Sun and Storms

It was again a hectic, and fun weekend. I drove back to Green Bay w/ Chris, and we got into town about dinner time on Friday. He and Katie and I went out for dinner, and then I went home, talked to the parents and their friends, and then changed and went out to the martini bar in town. I had a chocolate covered cherry martini. Pretty good. It was crowded and loud in the bar, and there was no eye candy to distract me from the hives I got thursday night and still had Friday night, so we left and went to our homes. Early night, but I stayed up reading to make sure I didn't wake up too early :P

Saturday I did laundry and reformatted my parents computer (one problem, I forgot to download the modem drivers before I left the cities, so they don't have internet access right now. Mom has it at work, so we're kosher til I get home with the new modem and drivers for their computer. We went north in the afternoon to work on the property, well walk on it anyway. It turned out to be a glorious day, and walking was fun. I tripped in a few gopher/badger/prairie dog/ground squirrel holes...I didn't see the critter, so I can't tell you what made them. They're new this year though. Later on we saw a bunch of deer sign, and tracks. After we left, we saw a wolf lope onto the property, and a red-shouldered hawk. It was indeed a good day.

Sunday was a frantic attempt to download drivers at my mom's workplace, only to learn that the program to unzip them was too big for the floppy disks I had, and they had no burner, and none of the computers had a zip drive....Chris and I left Green Bay by noon to get to a good local rock show in the cities. MAN! it was one windy drive back. I few times it felt as though my car was lifted up by some invisible hand and set in the other lane, w/out me doing anything.

The show rocked, but it was pretty rushed. Each band got a 30 min set, and two rooms were going at the same time. It was still good fun, I hadn't seen Seconds Before or Align lived yet. About 7 or so we took a break and ran upstairs to get a drink, and that's when we realized it was storming. Really storming. I wished the place had reentry so I could go out and play in the rain and puddles, and then come back in for the last band. I'm sure noone would have wanted to stand by me, but it would have left me plenty of room to watch dna! I love playing in the rain, next time I'm gonna get drenched!

The joys of computer labs

So here I sit at the library, doing research like a good student worker, and i'm having to use a mac. Not that I don't like them, it's just I don't prefer them. I hate the keyboards they have, and I have to remember back to my days of using a mac full time. Oh, the good old days of macs and Oregon Trail. I remember playing that game as if it were yesterday. I just had the bloody mac crash IE on me though, and I had to get it back. I thought macs weren't supposed to crash? Oh well, no harm done, i have the source written out. I'll look at it at home.

Speaking of home. I'm driving to my parents place again. This time, i'm armed, dangerous, and looking for a fight. Not with guns or knives or garrotes or anything sinister like taht. I'm armed w/ computer disks. Yes, that's right. My parent's computer is finally going to get what's for. It's getting destroyed, and remade, with only the things I think it needs. That out to make it just a bit more user friendly!

So, I'll probably not be around online all weekend, unless I can fix my parents computer enough that I can actually stand to check email on it. I'll be back here sunday night for the big show at 1st Ave. Can't wait for that one!

Have a good weekend!

Ugh

That's how my weekend started out. I lost my voice, which didn't really bother me, but it made things complicated. I had an appt. in Green Bay at 5pm so I left Minneapolis at 11:45 thinking that it was plenty of time to get there (read: 4 hr 15 min drive on average, 4:30 if you stop). I got into town at 5:20. Clinic closed at 5:30 but they agreed to see me. I sat in traffic (jam from construction) for 1.5 hrs.

The rest of the weekend wasn't bad. I got to the clinic, and then I went home. Friday night i did laundry, ate, and then went to bed. I was tired from going out on Thursday. Saturday I went to breakfast with mom and dad, and then went shopping for some necessities (lipstick and contact solution and jeans). We went to dinner at my aunt's house and had a great meal with plenty of leftovers for me. (*grin*) I left with my brother when he left, and went to visit Lance and Erin at Erin's place. I wasn't good at talking there either.

Sunday was church with the fam, (try singing w/ no voice...). I had lunch at my place with my fam and my aunt and uncle, and then I left. The ride back to town was significantly better than out of town. I waved at Katie (literally) on 94, and then I came back, read my book, and went to bed.

Fairly mellow overall. So why am I so tired?!?

How can I study?

When it's so beautiful outside!?! It's cruel to run the semesters as they do. They should be shorter or something! Oh well, 5 weeks left and it's summer w/ only work and play! YAY! And this summer will bring more peoples to Minneapolis, and some people will go away for the summer :( but it will be a good summer full of adventure.

Why is it that a certain culture uses the curse, "May your life be interesting"? Oh well!

Pretty short entry, but I can't really think beyond the "go play outside" thoughts circling my being!

Apparently the picture doesn't work, oh well...everyone knows a tigger when they see one!

Let's Bounce a little Faster-er"


You're Tigger. Playful and fun-loving, you enjoy
hanging out with friends even though you don't
always have to be the center of attention.
You're never pessimistic or sluggish. Your
enthusiasm is at once endearing and
over-the-top. You're the quintessential
extrovert.


Which famous feline are you?
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My baby cousin Griffin got a tigger for his b-day. It made music and bounced. Then it would say "let's bounce a little faster-er" and take off at Hyperactive...man I loved that toy. I only got to play with him with it for a few minutes, but all the adults ('specially those of an engineering persuasion) were facinated by it. *Grin!*

Daydreaming about a different me

I should so be studying for my O-chem test right now, but I can't. I have too much on my mind. So, I'm listening to Michelle Branch, and blogging in the hopes that my mind will stop running circles around itself long enough for me to dredge up some interest in the studying I HAVE to do. And to think that I just voluntarily signed up for two more years of this.

Still, two years isn't all that long. I mean, I've been in Minnesota for four and half now. WOW. I knew I'd be here for 4-5 while finishing my bachelor's. I didn't really think much beyond that. I mean, I knew what I wanted, but what I wanted was always vague and fragmented. I wanted to travel and see the world. I wanted adventure, I want my own house, I want horses, a farm, breeding and training animals. I want 2.4 kids and 1.6 dogs (I'm not sure whatsomething with .4 kid and .6 dog is, but that's the engineer in me always making wholes.)

