Dreary day in Jersey

My Tooth!  BWAHAHAHAHAHA

Trying to crawl away in her new snowsuit

Today was nothing special, except that it didn't involve stopping in traffic!  Hooray for Jersey.  I had a lovely lunch with Colleen!  It's so nice to have one of your persons to talk to.  In the office I had another chat with JT, another one of my persons.  THEN I met one of the girls who works in my zone. Turns out she lives minutes away from me at home.  We had a great dinner out, after a debacle of trying to find parking.  This town is impossible.  Overall a pretty good day.  

Now it's time to relax and try to go to sleep early.  I want to be at the outlet mall as close to 9am as possible, which means up at 6:30, on my day off!  Good thing I slept in today, I already see a nap in my future for tomorrow.  Packers play the night game too, so late bedtime tomorrow, unless it's a blow out and it might be, Lions suck!!!  Time to watch some Catfish and plot out my outlet mall plan of attack!

Final Friday

Momma, you so funny!

(look at those little feetsies!)

Whoa!  Just WHOA!

That baby up there, she rocks my world!  And she got another tooth cut through today.  That's 2 in the last 8 days I've been gone.  Girlfriend needs to slow down!

Well today was my final day in my current job.  Such an odd feeling, 9 yrs of my life can be summarized in two words, crazy and gone.  What a whirlwind of fun, craziness, sadness, hard work and even harder playing/partying.  I'm glad I can say I did it, I survived and now I'm ready for some normal.

Today also wrapped up my claims in NY, now it's onto NJ.  So far I have 7 to work and that may be all I get.   I hope my boss is right that I can go home when I'm done.  Rumor is some of us might keep on moving from NJ to PA.  I do NOT want to work every single state that Sandy hit.  I really don't.  Right now I'm at 3, you could say 4 since I've helped Clint in MD a ton too.  I really think that's enough.

Tonight I called the front desk for a pizza recommendation; no Pizza Hut or even Domino's round these parts!  They referred me to Capri Pizza and it's freaking amazing!  I mean it.  I inhaled my first piece of chicken ranch pizza I barely tasted it.  Now I have over half of it left, now way to keep it or reheat it.  It makes me so sad!  BUT the highlight is I can order again, next time getting the individual size and maybe some pasta.  They had so many choices!  Right now I've got two bread knots and a massive started salad for tomorrow.  Plus a piece of cheesecake that is just waiting for me to devour it.

Tomorrow I'm going to drive down to dirty Jersey and see my peeps.  I'm having lunch with my Colleen and I can hardly wait.  We have lots to talk about in our 9 days out here!  Sunday it's going to be a trip to a fantastic outlet mall and the Hamptons.  I've got to do my research about what town I want to go to.  It's nice to have some fun to look forward to after a very long week.

Thirsty Thursday

Just lovin' some peas and carrots

Today I tried to make the best of what I've got.

-my first claim was with an FDNY fireman.  Hello silver fox, married with kids and still yummy

-I made my final attempt to have lunch with the ex.  It was a no go, oh darn

-My boss gave me 3 new claims today, 2 were already closed, the third can't meet until Sat and I'm already assigned to Jersey by then

-My afternoon was very very slow!  I spent most of it pinning.

-I received 25 emails from my boss today, only 2 of them provided anything of use to me.

-I talked to my Sue-bee this afternoon and as usual it was a thought provoking conversation.  I'm really going to work on being positive and quit telling myself I can't do things.  I most certainly can and I have to overcome my own firewalls.  Most of the time it's silly self defeating inner monologues telling me I can't do things, when I can.  No more excuses.

-I'm drinking alone because I'm bored.  Why?  Because I can.  What else am I going to do?  It's making my shows even more funny

Bored Bored Bored

Already cracking herself up!

(self portraits by BooBoo)

Cause I've got that down!

Today was so incredibly boring.  I did most of my work from 7:30-9am!  I spent the rest of the day being kinda lazy, I got laundry done and I scoped out the mall across the bridge.  It's super nice and has a ton of good restaurants.  I got a massive amt of Cheesecake Factory to go and have meals for tonight and tomorrow.  Yay me.

In good news I won't have to move hotels.  In bad news this means at least an hour commute to my claims.  It also means I'm not any closer to my friends or to Clint.  I was really thinking I could get back to MD to visit him my final weekend here.  Oh well.  I was talking to my Sue-Bee and she gave me all kinds of great ideas and I realized I don't want to do any of them.  I think my wanderlust has wandered off.  I don't want to figure out the trains, I don't want to go to NYC, I don't even want to drive 5 miles into Sleepy Hollow.  Yes THE Sleepy Hollow, the high school mascot is horsemen :)  Shoot I can't even commit to having dinner with my ex tomorrow.  It's just too much to coordinate and I have to sit around waiting for him to get done for the day.  Booooooooo!

