Welcome to Texas. However, regarding your tagline line about being an official Texan next week...well we need to talk. Official Texan can have many different meanings, I had to live here for over 10 years before I qualified for the Bubba label. Just kidding of course, being a Texan is a state of mind.
It's a state of mind okay but you "immigrants" leave your CA attitudes right there where you started from, don't want any part of that c**p, no welfare cradle to grave BS, we have enough of that.
BTW, you ought to move to the Rio Grande Valley (where I was born and raised) first and put in your time so that you'll know how to deal with Texas blue county types, corruption and malfeasance. Welcome pilgrim but if your used to "touchy-feely" silliness then it's best you stay where you are.