I'm a daydreamer. Always have been. In one day I may be back in 'yonder times' dreaming about a romance with some handsome royal personage, or I might be flying dragonback or having all sorts of special powers and saving the world. Sometimes I see myself as this great peacekeeper for the world, or I'm simply really good at whatever sport or game or hobby I'm dabbling in at the moment. The only constants in all my daydreaming is that I'm in charge, I'm the leader, and I get what I want. Even when I get what I want, I don't seem to get it without hardship in my daydreams. Even at their most imaginative, they are practical daydreams. *sigh* So as I get older, and I look forward to two more years of school, of daydreaming, and of staying in Minnestoa, I have to wonder what now? Who am I really? I know I'm Tricia, and I'm even beginning to fully apreciate who I am and what I can do. I know I'm getting a degree in Industrial Hygiene. What I don't know is how that fits in with the daydreams, with the other half of me that is just as important to me as breathing.

I couldn't be who I am without the daydreaming, the creative energy that is trying to break loose. What if I get stuck into a life where I'm in IH at some company, and I live in the same city for the next 50 odd years. Am I settling, or is that what's best for me? I can't let go of my will to travel, or my strong belief that SOMETHING is waiting to happen to me. Some great adventure, some great romance, some great change. Like all this is just preparation, or even just wasting time til I get to my real life, full of dragons and magick and me being in control.

Maybe this is just about control after all. In my daydreams, I'm always important, in control of the situation. The one with the friends in the right places, or who can help my fiends get to the right places. I have the power (80's animated show jokes, please.) I mean, something can't be set right yet, if I still wake up and ask, "Is this my life? Is this all? Where's the rest? When does that START!?!"

I could keep going rather at length, but I think I've rambled long enough for now. I'm going to go back to daydreaming, and hoping, and procrastinating over my O-chem test, because I just an not as excited about that as I could be. This doesn't mean I don't want to be in MPH in IH. It just means that I want MORE than that.

Bad Munchinstein

Munch, my first computer, sadly got taken apart for parts, and rebuilt. Munch 2, or Munchinstein, as I like to call him, has been doing his thing for a term or so now. Now, the Munch Monitor, which hadn't changed, is doing jigs while I type. The edges sway, the picture jiggles....it's like I'm in a constant state of "degauss". Not very comfy on the eyes, let me tell you! I think I'll need to find a monitor for "very cheap" that has good video capabilities. I have a good video card afterall, and I'd not like to waste it. I am wondering if a virus of some kind could make my comptuer do this. I may have to install the virus software again. (I can't keep it installed cause it has issues with my A drive. they don't play nicely together at all). Probably though, it's cause my monitor is (eek) 5 years old, and in computer years, that's like being Eleventy One (111) years old.

Oh well. Not something I'll worry about til I have a paper due the next day and suddenly the Munchinstein blows up. At least it's not a constant state of the jigglies yet. It's just getting worse.

Update on IT CAME!!!
I have the second letter. See the first one told me that a second letter would follow containing "information about matriculation from your major program". I now know who my advisor is. I think that's what they meant, cause not much else was in the letter.

IT CAME!!!!!!!

IT being the letter from the grad school I applied to. It's here, I was ACCEPTED! YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

A weekend of Rock!

Yes, a good weekend was had by me. Friday night I went to the Down and Above/Skywynd show at UW Stout. It was fun, but really lacked energy for dna. People didn't know them, or something, and so stood around like so many bumps on a log. Chris and I got our rock on, trying to provide an example...but it was all for naught. Then Skywynd came on, and there were these four, shirtless, incredibly funny headbanging fans right next to me. I guess they are regulars, but I've never seen them with their shirts off before. (eek!) They had markered S-K-Y-W-Y-N-D-! on themselves two letters each, and were having great fun. It's great to see people having that much fun at a show. The whole crowd got into it music, and the 4 compadres got to go up on stage and be recognized. There were sound issues, but they were more amusing that annoying (to me, I'm sure the band was pissed). I just wish that that much energy could have been given over to dna as well.

Yesterday I went rollerblading, and realized my blades are a bit small. I have really nice blades too (anyone want a pair or size seven Rollerblade Aero 9's for half price?!?) I have to get new ones before the marathon, and before I kill my feet training for said marathon. I only went nine miles, and my feet were killing me. Then I went to Ciatti's w/ Rachel for dinner, and showed her what her present of Birthing Day would be. we have to go do the shoping for it today.

Then last night was the Somerset/Quietdrive/Down and Above show at the Rock in Maplewood. Much better sound, much better energy! Since we stood over by Ian on Friday, we had to stand by Dave last night--gotta share the love, and all that. I got my rock on and definately enjoyed hearing all the old favs plus my new fav's from the as-yet-unrealeased new albumn, Anodyne. After chattin with peeps for a bit we left the Rock and hung out w/ some more peeps and I got some really nice scotch. This makes me happy! *sigh* now it's Sunday, and I have to do homework and get back to my boring life.

So Hard to Find

So many things...So hard to find. Today for instance. I was trying to find the place that the show I'm going to tomorrow night is located. U of WI, stout. Not hard to find. Then the building on campus, not hard, then the showtimes and cost, again...not hard. It was kinda like playing detective. But then, I finally had an idea where to start.

I also had to find a picture to put into my frame today. I wanted it to be a picture from the trip to Europe that Rachel and I took last may. (Oh, do I want to go back...more on that later...) Finding the right picture was so hard to find. I had about 8 choices, till I realized the frame looked silly vertical. It was fine horizontal. so my choices were down to about 4 or 5
Two just didn't fit, so I had three. Then there three that each had their benefits. The forest picture was vibrant green, but not much else. The castle across the lake was pretty, and brought out the silver in the frame, but it was kinda dark. The picture from Edinburgh of the hike we went on to Aurthur's Seat ? (Brain fart on names) was what I finally decided on. See it's a quote frame, with the quote saying, "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." from Henry David Thoreau. So, the path up into the hills with the yellow flowers just fit. Specially cause, off to one side, so you almost don't notice it, is me walking on said path. Rachel helped with the decision.

I also finally got the picture of me and my family from my graduation into the frame I had for it. I did a sucky job of cutting the picture though. I was doing ok, and then I screwed up. Oh well, it's not terrible.

