I wish I had pictures of all the wrong turns I take. The best one was in downtown Houston, with my new boss in the car. She and I are about the same age, with much the same background. She invited me to come downtown to go out for drinks and check out the area where all the single people live.
So she's in the front seat with her laptop, diligently trying to look something up and giving me driving directions out of her neighborhood at the same time. I'm at a stop sign, she says "go left," I start to go left, and the car behind me honks. I'm like "what?!"...keep driving...this is when I wish I had the camera.
We were driving the wrong way down a one way, and now had three lanes of traffic coming straight at us!
I dove out of the way into a parking lot, we had a good laugh. She jokes she's done just about the same with the CEO in the car, so get used to it.
I've gone downtown a couple of times now, but for short periods each. It's about 40 minutes on the interstate, quite a few of the single people choose to live there because The Woodlands is soooo family-oriented. I don't care for the commute, though, so I'll keep looking to figure out where I want to buy my next place. I'm still thinking about a house in Austin for the weekends, this tiny apartment here for during the week. But Austin is far more expensive, so I'd have to have a bigger paycheck to handle both. I better work on a promotion!!
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Saturday, August 2, 2008
NEW ADDRESS!
Kerri Ryan
PO Box 7892
Spring, TX 77380
kerri.j.ryan@gmail.com
The Cox email will die in a few weeks, so change over now!
Family: If I gave you a Woodlands PO Box before, it's the same, both will work. Turns out The Woodlands is a vanity name, but the Post Office recognizes it (as does the county tax official and the homeowners association!).
I’ll send out an email with this info as well when I get better coordinated. I’m still doing this stuff from Panera!
Things are going great here. It was a busy first week at work in Texas, but fulfilling. I finally get to do what I want, be creative and analytical, and am actually treated like I know what I’m doing. They threw me in the deep end of the pool after just a couple of days of work, and I’m swimming pretty well. They were very short-handed in marketing and there was a lot of catching up to do. We’re also trying to get a new internet product off the ground and have a hefty revenue goal to hit by end-of-year, but we’ll do it at the pace we’re going.
I’m going to find a few key pieces for the apartment now so I can tolerate it. I’ve decided that the cost of hiring movers to unload and then reload the Pod in six months, plus the storage cost of the added garage at the apartment is almost as much as the rental fee of keeping the Pod at their storage facility. I’ll skip the headache of unloading it, thank you very much. So I’m bare bones for now, have to find a chair to sit in the living room, and a mattress set to sleep on (soon to be spare bed for a house), and I will be set.
Hey, someone go buy my house on Hood!
PO Box 7892
Spring, TX 77380
kerri.j.ryan@gmail.com
The Cox email will die in a few weeks, so change over now!
Family: If I gave you a Woodlands PO Box before, it's the same, both will work. Turns out The Woodlands is a vanity name, but the Post Office recognizes it (as does the county tax official and the homeowners association!).
I’ll send out an email with this info as well when I get better coordinated. I’m still doing this stuff from Panera!
Things are going great here. It was a busy first week at work in Texas, but fulfilling. I finally get to do what I want, be creative and analytical, and am actually treated like I know what I’m doing. They threw me in the deep end of the pool after just a couple of days of work, and I’m swimming pretty well. They were very short-handed in marketing and there was a lot of catching up to do. We’re also trying to get a new internet product off the ground and have a hefty revenue goal to hit by end-of-year, but we’ll do it at the pace we’re going.
I’m going to find a few key pieces for the apartment now so I can tolerate it. I’ve decided that the cost of hiring movers to unload and then reload the Pod in six months, plus the storage cost of the added garage at the apartment is almost as much as the rental fee of keeping the Pod at their storage facility. I’ll skip the headache of unloading it, thank you very much. So I’m bare bones for now, have to find a chair to sit in the living room, and a mattress set to sleep on (soon to be spare bed for a house), and I will be set.
Hey, someone go buy my house on Hood!
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