Picking Up The Pace
Things in Wilmington are going really well...mostly anyway. There was a while there where I was seriously starting to get depressed. I was deathly lonely and bored out of my mind. I hate to admit the patheticness that became my life for a little over a month, laying around wallowing in my own depressed misery only leaving the house when Nathan was able to hang out or when I would go apply for jobs in person, otherwise I was spending my time on the couch alone applying for jobs online and watching Netflix. There towards the end I went to the beach at least once by myself to take pictures of the ocean on a clear morning with almost no one around.
And then my life changed. My roommate moved in and two friends came to visit for the weekend and I had a job interview. I was ready to roll. I got the job the following weekend and started work that Monday and spent an entire day out at the beach and then off fishing. So great. My life finally became something I wasn't ashamed to talk about. I was seriously worried for a little while there.
Things are by no means perfect now, I'm struggling to find a second job just so I can make ends meet, paying the rent isn't going to be easy since I only make $4.25/hr and about $3 tip out at about 20 hours a week. That's barely enough to put gas in my car and keep the AC running. But I have an upcoming interview that sounded incredibly promising over the phone so while I'm not holding my breath, I am praying that it goes well and I have the opportunity to make enough money to get by. On the plus side my new job (I am hosting at BlueWater Grill on Wrightsville Beach) has an event coordinator and THAT makes me happy. I hope to hang in there long enough to some day move up to her job.
Things with Nate have been going exceptionally well lately too. We've been getting in a lot of good quality time with each other and he's instilled a love of fishing in me now. Not only do I love to eat fish I can catch them now too! :-D It's been a really good month and even with my struggles lately with money and now living alone I still feel really good about this move. And somehow I manage to still feel like I don't live here, like it's a permanent vacation, crazy. Hopefully one day I will feel like I'm home.
And then my life changed. My roommate moved in and two friends came to visit for the weekend and I had a job interview. I was ready to roll. I got the job the following weekend and started work that Monday and spent an entire day out at the beach and then off fishing. So great. My life finally became something I wasn't ashamed to talk about. I was seriously worried for a little while there.
Things are by no means perfect now, I'm struggling to find a second job just so I can make ends meet, paying the rent isn't going to be easy since I only make $4.25/hr and about $3 tip out at about 20 hours a week. That's barely enough to put gas in my car and keep the AC running. But I have an upcoming interview that sounded incredibly promising over the phone so while I'm not holding my breath, I am praying that it goes well and I have the opportunity to make enough money to get by. On the plus side my new job (I am hosting at BlueWater Grill on Wrightsville Beach) has an event coordinator and THAT makes me happy. I hope to hang in there long enough to some day move up to her job.
Things with Nate have been going exceptionally well lately too. We've been getting in a lot of good quality time with each other and he's instilled a love of fishing in me now. Not only do I love to eat fish I can catch them now too! :-D It's been a really good month and even with my struggles lately with money and now living alone I still feel really good about this move. And somehow I manage to still feel like I don't live here, like it's a permanent vacation, crazy. Hopefully one day I will feel like I'm home.
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