My Life: October 2006

Oops...H20 is important for Starbucks!

So I had quite the Monday night at Starbucks. The store I work at is very slow mostly because its small and has no drive through. So working nights is pretty uneventful...that is until I work them. I was asked to start mopping the cafe so I went to the mop sink and started filling the bucket. Well apparently I bumped the bucket so that it hit the water main for our store and all of a sudden a stream of water was spraying into my face! I got it under control covering it with my hand until the shift lead could run over and turn off the water. Somehow this little knob thing had broken off. The two girls who I was working with were like "what happened?" I was like "mmmm I don't know just started spraying." So immediately they were both on the phone trying to figure out what to do while I stood at the register and gave out free brewed coffee. Well, what we had left of the last batch we made. About an hour and a half later the repair man came in and said he would have to go get a plug and would be back within the hour. Its funny how I hadn't been really drinking anything all night but once their was no water you wouldn't believe how thirsty I was! I had to resort to drinking plain milk since if I drank the coffee we would have none to give away. So 45min later the man came back and after close to 3 hours of no coffee we were able to start making it again. Of course no one really came in after that but you know we were ready.

Nothing new really...

Well I realized I haven't blogged in a while but that is mostly due to the fact that nothing exciting has been going on. Ok well I shouldn't really say that as I did have some interesting experiences at a young adults group the other night. I won't write about them though as it will take away from how funny it actually was. So when we chat on the phone just ask me and I will tell you about the fun people I met ;).

My weekend was pretty laid back. I was off Saturday and Sunday so I was able to hang out with the roomies all weekend. Julie and I wandered the mall Saturday and that night I went to the young adults group, which was followed by dinner at "Steak N Shake." Sunday I tried another church and then went out to lunch with a few people. Sunday afternoon was spent laying by the fire for hours and watching "The Breakup" and of course the World Series game.

The NC State Fair

I got to experience a real southern state fair last night. Not that it was much different from any other state fair. It still had its mullets, fried candy bars, elephant ears, funnel cakes, dangerous spinning rides, a three headed snake, drunk rednecks, corn dogs, and various other weird fair things. I had a lot of fun though although sadly I didn't realize until arrival that these types of things are cash only. So I saved some money and sampled all the amazing fried food. I was able to taste the corn dog, fried snickers, funnel cake, and an elephant ear.

This is another Cindy (middle), who works on Staff with Julie (roommate) on the left and Cindy's cousin who works with the animals on the right. They are in front of the cousins favorite cow...I didn't know there were favorites but here it is.

A weird miniature donkey

I love goats!

Some of the people we went with/met there. All of these girls are students at NC State except for Julie, Cindy (from the other pic) and I.

Sorry to disappoint you Jeff but I didn't get any mullet pictures and demolition derby isn't until Saturday night.

Its Cold!

Apparently Fall was short lived. Actually I think it will be back but we sure have had a few days of some cold weather. I knew it was cold in our apartment but we just couldn't bring ourselves to turn on the heat in October! This was two nights ago. Then last night as I felt I might be getting frostbite in my toes and fingers I set the thermostat to 70. It was after the heat came on at the low temp of 60 degrees that I realized it really was cold in the townhouse. I guess 34 degree weather can do this to a place. It should all be over by tomorrow as the night temps should get back up to 65 with the 75 degree high for the day. Very important since the State Fair is going on this week!

Training N Stuff

I started at Starbucks yesterday and had a class today. Above are my training materials including my coffee and tea passports. In the next 90 days I must taste every coffee and tea that Starbucks makes. Everytime I try one I get to put a sticker in one of my passports.

Today I got to sample Breakfast Blend and one other one. So above is what the page looks like where you put you sticker and describe the taste.

So fun fact: did you know Starbucks just built a hospital and school for the families of the farmers who grow the beans in Guatemala (and of course others in the area).

New Improved Living Room

We got a couple of matching couch covers for our two couches in the living room and Julies parents bought us a couple of side tables and a coffee table so we could replace the boxes we were using! It feels a little more like home now.

I forgot one

This is definatly a dock used in Dawson's Creek. You see those lamps in many of the episodes when they are in the actual town of Capeside. As for other things such as "the river court" in One Tree Hill and the houses from Dawson's Creek-well I suppose those will wait until our next trip out there when we have more time and figure out where they are before hand.

Wilmington, North Carolina

Julie's parents were in town this weekend and Saturday we were able to drive about an hour and 45 min to Wilmington. I was particularly excited because this is the very town where Dawson's Creek was filmed and currently One Tree Hill is filmed.

In the background is the North Carolina and that is the Cape Fear River.

On our way we stopped and ate at Bojangles for some chicken n' biscuits! (This picture was supposed to be the first one....oops).

One of the many beautiful church's in the area.

This is actually where Joey (dawson's creek) worked when she was in college-season 5. We looked inside and it appears as though they might have filmed the inside scenes in there as well as it looked the same.

We had to put Julie and her parents in this one since they are from the North! although her mom keeps claiming she is from the South and it will rise again. (They are from Michigan but her mom was born somewhere down South)

A Job

Well I got a job and yes it is at Starbucks. I had my second interview today at a 2nd Starbucks and 10min after leaving the interview I got a call from the manager at the 1st one offering me the job. So it is about a half mile down the road. I don't know when I start yet but should be getting a call within the next day to let me know when I take the "first impressions" class. I look forward to countless days of coffee to come.

Im sure most of you have heard about the amazing benefits of working at Starbucks. On top of this it is a company that is rapidly expanding in North Carolina. The state used to be one district and recently has become two. There have been 2 new store openings in Raleigh in the last week opening up shif lead positions at my Starbucks. I am excited about the opportunities that could arise with this job. I will keep you posted!

Oops

I accidentally titled the last blog "more pictures to come" because at first they weren't downloading. But I got them all so don't get your hopes up! Anyway so that's my place. I love it. Feels like a house its so big.

I tried out a church today with a campus crusade office worker. We are both new to the area so after a few wrong turns we got there 20min late but still caught the end of worship. It was all hymn's, which aren't necessarily my favorite as far as worship goes. The church is huge, which I don't mind now that I am trying to meet new people but I think we picked the older peoples service or something as everyone there seemed to be 40+ I also felt very under dressed as EVERYONE was in either a dress or wearing a tie. Was a very nice church but I think next week I will continue the hunt.