Anywho. This was just a random little update link / whatever blog.
Enjoy.
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And incase Dayna Park reads this blog.. I went by some apartment homes today and it was called Dana Park. Haha.. I thought of you instantly. Doubt she’ll read this tho….
Today I went to apply with the state of Arizona. Got up at 6am and was at the place at 7:20 (10 minutes early) just to find out it was canceled. Brandy said she told me, but I can’t remember that.
Waiting to hear back on a job that I was contacted about yesterday. Otherwise that’s how things have been going. Still looking….
Hopefully I won’t settle for a job that I know I won’t like because — I’m getting tired of looking for jobs and it’s only been two weeks.
Hung out with JJ this week- it was good. I was glad to see him and it was nice to have a chance to sit down and talk with him about many issues in life. Haven’t seen many other friends since I’ve been back.
On Thursday night I went out to dinner with my Dad and Willy. It was good and we have these coupons for bowling we need to use. Tried to use them last night but they were doing league bowling.
Life is always in a process of change. I’m thinking if my parents ever switch from Verizon, that I’ll disconnect my cell phone. Simply put– I don’t need it that much and I use it even less.
Here are some other photos from the trip…
At the parking lot of the hotel in Salt Lake City.
LDS
LDS Building
If you remember, August of last year I posted a picture of the Delta center, well this is the newly named Enegry Solutions Arena.
Outside of Salt Lake City
Going through cuts in the rock…
Dang, my car costs too much to fill up. Haha– this was — the u-haul plus my moms car and mine.. none were empty but geeze.
Quote of the week “Cupid and his arrow have declared me an endangered species.”
Went to see the Number 23 on Friday. It was pretty good- slow to start but got progressively better.
Saturday morning I had an interview with Liberty Mutual. I drove like 45 minutes to this place where they were holding the interviews. I arrived like 35 minutes early. (started at 10am Saturday morning.. was like a job fair thing for them lasting until 2) I didn’t want to spend all day at the thing and wait in lines, so I would rather be early.
I sat in my car for a few minutes.. thinking about maybe getting some breakfast or something because I was so early. I decided against it. I got out of my car.. and forgot my cell phone. So I reached in and grabbed it. Then I closed the door and… then a shot of pain went through my body.
The door closed.. with my finger caught between it. Lucky for me it was only the tip of my finger, but it hurt like no tomorrow. I dropped my phone and scrambled for my car keys to unlock the door.
Finding the keys I unlock the door and looked at my newly imprinted finger. They nail looked to be broken down to the bottom. Blood was coming out and not stopping. Upon this happening.. I was like ‘shoot!’ I didn’t want that stuff to get on my clothes.. that would look bad. So I stuck my finger in my mouth. A few seconds later I felt my mouth full with blood. I spit it out and sure enough a mouth full of blood came out. Yucky tasting. I started shaking my finger to make it clean before I walked inside the hotel (where it was held). The blood splattered on the sidewalk.
Walking inside I looked around to see where the restroom was. I couldn’t see it. I looked for hotel people. About 5 people were checking out but nobody was at the counter. I walked to an area where they were serving breakfast and seating people. I started to feel sick. I told the lady.. “hi… i’m here for the interviews…”
“okay.. what interviews?”
“the Liberty Mutual ones, but I just smashed my finger and I need to clean it off… where is your restroom?”
“down the hall and to the left.. please come back when you are done so we can file a report”
I took about 5 steps and made it into a hallway. At this time I was feeling numb all over. The kind of feeling you get when you hit your funny bone in just the right way. It started to get darker.. and then….
About 20 minutes later I wake up in a cold sweat. Eyes closed. Whispering to myself.. Oh my God.. I’ve got to get up. Then I remembered, I’m in a hotel lobby.. I’ve gotta get up now! But I had no energy to do so. I opened my eyes to see about 7 people standing over me with walkie talkies.
They helped me to a chair and for the next 10 or 15 minutes a medical crew from the hotel bandaged me up.. telling me I might need stitches. I woke up on my back.. so I figure I just fell back. They kept putting stuff on my face (which I didn’t understand). I figured that my finger reached to my face and put some blood on it. They probably just thought it was a cut.
They told me that my face was cut, my arm and wrist. My knee is bruised from this event. They told me to go into the restroom to look. I did and .. I was quite surprised when I saw my face.
I told them I needed to go do the interview now and they let me go. I walked into the interview place and they were like “woah what happened to you? do you want to come back another day?”
I said, “No, it took me about an hour to get here, and I smashed my finger and I blacked out.”
Now in the interview I’ve explained this a few times to a few different people. One of the interviewers says “you would be great for the position that we had posted” I’m thinking.. great! Right? right. She continued, “but right now we have no positions available for that, because they’ve been filled. But if a background check doesn’t work out, you’ll have a shot!”
Fantastic.
So I got home, and here is what I saw.
I have no memory of what happened. All I know is what I typed. I really wish I had video to see what happened.
A few days later (today), it has been healing pretty well (kept it bandaged up til now).
So I told you that I would update you from Saturday to current. That is almost another week that has gone by, soo.. no pictures this post. Maybe if I can dig any more up I will post them on another post.
On Saturday I unpacked the U-Haul with my dad, after we both kinda blew up at each other (mostly due to the stresses caused by moving) and then later on in the day (with a sick-to-my-stomach feeling like What did I just do by moving back) I went to go surprise Brandy.
