Have it Your Way...

Yesterday was my first day at my new job. I am working at a Burger King on the Air Force Base. It obviously isn’t a glamorous job at all. I can’t say I love it, but at the same time I can’t exactly say I hate it. This job is purely for the $$$ and I am doing dollar signs because I am making that dollars not euros since it is an American base.  On base they use US Dollars and some places like the Burger King will accept Euro, but they give the change back in dollars. Everyone at work seems pretty nice; the one supervisor chick scares me a little. She is nice and all, but she just has a really strict demeanor about her. A couple of my co-workers are like me; they met a Belgian person online and ended up coming to Belgium to be with them. Overall the job really is just okay. I of course started at the bottom and therefore I get to be the person to get the trays, clean the trays, and take out the trash…that kind of stuff. Driving to work is okay, it only takes me 25 minutes to get to work and there is never really traffic on the road I take.

            I also took time after work to check out one of my favorite benefits and that is shopping at the commissary which is AMAZING! After being in Belgium so long you nearly forget the wonders of an American grocery store. I walked into the commissary and there everything was, the things I love from back home. I of course had to buy things like a 2 liter bottle of Root Beer (which is not sold in Europe because Europeans don’t like the taste. They think it taste like medicine.), crystal light, peanut freaking butter (Jif of course) with Smuckers jam (which Oli calls Smugglers), and a few other things that I felt like I just had to buy. The prices are also GREAT!

           

            The job also really pushed me to work towards being healthier, working out, and trying to drop some more weight. I had to buy a shirt in the store because I couldn’t fit any of the uniform shirts that they had on site and they are ordering more in a larger size so I could have an official shirt. Kind of lame :(. I also had to hem my pants because they were actually too long on me and yesterday I was stepping on them. I am happy that I am working the max number of hours next week so that means more $$$ in my pocket, but I work a lot and I don’t get a day off until Monday which means I won’t get much time with Oli over the weekend. Oh well we are both benefiting from my long hours so we must endure it.

            Off to bed for me…I have work in the morning…at Burger King, "Have it Your Way!"