The Packing Chronicles, Part 3, Final Installment

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The Packing Chronicles, Part 3

The Final Installment

Packed, Moved, and Adjusting

It's been a couple of weeks. I'm not only all packed, but all moved. Where to, you ask? Well, not Hawaii, that's for sure. I finally heard from them (via snail mail) and they selected another candidate. It sucks, yes, but I'm over it, honestly. So I've moved in with friends just outside of Pensacola. I'm staying there until August, and after that it's all up in the air. In the meantime I'm working at Panera Bread and also at UWF (Housing gave me a job until I find something else). So if August rolls around and I'm still without a job (by which I mean still with only my two current jobs and no other offer) then I guess I'm sticking around Pensacola, but just not sure where.

Packing went well. I have more stuff than I thought and have realized that not everything will fit in my car at once. Not sure how I will move when the time comes. Things to be determined when I know where I am moving to.

The Two Job Lifestyle

It's not pretty and it's not glamorous. That is for sure. It's not like I haven't done this before. I enjoy it overall. Two days a week I work only at UWF from 8-5. Normal. The other three days I usually start my work day at Panera at 5 AM and work until 1. I then work at UWF from 2-5:30. Since I moved I now have a longer commute (seriously it went from 3 minutes to almost 30 depending on the time of day) I wake up at 3:45 AM when I need to be at Panera at 5 AM. The days that I don't have to be up so early? I wake up generally before 5 AM without an alarm.

I love working at Panera Bread. #PaneraLife

Independence Day Baking Adventures

I had zero plans for the Fourth of July. Shocked? I'm not. So what did I do? Baked. Shocked? I'm not. I woke up at 4am without an alarm. Great time to bake. By 10am I had baked and decorated a cake, baked cake pops, started dipping the cake pops, and even took a nap.

So I baked a firecracker cake. Yum!

And some cake pops that I arranged like the flag.

And some red, white, and blue cookie bark.

Hopefully your Independence Day was not as wet as mine. It's been raining nearly nonstop (though it stopped in time for fireworks to happen). I went out for a drive and saw lots of fireworks everywhere. And hit the beach. The Gulf is quite rough thanks to the storms. The drive was a wonderfully boring adventure.

My First Instagram Video:

Sleep & Dreams.

Okay. First off, I updated the last two posts so the videos are now embedded. If you didn't watch them I encourage you to do so. Especially the one from two days ago about how to spot a liar. It's really good.

So I'm still quite tired. I didn't get too much sleep last night. I woke up really early, but I felt super refreshed. By the time I had to go to work, though, I was tired already. I had another early day at work, and was supposed to get off at one. Today I only stayed for an extra hour and a half. Not so bad. It's looking like I'll end up with some overtime for this week so I'm totally cool with that. I'm really enjoying work which makes it easy when I have to stay later than I'm scheduled.

Last night, in the few hours of sleep that I did get, I had a crazy dream, but it was really vivid and when I woke up I remembered every detail. It's a long story, but I got attacked by a gang of guys on motorcycles when I was driving and they caused me to crash. Then they all just drove away except for one, who, after emptying out my wallet, pulled me out of my car. Before he did he said I had the option of staying there and dying or going with him and living. So I chose living (my car was on fire...). So he took me and we drove off to get his car (maybe his, maybe stolen). Then he turned out to be the nicest kidnapper ever. We went and walked around the mall. I was scared for my life but he was being nice. Then we slept in the car over night, and the next day he asked if I wanted to go get food so I said sure. He asked me where I wanted to go and I said Panera. I was hoping that while at Panera I could get someone to call the cops since I work there and know everyone. We went to Panera, and while the kidnapper got in line I hung back a little and ran into my general manager, who started to get angry with me for not showing up to work that morning. Then I told him to call the cops because I'd been kidnapped. He thought I was joking at first, but then I told him that I was serious and he said he would go call them. So I got into line with the kidnapper and we ordered, and he was still super nice, but I was still rather scared. While we were eating the cops showed up and arrested him, and he seemed kind of upset that I would do that to him. It was weird too because I kind of felt bad for having him arrested since he was so nice to me. So then I was just super upset because it finally hit me what had happened to me. The cops had a lot of questions for me which upset me even more. My manager stayed with me the whole time and was super supportive. When the cops wanted me to come to the police station and answer some more questions as well as get the stuff the kidnapper took from me, my manager drove me there. Weird dream.

Sorry for the long story but I really felt the need to share that. So anyway, for today's talk I was looking for something about dreams but couldn't find anything. So I did find a talk by Jessa Gamble about our natural sleep cycle (which clearly mine is all sorts of messed up). It's short,  but interesting. Hope you enjoy it.

Day 27. (Almost done)




Okay. Good night.

Lies and Honesty

Okay so I'm super tired and I'm not going to lie: I'm in bed right now (7:30pm) and have been for about an hour. I had work at 5:30 this morning and should have gotten off at one, but instead got off at three. Then I had a group meeting to work on a project. So I'm a bit tired and since I'm blogging this from my phone I can't exactly embed a video. So I will edit it tomorrow to embed the video. Until then you can go to the TED website and death for it.

Day 26
I found this talk by Pamela Meyer about how to spot a liar. People are actually trained in detecting liars and she talks about all the signs if a liar. It's quite interesting to think about because we know everyone lies on a daily basis. It's good to know the signs of a liar.

Here it is!



Good night y'all. Time for some sleep.

Sleep, statistics, and baseball.

30-Day Challenge #1: TED Talks
Day 14

So yet another day of tired me. I wanted to go to sleep earlier last night, but the World Series game kept me up. I'm of course rooting for the Cardinals (although I'm not sure why that was an 'of course' statement but I'll go with it) so I was very nervous towards the end. I continued to believe in the Cards and they made me super happy with their comebacks. They were completely determined to push the series to Game 7, and they certainly did that. It was some stressful, but incredible extra innings and I'm really excited to watch the game tonight. I'm hoping for a St. Louis win, but whoever wins it will certainly be a well-deserved title.

Anyway. On to today's TED talk, which is ironically about TED talks. Sebastian Wernicke talks about the statistics of TED talks and what constitutes the ultimate best and worst TED talks. It's interesting to see the things that people like (and don't like) to hear about in talks. It's also quite funny as well. I rather enjoyed it.Hope you do as well.




You liked it, right? Okay good. I may need a quick nap before Game 7, so I'm going to go do that. Happy Friday! Happy Halloweekend! Let's go Cards!!