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What I’ve Been Up To Lately

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

Well I may not have been online for the past couple weeks but I promise I’ve been rather active. For starters we just moved this week and it’s been awesome. This place is so fantastic and once we get it really put together it’ll be up here for your viewing pleasure.

Last weekend we had a couple come visit us. Ok well they were in the city for their 5 year anniversary and blessed us with spending a little time off from their romantic weekend to hang out with us but we still felt like we were the whole reason they were here.

And as you may or may not be able to see we had the most delicious desert after an extraordinary Thai food experience which I did not photograph.

Yogen Fruz is like my most favorite thing that I was introduced to in Chile, where my husband is from. Right after we moved to the city we found some popular coupon companies: dailydeals.com and groupon.com. So like our third day here I found a coupon from Groupon that was pay $6 for $13 worth of delicious heaven. I saved it for a special moment which arrived this past weekend. So we took the sweet friends of ours to this place and got some treats. It was great, the service was awful which is really annoying because customer service is a big ol’ deal for me…but anyways it was quickly forgotten when I dug into my yogurt concoction of blackberries and rasberries. So much so that I even forgot to take a picture of the presentation so you could see how awesome it is.

There are still lots more pictures from their time with us but I haven’t had a chance to go through them all. I have had a really crazy week at work, we had some drama so I took on several extra hours and am a sleepy gal!

Oh in the mean time, tomorrow I’ll tell you about the awesome car accident (there were no other cars involved but my own) that I got in…really really exciting I promise.

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AABIW@S?

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Do you know what AABIW@S stands for? Here is a hint:

AABIW@S is an acronym for Automatically Awesome Because I Work @ Starbucks.

Which is what I do, so I’m Automatically Awesome right? Isn’t that what the social status is? Well even if it isn’t I’m super stoked about working there! I just completed my 2nd day and am still in love with it. That’s a good sign right?

Well Monday was the first day of my life with Starbucks! To say that it was long, tiring, exciting, fast and overwhelming are all understatements! I can tell that this is a new phase of my life, a new level of my professional career and a new way of relating to people and a culture I have yet to fully grasp. I worked a 9-4:30 shift.

My store is the 2nd largest volume store in the district and it’s definitely busy all the time. Because our training material wasn’t in yet they put as on the bar making drinks within the first couple hours. So we got some great hands on training. I started with another new worker who just recently graduated from Wheaton College and is a Jesus-loving dude so I’m pretty excited about that! I think that in time, we’ll be relying on each other in the midst of the atmosphere.

So I’m coming in as an ASM, or Assistant Manager in Training. The plan is that I do Barista training and certification in the first 3 weeks and then move on to managerial training. I’ll be learning the in’s and out’s of how Starbucks works and I can already tell that I’m going to be proud of working with this company. So my shift ended at 4:30 pm right? Well here’s the thing.

There was a leadership meeting at 5pm which was pretty darn close to the store so I didn’t go home. It was at the previous ASM’s house (she’s quitting to do a different job which stinks because she seems super cool!). This house was magnificent! It’s in an old baptist church completely redone but still with a very authentic antique feel. I wish I could describe it all but lets just break it down to: 4 living rooms, 4 bedrooms with bathrooms in each, 2 separate bathrooms, 2 kitchens, and a steeple nook. Not to mention all the original artwork and Frank Lloyd Wright pieces. It was intense.

So anyways, I was brought into the drama that has happened in the store and I feel like I have a better grasp on what is expected of me as a leader. I think that my career with this company will grow and I planning on taking you on this fantastic journey with me!

So now I have increased my social status:

Now I work at Starbucks and own a Mac and soon an Iphone and we’re getting a sweet place in the city in the next week or two…more on that little snippet later!

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