My first week in Bradenton...

Alrighty, so I'm in paradise! This place is awesome! The weather is beautiful. We've had rain on and off all week, but it's not bad. It'll rain a lot for fifteen minutes or so, and then it clears upand is suny all day. I talked to my mom yesterday, and she was saying that the high in Fort Collins was only 55 degrees. Nothing but cold, dreary, dark rain for three days straight. And I just go outside and stand under a palm tree and smoke a cigarette. Oooohh, I love it!

So I started out the week by looking for a job. I thought that I had a job coming out here, but that changed. Color Wheel is a paint company based in Florida that is owned by the same corporation as Kwal, where I worked at in Fort Collins. Well, I thought I would be able to just transfer. I was in contact with the District Manager out here, and one of their stores close by had an opening. Well, I got ahold of him on Monday, but he told me that they had already filled the spot. Needless to say, I was just a little perturbed. I was kind of hoping to have a job right away, but oh well, it is what it is. My car shouldn't have made it out here, but it did. I'm here for a reason, and have a purpose, and now I'm just trusting that God will provide a job for me. I'm still looking though! Beating the pavement, going to all the different paint stores around here. Hopefully I'll find something in the next week or two.

I love it here, but it is different. It's tough not having anyone that I know around. I know my grandparents and my aunt that I'm staying with, but it's not the same as being around the people that you've known all your life, ya know? I just can't wait to find a job and get into my own place so that I can get some sense of normalcy going again.

The only bad thing that I can see about Florida: hurricanes. I'm not worried about them here in Bradenton and Sarasota, but it can still bring on some crappy weather, even if it hits on the east coast. Just now actually, I saw on the news an update on tropical Storm Fay. It's expcted to hit Florida sometime on Monday, and could possibly develope into a category 1 storm as it passes by Sarasota and St. Pete. I'll keep ya'll posted on what it does, but it could get interesting, so keep us in your prayers!

Tomorrow morning I'm going to go to Aunt Anne's church and scope it out, see if I like it and all. I really miss my old church Rez. Those sermons and Pastor John really were something else! Hopefully I can find a church around here that is similar to that. I think we might also try to get out to Disney World tomorrow afternoon, so that'll be fun!

Anywho, I've gotta go and watch Phelps win another gold medal, so I'll leave it at that!