6 month wedding anniversary!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday, Glenn and I had our 6 month anniversary! Time has flown by and it doesn't seem like anywhere near 6 months! We have accomplished a lot in the past 6 months... first Glenn decided to go to UCLA (no, we didn't have ANY idea) until a couple of months after the wedding, we graduated, moved to LA, moved into our apartment, made great strides in learning how to get around in LA, Glenn started law school, I have actually started kind of enyoying cooking ( I never thought I would say that! It helps to have a funcional kitchen!), we both turned 23, and I have made a lot of progress in figuring out the direction I want to go with my career, and (hopefully) will get hired soon (I've been working hard on it!). I have my 3rd interview with a company tomorrow so I hope it goes well! They make you interview so many times before hiring you! I have a feeling if I do well tomorrow I'll still have AT LEAST one more interview with them! I hate interviewing. It is so stressful and unnatural! oh well!

We still don't have our sofa yet :-( It should arrive in the next couple of weeks. And we don't have much money to go to all the fun places like Disneyland, shopping, and the San Diego zoo, etc, but we have had a great time doing inexpensive things like hiking and the beach. It's been great!

My friend Reed from Tulsa visited me this weekend and we had a blast. He lived here one summer so he pretty much showed me around! It felt good to see a good friend from home.

Weekend in Oxnard

This weekend, Glenn and I headed North of LA to Oxnard to dog/apartment sit for Glenn's friend Brian and his girlfriend Sarah. It was really nice to get away from the traffic and hustle and bustle of LA for a couple of days . Brian and Sarah's apartment overlooks channel islands harbor and sailboat docks, so it was very picturesque.

On Saturday, we puttered around the channel island shops, and visited the Ventura County Maritime Museum, which was among the shops.The Museum featured nautical displays, models of historic sailing ships, and a world-class marine art collection. (my favorite part!) They had a special exhibit from a plein air painting competition displayed which was exciting to me because I had just done a similar contest in Galveston, TX earlier in the summer. I really enjoyed looking at the art and I decided I want to enter the competition next summer.

We also learned that you can go whale watching in that area and lately they have had an abnormal number of blue whale sightings! We will definitely go whale watching during the right season.

On Sunday we went to the beach and it was beautiful!







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Job Search

I had my first interview of the day at 11 with Enterprise at their regional ofice for their management trainee program. It went really well! I anwsered every question well and was on top of my game! I have a second interview/ observation tomorrow morning at 8am, so I am hoping that goes well. Everyone I met there was really friendly and seemed to actually be enjoying their jobs.

My second interview was at 3:30 in Sherman Oaks for an outside sales position, and went pretty well except for the fact that I definitely cannot see myself working for this company...more specifically, working under the man who interviewed me! I understand that they will interview you "hard sell" style sometimes, but there is a difference betwen that and just being rude. This guy was just rude. I could have a second interview/ ride along but I don't want to. I just had a gut feeling that I would be miserable working there, so that's that.

So, long story short- I hope everything works out with the Enterprise job, if not, more interviews!

Yikes!

I have TWO job interviews tomorrow! EEK!

Everything works out for the best...

Although I had a minor meltdown yesterday morning when I realized the car wouldn't start, it all turned out just fine. Glenn's afternoon class was canceled, which meant that he got to come home at 11 and cheer me up. He did something dumb also yesterday, so it made me feel like I had company haha. We ran errands together and then relaxed together the rest of the day. It turned out to be a pretty nice day after all.

This morning, I met with the recruiter, Rachel. I'm really glad I did! She was really helpful, encouraging, and I actually enjoyed talking to her. She not only is already working to schedule interviews for me, but also is going to give me tips on what to talk about in my interviews in order to look the best I possibly can (and she knows the people who will be interviewing me, which is a bonus). Now I finally feel like I have a clear-cut path to finding the right job for me and getting hired. It's a little overwhelming starting from scratch!

I just want to cry! Murphy's law...

So I am supposed to have an appointment with a recruiter at 11 today. I woke up, got ready even a little early, went to my car to leave and it wouldn't start. I know why. I just inherited my mom's Honda civic and it has no alarm or chime that goes off when you leave the headlights on. I just want to cry!

I drove to the mall on Saturday...I must have left the lights on. I didn't go anywhere in my car yesterday or I would have figured it out in time.

Glenn's car is here, but I don't have a key to it and he is in class until 11. I'm so mad at myself for letting something so stupid happen. I called and rescheduled my appointment and the lady was very understanding, but no matter what, it has to hurt my credibility. I just feel so stupid. There are so many times when I've driven this car that this could have happened... but it never did until I had somewhere important to go. The only positive thing is that it wasn't an actual job interview.

I caught up to Glenn

My 23rd Birthday was on August 24, yes, exactly one week after Glenn's! To celebrate, we went to Hamasaku, a trendy Japanese restaurant in LA known for being the favorite of celebs such as Harrison Ford, Stephen Spielburg, Christina Aguilera, and basically every A-list celeb on the planet! Supposedly it was the first place that Mary Kate Olsen ate after she got out of anorexia rehab haha! It is also fun, because they name the star's favorite rolls after them, so you can imagine being a star while you eat your sushi!

Unfortunately, we did not have any celeb sightings, but if there had been a famous person in there, they couldn't hide because it is such a small restaurant with no back rooms or anything. On the way to the restrooms there are oodles of very new signed movie posters!

Aside from the celeb popularity, (and Most Importantly!) the sushi was DELICIOUS and presented very well. I enjoyed every single bite! It is definitely a place we will go again when we have a special occasion to celebrate! They even sang me happy birthday and wrote my name on the dessert plate! Unfortunately I forgot to bring my camera because we were rushing out the door to make our reservation, so I took the picture above right when we got back to our apartment.

Also, today I went shopping for the first time in a really long time at Center mall! We got a little bit lost finding it, and it was extremely crowded, but I got to shop at H&M so it was all worth it! If you aren't familiar with H&M, you are missing out! They have trendy designer-looking clothes for prices cheaper than gap or express. (and they hold up much better than forever 21) I'm so happy to be living in a city that has one! Glenn bought some jeans at Express and I also picked up my free birthday gift from the Aveda store; a neat little custom-mixed perfume spray!