Just Like a Circus

So it's been over three weeks since I started my new job and I absolutely love it!!! My office is cute and I almost have it decorated exactly like I want it...I just need to find a few more cute things for my walls. It surprised me how easily I feel back into the swing of things at Mainland. Pretty much all of the staff remained the same and even more surprising I remembered most of their names and they all remembered me!!! Even a good amount of the residents remembered me which is a huge deal when you work with the over 80 crowd! At first I wasn't sure how I would like working on the 2nd floor since my year as an intern there I worked mostly on the 1st floor, but I actually really love the 2nd floor and to make things even better a few of my favorite residents got relocated while I was gone and are now on my floor with me. For the first two weeks I had Jenna with me to show me around and give me pointers but last week I was totally on my own and really enjoyed the freedom. I mean I really appreciated all of her wisdom, but it was so nice to go in this past Monday and really take over and do silly little things like change the voicemail to my name and message. So to sum it up I love everything about my job and I really don't even mind waking up at 6:30am 5 days a week or driving the 45-50 minutes both ways.
Since starting work my life has pretty much been dominated by work and sleep. I adjusted pretty quickly to my new schedule, but getting home at 5:30pm and going to bed by like 10pm doesn't leave time for much else. I'm still working on finding a balance between work and free time and leaving enough time for sleep. This weekend was super fabulous though because on Friday after work I headed straight for AC (a 10 minute trip for my work) for Kelly's bachlorette party!!!! We had such a good time partying and celebrating the end of Kelly's single life!!!! We had an amazing dinner at the Continental in Caesars then partied a little in our adjoining rooms in Harrah's and later we headed to the Pool to get our dance on! The entire night was basically girls being crazy and it was fabulous. We made Kelly wear a ton of ridiculous bride-to-be items and Amy and I baked her a penis cake and made penis jello shots...and we were very proud of both!!! We didn't have a penis shaped cake pan so I had to free-hand the cake and I have to say it came out pretty well for a free-hand penis lol. Sadly though in our drunken fun the cake wound up hitting the hotel room floor around 1am...but some of the girls ate it off the floor anyway much like they did on the cheesecake episode of Friends. All in all it was a fabulous time and one of the highlights was definitely the amazing buffet at Harrah's the next morning. We ate so much food that we actually stayed and switched from Breakfast to Lunch...we definitely got our $20 worth!!! So to anyone heading to AC in the near future here's my advice...stay at Harrah's because of all the hotels I have stayed at in AC (Trump Plaza, Trop, Caesars, Hilton etc.) Harrah's rooms are the nicest (super pimp bathrooms) and their Waterfront buffet alone is reason enough to stay there!!!!