Certified SLB Driver

Successfully completed Light Vehicle Training today! After a week in Houston, I flew over to Tulsa, Oklahoma for driver's training for this week. Eeeee it was pretty wild! Did some things I thought I couldn't ever do...aka black ice simulation, skid control, wheel drop, ditch entry....They were so AWESOME! I had a blast. Plus it was very informative. Now I know how to be safe in case of any emergencies!

Driving the huge Ford F250 pickup truck was another experience in itself. Despite having to pull up to the closest seat setting in order to touch the brake and accelerator, I felt powerful and in control! Here's a pic of an F250. I couldn't take a picture of the one that I actually drove because I didn't have time...

Vroom vroommm drove this beast for 3 days straight!

Overall, training has been amazing. I feel so blessed for having this opportunity. Man...so many things can change in one year and I definitely would not have guessed I would be here. I am thankful that God gave me a chance to explore and learn and meet new people! My training class is nothing but friendly and funny and smart. Everyone I've met is so unique and I'm sad to think this will be all over by next weekend. BUT I am sure the things to come will be great as it has been these past days. I'm enjoying my trainee life!

OFS-1 Training

Training is finally here!!!! Hello from Houston, TX!!!

It seems like just yesterday when I was stalking I mean enthusiastically researching for other people's blogs who wrote about their OFS-1 training experience with Schlumberger. I was so nervous and curious as to what exactly went down during the two weeks of training.

Today was the very first day and it went by smoothly. I woke up at 6am to get ready and went downstairs for the free breakfast the hotel provides. Then took the 7:15am shuttle to the training facility. The entire day mainly consisted of just sitting in a classroom (there are a total of 53 of us!) listening to powerpoints on various subjects. The most fun part is meeting everyone- it is so interesting meeting all these people from completely different places who are all here to work for SLB! It kind of reminded me of traveling because in Europe everyone you meet is new and the excitement of meeting fellow travelers never gets old! Darn it I forgot to write about my Europe trip that I took from 5/23-6/6 but I will try to update some other time...

Cool things I noted for the day:
-Received company laptop!!! Which I am writing from right now. A brand new dell, which I think is very nice.
-Got my measurements taken for my coveralls which I will be wearing on the job!
-Dinner at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, which was rented out only for us for the night. Sweeet! Then did a scavenger hunt and more team building exercises there.
-Having my own hotel room. It's really awesome and just looking at the bed kind of makes me sleepy so I think I will get some ZzzzZzzs soon.
-Having alone time is really nice and I'm liking it. It's different from being home because I'm alone without many distractions when I'm in the room. I brought my bible and QT book "The Daily Office" by Peter Scazzero so I've had time in the morning and nights to read and pray.

My goal of being out here in with this whole new experience is to GROW!!! Mentally, physically (muscles perhaps? heh..heh..) as well as spritually.

Excited for another day tomorrow!

Thoughts about Louisiana

The consultant I worked closely with at my current company emailed me after he found out I will be going down to Louisiana in June for my new job at Schlumberger. Here's an excerpt of his email:

"Oh, you're gonna find Louisiana very interesting. Some places are remnants of old times, but the character of the people will make you crack up laughing...and they love a good party!! Also, the seafood!! Extraordinary!. Chances are you'll be working with some people I know as I started in oil and gas in S. Texas and Louisiana. Certainly will be an adventure, cause it is not NY! :)"

This makes me feel excited and curious to what it really will be like to live in the South. Guess only time will tell. I can't believe tomorrow is my last day with this company...after this, no more working in the city. Ah!

Things to do in my 20s

I heard about the Day Zero Project and decided to start my own list of goals. This site helps you start a list and keep track of which goals you've completed. Once you make an account, you can choose from making lists like 101 Goals in 1,001 days or 52 things in 52 weeks, but you can also customize your own.

I decided to make a list for things to do in my 20s. You can choose an end date to your list and mine is July 26, 2019 which is the day before I turn 30. Currently there are 66 things on this list that I want to do.

Some of the things on my list include:

Ride a hot air balloon

Learn to identify ten different constellations

Sing karaoke at a bar

Make amends with at least one ex-friend

Move into my own apartment

Have a traditional picnic in a park

Become a recognized regular somewhere

Host a dinner party

Watch 25 documentaries on topics I know nothing about

Watch a movie at a drive-in

Ask 20 friends to suggest one book, read them all

Keep a “My Day in Six Words” journal for a year

Donate my hair to Locks of Love

I only added the last one (donate my hair) so that I could check off at least one thing on my list to motivate myself to keep going. It says my list is 1% complete with 2625 days left. This is a fun way to make your life exciting and always have something to look forward to.

Help others (with caution)

Yesterday at work I had a really weird and embarrassing thing happen to me. But first here is a little background info about myself…whenever I get emails or fb event invites for 1 minute surveys I always try and do them because it really does take a minute and the more data the surveyor gets, the better!

So these days at the office, I help the front desk take phone calls because they are understaffed. And yesterday, sometime in the afternoon, I received a phone call from a friendly male who claimed to be a senior at UPenn conducting a survey on fashion for his advertising class. I didn’t hang up and agreed to answer his questions. At first the questions were normal, such as the basic info, age range, ethnicity, etc. Then he moved onto questions like on a scale of 1-10 how important is comfortability for clothing… but shortly after that the questions focused more towards lingerie and more personal questions.

I’ll give him credit for having good transition questions because at the end I really had no idea why I let myself stay on the phone for so long. The question right after the comfortability one was on a scale of 1-10 how important is feeling sexy…then asked how important is it to buy sexy lingerie…it was just getting weirder so I answered quickly to get the survey over with. Eventually I hung up because he started asking inappropriate things like seducing men and exactly what age range of men, single/divorced/married. What does this have to do with fashion and/or advertising?

After hanging up I couldn't believe the questions I got asked. Got to be careful with who I choose to interact with! I give people the benefit of the doubt but from now on I have to be wary there are people out there who can be a little craycray.

Some things I want for my future home

Huge windows

Colorful walls

A brick wall somewhere

Big world map

Beaded curtains for doorways

A fridge like this one from SMEG

Childhood favorites

In general, I loved reading all Louis Sachar books. But his Sideways Stories From Wayside School series... Looooved it! Really really loved it.

Other books I loved to read as a kid are:

-The Bailey School Kids series by Marcia T. Jones and Debbie Dadey

-What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything? by Avi

-How To Drive Your Family Crazy On Halloween by Dean Marney

-Help! I'm Trapped in My Principal's Body, and also Don t Get Caught Driving The School Bus by Todd Strasser

-Animorphs series by K. A. Applegate

Listing all these books make me want to go back to my childhood. I really should write thank you letters to all these authors for making my days after coming home from elementary and middle school so interesting and enjoyable.

When I become a mom, I am definitely buying these books for my child. This post was just a reminder to do that in case I forget.