So now all I need is a picture book for the rest of my England trip pictures, and a plane ticket back there. Wow. I can't believe how much wanderlust I have right now. I'm not sure it's even wanderlust. I just have a profound NEED to be there right now. In Wales, hiking on Snowdon, or in Ireland in one of the many parks...or a trip to the Scottish Highlands. I need to be away from here. I don't even think that Colorado's mountains would do it for me right now. To bad it's spring over there too. *sigh* I shouldn't have looked at my pictures, and having that picture in that frame only drives home what I'm not doing right now. I'm not living the life I have imagined right now. I am living part of it...but. I don't know! I don't know how to describe what I'm feeling right now. A deep longing, and a wish I would have made more of the time I had there. I had a lot on my mind, and though I don't have any regrets, there was some time when I was there that I was wishing I was elsewhere--mostly when on the train, and mostly I was wishing I was doing something rather than sitting. GRRR! I'm having issues with describing what I want to right now. I spose I will just say I need another vacation, and I wouldn't mind going back to last year's choice of locations and seeing what I couldn't then.

Anyone up for coming with me? This summer? I can probably raise the money for a trip later in the summer. I think I just need spring to finally get here.

Oiled in Bed

Or rather Boiled in Lead. Their name seems to morph every time I see them. Once they were Boiled in Led Zepplin. Another time, the guy just couldn't get "Boiled in Lead" past his lips and through his tongue. Oh well. Whoever they think they are, I think their great. Too bad they only play twice a year (that I know of) in town...

Last night was the Annual St. Patties Day show at 1st Ave. The opening act was ok, but I wouldn't buy their cd any time soon. The Tim Malloys were as good as ever, and the Minnesota Pipes and Drums were at their peak...we just couldn't see the dancers because there were too many bodies and heads in the way. Someone still has to explain to me what kilts, bagpipes and St. Patty's Day have to do with each other. So, Boiled in Lead came out and played a very rockin set. I have never seen them 'electrical' rather than 'acoustic'. It was interesting, and different, and much higher energy and good. I had a good time jumping around and dancing. All in all it was a good show!

Still flying through the Mists of Insanity

The Mists of Insanity, sounds like something out of the Princess Bride, except those were Cliffs of insanity. The Mist of Insanity live just outside of REM sleep. The have taken my dreaming seige and refuse to release it. We're on to reality dreams. Unlike reality shows, they are not horridly over acted, or produced, over zealous ideas about idealistic romances and winning lots of money. Nope, my dreams live in that curious everywhere'sville of normality that make me wonder if what I dreampt actually happened or not. So far I've dreampt about finding a missing sock, about the end of a bus strike, and going shopping for groceries. Last night I actually lived today. I woke up, got dressed, came to work, saw myself doing various of my work tasks, and then leaving work. I woke up before anything else happened. Not everthing at work went the same as in the dream, but only because I didn't want them too. I didn't, for example, want to wear my nametag around my neck like I sometimes do, and did in my dream. Instead, I clipped it ot my pants, even though it was more uncomfy. Hey, you have to fight doing what you are supposed to, right? I don't like being told what to do, not even by my dreams :P

Ugh! Why me?

I think I'm psychic, I have the 'foresight' ability. It comes and goes, and it usually only tells me when I'm gonna do something stupid or painful. Sometimes it's specific enough to tell me what is going to happen. Like today. Today I spilled chili on my khaki skirt. Now, one would think, "you wore khaki and ate chili, Murphy's Law states that you must spill chili on yourself." I also know about Murphy's Law, so I took pains to not spill chili. But, I kept getting little flashes on insight that the chili would spill. I was being extra careful, and then it happened. My spoon jumped out of my bowl and onto my pants. You see, I was taking care of the chili and the chili bowl, but I forgot to also take care with my spoon. So the premonition comes true, and I had to spend 15 minutes in the bathroom washing chili off my skirt so I didn't look so obvious walking around. I'm sure I'll still get stared at though, along with the obligatory "that girl can't eat right" looks. *sigh*

I had two dreams this morning that were perhaps also premonitions. We'll have to see. One involved the current bus strike, and it's end date, and the other had to do with the location of my missing sock. Only time will tell...

A change...

For the better? I don't know. WD is still very blue...but at least it's a different style. I guess this will have to do until I have time to make a new and improved blog somewhere that can host pictures...

For Nae

See Renae, I can update, and it wasn't even JUST O-chem that was keeping me from it...It was a busy week and weekend. All last week I chilled with people, played games, climbed, and did as little homework as possible. You would like the book I have to read for rhet. Well, you would like making fun of it. It's called Cyborg Babies, and man, does it suck! It's all about how everyone is a cyborg and how in 10 years, or maybe even just 1, we'll all be in the market for technosemen and making technobabies, and the world will end. This gets me to wondering...just how important are the males in this race anyway? I mean, if this book were to be believed, we are to take the "prime" specimens of maleness, lock them in cages with porn, and have them produce semen to order for women. The semen is then given many tests, including how well it can swim, puncture a hamster egg, and its effectiveness while on caffeine, and then it's frozen for six months before getting to play with a real egg. Then the fetus is made cyborg by ultrasound, and amniosenticis (pardon my spelling, I don't want to look it up). The mother becomes a machine to be serviced with epidurals and procedues like IVF... You see why we think this book is rather...oh, just fill in the blank. I think it's insane. Am I a cyborg then, just because I go to the doctor, or use a computer, or have contacts, or have to use an inhaler once in a while? Or...because I had my tonsils out and was hooked up to a machine? Look out world, the 'new and improved' Tricia is coming to get you! I think the writers and editors of this book have a bit of a reality crisis on their hands. *sigh*

So, back to my week, and my not updating. I kept meaning to update, but then at work, when I have the most time to say, stop working for 5 minutes and post, I was busy. I was making a powerpoint...ALL WEEK LONG. If you have had the...pleasure of me talking to you about this in person or on IM, you know how frustrated with it. But, I'm making what I hope to be the final edits on that presentation today, so I'm in a considerably better mood. What's more...It's SUNNY outside!!!!!! I'm so excited, I love sun. I want to get a laptop from downstairs, check one out, so I can go work outside on the picnic table.

