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Hi Everybody,
Well, I'm back ;) Monday was one month since I moved out of Pennsylvania. Hard to believe.
The move went pretty well, overall. The movers and car transport picked up on the 22nd and then I flew to Seattle on the 26th (I stayed with a friend in the interim). My boss graciously offered me the "mother-in-law" suite in her house until my stuff came. I thought it was going to be very awkward, and at the beginning, it was. I arrived the day of her birthday and she and her husband (who also works for us) went out for dinner, leaving me the run of the kitchen. How do you cook in someone else's home when you don't know where anything is? Let me tell you, it wasn't easy! But I ended up really enjoying the time we spent together, going back and forth to work and then to dinner and so on. Yet, when the car got here on the 30th, I really just wanted to be on my own. First in a friend's apartment, then in my boss' place -- it was too much "togetherness" for someone used to living alone. So I lived in a Best Western until my stuff arrived on April 3. A few things were broken but nothing much to write home about -- the cost of doing business, especially coming from so far away, I'd say ;)
The new apartment is about a mile from the ferry, so I take a bus, but can walk when the weather gets nice. I don't know if I'd do it in the morning but I did walk home one night and it wasn't too bad. I'm starting to get back in shape with all this walking around, not to mention the hills in Seattle ;) Life on the island does have some drawbacks though -- of course it's beautiful, but it's not as convenient as living in the Philadelphia suburbs. The larger stores are off island -- Kohl's, Trader Joe's, etc. I haven't ventured out yet -- I only just finished unpacking this past weekend. It's tough when you work all week -- I'd almost forgotten.
The people are great at my job. Quality assurance is a new area for me but so far, everyone has been really helpful in getting me up to speed. I'm going to a training course this weekend in Indianapolis that should help too. And hopefully I'll get to do some marketing so that some day, I can do risk assessment again :) The goal is to have a practice here, but that will take time.
So here I am in the Pacific Northwest. Wow.
Next -- Berlin!
Well, I'm back ;) Monday was one month since I moved out of Pennsylvania. Hard to believe.
The move went pretty well, overall. The movers and car transport picked up on the 22nd and then I flew to Seattle on the 26th (I stayed with a friend in the interim). My boss graciously offered me the "mother-in-law" suite in her house until my stuff came. I thought it was going to be very awkward, and at the beginning, it was. I arrived the day of her birthday and she and her husband (who also works for us) went out for dinner, leaving me the run of the kitchen. How do you cook in someone else's home when you don't know where anything is? Let me tell you, it wasn't easy! But I ended up really enjoying the time we spent together, going back and forth to work and then to dinner and so on. Yet, when the car got here on the 30th, I really just wanted to be on my own. First in a friend's apartment, then in my boss' place -- it was too much "togetherness" for someone used to living alone. So I lived in a Best Western until my stuff arrived on April 3. A few things were broken but nothing much to write home about -- the cost of doing business, especially coming from so far away, I'd say ;)
The new apartment is about a mile from the ferry, so I take a bus, but can walk when the weather gets nice. I don't know if I'd do it in the morning but I did walk home one night and it wasn't too bad. I'm starting to get back in shape with all this walking around, not to mention the hills in Seattle ;) Life on the island does have some drawbacks though -- of course it's beautiful, but it's not as convenient as living in the Philadelphia suburbs. The larger stores are off island -- Kohl's, Trader Joe's, etc. I haven't ventured out yet -- I only just finished unpacking this past weekend. It's tough when you work all week -- I'd almost forgotten.
The people are great at my job. Quality assurance is a new area for me but so far, everyone has been really helpful in getting me up to speed. I'm going to a training course this weekend in Indianapolis that should help too. And hopefully I'll get to do some marketing so that some day, I can do risk assessment again :) The goal is to have a practice here, but that will take time.
So here I am in the Pacific Northwest. Wow.
Next -- Berlin!