It dawned on me last night at work that I'd been listening to the same radio station on my phone app for the last 4 months. Why have I not changed it and given myself some genre variety? I decided that I'd like to put on an old favorite - Marc Broussard. The way the app on my phone works (Pandora) is it plays the artist you request, and then plays similar artists also. The first song it played was one of my favorites from Marc's "Carencro" album - "Lonely Night in Georia". The next artist, I can't remember his name or the song title, but I really enjoyed the song. I sang along as much as I could and just felt so much more relaxed while working. I really do love that bluesy soulful type music. I'm not quite sure why but I'm almost drawn to it...maybe it was a part of a past life of mine?
This past week was kind of bizarre to me...so much was going on and the days went by so quickly. My new job was exciting yet disappointing at the same time. They asked a few of us back to mentor, which we did, but everything was so disorganized that we took breaks a lot. My confidence was a bit shaken during the week. I'm not sure that I'm really getting it and I feel that others there are going to shine brighter than me. I'm sure that a few will, but in reality I should be confident that I can do this and that I'll learn quickly and be a rockstar. I really hope to keep this job. Especially since I put in my 2 weeks at my other job already! If I can't keep the new job, then it's off to McDonald's for employment. I'll have to do something drastic like that in order to keep the income flowing.
I've had little time to see my fiance or my friends since starting this new job. He works evenings and I work mornings and evenings. But this past Tuesday he and I got to have dinner together. We were only able to spend a couple of hours together but it was nice being able to have that time together. And then on Friday we were able to spend most of the day together and had a laughing good time at lunch. <3 Just what we needed too. Wednesday I got to hang out with Tara, one of my besties! She's also the mother of my Godsons Aidan and Keegan. Originally it was only Keegan who would be my Godson, but because of recent events in their lives, Tara has "lumped" Aidan into the deal too. Sounds wrong written that way, but I'm not sure how else to describe it. Anyway, I finally got to see them after what felt like ions. It was only a week and a half though I think! It was so good spending time with both boys and seeing Tara and Chris (her husband).
The list of interesting people I've met this week...Let's see. There was Kudzai from Zimbabwe. He was born in Zimbabwe, moved to the US when he was 6, moved back to Zimbabwe at 13, then came back to the US at age 18. He was telling me about the different languages in Zimbabwe. It was pretty cool. Andrea from my mentor group is American but lived in Jamaica for a while and was educating us on how the US Government/Military came to Jamaica last May and killed tons of innocent people to capture the Jamaican self-proclaimed president. Interesting stuff! I've learned a lot about different cultures this week and I LOVE it! I really need to get the ball rolling on learning multiple languages. But what to do with that education/ability??? I'm not sure!
All in all a pretty good week. I can't wait to have the evenings free to watch some Red Wings! I start taking calls for the new job tomorrow and I'm somewhat nervous about it...but it should be interesting! Here I go!!!
