Yesterday after church and my mom's birthday dinner my sister, dad, Johnny and I packed up my car with the stuff I decided was essential and then I drove 2.5 hours through horrible Thanksgiving aftermath traffic to Cincinnati. Once there I found the keys to a two-bedroom apartment under the doormat of the leasing office of a complex in Sharonville.
What took the four of us about a half hour to pack into my car took me an hour or more to move into the second floor apartment all by my lonesome. Once inside I kept realizing stuff I forgot, like the bag of frozen food my mom gave me (bagels, veggie burgers, an organic tv dinner, etc) and claw clips to hold my hair so I can straighten it - very thankful that those bracelets held out last night...
So after a dinner of tortilla chips and salsa I watched the extra stuff on the Charlie St. Cloud DVD Johnny and I bought the other day while sitting on my bed. aka, my sister's air mattress.
About this air mattress... It looks great when it's first blown up. But, after only an hour of lying on it you're suddenly on the floor. Apparently she (my sister) has never had a problem with it. But I got to refill it at 11pm, 2:30am, and then got up at 5am, once again lying on the floor. Definitely no sleep for Emily. This is how the bed looked when I got up.
You can't tell from this picture, but there's definitely almost no air left in this thing.
Thankfully I mentioned my predicament to my co-worker and she's bringing her air mattress to work tomorrow for me to use till I have my bed here. Apparently you plug it into the wall and it's as high as a normal bed and it doesn't deflate. :DDD
So I get up and get ready and iron my dress clothes and then I realize I have no breakfast food except for dry cereal. And no milk. Or orange juice. *sigh*
Walked out the door at 6am hungry and still wearing my slippers (which I realized before I made it to the stairs). Dunkin Donuts directions in my head, I got breakfast and drove to work and arrived a full half hour early. Realized I forgot my headphones and my USB cord so I could charge my phone while I listened to music.
Started to work at 7am and omg after working from home for so long being on the actual system and my actual work computer is a HUGE improvement. I finished 295 claims in less than four hours (less because I took some time to go down to the security desk and get my permanent badge, pictured below). Normally I finish around 300 or a little more in 7.5 hours.
Bought lunch from the caf. Forgot/didn't have any food to pack.
Finally in the afternoon I got to meet up with another Plan B-er and our trainer for the new position in production and we learned to input claims. I'm super stoked to finally be leaving Plan B and doing something new! And apparently I'll be getting a new desk, thank goodness. I'm off in the wild blue yonder all by my lonesome kind of really far away from where production sits right now.
Got off work at 3:30 (score!!) and went straight to Walmart to buy all the stuff I forgot and FOOD! Now I sit alone in this big apartment eating ramen and writing to all of you!
My favorite room is the bathroom.
Followed closely by the kitchen.
In my opinion they're the homiest parts of this place, probably due to the colors in the bathroom and the personal touches in the kitchen (like the teapot and the pic of Clyde and myself). Otherwise the "bed" is lying in the middle of the living area and one of the bedrooms houses all of my clothes, shoes, and other random stuff.
Anywho, this is where I live but only for now! Hopefully this weekend will be the big move to the more permanent location. And I found a couch I like! I told Johnny to look at it, and if he likes it too we're going to pool money and buy it. It's a sofa lounge, so it converts into a bed, which is super convenient for when I have friends/family over!
Now I will pay on my credit card, which I had to use to buy my groceries due to leaving my debit card at home (notice the forgetfulness pattern???) and then play Angry Birds on my phone.
Here's hoping tomorrow is better!