This weekend I went to see Hidalgo with Katie and Jenny and Karin and Chris. It was a good time. I liked the movie. We had Uno's Pizza after and then went to the bar to play darts. I really have to play more darts...I'm losing my edge! So, yeah, that's where things are. This week I have an O-chem test, and work to do at work...and next week is Spring Break. Don't know what I'm doing for that yet, probably working, but I'll figure it out.

Hack and Slash

A great concept. Mad at the world? BAM! kick its virtual butt in Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 for PS2 and XBOX. I started playing this game a few weeks/month ago with Jenni at her place. Played a human cleric, and had a great time! She was a necromancer, and together, we kicked the bottoms of the things.

Then this past weekend, whilst at home, Katie and I again kicked some butt. Again, I had my human cleric. There is just something about raining down fire from the sky at my enemies that is sooooo apealing. "and, your enemies, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it". Helm is my cleric's chosen god. She goes around slaying things yelling "FOR HELM" it's really quite amusing.

So, I wonder when I'm going to actually bring together enough moneys to purchase a gaming system and the games...

Mysteries of being Human

1. Why do we sneeze?
2. Where do 'the chills' come from?
3. Since when do little microorganisms think they can invade the well oiled machine that is my body?!?
3a. How do microorganisms make me sneeze?
3b. Where is the internal Lysol?

and one last one: Do microorganisms get 'the chills'?

The first test of the Semester

They are a given you know, those first tests. They happen every semester, and they always suck. Not because you don't know the material, because in general you do. It's because you haven't figured out the teacher's testing style yet. I have the practice tests, so I have a general idea. But until I take the test, I will be still sorta in unknown territory. Good thing I get to take it tomorrow morning, right?!?

Tonight I'm not going to work out because I'm feeling a bit ill, and I have this test to actually spend some time studying for. I'll probably go to bed early as well. I don't know though, I hardly ever get into bed before 11, no matter HOW hard I try. It's kinda odd.

Well, enough on that. I think I'm done talking about the test I have tomorrow. It's O-chem, and I'm fairly confident. That's saying enough, I think!

Going a Viking

NO, I do NOT mean the Minnesota Vikings. I would never turn Viking?!? What were you thinking! I mean, I went raiding, that type of a viking. And, next time, I'm gonna bring better raiding tools. Yep. I did my raid of clearance valentines chocolate and plants, and there was not much to be found! I went to target AND to cub foods. No such luck. So, we bought a bag of regular Dove Dark Chocolates, as a consolation prize, and promosed to return with a vengence just after Easter to raid the Easter chocolate. IT was already out on the shelves!!! EEK There are Two whole months before it will even be put into little baskets for the children. The poor chocolate. Maybe I should go eat some now. Or at least buy some Peeps.

Again with the strange dreams

I wonder if it's something I ate. Or maybe it's because I make a concentrated effort to remember my dreams every day, that I just am getting better at it. Anyway last night's dream was a bit shorter than the last two. It consisted of being in the back of a party place, the place being the town hall we rent for large gatherings. The back room doesn't actually exist, but it was there just the same. The back room reminded me of Sams Club-floor to ceiling food. I was trying to climb up and meet a girl from gradeschool on the top by the chips. It reminds me a bit of that doritos commerical with the climber going for the chips. There was just a lot of talking to people from grade school and trying to find this or that food, to make this or that dish, like we were preparing for a party. I think I was hungry.

I woke up feeling vaguely like there was some other detail, something important, that I had just forgotten. But then, I woke up and my arm was asleep from the elbow down, like it has been for the last while. So maybe I just was wondering if my arm was, in fact, still attached.

A Chocolate Valentine for...ME!

I've decided the best thing about Valentine's Day, is really a couple days after...when all the chocolates go on sale. Clearance chocolate. Who could ask for anything more? I think I'll go on a chocolate raid on sunday, or maybe even monday. Chocolate keeps for a very long time in the freezer. Yup, I love chocolate.

Maybe I'll even rescue a few plants from the clearance bins. Unless plants aren't on sale. I don't know, do you buy your sweetheart a plant? They don't die right away like flowers do, but I think flowers are supposed to be more romantic. Funny, something that dies in a week is more romantic than something that lives for a few years, or longer if you remember to give it light and water. Must be Romeo and Juliet Syndrome.

A basketball will take over the world

Or at least, she will try. Yes, it was a she. A face, though with features not that discernable, a feminine face protruding from the side of a basketball. The baskeball/globe flew. It had powers. There were planes in the sky, above the tall buildings I stood between. The basketball, which had now turned white, all white, even the face, flew above me. It called the planes down upon the buildings the way some mystic mage might call down the lightenings. The planes, mostly of military persuasion, would just stop working, and then come crashing down upon the buildings. There are people running now, for their lives and for their sanity. They are tying to get away from the planes falling from the sky like some mechanical destructive rain. I had the power to stop them though. I stood on a hill, looking over one tall building and up into the sky. I could use my mind to keep the planes from hitting anything close by. They would fall, but they wouldn't fall into my tall buildings. I looked around at my city. It reminded me a bit of one of the cities used in Rogue Squadron -the origional for PC. Maybe from level 4, the rememberence is fleeting and I can't place it now. I looked back up into the sky, and bent my will on the planes. The white basketballed face is glowering at me, no longer laughing. Had I mentioned it was laughing at me before, at my futility to stop it? It laughed no longer. I had the trick of it now, and I was stronger.

The planes have stopped falling from the sky, so now we're going to go skiing. Why not? I like to ski. I'm at the ski hill with my brother, and my cousins, and some friends. We are sitting in the snow at the top of the hill. I can still persuade things to happen, Planes aren't falling, but snow is. The sun is out too. Funny how things happen that way. The runs are groomed well, my skis are gone though, I'm skiing on my feet. I'm going down a really steep run too, and the snow is gone. It's like I've past the snowline. I know I don't have to worry about the almost vertical drop down boulders and over a little stream. I'll make it down to my cousin's minivan alive. I land, and everyone is happy. I've shown my power subtlely. We are driving to a new ski hill now. Just my brother and my cousin and I. There is a driver, he/she is not important but only our way to the new place. We get there, and the runs are impossibly steep, the terrain is impossibly difficult, it's like a mountain-a real mountain- just appeared in the middle of the midwest. Odd? Nope, the answer is we are no longer in the midwest, just somewhere like it. The ski hill is an experimental hill, where they try out new runs and new grooming equipment and styles. We get out of the van and go up the ski lift. We sit at the top, admiring the view, the city in the distance, the very blue sky with no planes falling. Somewhere out there, the white faced basketball is hiding. She has been defeated. I'm going back to the lodge, where I can meet people for dinner. I think we're having peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Dreams Are Silly Things

So, I go to bed last night, and my eyes hurt. I have a cloth over them, you know one that is cold to take out the swelling. The power goes out, then back on. I sit up, take the cloth off my eyes, and reset my clock. Too bad I set the alarm clock as the time. But, I don't use it as an alarm anyway. That's what my cell phone is for. I didn't realize this during the night however. So. I wake up and look at said clock,and it says 6:00. Not so much, that was abotu and hour and a half off. I remember thinking I didn't have all that much sleep time left. I was wrong. Strange night, huh. The dreams were even stranger.....

