1 day down......7300 to go........

Well, the first day could've went worse. Got up on time. Got to work before almost everyone else. The new job is exciting as heck with lots of opportunity. A lot of anxiety over where I want to live though. Also, I kinda screwed da pooch and didn't "demand" a relocation package up front so I may be living in a hotel for a while till I get a couple of paychecks. But the situation has made me realize that I need to sort out my priorities. Which are paying off my debt and not blowing my paycheck every week. I was orginally looking for an apartment that had a garage for my motorcycle which is broke right now and in need of costly repairs. After venting to my mom, who called to see how day 1 went, I realized that the motorcycle is the least of my worries and only going to cause more problems than solve. With my new job, I may be doing some week long traveling right away and without a garage, my motorcycle would be subjected to the freakin' savages of the world, thus causing more problems. There is a cool area in Indy that I want to live b/c of the night life options and a gym that I belong to. I'm just worried that I may end up in more trouble than its worth.........but its located on Monon Trail which is this huge, long biking/running/walking trail that goes for a while through Indy and its suburbs. I think it would be worth the risk for a year or so. Plus co-workers live near there and all my co-workers are pretty cool.
Anywho, so work went well and got to spend the 2nd half of the day just searching for a place to live. My buddy that recruited me bought me lunch since it was my first day. Usually, everyone demands that the new recruit buys lunch or donuts for a while. Oh, yeah, reminds me, thank god the brits love their coffee and tea. Free coffee and tea and some snacks in the canteen area. For those that have ever worked with me, I drink coffee from the moment I get to work til I leave :-) However, that doesn't explain why I'm friggin' exhausted right now. The stress of looking for a place to live is deteriorating me.
Yeah, so I go to get something to eat at the Penn Station sub place across from my hotel and the 35 yr old G.E.D. failure behind the counter not only messed up my name but handled my credit card with greasy oily fingers and then gave it back to me. My hand felt like I just jacked off an elephant ;-) I looked at my order ticket and he spelled my name "Rookie" after I said, clearly, "Rocky", twice. The dude giving me my food called out "Rookie" and I jumped on it right away. But I felt an explanation was in order and we had a good laugh over it :-D
Well, almost time for Family Guy. And then some serious sleep. Tomorrow's going to be another long day. An example of how kool my supervisor and company is, Dan, my direct boss, is so concerned with me finding a place to live that he told me to take as much time off the work clock to find a place as I needed, even though he gave me work to do while he's in Kansas. Awesome. Dan's only 3 years older than me but hey, we Purdue grads have to stick together.
I'd like to take this moment to mushroom stamp ND alumni with the exception of Raul b/c I owe him full frontal pictures ;-)