Halloween fun!

(Three blogs in one day, whoo!)

Thought I would share some fun pics from my post-Halloween celebration. I had to work the morning after Halloween, so I didn't engage in many festivities, but on Nov 1, my friend Kate and I stumbled across an awesome Halloween deal. Since we didn't have time to carve pumpkins before Halloween (so much working!), we set out on Saturday afternoon to find any decent leftover pumpkins in town. After a few unsuccessful stops, we found a Kroger selling pumpkins for $1!! So naturally, we bought 8 haha :)

Two of my masterpieces, Pirate and Pierre.
We managed 6 before we were exhausted...

As you can see, we made quite a mess of Rob's pool deck. Later we roasted the pumpkin seeds and tried to pretend it was fall in the 80 degree weather! Anyway, it was a fun day :)

Meet Rob :)

Meet Rob Chang. I met Rob my second weekend here while we were out with a bunch of friends. The next week, I asked him about the Bible study that he goes too, he asked me to dinner beforehand, and the rest is history, I suppose. I certainly didn't expect to move here and meet someone, but sometimes life is full of surprises!

Us at a Gavin DeGraw concert in Houston.

For those of you who need the quick stats, Rob is from Westchester, PA (outside of Philly), attended Penn State for mechanical engineering, has been working for exxonmobil for a year longer than I have and is probably one of the nicest people I know. Coincidentally, his Dad was an NCSU chemical engineer! (which reminds me, go NC State! we killed Carolina yesterday!!)

Time Off!

So I mentioned in my last post that I've been working a ton... and nothing much has changed! A few weeks ago I was able to get some much needed time off to go home for my Mom's 50th birthday! We had such an awesome time hosting a party at our house (and a big one at that!) and just hanging out for the rest of the weekend. I wish I had some good pictures to show, but I slacked off and didn't get any good ones...

Since then, I haven't had a full day off - I've taken half days off, and even on my full days "off" I've usually had to go in for at least a few hours for meetings, etc. But this weekend, I enjoyed a full day off yesterday, and today, I only worked 8 hours (a hard thing to come by!) - which allowed me to reclaim my apartment from the depths of messiness, and do some shopping! After almost 4 months here, I finally have lamps!!

I don't mean to complain about my job - I love my job and my coworkers, and I would never expect to work this schedule if our plant hadn't been destroyed by a hurricane - but it really makes those days off sweeter! I spend a lot of time dreaming up all the things I'll do when I have weekends again, and could even take vacation days!

Anyway, here's some long awaited pics of my apartment!!

Living room (with new lamps!!)

Dining room (notice my dresser lives here since it won't fit in the bedroom)

Bedroom!

I'm definitely discovering that the less time I spend here, the messier it gets - and the messier it gets, the less I want to spend time at home! Funny how that works. Now that I've got it all cleaned up, I can't wait to come home and love spending time here! Now if Target would just get in the tv stand that I want....