Setting one, kitchen...vaguely my apartment, but with a seperate dining room. I'm in the dining room at the table, eating something. Talking to people. I notice my grittle (do I own one???) is still on. I go to see what is up. I see chicken being cooked. Brett Favre (what is he doing here?!?) is there, with a cute apron on, cooking chicken and other things on the grittle in the kitchen. The chicken is herb covered, or something. He finishes cooking, turns off the grittle, and sets two chicken breasts beside the grittle for me. "I'm done here, you can eat those" He says. "Don't you want any?" I reply. No answer, he walks out the door, which wasn't there before, and leaves.

New setting, I'm at home in green bay, talking to Katie. Asking for directions to her place in Eau Claire. (She lives in EC now...no she doesn't. Ok, so maybe she just has a Cottage there...COTTAGE!?!) So, She gives me some directions, I think about them, but don't write them down. I'm back in Minneapolis, and I'll meet her in EC.

So I'm in Minneapolis, and Brett Favre is back (why is he still here?) It's my house, I know this (and I'm not thinking this is a dream...yet), yet it has two beds in the bedroom, like you would find in a hotel. He's sitting on one, actually, kinda laying on his stomach. I'm sitting on the other. We are facing eachother. He has a portfolio in his hand. You know, the kind you can flip open that has the pad of paper inside. He has it open. There is a bunch of stuff written on the paper, but not line per line. There are doodles, words underlined, a sentence diagonally. He's talking to me. Hesitant about something. He stops and starts, occasionally writing something down left handed (why is he writing left handed, I've seen him throw a ball right handed. I think something is wrong. ((I'm beginning to think I'm dreaming)) Still, I can tell he has issues, so I let him talk.) I listen to what he says, offer him advice. He looks young, like the pictures of when he first came to the packers, like he's a rookie, like we went to school together. (I don't remember what he said, but we talked for a while, and then the scene suddenly switches...I remember the taste of the chicken he made me, it was really good.)

I'm driving, and talking to Katie on the phone. I'm getting directions to her place in EC again, because apparently I don't remember what I didn't write down. She tells me to turn on this street, go one block go left. Go right down another street ((I can't remember the names right now, but she was giving me specific street names)). I turn down the street she tells me too, and keep driving. I ask her when I am going to meet her. She pauses, and then says " I haven't left Green Bay yet." I stop to think about that (but keep driving, I'm using my headset). So, you won't be here for at least four hours?" I reply. "Yup" she says. I change my mind on where I want to go. "Tell me how to get to the library and the mall." I respond. She tells me. I have faith in my memory this time (after all, I'm not going to be interupted by Mr. Favre) so I hang up and drive. I have my window down (do I have a convertable? My car isn't the saturn, it's some sporty thing, and it's a manual) I drive past Lake Michigan, practically on the beach on this street. It's cold, I don't know why my window is down, but I leave it down. I can smell the water. (Why is Lake Michigan in EC now?) I drove to the library, and turned off the car.

I am in front of the library, a white building, with old fashioned siding. Looks kinda like an old fashioned church put to a different use. I imagine inside will be floor to ceiling books on the old fashioned style bookshelves. Problem...the library is closed. I put something (what is it?) into one of those storage lockers with the little removable keys you see at places like a ski lodge. I took the key, and went to the mall.

I'm in the mall. I go to Victoria's secret, and look at things that I saw on a website. I find things I like. Satin robes and the like, and try them on. I get the opinion of people. I make a purchase. Brett Favre is back. (why does he keep showing up?) We go back outside. I get in my car, he pulls away in his little green coupe with a sunroof. It's kermit green. That is the color we decide on.

I call Katie, and get the directions to her place again. I meet her there. I hear my alarm...(why is there an alarm, where am I supposed to be now) I fade into wakefullness.


So there you have it, all the bits of my dream. It mkaes no sense to me, just a bunch of randomness. But, the chicken was good. I woke up thinking mostely of the chicken, and could still taste it. Yum. (I had chicken for dinner, but it just wasn't the same)

Ouch...um...ouch.

I did it again today! No, I didn't fall down rollerblading, or ice skating, or slide down a wall climbing. Today, I ran. Yup. I ran/walked over 3.5 miles. First I warmed up on the eliptical runner for 1.5 + miles. Then I walked .25 miles, then ran 1.5 then walked .25 for a total of 2 miles on the treadmill. This is the second week in a row of Tuesday Cario, and of going 3.5 miles. I also bench press, and do sit-ups.

So, I'm not sore today, but you can bet tomorrow will bring a whole different tale. Last week I climbed Wed. night and then went dancing at GZ on Thursday to ease the pain. I'm climbing tomorrow, but I think I'll have to throw in more cardio on Thursday to keep it up.

If I keep it up, I might even allow myself in public in a bikini. That would be something new and different :P

*eh, hem*

To: Old Man Winter
From: Twin Cities Residents
Re: The bloody cold weather


Excuse me, but could you take five? Really! below zero (F) temperatures to 6-8 inches of snow back to Below Zero Temps, do not make for a happy cycle. The residents in these fair cities would like some weather closer to freezing to enjoy the winter wonderland. Sledding, Skiing, Ice skating, we can't enjoy these sports without nice weather.

So how about laying off the sub-zero temps for a few days, and letting the sun shine through? It would be much nicer than the -20C to -30C temps (without windchill) you've planned for the next week!

Hm, I haven't gotten far enough in the series to meet this one...

