happy november

happy november!

first i can't believe how fast time is flying? the last week was pretty busy with work and life and the next week is going to be even crazier. though my life is usually quite interesting!

i do have some good news about the job front! it became official yesterday that i am now the "back of house supervisor" at retail job! so i'm now a supervisor of the stock room and will be in charge of making sure that the back is organized and all sizes are out on the sales floor. my manager has been happy with my work and was impressed with my background so he wants to give me more and thinks i might be a good candidate for a management position in the future. so this is exciting as it is more stability in the job front but still not full time/benefits. but it will be about 35 hours plus i'll still sub a little bit too. but it has me thinking about something completely different for a career path - one i never ever thought of and i really think i'd like to work in corporate in a leadership/training area as opposed to a store manager so who knows. but i'm excited about this!

sweet potato gnocci and soup!

good weekend - went to the farmers market downtown and had a fun day cooking with amy! we picked up fresh gnocchi and amy made butternut squash & apple soup plus red velvet cupcakes! annnnd we ate dinner at our dining room table! (pics coming soon) so that was super fun! and then we went out for a few drinks but i couldn't stay late because i had to be at work early and i was exhausted!

ladybug

i did end up dressing up for halloween and did go out for a bit monday night with amy & friends but again having to be at work at 7am does put a damper on going out. and then tonight i had a friend blind date! an old friend of mine from gs camp 10 years ago saw that i moved to charleston on fb. one of her friends juuust moved down here so she sent us an email and we went out for drinks tonight and YAY! we went to fish for happy hour and had some amazing dims sum and a great time talking about life & moving to charleston. so i can't wait to hang out with her again!


and this week is even crazier because i'm off to pittsburgh tomorrow afternoon until sunday night. i'm working a conference there this weekend for my old job and i'm excited to see some people and to just have a fun weekend working with some great students! annnnnd it will be so nice to get out of south carolina. i love it here but for the first time since i moved back from ireland (march 2009) i have spent more than a few weeks in one state. i haven't left south carolina since i drove down here august 23. i haven't gone more than 45 minutes from charleston.  i'm not used to being so in one place. and getting ready for this trip has reminded me of that.

how was your weekend? any fun plans this week?