Getting into the groove

Sorry I haven't posted anything new in a week or so.  The newest bit I have is that I am moved in to the apartment.  Last Friday, the 22nd the movers showed up at the apartment at 8am and unloaded.  My stuff barely fit into the apartment!  My room is so small, my dresser doesn't fit at all.  So, I had to go through and get rid of some clothes to make everything fit.  Wasn't my favorite thing to do, but it's done!  We have a little 5'x6' storage room off of the patio.  It's like an outside closet.  This is what is currently in there:  my desk and chair, my dresser, a bookshelf, a kitchen storage pantry (1.5'x6'), some books and boxes, decorations the roommates didn't like, and all the drawers of the dresser are filled with random stuff.  Definitely wasn't expecting that!  And my dining room table will soon be outside on the patio because my roommate's mom bought her a table and she wants that as the dining room table.  So, it TOTALLY makes sense to put my table outside!  I'm getting plastic covers for everything like from the 60's...I hope this helps protect it from the elements.  It's a covered patio and in a typical year, there shouldn't be that much rain.  We shall see.... There's no room for it in the storage locker, so I'm hoping against hope that this will turn out to be OK.

So, aside from the rant fest, I'm all moved in.  Pictures hung, everything in it's place (at least how it's going to be for a year), etc.

Moving in literally took me Friday 8am to 12am and Saturday 8am to 1am.  Sunday is when I hung stuff up and got ready for a week of work.  So I had a very tiring last weekend.

My second week of work was overall good.  I understand the assays I'm being trained on, I'm getting used to the work flow, getting into a groove essentially.  I'm busy from the moment I get there to the moment I leave minus a 30 minute lunch.  So, it makes the day go by fast, but I'm definitely worn by the end of it.

Friday, my company celebrated halloween!  They catered Mexican food, we had a talent show, and a costume contest.  My lab was dressed up as M&Ms.

 These are my work peeps:
orange-Shawn
green-Claudia (supervisor)
yellow tshirt-Amanda
purple-Luca
blue-Taylor
red-Michelle
yellow-Efren
missing: Christina (doing her thesis defense) and Diana (in the lab, not being festive)

Back to the story:
The groups that won was sales...they dressed up as KISS. 

We're talking all out, skin tight black spandex with cut out, silver spikes, face paint, and topped off with 5 inch platforms and 3 inch heels.  These guys looked awesome/ridiculous!  They won Amazon.com giftcards, along with the 30 people in cyto in second place, and the 10 people who won 3rd place!  We all won free lunch for participating....that's pretty cool!  Talent show was pretty crazy too.  The judges were the CEO who played Sharon Osbourne, CFO who played Howie Mandel, and COO who played Piers Morgan from American's Got Talent.  Pretty hilarious stuff! 

You know it's a down-to-earth company when the executives participate in Halloween!  All 48 of the pathologists dressed up too as people from different countries, I believe their native countries and they sang in the talent show to "We are the World" and "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing".  They changed the words to support Genoptix.  It was pretty cool!

When I got off work, I drove to the ocean and watched the sun set:

I apparently haven't learned how to take good night pictures.

Saturday, I woke up and went to the gym for some cardio, then a meditation class, then a yoga class.  I was there for a good 4 hours including shower!  But that felt great!  I meandered around for a while around the town.  It was absolutely beautiful out!  I took some pictures from my balcony.  Here is the view west, inland:

I love the view of the hills in the background! 

Here is the view to the west, the ocean!

Look really hard...above the roof, on the left side of the picture and next to the hill, there is a faint perfectly straight line....that is the ocean.  Most of the hill blocks our view, but it's there! So, yes, I can see the ocean from my apartment.

Today, Sunday, I plan to do those mundane things like cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, and cooking.  This upcoming week at work, I don't anticipate anything super fun.  It will probably be the typical sleep, eat, work, workout, repeat week.  I may have plans on Wednesday night to go down to SD with Eva, I'll keep you posted!

I hope you enjoyed the pictures!

I hope Cincy is as sunny as here!