But apparently if I were a villian, I'd be like her(gotta love procrastination)~



What Inuyasha Villain Are You?

Maybe I should find something else to do at work...

Like all the work I have. Still, one has to take breaks if one is going to stay sane...
Odd, this is one of the few quizes at quizilla where I pretty much stay one charecter. Maybe cause its all based on one answer?


Your Kagome! you like to hang out with your friends
and are always the first person to volunteer to
show a new student around, you are kind and
giving and enjoy having a occasional sleep-over
with the girls!


What Inuyasha Character are you?
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Wow, here we go again...

You know, it's only one week into the beginning of this semester of 'fun' classes, and I'm already at it again. That 'P' word...Procrastination! ARG! I'm really good at keeping up in my Rhet class, but it's really hard to bring myself to read my O-chem book...and do the problems. I've already planned an industrius afternoon of cleaning just to keep myself from having to actually having to LOOK at it. I mean--ich. I want to learn the stuff, and it IS interesting. It's just that...the book is so DRY ( of course, it would be hard to read a wet book) and boring (unlike my Rhet book, which is actually pretty interesting, even if she's playing the typical "rhet or english person"-repeat-myself-umpteenth-times-to-hammer-my-point-home games. The book is about how society, culture, and the "times we live in" influence the sciences, specifically the language of science.

Some might role their eyes at that, but the book does rasie some interesting points. It's called Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science We get to watch films in this class too, and then discuss. Much more fun that being packed like sardines into a COMPLETELY full lecture hall with sometihing like 238 other O-chem students three days a week.

Well, I think I'm off to go get a bloody mary or two. Another good way to procrastinate.

You are Kermit the Frog.
You are reliable, responsible and caring. And you
have a habit of waving your arms about
maniacally.

FAVORITE EXPRESSIONS:
"Hi ho!" "Yaaay!" and
"Sheesh!"
FAVORITE MOVIE:
"How Green Was My Mother"

LAST BOOK READ:
"Surfin' the Webfoot: A Frog's Guide to the
Internet"

HOBBIES:
Sitting in the swamp playing banjo.

QUOTE:
"Hmm, my banjo is wet."


What Muppet are you?
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School...again...

This weekend is kind of a paradox. I'm going home to see Katie, who has returned from London and all the other places she has been, and i'm going home to have a Graduation Party. yet...I'm still in school. This confuses me. I have finished my undergrad and am taking classes between that and my Grad degree. I don't feel like I really finished though, since my 'break' between them will be this summer, and that's normal for any school break. I still have to put in my application for my masters. One of my fellow undergrad-mates is also getting his Masters in the same program...but he's getting a masters of science and I'm getting a Masters of Public Health. I often wonder if I shouldn't get the masters of science instead...I still don't know. I'm sure I can start, and then switch. Bleah!

**side note** Dorene at work makes excellent caramel. I have had two, and I should stop now. Probably I will eat another**

The party this weekend, Saturday, will be great fun. It's mostly relatives, though Katie and Chris may stop in for a bit. I just feel weird being the centre of attention. I mean--I know I did well, I know I deserve it, but...I feel almost like I should wait til I accomplish the Masters first. Oh well, I'm gonna have fun.

**other side note** I have been smelling burned toast, and melted butter for a while. Maybe some one made popcorn or burned bread, but I don't think it's popcorn...the smell (for some reason) is making me hungry...**

Well, I am still considering changing my weblog about, getting rid of my other one, but I have to find the time first.


Update on New Year's Resolutions
1. Still flossing daily, or almost daily. Only miss one day a week-if that.
2. I'm still surviving til next year.

Another new hobby???

Hm, I think I may go here for my new workouts. It's near home and I get to punch and kick things!

Go Home, Mikey!

Yay for the Packers! They did it again. Not only winning again, but also sending their old head coach, Mike Holmgren-now of the Seahawks- packing! The game managed to be typically hair raising and nerve-wracking, going into overtime, but it was worth it. Now, on to Philidelphia to take on the Eagles. I think we have a think for Birds this Playoffs. Hm, perhaps I should follow Jenny's example and kick one...

5...4...3....2....1...

Happy New Year!!!!

I don't know what I'm doing for the celebratory countdown yet...I mean, it's me! I procrastinate. Maybe I better make a new years resolution about that. Hm, nope, I'm gonna be realisitc.

New years resolutions: Everybody makes them. Maybe not every year, but at some point everyone stops, has the moment of clear thought and stillness that may mark an epiphany, and says "Next year, I'm gonna..." Once I thought I'd make a resolution to make no more resolutions, as I tend to not follow them, and then feel bad. But, realizing that was rather an oxymoron...I stopped that idea. This year, I'm gonna be realisitc. I'm not going to "lose 20 pounds this year", or even 10. I'm not going to resolve to "eat less sweets" I like them too much. Other favorites include keeping in touch with family and friends more, or smiling more, or telling so-and-so that you love them, or remembering to pay attention to the small things in life. Nope, none of these for me either. I know they are all good goals, but I'm not turning them into a resolution that I can break. Though I will try harder to keep in touch with people, I'd rather just do it, not resolve to do it. "Do, or do not. There is no try." I really do love that quote. I'm not going to try to be less judgemental. Hell, we all know I'm stubborn, obstinant, and set in my ways. I'm a college graduate for goodness sake. I'll just do what I learned was a "good idea" in school...keep my opinions to myself.

So what? You ask. What are you going to resolve to do as this fine year turns from 2003 to 2004? (By the way, how the hell did 23.25 or so years of my life go by this quickly?) My resolutions for 2004:
1. Floss. Yes, floss. It's something I'm supposed to be doing anyhow, and I don't want to lose my pretty pearly whites. And, this last week, I've flossed 3 out of 4 days, if you count Sunday. So, I've already started to turn it into a habit; continuing shouldn't be all that hard. Some habits are good for you...really.
2. Survive the year. Good resolution, don't you think? It's not all that crazy really. Oh, I don't mean...live through the year, though I plan on doing that. I mean, do a semester of classes for work, work hard, get ready and start my Masters. It's a different world. I don't want to be someone I don't recognize one year from now.


