It's official!

Ah those words...

It is official that I've found a place to live in San Jose and will no longer be a wandering nomad commuting everywhere and anywhere. The place is actually near IBM and I can take the back country roads to get there...shoot, I could probably take a nice 20-30 minute bike ride to work (I'm pretty slow for those who don't know lol). I've paid a deposit and have a key as of 9pm tonight...although I won't be moving in until this Sunday. Anyways, the area is growing on me. I went back to the Starbucks I'd gone to after visiting the place the first time a few days back, and the guy I had talked to was there. He remembered me. :) "Michelle, right?" Reminds me of my friend Jessica from home. She was an awesome barista at Starbucks too. But yea there's a B of A close by and it's a nice area. Being more into the hills, it has a smaller town feel even though it's right next to the big city.

Work today was alright. Not too eventful. I got to meet Paul, who was in today after being gone for a while. He's Brandon's office-mate. And he just got engaged so he bought everyone fancy bagels lol. I hear that's what they do, any thing good happens, you spend a bunch of money on everyone else to celebrate hehe. Plus from the plaque on his wall, I see this guy has an IBM patent...impressive.

I offered Brandon a ride home since he missed his bus to the light rail showing me stuff. He took me up on it and asked if I wanted to go to Jubilee with him. I said sure. Jubilee...wow. What is it you ask? Well, it's a church...non denominational...and huge...like...HUGE. Their youth program is big and they have a lot of sponsors, so they bought out a whole business building next door and turned it into pretty much a youth gathering center. The place is huge, with techy stuff you'd find in a discovery museum. Seven nice pool tables, two indoor basketball courts, six or so huge plasma tvs, and at least twenty large flat screen tvs. Pretty much each tv was hooked up to it's own game console with all the games you could imagine. There's a computer lab, study lounge, i-pod stations, cafe, and of course a large room for evening services. I've just never seen anything like it...or even imagined it. All the youth are welcome and it keeps them out of trouble and the streets. I was watching some kids doing some sweet dance moves...oh yea...they have a youth dance team too lol.

I met the sweetest boys there...Chris, Andrew, and Peter. I played some Super Smash with Chris and Andrew, and held up pretty well until the end. They're in high school, maybe junior high. Hopefully I'll get to see them again. If I come often enough, I can probably become a regular volunteer for the youth group here every Wednesday night like Brandon does. I got to meet most of the staff already. Though, I'm still looking around for different churches.

I took some time there to call back the other people I was turning down. They were all sad, but understood. One of them asked if I liked hiking. I said of course, so she asked me to go hiking with her on Sundays every once in a while. Sweetness.

I didn't get to stay for the service though. I left to visit a place in east San Jose, which was nice, but not in a nice neighborhood, so it was that time that I decided on the place near work. The guy in east SJ, Will, is 25 and owns 5 houses on his own. He bought his first property when he was 20. Craziness.

Anyways, I signed the lease and drove back up to Atherton, ate a lovely dinner with my cousin and her family, and now I'm totally ready to crash. What I need to get working on though is my senior project. Sorry Joey, it's been a little hectic lately. Tomorrow, I plan on doing some real fun on the town. Kim and I are gonna go check out the Saddle Rack. I'll tell you how it is Cameron. :)