First Day

My first day of work went really well. I have my own cubical, but right now none of the lights work above it so today I sat at a table on the other side of it. There is only one other editor at the company so she showed me some basic things today and I read over some documents and am set to start editing tomorrow. Pretty much everyone I work with is a woman, and most are between 30 & 40. Also most of them are either pregnant or just had a baby. Everywhere around the office there are millions of pictures of various people's babies and "artwork" by children. I feel pressure to produce something similar on the walls of my cubical, but Lucy is the closest thing I have to a child. I love her like one at least!

My boss took me out to lunch and we went to a restaurant called Flat Rock on the same road as the office. It was mostly seafood which frightened me when I first glanced at the menu because I didn't want to be rude and say anything (I HATE seafood), but I also didn't want to submit to ordering chicken tenders in front of business associates. For a moment I seriously considered ordering the fish with the most other ingredients to drown out it's flavors so I could quickly force it down, but luckily there was a sandwich menu for lunch time. Crisis averted! My picky eating habits have put me in uncomfortable situations before and I was glad it didn't ruin things today. For an appetizer my boss ordered COLLARD GREEN WONTONS. I had no choice but to eat it, and to my surprise....it was really good! And I don't like collard greens or wontons, haha.

After work my aunt and uncle took me to their country club called Rock Barn. It's part of the neighborhood where they are building their house so they were showing me some of the ammenities and wanted to take me out to dinner. We went to McAllister's (I think that was the name) and holy crap, it was the best food EVER! I got chicken parmesan, which is one of my favorite foods, and it was the best I'd ever tasted. Everything about it was amazing. As a present for me we also got this triple chocolate cake for desert - so divine! I seriously thought I was going to explode at the end of the meal. The whole place is beautiful and I hope when I retire I can live like that too. My uncle is trying to get me golf lessons there for next week - we'll see how that goes! I've only been to the driving range once, and during that trip only a select few of my balls went more than a couple feet. I am absolutely not athletically inclined. At least I would be making the instructor truly work for his money.

And since almost all I have done is talk about FOOD I think its necessary to share that I went ahead with my plan and joined a gym today! It was only $99 for the whole year, which when I compared prices other places I realized was a really good deal! So I am going to head over there after work tomorrow and start working on getting svelte, haha. Also during the lunch today a coworker suggested that I join the book club at the library by my house, so I am going to head over there sometime tomorrow too and see when it meets and what they're reading and all that. All of my english classes in college basically felt like book clubs, so I think it would be good for me to be back in a similar environment. Plus I have tons of leisure time for reading!

Today was a day with a lot of firsts, and I had a really good time experiencing them all. Let's hope its a sign of more good things to come!