Anyway, I guess I should give a little update on my situation eh? Let's see let's see... work has been a pile of stress that's for sure. I work three days a week on top of going to school full time and a few months ago they threw me into bartending with no training so that was fun. I'm actually loving that part of my job though, making drinks is fun and I make good money. I've been complimented numerous times on my drink pouring skills and thats a huge confidence boost since I'm not even old enough to drink yet. But this leads into the stressful part of my job. We are HIGHLY understaffed, we literally have 20 employees including managers and of course everyone works different shifts. This means that on average there are 2-3 employees and 1 manager on shift. So on Friday nights I usually run the ENTIRE place by myself. The managers are in the office doing paperwork and I'm the first one on shift so I'm pretty much alone for two hours. Anyway, because our company got bought out by someone new they've been doing "secret shopper" tests every month. This means that a random person the company has hired drops in unannounced and tests everything about us. Customer service, food quality, cleanliness, bar quality, drink quality etc. etc. Obviously this whole story has a point, one friday here I am working alone and I apparently get "secret shopped." which means I'm the only one that served this person while they were here and I got the highest score our center has ever received. Yeah, that's right, I'm feeling so badass.
On the SO front things have been absolutely amazing. We've been visiting a lot more than ever because I now actually have a job that pays me money and I don't have to save allowance all year to afford a 2 day visit. The visit before this last one I finally met his parents, and stayed with them for the second half of the visit to save some money. I love his family, they are so close knit and happy it makes me smile. I can really see how they made my SO into the guy he is today.
I really hope they'll be my family some day. And the best part? They actually like me too! I was so nervous about that, I mean usually people don't like me and I was worried they wouldn't like the fact that I'm 5 years younger than their son. I think it was a huge step for my SO too, I think this really solidified the relationship for him, I mean he loves me of course but knowing his parents like me is a big thing to him. Oh and his mom is almost single handedly responsible for the visit I just had in March, just 3 months after I just visited she kept pestering my SO about when I'd be coming up again and if I wanted to move up there. It was really surprising, and super sweet.This brings us to the closing the distance plans. Tentatively we have it set for September. my SO worked his ass off for this huge promotion at work and while he doesn't quite know all the details yet it's a major step for him. He's one of the newest guys there and they chose him for the promotion. I couldn't be happier for him.
Hopefully it comes with a huge pay raise because he'll be putting in a lot more hours at work now, it's already started even though it's not official yet and it's really cutting into our talk time but if it means closing the distance sooner I'm not going to complain.The plan is to buy his one way plane ticket down here at the end of april so we can't back out of it. Once he gets down here we'll be taking my car and driving the 2,200 miles across the country to his hometown where I will hopefully have some job positions lined up. We're going to be looking for apartments but with how small his community is it might be a little hard. Thankfully his mom said that if we can't find anything by September that I can live there with them until we do which is a big stress off my shoulders. I still don't really know how to tell my parents, they're gonna be pissed that I'm putting college on hold for awhile to move across the country, but I'll already have my associates degree by time I move so honestly I think I can take a year off. But hey, I'm 20 years old now so it's not like they can really stop me.
School is a bitch and half and I can't wait to graduate in May. I'm so unmotivated I don't even know how my schoolwork is getting done. I think it would be a bit different if I actually liked some of my classes, but I don't. These are all just stupid filler classes I needed for the degree. My grades are holding out which is nice but honestly, I don't know what I want to do with my life or what I want to major in so I don't see the point of blowing my money on something that's just essentially a waste of time. I guess it's a good thing I had a scholarship for these 2 years or I woulda been kinda mad about not finding something that interests me.
I think that's really all thats happening in my life at the moment. Work, school and being with my SO. Yup, that's definitely all thats going on in my life right now. So I guess my next blog will be when something more interesting happens.
