sunshine

hopefully i'm out of my little funk - i think the last few days of sunshine and warm weather have helped and looking at the forecast for the next few days too! i love that is a bit warmer down in dc and spring is totally here bloom wise, seeing leaves on trees and flowers and it just makes me happy. i forget how much sunshine makes me happy (and wearing cute sundresses) 

anyway my first week of work went well - training was fun, it was nice to see the transition from what i was doing to now what i'm doing, my team is awesome and i found out today what weeks i'm in the field and those 20 days are going to be crazy and who my partner is and i was happy. i think we will work well together and have fun! i'm excited to start hiring staff in the next few days and just enjoy the regular hours the next few weeks. and here is my cube (i just added more stuff to it today this was from like last thursday) but i got a window cube! yay!  it is the little things one looks forward to like having a window!

annnnd the house is going well. the guys i'm living with are nice, they are pretty neat and honestly i'm in an amazing location. soooo close to 66 & 50 and it took me 15 minutes to get to the national mall driving yesterday and i'm a 10 minute walk from the metro too. and unregulated parking on my street. i'm loving being on my own again and cooking (though i need to start getting more creative with my meals) but i'm adjusting to not getting home until like 6:30ish. i was spoiled last year with really being done at 3, but staying after most days until 4:30 and then home around 5. i'm lucky though that i'm driving the opposite way for traffic, but it isn't great going that way.

more of my room

people watching from the mall

and i had a fun weekend! well friday night was blah, but it was rainy, cold and just grossss. so i cozied up with a cup of tea and a book and fell asleep by 10. but saturday was nice and i had my book reading for my professors book 1861 - and then met my friend annie in chinatown where we had a fun afternoon of shopping and chatting. then i went with her to check out a house and we met a friend of hers in old town for dinner and a drink. i forgot how much i love old town! i've never been there out of conference so i'm used to being rushed eating lunch and being with 300 hs students. so that was enjoyable and a fun saturday night.  easter sunday was kinda quiet. i finished up friday night lights - which i LOVED! seriously i watched the 5 seasons in like 4 weeks. seasons 1-4 are on netflix instant and i just couldn't stop watching them. i kinda love football though and their lives and you should watch it. and then i went for a walk around my neighborhood, cleaned and since it was in the 80s and sunny i headed over to the mall and people watched by the natural history museum for a few hours and then annie came over for dinner. so an enjoyable easter!

and lots of fun this week. work should be good, hopefully catching up with some friends who've been out of town and eating the easter candy i bought 50% off today! and i have a friend coming into town this weekend! yay :)