I think I'm going to eat the rest of my cheesecake and watch incredibly boring TV.  My shows aren't on until late and I have to be up early tomorrow.  Yuck!  I still need to get gifts for all my kiddos and this is not proving to be easy.  Every idea I have the mom's have already done.  I am not an original Auntie this year!

Foggy

No I'm not being naughty or doing things I'm not supposed to be!

Today was going to be a boring day and instead I'm laying on my bed exhausted.  I went to the office about 1pm in hopes of having lunch with the ex.  Instead I wound up getting in an inspection and finally having a lengthy conversation with my boss.  Turns out he thought I was new and had no experience.  He admitted he ignored my requests for new claims.  I guess I'll get a chance to impress next week when we are in NJ.  That's right we are moving yet again!  Based on the claim counts, it really does need to be blitzed over there.  Way too many pending inspects, thank goodness the governor hasn't made any sweeping declarations about fining the pants off of my company.

The weather out here has been insane, upper 50's and a constant misty/foggy/rainy combo.  It's just disgusting and makes travel atrocious.  Tonight's drive home took 1:45 min and it was dark and super super foggy.  I asked my insured about the weather today and he said it's super unseasonable.  As I was inspecting his house you could see the fog roll in off the bay.  It was crazy!  Only 2 more weeks to go and I'll be home.  They gave end dates of 12/18 at the latest.

Tonight it's time for Rudolph, some New Girl, Mindy Project and then if I can stay awake some super models in crazy shoes and outfits!  I love the craziness they think of.

Berserker

Watch TV with Dad, mom said

It will be fun, mom said

BORED!

Today was just plain craziness.  It took me 2.5 hours to get to my first house today.  Then 45 min to drive 15 miles.  Long Island is overrated, actually I think NYC is.  It's great to visit, but this whole working business is just wrong.  Wrong Wrong Wrong!  I still don't have anymore claims so it could be a very slow week.

Tonight I talked to my ex.  Turns out I'll be moving into his hotel on Friday and he's def more excited about it than me.  I think he's as lonely as I am, and desperate for a drinking partner.  The weird thing is that I was nothing but nice to him.  I've never given him any reason to hate me so he thinks we are perfectly fine.  I'm struggling with that whole bit, but I know I've moved on and can be a bigger person.  It's tough when he still purposefully doesn't talk about his fiance or that they just spent the weekend in the city.  She's post on FB all the time, so he has to know I know.  We plan on having lunch or dinner tomorrow so I'm curious to see if he says anything.

In other scary news I realized while talking to him how similar he is to Clint.  Big talkers, big drinkers, always good for a laugh, decent kissers.  But that's where the similarities end.  Clint is much nicer, he wants to be the asshole but just can't.  The ex, well he's got that down.  He can be out and out mean, for no reason.  I guess it's good I can see what is and isn't right for me.  

Tonight's other moment of clarity is how many times I've wanted to talk to Clint since I got out here.  I've reached for my phone at least a dozen times, but sadly he's in Cancun with his ex.  My dependence on him is out of control.  This week out here with some of my good work peeps is exactly what I need to get me back to who I was before I even knew him.  Back to my own kind of fun and relaxation!  This will mean large dinners and lots of beer.  Yay me!!!

Not having it

Today I'm just not feeling my normal positive optimistic self.  Let me explain why:
~I can't find food!  Bedroom communities are great for living or vacations, but work.  No, just no
I really miss the comforts of my favorite chain restaurants.
~I don't love NY state.  I just don't, the roads suck, the traffic sucks, the tolls suck!
~My job is being dumb.  Right now I can't justify why I'm here.  Talk about jumping the gun.
~I've gotten more stupid emails than I can count today.  GRRRRR
~I don't want to be here.  I know my new job was 100% the right answer
~My new hotel is yet another resort.  It's great if I was here vacationing, but for real life, NO!

I can't believe I'm actually excited to go work tomorrow.  I'll be out of my room and hopefully back to something that looks normal.  My insured told me today that his town is a regular old suburb!  I was really relieved to hear that and based on the map I shouldn't have any issues finding food and a Target tomorrow.  I need to get some snacks for my room and some food that's not room service.  Please don't get me wrong, the food is great, but it's expensive and sometimes I just want a taco or filet o fish!

Right now it's only 6pm and I'm ready to go to bed.  I was up and showered by 9am, conf call til 10, then I checked out of my hotel and moved into the next one before 11am.  I've unpacked, made my calls and did some other work bits.  I'm tired already and still have a full week of traffic, phone calls, and inspections.  Oh and let's not forget another hotel move, maybe 2 depending on what the state of NJ or my company decides.  Rumor has it we could move over the border and blitz all their claims as well.  The weather won't hold forever and we need these people to get their repairs done.

For now I'm going to watch some Jersey shore while I'm on a shore of Jersey!  I've watched a little too much MTV today as the Justin Beiber commercial doesn't sound like crap to me anymore.  Please send help!