San Jose Internship

Right now, Ricky is on his internship and I am staying at my parents house. I will join Ricky later, but first, I wanted to see my brother who returned from his 2-year LDS mission the day Ricky’s internship started. It is weird because now, my family is all in the same house again. I don’t think my brother really realizes that I’m married, because he has not met Ricky yet and all my family is living in the same house like before he left, haha. I am also going on our annual vacation to Sun Valley with my mom’s side of the extended family. So, Ricky will be on his own in San Jose for a bit longer. I casually looked for jobs in San Jose, but it is just such a short time to find a job. So, I am just enjoying being unemployed since I quit my job in Provo, and enjoying family time. After the Sun Valley vacation, I will drive to San Jose to be with Ricky for the last month of his internship. He’s in a dorm room now, but we will move in with a nice couple from the church when I get there. I am excited for this short new adventure, but am wondering about what I will do to pass the time while Ricky’s out at work. The couple actually owns a cattle ranch, so maybe I can help out on that. We will see.

Our First Apartment Together

So I wrote this all down awhile ago when we were still living in our Wyview apartment. We actually moved out a week ago from today, but I wanted to post about our first apartment together so here it is!

Ricky and my first apartment together is in Wyview, on-campus housing at BYU. It is not actually on-campus, but it’s owned by BYU and a shuttle comes to take the students to school. It is month-to-month, so people can get out of the contract at any time as long as they give a month’s notice. It was so hard to get into! Before we found an opening, we were checking the housing website at 4:00 each night because that’s when it is updated with new openings, if any. One night, with me on my laptop and Ricky on his computer, we were lucky enough to click on a new opening right as it came up! We could move in January 7th. We were glad that we had secured an apartment, but classes started on the 4th...So, after the honeymoon, we stayed in my parents’ house until classes started, but then we needed to be in Provo. Luckily, my amazing cousin Lisa and her husband Travis let us camp out on a matress in their living room at Wymount for the first few days of classes. It worked out great, and we were happy to be able to settle into our own new little place on the 7th.

Wyview has been great! It is actually quite spacious, being a two-bedroom apartment. We use one room as our bedroom and the other room as our study. We have our computers, our TV, and desks in our study. We spend most of our time in there, especially because our living room is practically empty. We could have borrowed a couch from family members, but decided to spare the hassle of getting it up three flights of stairs and then moving it out a few months later. We have a few plants and a few chairs in the living room, but that is about it.

Our kitchen is super cute. We borrowed some cute chairs and a kitchen table from my Aunt Pam. We have many kitchen appliances from the wedding and plenty of space for them! Our cute kitchen makes me want to learn to cook a whole lot more. Actually, I’ve become pretty interested in baking and have tried some good recipes from Pinterest! Ricky cooks most of the meals for dinner because he gets home earlier and I usually don’t get home until about 6:30, starving! He is so sweet for always doing the cooking! I am scared for when I will have to eventually do all the cooking.

In our bedroom, we have a walk in closet with a pole for hanging clothes and so many shelves. We also have another closet where I hang all my clothes up. It is so spacious and nice!! We have been spoiled for our first married apartment together. It is going to be tough to move to smaller and much less spacious apartments in the future.

A short trip home

I suppose we are almost using this as a travel blog of sorts. A missionary I served with got married this weekend. He is from New York/Connecticut and his wife is from Utah. I was surprised to learn they were getting married in San Diego, my hometown. I probably would have gone wherever it was, but it sounded like a nice excuse to go home.

While there, I of course had carne asada fries which are a favorite of mine. I also went to a Chinese buffet. It's surprising that Provo doesn't have a single Chinese buffet. Provo really lacks good Chinese food in general. Anyways, while at the restaurant, I overheard a funny conversation. A boy and a man were at the buffet line. The boy asked “what is this?” while looking at some food. The man replied “it's the food of your people.” (Which to me seems like an inappropriate thing to say pretty much always, although especially true when it comes to Chinese-American buffets [as much as I love the Chinese donuts, they are not really Chinese]). The boy replied, “but I'm Mexican.” And the man said, “no you are not, you are Cambodian.” Needless to say, that really isn't Chinese.

Speaking of Cambodia, I used to email someone in Cambodia at my old job. Part of my responsibilities was checking in on people from all over the world. My last day was this last Friday. It was a little funny, I was importing a new CRM, Sales Force, and I wanted to make sure it was working right. So I called our office in Mexico City. Pretty soon, I was trying to explain the CRM in Spanish. It was pretty funny, I really don't speak much Spanish.