The New Girl

I have been really bad about keeping my blog up to date, though I often think of things in my head to write down they seem to never make it out of my brain and onto the page. We have now lived in Hawaii 4 months and it is starting to feel less like an adventurous, vacation and more like where we live and work. Speaking of work after this week I will have been working at my new job for a month. I finally got a job as a tailor for Men's Warehouse. Moving here I knew it would be a big lifestyle change, but I didn't think about how much I would have to change. I have been outside my comfort zone way more than I thought I could handle before moving here. Starting my job as the "new girl" reminded me of how uncomfortable it is to starting out in a new place. You feel like everyone is watching you, especially in my field where they are making sure you can actually do your job right and not mess up someone's clothing. It is stressful trying to make a good impression and let people see your true self. But I am so thankful to be done interviewing and job searching since that is probably my least favorite thing to do and we are so grateful to have a second income to help out with the high cost of living here. I am learning that good relationships are so important in the work place. If you can learn to care about the people you work with it makes the day so much better and even when you feel like your job is meaningless the people make it worth while. I definitely experienced this in my last job. Me and my co-worker, Gloria became best friends over the 2 years we worked together. We had several differences....she is around the age of my mom, she is from another country and English is her second language, we have different religions and backgrounds, but I learned so much from her. She taught me an amazing amount about sewing, but more importantly she taught me how to work hard and she always wanted to push me to be better. I miss her so much, especially starting a new sewing job. I am praying that I can be a friend to my coworkers and we can help each other out when working gets hard.

Now to the good stuff...my off days with my husband!! A couple weeks ago we went to this place called Shark's Cove on the north shore.

It is a really good place for snorkeling. You climb down a rocky area and into the shallow water. Then when you swim out it opens up and is about 10 feet deep and crystal clear with tons of beautiful fish.

A pretty nice place to catch some rays:)!

There are a bunch of little shallow pools of water that we walked around in and you could see the fish swimming around your feet. 

In florida, we always seem to find starfish, but here we have never seen one so I was really excited that we found this little guy. I looked online on how to preserve it. We soaked it in alcohol for 2 days and then you are supposed to bleach it white, but it turned out to be a pretty orangish red color so I decided to keep it natural.

Then we found the most beautiful tree swing on the other side of the water. You can swing and look out at the beautiful ocean so cool!

Okay okay the last picture of the day....I LOVE TURTLES! Everytime I see one I go crazy and make Landry dive down and try to get a picture with me beside it haha!

 

ALOHA!!