Job News!

The past few months for Chuck (and all of the other LGOs) have been full of interviews, phone calls, site visits, meetings and decisions. This is the time of year when (most) everyone decides where they will go and what they will do after graduation. It's a very stressful time, for the LGOs and their SOs.

After several phone calls and interviews with different companies, Chuck formally accepted an offer to be an Operations Manager at:

*drum roll please*

You know.... that company that recently came out with news that they're working on drones as a delivery option in the future? That company where you and probably everyone you know bought most their Christmas gifts? Yeah, you may have heard of them. Oh and before you ask, no he doesn't get free Prime and no, he doesn't get a discount on purchases. I wish.

Chuck is really excited about the position he's accepted. Before LGO, he hardly ever sat at his desk at GE, as he was out traveling to suppliers and out on the factory floor. He loved that part of his job and was looking for something similar after LGO but also for something that would give him the ability to lead a group of people. This job at Amazon will give him both of those things! Congratulations, Chuckie!!!!

And that's not all of the exciting news.

The job with Amazon is in Louisville, KY!!!!! Technically, the job is at the Fulfillment Center in Jeffersonville, Indiana but, we'll be living in Louisville.

So, it's official! Chuck will graduate on June 6th and a few days later, we will be Louisville residents once again. 

This LGO experience has been more amazing than words can even describe (I'll save my sappy, lovefest posts for the program, the people and Boston for a later date...), and we've loved this experience, all the traveling we've done and living in two totally different cities. However, the longer we're away from Louisville, more specifically-the PEOPLE who are IN Louisville, the more we want to go back. In addition to our family and friends, and maybe even a bigger reason we want to go back? We really miss Havana Rumba.

Kidding of course... or am I?

Soon, we fly home for Christmas break for two weeks and when we get back, we have exactly 5 months to soak up as much time with our Boston friends as we can, do all the things in the city we've had on our list but haven't crossed off yet, and prepare to move AGAIN.

The post office is really going to freak out when I submit yet another forward address form. Who changes addresses 6 times and lives in 3 cities in 2 years?! I bet the CIA will be investigating us soon.

CIA, if you're reading this: I promise we are NOT terrorists. Just crazy.

A New Routine

A lot has been happening around here lately.

For starters, I turned 26 last weekend. It was one of the best birthdays I've had in a long time. When we woke up Saturday morning, Chuckie asked what I wanted to go do and of course, I said "donuts." If you know me, you know donuts are my favorite food. So what better way to start off my birthday than with some fresh donuts and coffee?

After donuts, I had an interview with Niketown in downtown Seattle for a part time position, which is in addition to the other two part time marketing/arts jobs I already have out here. Then Chuckie and I went shopping at Banana Republic because we had a Friends and Family discount for 50% off everything and we both had gift cards. Then, only 2 hours after my interview, I got a call from Nike letting me know they'd like to hire me and could I start this Monday?! Um, YES! So now I have 3 jobs.

The evening of my birthday, we decked ourselves out in Louisville apparel and headed to a hole in the wall bar a few minutes from our apartment to watch the Big East Championship game. Louisville pulled out an amazing win- the best birthday present! Then we were off to another bar to meet up with friends and participate in the early St. Patrick's Day celebrations! Like I said, a GREAT birthday this year.

Oh yeah and one of Chuckie's gifts to me was Girl Scout Cookies. Does he know me well or what?

 

So that was Saturday. Monday I started my new job with Niketown, and on Tuesday we moved apartments. Because, you know, we haven't moved enough times this past year already so we wanted to add one more move just for fun. No but seriously. The apartment we were in was ok for a little while. But there were several things about it that we decided we can't deal with for 5 more months. First of all, it was in the basement of a house. We had no windows, no ventilation, crooked floors, and probably some mold from occasional basement flooding. Also, it was a studio- so basically all just one big room, which is not ideal for hosting visitors.

 

So we found this new apartment through the same company. It is also fully furnished, so moving would only require moving our few belongings we brought to Seattle, in a better location close enough for Chuck to have a 10 minute walk to work and close enough for me to walk to Niketown, a one bedroom so much bigger, a designated parking spot, and a brand new kitchen and bathroom. Oh yeah, and we have tons of windows. I am not exaggerating when I say my overall mood has improved SO much just in the few days since we moved here. I think it's the windows.

Oh and I love what we named our WiFi router.

View of the Olympic Mountains from our living room? Ok!

We love it.

So, in addition to turning 26, getting a new job and a new apartment, we're also trying to get out of the rut we've been in lately where Chuck gets home from work, we make dinner and then proceed to spend our evening watching Raylan Givens mess some people up on our new favorite show, Justified. And while we love our Raylan Givens and plan to keep watching so we can catch up to the current season, we have a new plan to start getting a run in or some type of exercise after work before the dinner and Justified routine starts. I know it's not a profound idea- this is what most normal people do on a daily basis. So we need to become normal. We need to get healthier and stop being so lazy. Plus, now that I'm working at Nike I'm required to wear the Nike Fuelband so I gotta hit my daily Fuel points goal, people!

