it. I think he was even more understanding because hopefully I'm gonna take over his job in a couple of weeks (fingers crossed that I get it). He has to quit cause he'll just be too busy this next school year for a job. This job would be perfect for me I think, cause I won't have to deal with people and my social skills are a bit lacking, thanks to me being painfully shy as a child. I never really got over that shyness, but at least I'm not painfully shy anymore. So yeah, that's the job situation.

Okay so I said in an earlier post that Andrew and I are moving to an awesome house on Center Street, and we got the keys for it on Monday. Let me just say first that it is TINY. The listing on Craigslist said it was 600 square feet, but that was absolutely an exaggeration. I actually took some crude measurements of the apartment cause I was curious, and it's maybe 450 square feet. 450! And it's a studio apartment. It'll be okay though, I mean we don't really need a lot of space, and we'll make it work just fine, I just felt a little bit gypped. I had the brilliant idea to get a loft bed though, to give ourselves a bit more room, and because I didn't really want the focus of the apartment to be the bed. I found one on ksl.com for $60, which was awesome because that same bed was $169 at Ikea. We found a kitchen table also on ksl.com, and my aunt gave us a love seat and a dresser, so really all we need now are chairs. We also bought a little bookshelf at Wal-Mart. The apartment is pretty cool, it has a bay window with a windowsill wide enough to sit on, and it has wooden beams along the ceiling and wood paneling on some of the walls, which I think looks cool, but Andrew thinks it's ugly. Oh well. I took some pictures of it, but I'll probably just post those on Facebook. So yeah, that's our apartment situation. We don't have to leave the apartment we're in now until the 1st, so we've just slowly been getting furniture for the new place. We haven't even started packing up this place yet. So yeah, that's mostly what's been going on with us lately. 
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