Just another day in paradise...

There's nothing like being acosted by a butterfly in central park to turn a frown upside down.

This morning was just one of those mornings; the ones where you'd like to just roll back into bed and wait for a fresh start tomorrow. I woke up late, which always throws my day off (and yet I continue to do it on such a regular basis!)

Then I decided because I have already been to Community (the restaurant at which Charlie works, ans the one I was meeting with John for brunch), well I just figured I could find it.

I was wrong.

I got lost, and then, literally out of nowhere, it began to pour. When I finally got to the restaurant, I was soaking wet, covered in bits of the trees I took cover under and 30 minutes late. It would have been enormously comical, had I not been so flustered.

Things immediatly started to look up, brush with John was lovley and Neil Patrick Harris was there, which was my first New York celebrity encounter. It was neat.

After brunch, I needed to unwind... So I walked to the park. As I walked, I began to dry. This park is amazing, I feel so peaceful and pleased with my decisions here. As I walked, the sin came out and filled a little clearing I was standing in, just as a butterfly flew around my head. A little surreal, but it was lovely.

Now I'm sitting on a rock, writing this on my phone as the rain starts up again, but the suns still shining.

Both literally and figuritivly.

xoxo
Lexie

"If its a broken part, replace it
If its a broken arm, then brace it
If its a broken heart, then face it"
-Jason Mraz

Hot Rain in the Summertime...

Today was my last day of that god awful training.... thank heavens.

It was a fun day though, honestly, they took us on a tour of all the security facilities, and I got to have lunch with some of the girls in my training group, and it was nice to hang out with some new people. Though, this store is so big, I wonder how often I will really see any of them.

I took my nose ring out to makeup wipey my face last night and left it on the coffee table and now it's gone. My roommates like to clean and if the mess is not theirs, it just gets thrown away. It was likely thrown away. I'm incredibly sad about that.

I spent some time today with Brett, and it was nice to be reminded theater can be dramatic without being dramatic. I sometimes seriously question if I could do this for a living. I very often think perhaps I'm just cut out to do some cabaret singing or something. This business is full of things that make me crazy. Sometimes the good outweighs the bad -- sometimes it doesn't even come close.

On my way home from Brett's, I had to walk a few blocks in warm rain in flip flops. Walking in flipflops in the rain is GROSS. Walking in the hot rain in the summertime... is kinda lovely.

My first New York Cockroach!

Upon walking home from work yesterday, I saw my first cockroach. And let me tell you, EW. Those things are nasty. It was on the sidewalk though, so I managed not to scream like a girl. They are just awfully large to be just out in the urban jungle... The only other times I have seen bugs that big is at say, the zoo. It was, however, very much another reminded that I really live in New York. I have yet to see a subway rat... but that's coming I'm sure.

Macy's training is boring, but that goes without saying. I had to watch a 20 minute training on children's sleepwear safety, and then take a quiz on it. That's... um.... not really all that relevant to selling makeup... but... whatever.

I miss my friends. I'm not really homesick, per se.... but I miss my little circle of best friends. It's hard to go from having a core circle of people who complete you to hanging out with a huge crowd of people you don't really know. All my friends here are new friends, or friends I'm not yet that close to. Which is not to say I have not met people here whom I could become close to, I'm just not there yet. My friends back home are my family, and I miss them.

So, other than being hot, some of the weather out here is insane!! My roommate Dustin and I went downtown to Blockheads for $3 margaritas and got caught in a downpour of warm rain, complete with thunder and lightening... it lasted for about 10 minutes, so we still made it to out destination on time. :) When we got home, this tree in front of the building next to ours had been ripped from the ground and was laying in the sidewalk. CRAZY. It didn't feel that windy, but it looked like there had been a tornado. I've included a picture for a frame of reference.

That's all for now, I get to see Brett today!! I'm crazy excited!!!!

Week One: Employed and Enthralled!

So, all I have to say is wow.

This has been one of the craziest and most amazing weeks in my life. I can honestly say I have never felt so at home, so at peace, or so certain of myself. Part of the plan was to try and get a job with MAC, but that was going to require I wander around with my resume to every MAC location till I found one that was hiring.... so I applied at multiple cosmetics locations before I got here. My second day, I had a interview with Macy's Heralds Square for a cosmetics position. After they saw that I had MAC experience, they sent me downstairs to meet with the MAC management team. I felt really good about the interview and they asked me to come back on Friday in the morning for a makeup application. It went really well, and Ellie, the retail manager of the whole location told me that, provided my references checked out, she wanted to hire me on the spot.

Well, none of my references called her back, but she called me back in, and hired me anyways. I am now employed, working at MAC and incredibly excited!! (Though I have to go through Macy's register training first and that's a horrible pain. But.. it's just a couple days!!)

It's funny how much of this has felt like it was just meant to be.

Things that fell in my lap:

I wanted to work for MAC, interviewed with Macy's, and ended up with MAC
The position they hired me for -- opened the day I got to New York
They couldn't put me into Macy's training till the 23rd.... ouch. They called me last night and bumped my training up today.

It just feels like this is my time here and my time in general. I can't wait to solidify the woman I can feel myself becoming and find what my roommates call "my new york".

And now it's late and I'm off to bed. :)

PS. I'm so happy here.