ALSO, everyone has been asking.. why did you move back? I haven’t read it on any posts.. etc etc.
Well kids, to be honest it was for my home church. Might be a weak reason, but alas it is the reason as to why my family and I have moved back. Not for school or work. We spent the better part of a year or so up in the Northwest looking for a church and.. it was starting to effect my parents and also my walk. It started effecting me more after I wasn’t in school this semester (as it got worse without having that influence in my life constantly). Thats when I kinda started to want to move back. I didn’t mention any of this publicly because I wanted to surprise Brandy upon my return.
I did indeed surprise her. I felt no need to tell any of my ‘other’ Arizona friends. Mainly being because most of you either don’t talk to me a lot or hang out with me even less. I had friends who I know I won’t see, getting upset because I didn’t tell them. What did you want? I mean.. you would probably talk to me more if you thought I was in another state— the ironic part of that is that statement has held true so far, as much as it may seem like an angry comment. I realize things and people for the way they are. I don’t try to make things any more or less.
Anyway, that nagging feeling of “what did I do” (by moving back to AZ) has started to wear off by the end of this week. I realize where I am at at this point in my life.. and by no means am I content but — rather I am ready for the next segment whatever that may be. I want to pay off some loans to clear my debt. If it is possible I wish to continue with school part time during all of this. If it is not possible, then that’s fine too. I am not worried much about it. I have been told time and time again, you are young. I am twenty three. I feel old (as I am in many of my friends eyes who remain in Oregon, and some in Arizona). Yet I have friends who are older than me telling me I am young. I am rambling. I want my finances to be in order before I go any further. I checked today and I have over 22,000 worth of student loans to pay off.
I am the type of person who knows when he owes someone. Due to this, I don’t feel right about using any more finances while this current amount of debt continues to rise. On one of the interest of the loans– over 1000 dollars has accumulated in interest in a little over a year and 1/2. Yes, you don’t have to be a mathematician to know that my interest rates are bad. I want to consolidate all of them, but then all of these changes will hinge on me getting a job.
Bleh, so what about this week? I have been looking for a job. I’ve applied at a few different places.. something like 10 or 20 places. We shall see in the rest of the week and next week what comes of it.
I have some job thing with Liberty Mutual I am going to go to on Saturday. It seems like a good job but I want to find out more about it. A few other places seem like a good fit too. Otherwise.. I don’t know.
Been a fairly good week, but rather warm. Like summer time warm.. (as if I lived in Portland still). Don’t believe me? My friends in Portland can make fun of me for this.. it was 87 degrees yesterday and will be in the 90’s by the weekend with no relief in sight.
Speaking of the weekend, to kick of the weekend I am going to see the Number 23 tomorrow with Tina. Not sure how good of a movie it is. I have read some pretty good and yet some pretty poor reviews of the movie.
Oh. I washed my car this week. We had to wash it twice due to all of the salt and junk that was caked on our cars after our trip. It was so much fun (except not).
And other than that.. I think I’ve said more than I’ve said in a long time.
I feel like I have more to say, but I can’t find any words. So this will have to suffice for now. Come to think of it, I’m not so sure you all can handle this type of a post anymore… on that thought *clicks submit*
“He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.” Don Juan Manuel
Last Saturday was my last Voices concert. Afterwards I heard a chapel talk to the guests they had (I stayed afterwards to help load the sound equipment to where they hosted Winter Formal.) Helped with setting up a very little bit, and then went home.
Monday I started to load the U-Haul. Oh So Much fun……
I did however try some orange juice rockstar that didn’t taste bad. I was surprised. (hence the picture)
God knew we were leaving Portland (you can’t really hide anything from him), and he sent us away with something we didn’t get to see much of. Started off as rain, but as the night went on- it turned to snow.
I was happy.
Hence my smile.
On Tuesday (t-minus one day) it was still snowing-ish. Really wet snow during the day. Clear at night.
The morning that we left (Wednesday), I woke up (after not sleeping much) to find that it was snowing pretty heavily outside. It was beautiful.
The tempatures warmed up sharply as the day went on, the sun came out and cleared the roads for us to leave Portland.
We started down the road, heading east. The same way the storm went. See the mountains? It was a sign of things to come.
Snow and ice. It got packed onto my car. It was so cold out, that the water on the roads that was getting kicked up by the trailer trucks landed on our windshields and added a nice layer of ice to our windshield wipers. Causing us to pull over, multiple times to clear the ice off the windshield wipers so that we could wipe away the water before it turned to ice.
The snow came down during the passes.
A few days later, pretty much the same scene.
Going with a U-Haul through this weather isn’t the funnest thing to do.
Eventually we got to a point of the storm passing. (On our 3rd day)
And we could start to see the red rocks…
Before we knew it we were out of the green and back into the brown.
Ah. Sweetness….. such a rush. haha… only get the chance to do it on this one or two stretches on the whole trip.
I did however.. break the speed limit. Only a little……
Oh com’on you try driving 1400 miles in 4 days by yourself.
And finally.. we arrived in Arizona. I was ahead of everyone by a large margin.. mostly due to the speeds. So I had time to get out of my car and take some pictures before everyone else arrived.
Anyway. There will be another post coming in a day or two, giving another update for… uhm…
Well from Saturday til’ whenever I blog again.
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off. – Woody Allen
