Best Job EVER!!! Well unless you are Anthony Bourdain

So I have discovered as much as I want to blog and think it is a great way for me to keep up with people I am a procrastinator at heart, so excuse my tardiness in posting something new... not that I have a large following :). 

For this post a top 7 list (why 7 because its my list and I like the number 7) of why I have the best job ever!  Well I truely believe Anthony Bourdain has the best job ever but I think working with the people I do I have a very close second.

7. Its basically stress free - no minute details or campfires or even stupid OE to deal with.  La diabla is out of my life forever!!! Hurrah!!!

6. I have set days and set hours and if I work over that then I get paid... what a concept to pay people for the extra time they work for you.  So those 80+ work weeks are gone.  Although I am going to start looking for a second job to fill some more hours of my day and to bring in some more money so I can enjoy some of the perks of living in gorgeous Orange County.

5. The staff I work with all work together as a team to serve our residents.  No more fighting or bullying or underhanded tactics to make your department look good.  Again La Diabla is out of my life... can you tell how excited I am?!  I'm actually dancing a little jig just thinking how happy I am to never have to deal with her again... :)  Although there an numerous staff at Sky that I miss dearly and if it were up to me I would force them all to come work here cause they would be amazing additions to the team.

4. I get to go on fun outtings and help our special needs residents become confident independent people.  Like last night we went to a wonderful Mexican food restraunt and well it cost more then expected so we had to come up with a plan B when most could not afford a full price movie.  There were a couple of melt downs, cause lets be real no one enjoys when the budget runs out quicker then expected, I've had a few melt downs myself. But it was nothing that a little Golden Spoon frozen yogurt couldn't fix. Cinnamon frozen yogurt go get some... SOOOO GOOD! And as LR always says, "It is not easy being an adult." So true I should have stayed in college forever.

3. God humbles me nearly everyday, cause really nothing humbles you quicker then helping scrub the dirty grout in someone else's bathroom.  But yet I would rather do that with these residents then have to deal with another snotty retreat group leader who need ice every stinking hour.

2. I laugh all the time, so many quotable moments in a day.  Like SN asking me to help her look at her calendar to help her find a boyfriend.  Man if she can find herself a day I might ask her when my date it is too.  Or when JV asks me to stop asking so many silly trivial questions, when all I asked was what his favorite TV show was, but I learned that your favorite TV show changes too easily dependent upon your mood for the day.  Now isn't that the truth, I don't know if I could name an all time favorite TV show.  Oh and last weekend I laughed so hard when I was driving them all home and they were talking about missing an old staff memeber Adam and they wanted to drive out to see him.  I expained that he lives in Tennessee now and that would be at least a 3 day drive and what where we going to do when we got there, to which they said, "Go to Chucky Cheese, because everyone likes pizza and it would be fun for Adam's son."  When planning the details MT was going to bring dessert & sunscreen, CN was going to pay for 2 tanks of gas because the minivans were fuel efficient, and DR was going to bring the beer & cigars and could we make a side trip to Vegas to win more money. SN said she would bring Justin Timberlake cause he lives in her closet and we would need some entertainment.  To which DR said we would need bodyguards so he would call up Hulk Hogan cause he probably needs a job now that his wife took all his money.  Eventually the trip had so many people that we were going to have to call John Travolta to fly us in his plane.  Seriously I was laughing so hard I was crying, now they were just being silly, but it was so histerical because a lot of their logic was spot on.  It sounds like a fun trip that I would love to go on.

1. My whole job is about loving people where they are at and helping them process through life independently.  These are young adults that are very high funtioning, but just need someone to assit them and I am so blessed everyday I get to work with them.  They teach me so much about myself and wake up everyday joyful and ready for a new day of work, if they would let me work 6 or 7 days a week I would, but I also tend to be a workaholic.

So those are my top 7 reasons why my job is the best around.  Oh and for those who also read my facebook statuses CA BBQ is so subpar to TX BBQ it is not even funny.  Here they seem to think that if you grill it and put a little sauce on it then you barbequed it... not so much.  Sigh I guess when I go back I will just have to gorge myself on some real BBQ. 

Hopefully I will keep this blog up to day more often.  Next weekend is either the Cheesecake Factory or a Rodeo... lets see if I get type cast again. :)

Welcome to Melisstonia!

So Wendy's World very originally started while I was an intern at Sky Ranch and really took off in a conversation with Bobby Swole when he just needed to know its my "world" and it goes my way.  But the world came into fruition with its first country, a coffee stain on my desk calendar that my co-worker and friend Melissa discovered and outlined.  That first country is "Melisstonia"  which of course originally was ruled by Melissa, but was eventually taken over by none other then me, Wendy, cause it is my world.  Different friends from Sky Ranch have taken a part of Melisstonia, as you can see in the picture.  Most have some alliteration involved, basically just because I think it makes it sound better.  This map was up on the wall of desk for the past year and I hope to add more countries to my beautiful world.

I finally have my blog up

So I have been in beautiful Cali for a little over 2 weeks and I have finally gotten my blog up and running.  It is still a work in progress but it is up!  I don't really know what I am doing so bare with me.  

The drive out to CA was long and a little rough but thanks to my amazing aunt Val I got here in one piece.  While in the process of the move I decided that it would be a good idea to climb around on my furniture to rearrange so that it wouldn't shift during the drive. Well to get to the furniture I decided it would be a good idea to stand on a particle board shelf and well I fell through it and dislocated my pinkie toe... OUCH!  I had a few more hassles with the Penske people (they are cheap but have REALLY bad customer service).  We only drove 4 hours the first day, but made up time on the second by driving 16 hours (we crossed a couple of time zones and gained 2 hours plus woke up at 4am), and the third day drove 5 more hours.  Arrived at 1pm on Friday and then got to wait for movers only to fire the ones I set up and hire some guys who were on site and available.  After a very long day of standing we finally got to drive over to my aunt Barbara's house (where I am staying) and had a wonderful dinner.

I am now working at a fabulous organization called Casa de Amma, which is a residential facility for special need young adults, and I LOVE it!  I am starting my third week and can not wait to get back to work.  I'm still looking for an apartment, something that is within my budget, which gets a little bit tricky in this area, but I have faith.  Plus since I have switched to a non-stressful job I am thinking of finding another very part-time job so that I can have some mad money.  I miss my TX family & friends dearly, but am so excited to see what is around the next corner.