Okay, so it's been a little bit since I have written anything or really updated stuff. As the title suggests, we are now officially living in Texas. Actually, we're a little north east of Austin, living in one of the suburbs. Yeah, we are suburbanites now. It's not all bad. I like our neighborhood, love the sidewalks, the school for the kids is a rather short walk from the house and I absolutely love our house. Now, if we can talk to someone about the weather here, that would be amazing!
It gets a little hot for this Kentucky girl in the Spring. I'm used to storms, subtle breezes, grass getting green, tree buds, flowers blooming and the ever infamous weather patterns consisting of 85 one day and 30 the next. Ah, yes...Spring in Kentucky.
Now, let's take a look at Spring in Texas. The grass is a dying shade of green with more brown than anything else, it's windy...and I mean WINDY, hail storms but NO rain (still haven't figured out how in the hell that happens), tree/pollen/grass molds are HIGH, flowers are dying and if you ONLY hit 85 during the day you rejoice, but more often than not the temps hover in the 90's and the humidity is just as bad as it is in Kentucky in the middle of Summer. Yeah, the joy of Spring in Texas. Woo.
However; I am finding that there are plenty of jobs to be had here. In the community we live in, the surrounding suburbs and if you want to commute into Austin, then there are a plethora of opportunities for job seekers. I, however; do not want to commute into Austin. I'd prefer to stay sort of close to home.
The people are relatively nice. I have yet to meet any actual, full on jerks, well...with the exception of the woman who is the civilian worker at the ROTC department at UT-Austin. Um, I have to say that if she just disappeared one day, I may or may not have a rather kickin' party to celebrate. I'd say it was really just a "search party" being put together and let it go at that.
The driving here is a little crazy sometimes. I just have to get used to urban driving again. If you have defensive driving skills and utilize them, you'll do JUST fine. I did break down today and purchased a TxTag. For those of you who want to know what that is, it's an electronic tag that you place on your windshield below your rear view mirror and you pre-pay toll fees, it's your toll pass. Since a lot of people don't want to pay the tolls and they clog up the interstate and the access roads, I figured I'd be a little smarter (although a little less rich) and purchase the tag so that I can hop on and off at my convenience and not deal with the moronic drivers that are in a hurry, yet can't go anywhere, during rush hour. Yep, that's why I get paid the big bucks people...to think. Now, if I could figure out how to outsmart everyone else, then I'd demand a raise!
I may update a little more later, but for now this True Blue Cat girl is going to go see if I can find Bevo (The Longhorn Mascot) and show him a thing or two about true fans...LOL