This weekend we're looking forward to watching a lot of basketball and exploring more of Seattle. My parents come to town next weekend for their Spring Break visit- I can't wait.

Happy Friday, everyone!

 

Workin' 9 to 5

As you probably already know, I got a full time job!!!!!!!!

My new job is actually at MIT, working for the Sloan Business School. I'm working in the Behavior and Policy Science department as an administrative assistant for 4 professors in the Sloan School. The building I work in is the newest building on campus (just opened in September of 2010) and to say that it's nice or pretty would be a HUGE understatement. This place is amazing. It's also the most energy efficient building on campus. I found an article about it that said this: "There are shades that descend automatically to block the sun, recycled glass in the terrazzo flooring, a green roof planted with sedum, and heat, A/C, and lights that turn on only when someone is using a room...Hill also mentions that an amazing 92 percent of the building that was on the site previously was reused or recycled."  Shades that descend automatically based on the sun? Lights that turn on when I walk in a room? Again, amazing.

Also? I have a huge office on the 4th floor with huge windows that look out onto the river and the Boston skyline!

No, that's not true at all. I actually can't see outdoors from where I sit. But I do have a pretty spacious (not being sarcastic, it's actually big) cubicle that looks out to a wall of lovely, metal cabinets. And they have a gigantic Keurig in the kitchen space I can get coffee from whenever I want. This is going to save me a lot of money. And I get to wear jeans every day. Oh and I'm forgetting to mention the best part.... I CAN WALK TO WORK. No more checking the traffic app for this girl! Our apartment building literally shares the parking lot with the Sloan building. I could throw a rock at our apartment from the front steps of this building. It's the best.

I'm going to be so sad when we have to move off campus at the end of the summer. But at least this building is still only a 2-3 minute walk from the T stop, so wherever we move it will still be a pretty short commute.

This is the entrance I use in the morning.

This is the entrance facing the river.

Here's a link to the MIT page about the building if you want to read some more and see more pretty pictures of the inside. http://mitsloan.mit.edu/buildingthefuture/about-e62.php

Staying Busy

The title of this post pretty much sums up our previous week, and probably every week from here on out. Chuck started REAL classes this week so that plus homework plus socializing with the LGOs has kept him extremely busy. As for me, I have been running errands, interviewing for jobs and also socializing with the LGOs and their SOs. Rather than bore you with all the details, I will show you our past week in pictures.

This wasn't technically in the past week but just a little over a week ago. Long story short, Chuck's BFF and our Best Man Branden flew in last minute (his work sent him) and took Chuck to Game 6 of the playoffs between the Celtics and Miami Heat. They had like 8th row tickets and took this sweet sign with them. They didn't get on TV but that's ok. The Celtics lost unfortunately. Maybe Rondo was just too nervous to play in front of two former high school and college classmates?

One day I walked to CVS across the river and came upon Charles Street. So I had to take a picture for Chuck, obviously. (This is the Instagram copy.)

We've been doing a lot of cooking and baking. Chocolate chip muffins, yum.

Garlic shrimp and Fiesta Lime Rice. SO. GOOD. Here is the recipe for the rice: http://www.skinnytaste.com/2011/04/fiesta-lime-rice.html This website is amazing.

This week we discovered the on-campus karaoke bar called The Thirsty Ear. We went with a bunch of LGOs and SOs on Thursday night and it was a blast. You can see Chuck up there in the middle, pretending to play guitar on the random Guitar Hero guitar that someone handed him. They were singing Sweet Home Alabama. And yes, it appears one of them is studying while also singing but I promise he wasn't.

Yesterday we went on a "Duck Tour" with a lot of LGOs and their families. We had enough people that the entire bus/boat was all people we knew, so that made it a lot of fun. This was the Captain of our bus/boat "Old Glory." The Duck Tours take you all over downtown Boston and then into the water where you float around on the Charles River for a bit before heading back. Our Captain was a tad crazy but that's ok, it was still fun. And we got some great pictures of the city.

Another Instagram photo:

After the tour, a bunch of us went to get dinner together and ended up at a Thai restaurant. We had so many people they gave us the whole back room to ourselves, so that was fun. Except this dude hovered over us the whole time.

Other highlights from the week? I got a job (yay!), I had lunch and went shoe shopping with some SOs, we went to some cool Irish bars Friday night, and did some wedding planning. Today we worked on planning our ceremony and music for the reception. Chuck suggested we do our first dance as husband and wife to "Play That Funky Music White Boy." So as you can see we got a lot accomplished. :)