Sunday, February 13, 2011

How things change in 6 weeks

Sandra and I in Death Valley

Well where do I start?? Sandra came and stayed with me from January 21 to the 31. We went to Vegas, Death Valley, Palm Springs, LA, Orange County (twice), saw a drive-in, did some shopping, and dog sat for my boss. We both had a great time and I was definitely sad to see her go. But I will see my girlfriend in a few months in Australia hopefully so its not too far away.

I was hired by Carmax last week as a Sales Consultant which means I will be leaving my current job at Beacon in the next 2 weeks. I am really excited for this opportunity for a new challenge and to make some money to save up for my future.

I have been doing quite a bit of reading and am almost finished with Down and Out in Paris and London which is great, I also finished Uncle Tom's Cabin, Bear Grylls book about climing Mt. Everest, and Kevin Elko's book "The Pep Talk". I started playing tennis with john this week and we played 5 days! I got the best of him the first 3 but the last 2 he beat me, so its nice to see how competitive it is.

My sister and Rob are getting married in about a month a half! crazy! Im really excited for them. And then my Uncle Brendan and Jennie are getting married at the end of May so its a happy spring for the Riley family.

Thats about it for now, hope everyone is good.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Welcome to 2011!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and new years! Mine were both low-key with my dad and I got some nice stuff. 100$ gift card to Jcpenney, 25$ itunes gift card, some candy, an ESPN trivia game, and 200$ towards a new digital camera since mine got stolen.

I got some nice things from other family members too: some books,  100$ for graduation, pajama pants, and a st. christophers medal, and my mom sent me 50$ too.

Not too much new to report. I beat Fable 3 and Halo Reach now, still haven't played Fallout 3 though. TCU beat Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl yesterday 21-19, which is awesome I think. I love when small schools bust the BCS.

Still reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, but more than halfway through now. Also, Ive decided I am going to try to get a job as a car salesman after Sandra comes and visits because ill be able to make some good money doing that.

Talk to you soon!