I could keep going but I seem to have developed a nasty cold thing. I actually have a fever! I haven't had one of those in forever. Earlier today it was 100.6. My normal body temp is about 98.2 or 98.4 so, I'm all burning. I have the chills and aches and a nasty cough. I think some bug made a New Year's Resolution to attack me. So, who knows if I'll be up at midnight counting down the numbers with everyone and blowing noise makers. I certainly won't be kissing anyone. I think the cold realized today was a great day to infect me--so many possible vectors to infect others. I may be able to make it til 11 and watch the times square ball drop. Makes me think of the last couple of New Years' celebrations. Me and Katie, watching movies one year and missing ours so staying up til one to celebrate with mountain time. Me and Katie drinking an entire liter or more of champane by ourselves. Play Project Gotham Racing and eating S'mores out of the fire. It was becoming a tradition. Sadly, Katie has already celebrated somewhere on the Continent. I raised my water glass to you in a toast at 5PM Katie, hope you and Jenny had a great time doing whatever--ringing in the new year.

Now, I'm gonna go find dinner and feel miserable. See--now had I made a resolution like "I'm gonna be a happier person in 2004" I'd already be breaking it. Yup, Flossing and Surviving til 2005. I think I can manage those!

Another day...
Another Dollar! Blah, I work to fast. I have finished most of what I thought would take me all week. Good thing I have found a few more projects. I wonder how much stuff I'm gonna get done now that I'm working full time for the next 2.5 weeks, and then 25 hrs a week after that?!?

On another note, I learned that I am indeed registered to take classes the way I need to. Now I think I should go about figuring out how to drop my minor, since I'm not actually getting one anymore. I'm not sure if you have to tell them you are not doing something. :P After all, I don't want it to affect my diploma! So, off I go to the email page to find out who to email and tell them I am no longer seeking a Minor in Spanish Studies. Would be fun if I had time. Hm, I COULD register for 15 credits of upper division spanish for next semester...--yeah right!

Lists and more Lists

Today has been a day of lists. I have made one for work...which i keep adding too, I made one for home, which I have crossed some things off on. I made one for internet stuff too, here it is:

1. Update blogs
a. Back-date entries for Whimsical Doodles for vacation
b. Find out about Meandering Evengale (Katie I left you a note on the posts screen that isn't published)
2. Brainstorm new website
3. Application to grad school online

I wonder why I have #3 last? Probably cause I need to procrastinate on something over break. Anyway, I will be updating this page later today with all my adventures from finals and going home for the holidays. I just thought I would put something here for people to read in the interim.

Go Packers!

Happy New Years and Merry Christmas to the Packers, who received a unexpected gift from the Arizona Cardinals. Yes, the Cardinals beat the Vikings in the last play of the last seconds of their game to make the Packers the North Division Champs. The packers take on Seatle, and old coach Mike Holmgren, on Sunday at 1. Too bad Mr. Holmgren's team has an terrible habit of 1. not being able to beat the Packers, and 2. Not being able to win on the road. Games at Lambeau, anyone want to predict the outcome?

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...

And that's all I'm doing. It's brown here in Green Bay. And warm! Who would have though light weight jackets and sweaters would be all that is needed on Christmas Day in town. It was a good Christmas all the same though, I now have cruise control on the Super Saturn, and I own the Lord of the Rings, Two Towers Extended DVD. My brother rocks! HE gets to go skiing in Aspen, CO for a week for school. I am jealous, but I really wanted cruise on my car, and besides...It's only a sixteen hour drive to the hills out there for me :P

I also got some perfume (Pink from V.S.), flannel sheets for my bed, and a thermos with nice Stainless Steel Mugs. Yes. It was a good christmas. I got to see my family for a week, and saw my extended family a few times. I almost got to relax.

I did miss having a lot of my friends in town like past years, but Erin is in town, Lance is coming, and Joe is in town...so I'm not completely lonely. I just realized that I don't get to spend New Years with Katie as has become tradition. :(

So, I'm going to go dream of more snow, and maybe getting a long night's sleep!

Home for the Holidays

I went home Friday for the holidays, and I'm home for a week. A good man has left this world, and I went to his funeral. Sometimes I wonder why good men (people) leave us so early, while repeat sex offenders or drunk drivers get to live on. There is something definately wrong with the balance of the world.

And a drumroll please!

I saw Return of the King last night. I am not saying a word until most people have seen it. Other than, I liked it, I enjoyed it, I'll go again. That doesn't give anything away, since you all knew I liked the first two, and the books, so it was almost a given that I would like the last movie.

I am done with my finals! GO ME. And now, for a nap!

YAY for tomorrow

Happy night before the opening of Return of the King! Some people get to see it tonight, but I don't. I'm not the lucky one. I have to see it on regular opening night tomorrow. I'm really excited to see it, but at the same time...it's the last one. I don't get to look forward to the next one, because there isn't a next one. Still, I love the books, and I'm sure the last installment will be great. Now, if they only create a "what the charecters did after" movie like I drempt about the other night. (I got to be an elf, and was dating Legolas...of course)

Tonight was the first of my last three finals. I studied for it, and it went well. I have yet to study for my test tomorrow. Oops, I get on that tomorrow morning, and I have to finish studying for my test on Thursday. I might actually do that tonight, and study for tomorrow's on tomorrow. If that makes any sense at all. Oh, so exciting! To be done with school for the semester. 1 down, 2 to go, and a nice study break in the middle of them!

Study Day?

Last free day before three solid days of finals. I have my easiest first, then a harder math based one--only hard because the teacher doesn't know what HE wants on the final half the time..., then my annoying Polisci final on Thursday. One each day--nice they don't bunch it up TOO much. Polisci's grade counts the most, becuase it is my only four credit class, but I have enough other "good" classes to make up for a lousy grade in there, if I don't do so well. I think I'll be fine though...after all, I have about a B going into the final. I should get a B on the final, so I shouldn't drop all that much. I am not sure about the rest of my grades. 6 classes, and I'm anticipating not dropping my GPA below 3.0, and a good thing too. I need a 3.0 to get into grad school.

The GPA is finished, the GPA should come out where it needs to be. Now all I have to do is get the bloody application done for Grad School, hand out my recomendation forms to people, update my resume, ... Sheesh. I also have to figure out if I need to apply to the school of continuing ed to take classes next semester. It never ends...

