And I'm Settled. Almost.

Well I made it!  I guess I should say 'we' made it, referring to Rex and myself.  The trip out was great, kind of a long flight, but you'll have that when you fly halfway across the country.  The week was amazing with Rex.  He was such a great apartment-finder helper!  We lucked out on a great one too, I'm sitting in it right now.  On a very retro-looking couch too, I might add.  

While Rex was here this last week we mainly looked for apartments and hung out.  Got some great food, went down to the ocean, ate some cherries at a farmers market, and got to know LA a little.  It was wonderful.  Couldn't have wanted a better last week with him.  Then he had to go.  And I got sad.

After I dropped him off, I had a few minutes drive before I had to meet my co-worker at Target to begin the 'necessity' shopping, things for the apartment that you HAVE to have.  Towels, silverware, toilet paper, etc.  During that 15 minute drive or so I really got to get a good cry out, reprocess things about where I was, what I was about to start doing with my life and how Rex will still be a huge part of it, even though he's not right at my side.  As sad as I was and still am, I know we'll be ok.  He has reassured me of that many times, and I believe him.  

This weekend has been full of shopping and organizing.  I have furniture, some at least. Waiting til tomorrow to get a bed, for now I'm on an air mattress.  I'll take that over the floor!  Last night I was taken out by two of my friends and their significant others for an amazing night out in LA.  We had drinks at this chic bar that is at the Santa Monica Airport, we had the drinks on the roof so we got to watch the sun set and see the planes come in...very cool.  After that we went to this great place called Primitivo, a tapas restaurant/wine bistro.  AMAZING!  I can't even explain the deliciousness of this food, and I could eat almost everything there!  That doesn't happen often!

Tonight they are showing me downtown, cannot wait.  We are going to one of their friends going away parties and then out to eat and out for drinks after.  Should be a great time.  Tomorrow is just setting up the apartment more, maybe I should do some grocery shopping since I'm literally living off of: rice cakes and peanut butter, one leftover from last night that I am making into 3 meals, salsa with no chips, and two apples.  Yup, that's it.  As for next week, the training begins!  

Can't wait to see what's in store!  I swear to post more often, this week has been nothing but craziness!  Hope you're all well and happy, miss you! xoxo

I'm out. Peace.

I'm off, headed westbound.  Today's the day that I'm starting the Job, it's crazy!  I'll try my best to keep you all updated as often as I can.  This first week might be hard, we (Rex and I) will be all over the place, but soon enough I'll let you know how we're doing, where I'm living, etc. 

I'll miss you Little Rock, and everyone and everything that came with it.  It's a great little package deal.  And I cannot wait to come back and visit.  Thankfully my boss is from here so I'll be back quite often, yay!

Farewell, farewell.  See you in the big city!!!

It's about that time.

Well the goodbye party has come and gone, and now I'm left with only one final and two papers, which thankfully are both done.  The final however is on Wednesday, talk about a buzz kill for the week.

This weekend was wonderful, just what I wanted for a send off party.  We went out to Murray Park which is down on the Arkansas River.  We grilled out, had tons of food, played beach volleyball, bocce ball, and frisbee.  (Almost) everyone was there that I wanted to catch before I left.  No worries though, hopefully I'll be back around the good ol' Rock sooner rather than later and I can see everyone once again.  

Well it's here.  Friday.  The day of moving.  Weird!  It has come up so fast!  I'm shipping my bins, full of all my stuff, on Wednesday...or tomorrow if I can pull everything together.  And they should be there by Monday or Tuesday!  That should work out perfectly with getting my own apartment.  Thankfully I have a wonderful friend of mine out there helping me look at apartments, she's been a lifesaver!  So that will cut down on my time having to go hunt a perfect apartment down in the first few days of being out there, thankfully.  Saturday, though, it's all business.  Rex and I are doing some major apartment seeing/hunting and hopefully we can score one that I love by the end of the day so we can get into one ASAP.  

This will probably be the last blog before I get out there, and I apologize if one doesn't come super soon after that.  I will be going through crazy-town in the first week out there but I promise I will do my best to get one up as soon as I can.  

Other than that, I hope all of you are wonderful and well!  Can't wait to hear from you!  The next time you 'see' or hear from me I'll be a Californian, whoa!