This last week went by really quickly which was good for my first week at my "new" job. I'm not sure if I can say the same for Ben who stayed at home all day and had daily tasks like, take suits to the cleaners, put in a work order to have the sink fixed, call our Health Insurance company, etc. I'm sure this next week will be a little different. Anyway, the office I work in is great and so far everyone seems pretty grateful that I actually know what I'm doing. Though the things I do each day are different from what I did in Charlottesville the tasks aren't things I'm unfamiliar with. Basically for now I'm working as the "Director of First Impressions" aka receptionist, and when my trial period is done I'll be doing something different. I'm fine with whatever they have me do as long as I get paid. What stinks is that I had to re-do all my paperwork since the Home Office in Milwaukee decided to terminate me completely when I left my old office. That also meant that I had to get fingerprinted again. That was probably the highlight of my work week. Enthralling, I know.
Come Saturday, Ben and I were ready to spend his last weekend of freedom doing something exciting so we went to the public market and to a festival called the Clothesline Festival. The public market was pretty cool, and we ended up getting a lot of produce for really cheap. We may make it a weekly occurrence. The Clothesline Festival was pretty much the same as the Park Ave. Fest we went to when we first moved here. There were a lot of craft vendors, some food and a little bit of entertainment except instead of being free, it was $7 a person. Kind of a rip if you ask me, but at least we got to go inside the Memorial Art Gallery which surprisingly had an interesting collection of art including this Monet that neither Ben nor I had ever seen before:
We both really liked it, even though the original is being loaned out and we didn't get to see it in person. Maybe one day we'll go back to visit the museum. There are still other places we'd really like to go around here but they all charge a pretty penny. The George Eastman house is on our list as well as the Rochester Museum and Science Center that currently is running the "Our Body" exhibit that displays actual human bodies (dead ones of course). That one costs $24 each unless I pretend I'm a student ( I still look young enough right?!) and then I can get in for $17! Yikes... we'll probably put that one off for a while. Lots to do, lots to explore which we are happy about.That brings us to today. We went to Church earlier today where Ben had to teach a Gospel Principles lesson and I had to teach Nursery. There were only 3 kids which was nice for my first time teaching. I taught the 5/6 year-olds in our old ward, but 2/3 year-olds are a lot different. Absolutely no attention spans. You're probably thinking, "Duh Amanda, anyone could have told you that," but it's been about 8-10 years since the last time I babysat more than one kid and that is essentially what Nursery is... babysitting. I have to do it for the rest of the month, so maybe that will make up for all those lost years of babysitting.
In this next week, there will be some firsts for Ben and I. Ben's first week at his new job, my first FULL week at mine, and our first paychecks (yipee!). We will have to let you know how it all goes down.
2 comments:
I just love to hear how you both are doing! It's great that you are taking advantage and enjoying outside activities...I wonder what winter will bring??? I hope Ben will have a great first week at his job and that yours will go smoothly as well. We are preparing for our trip, I think most of the focus for me is not on the trip itself, but preparations for not being here at home. C'est la vie!
love you guys!
Good luck with Nursery! I definitely sympathize. :) You know, I have been in Nursery for over a year now. Maybe I will go pro with the whole babysitting thing.
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