Team Pierce

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Inside Our Apartment

Sorry our apartment isn't super clean, but we thought it might be nice to take a walk around video to help you get a feel of the layout. Enjoy!

Thursday, July 17, 2008

It's Official... I'm a Working Woman!

Saturday, July 12, 2008

One Wall Down

So we've finally decided to start hanging stuff. Here's what we've done so far (only one wall, I know).

So I survived my first week at Motorola. It was an exhausting week and pretty slow doing all of the paperwork and getting set up on all of the systems, but luckily I got some cool stuff. As far as my commute it is pretty rough, but will hopefully get better. The morning drive is ok (50 minutes) but the drive home is quite a bit longer, it took me 1 hr and 40 min to get home on Wednesday!! Spencer went with me to work on Friday because I was so tired. He drove me up and then found a library to study at while I was at work. It was really nice becuase we were able to have lunch together and then we found a better way for me to come home (only 55 or so minutes). Spencer has been great helping me adjust to working by making dinners and doing just about everything around the house. Our schedules don't match up very well right now. Spencer has evening classes from 630-9 on Monday and Wednesday so I don't really get to see him at all those days which is sad (luckily that is only for the summer quarter). So it's nice that he can go up with me on Fridays since he has no class. I found out today that Motorola has what they call "summer hours" which means you can work four 9 hr days Monday through Thursday and then only come in for the morning on Friday (if your manager is ok with his team doing summer hours). My manager was out of town this week, but will be back on Monday so hopefully he'll let our team do summer hours because that would be nice. Anyway here are some pictures of my badge, laptop bag, laptop and cell phone for work. My mom took some pictures of the Motorola campus that I'll put up once she emails them to me.

Friday, July 4, 2008

Stolen Bike

Behind our apartment there is an alley with back doors from all of the apartments. It is used mostly to take out the trash and store bikes. There are at least twenty bikes back there. The picture below shows only one rack of bikes. There are bikes everywhere in the alley. So you would think that it is a pretty safe place to store a bike.

The alley behind our apartment. It's kind of ghetto.

Turns out that it isn't as safe as I thought. I went down the other day to ride my bike to campus and found only my lock snapped in half and no bike. I was really sad because I really liked my bike and used it all the time to ride to campus or to go on bike rides with Amber.

My broken lock.

I was also confused though. Why was my bike stolen of the almost thirty bikes in the alley? It isn't like my bike was super nice. I got it from Walmart four years ago for just over $100. Who would want to steal a four year old Walmart Bike? There are definitely a lot more expensive bikes in the alley than mine. This is the second time in my life that I have had a bike stolen. The first time was much more traumatic than this one. I had gotten a brand new bike for Christmas when I was about ten. I thought my bike was awesome. Apparently so did somebody else because it disappeared after I had had it for only a couple of months.

Luckily I saw this poster on campus this week so I can go get a cheap used bike on campus next week. I will try to get an old junky one so nobody will want to steal it.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Apartment Update

So I was hoping to get our apartment all set up before I start work on Monday and so I was waiting until it was all done before I posted pictures. But because it's taking so long (a.k.a. I have no decorations or frames up yet due to a little indecisiveness) we figured we'd show our progress. Here are some pictures of our apartment so far. Sorry again if it's hard to figure out the layout.

Inside The Security Door