So it’s been seven days (as of last Thursday) since I first touched down in L.A.X. Airport and amidst all the craziness of trying to get settled into a new place,I’ve got both the best and worst sleep that I’ve had in quite some time.
Yeah.. before I talk about anything else I want to talk about the type of sleep I’ve been getting.
As you may or may not know, there’s a 3 hr time difference between Miami and Los Angeles, with LA being the one that’s behind. So from getting to my new home at 1 a.m. (4 A.M. Miami Time) to now, my sleep pattern has been off.
From waking up at “8 A.M.”(11 am Eastern Time) to starting to feel sleepy by “9 P.M.” I’ve been a confusing mixture of well rested and exhausted. I’m trying my best to adjust but I blame myself for not allowing this entire life shift to set in before setting out on the next big adventure.. I have plans for an epic nap sometime next week.
Then there’s the unpacking.
I’ve had to unpack at least 3 different times as my stuff came in through the mail, and even though I didn’t bring EVERYTHING that I possibly could, hauling two big boxes and a TV upstairs to my room was no fun..Fast forward to a little over a week later, I’m finally unpacked and ready to start my exploration/dream chasing.
As far as grocery shopping, this will be the only free promotion I do until they cut the check but…Dollar Tree has saved this young man’s life by saving his wallet.
Like I always knew that Dollar Stores had the potential to be dope but the ones around my house were mostly crap. However, this particular Dollar Tree has a good 85% of the grocery items that I need to live my day-to-day, and what they don’t have, Ralph’s (California’s version of Publix… or is it Winn Dixie?) does.
Even though there’s probably a Wal-Mart in each and every city of the United States, the “Wal-Mart” I always knew and grew up with are actually pretty hard to find.
There’s a lot of “Wal-Mart Neighborhood Supermarkets” out here, which is obviously just the grocery portion of Wal-Mart instead of the “Super Wal-Mart” format I’d been used to over all these years. In a series of events too long for me to bother explaining, I found my first actual Wal-Mart in Longbeach,California which is about 45 mins from where I live.
Lastly, I was able to work a weekend down at the L.A. Convention Center thanks to a last-minute recommendation from my landlady. So I went from never being in sales on a Thursday to leading sales by Sunday. What was I selling you may ask? Just a truckload of Selfie Sticks.
Yup. Selfie Sticks. And mini flashlights… and credit card holders… and reading glasses, etc. Not bad for my first week on the West Coast right?
Everything sounds like its going according to plan..hustle time