Another Long Day

...Over at last. Well, ok, so it's only 7 and a friday night, but if I'm not in bed by 9, some miracle must be keeping me awake. I had the Environmental Engineering Final today, the Soils Paper to turn in and poster presentation, and the GRE. ECK!

I think I did fine on all thing. The nice thing about the modern day GRE--it's computer based, so you get the verbal and quantitative scores before you leave. So, I know I did well enough to get into grad school. Instant Gratification.

Oh, so much more to say, but so tired, hard to push the key buttons.

Just one more note before I leave: Peanut butter, marshmello fluff, walnuts and chocolate chips, all melted together on a tortilla--YUM!

Return of the King!!!

It's coming. One week away. Do you have your tickets yet? Do you know when you are going yet? Do you honestly think I would miss opening night of this movie because it's finals week?!? NOT a chance. It would be a very kind and fortuitous day for those in Hell if I wasn't going. After all, I'm sure it snows in hell, the problem is there aren't any ski hills, and the snow isn't packy. So you can't play in it or on it, and that is why it's hellish. Yup, so it would be a KIND day in hell before I would'nt see the movie. Does that make sense? I am not really making much sense lately...I think it has something to do with it being finals extended week.

BUT--I have Lord of the Rings, Return of the King tickets! Rachel and I bought them online tonight for the 7PM show on opening night. It will be busy, it will be exciting, and hopefully there isn't a snow storm (not that I don't love snow, but not when I'm going to an event and all the idiots from rush hour are still out and about).

So here's to my last 4 finals, the GRE, the poster presentation and paper I have...and LORD OF THE RINGS. I think I'm preferencial to the latter!

SNOW!!!!!

Oh, how I love that white powdery substance. It's great as a weapon, and art form, a beverage (though a VERY small one) on the tip of your tongue, and for writing songs about. It's cold bite is warmer than the harsh edge of a winter's night, and affords delight in the form of winter sports. AND, not to mention the wonders of warming your toes in front of the fire, and your insides with a cup of hot cocoa, or a nice coffee drink after playing in the snow. Building a fort and defending from the 8 foot snowman/monster that is approaching--firing my snowballs as rapidly as I can make them. Perhaps making a snow creature instead of a snowman. I know I'm partial to snow-dragons. Or riding down the ski hill as fast as I can on my skies, carving sharpe curves into the nearest black-diamond run I can find...or falling on my face, butt, knees, side, etc as I learn to snowboard--all the while enjoying the pure joy of the challenge, of trying something new, and of just being outside in winter.

So fall on your back, and make a snow angel as you stare up at the slowly dancing flakes and think of me, because I'll be here doing the same thing. If you don't have snow yet (or ever) I am sorry for you, for it is truely a grand experience!

And Katie, I'm saving a giant snowstorm just for us, so we can create said 8 foot snowman/monster, our fort and have our snowball war--complete with coffee drinks at Cafe Expresso afterwards!

OOOH!!! OOOH!!!

In searching for the PotC link below, I learned that Pirates of the Carribean 2 will be coming out in 2005. Let's hope the sequel is as good as the first!!!!

Mr. Will Turner, Captain Jack Sparrow, and Elizabeth Swan will be at it again! Ooh, Happy News!

Temporarily out of order???

I think my phone is strange. I ported (or changed service providers on a cell phone whilst keeping my number) this weekend to a Motorolla phone, and it was fine. I didn't like the phone though, so I went tonight to get a new one. I like this one, a Kyocera 414. It has many toys, but I'll leave those for a different day, though I haven't found the games on it yet... :( It is supposed to have some too. Oh well, I'll go find them. First I must finish my paper. Anyway...what I started saying, right now, if you call my number, it goes to voice mail but doesn't ring. That's cause the port hasn't finished, or something. As the parrot in Pirates of the Carribean would say..."Any port in a storm."

Gone?!? But why is the rum gone!?

I still have rum, but I have no more Inuyasha episodes to watch. Suck! And it leaves you hanging too. I want more! Damn. Now I have to find a place to get the tapes, rent them or something. If they even exist outside of Cartoon Network. In a subtitled or translated version that is. But, all is not lost...

For, though I have lost the Inuyasha, I am now the proud owner of Pirates of the Carribean. Which means I'll be seeing this movie quite often in the next few whiles. :) I do not mind. In fact, as soon as I'm done blogging, I'm off to do the inagural watching. I feel I should have some sort of ceramony, like when a new ship sails, or something. I've brewed some tea. Perhaps I'll find some chocolate and have a little mini-party to my going to Best Buy in my climbing clothes, covered in chalk, and getting weird looks whilst picking my copy out. I couldn't have just ANY copy you see. It had to be MY copy. And it is. So, I'm of to watch my movie, I leave you with the word of the day:

AVAST!

Turkey Day and a bad week

Ok, so I haven't written for a while. Not my fault (ok, it is, but I'm sure I can ameliorate the situation by writing a nice entry here).

To recap: Turkey time was last week, from Wed-SUnday for me. Go home, have time with family and friends, and food. The three F's, not including everyone's favorite four letter word for mishaps. I drove home Wed night, and then drove promptly to my aunt's condo in Door County. Thursday I watched the Packer's lose (man did that make for a grumpy thanksgiving dinner) and then ate food at about 3PM. We talked for abit, and then headed to my cousin Michael's for the other side of the family's dinner. At 6. Luckily I was smart and saved room! So I ate twice in 4 hours and was stuffed by the time I was done. Friday I spent in green bay, and had dinner at my aunt's house that night. There was a 2 foot fire on the salmon, but luckily for us ( I LOVE salmon) it was salvaged and was really yummy. Saturday I went climbing with Erin, Lance, Mo, and Mo's friend at Vertical Stronghold in Appleton. Good times were had by all, and that night I had dinner at my place with our neighbors (who moved, but will always be neighbors) Joe and Alma. They are in their late 70's, early 80's and they played grandparents to my bro and me since we were small. They are sooooo interesting and have great stories to tell. After they left, I brought my neighbor Al a thank you card and gift for helping me to fix my car when I was stranded a month ago. I ended up talking to him and Nancy (his wife) for about 1.5 hours. It was great, they are really interesting too. Sunday I went to church with my parents, and then ate dinner, took pictures of the car (I'll have them up on my website soon..just you wait), and drove back to my other home, here in the Cities.

This week is a kick in the ass for me. I'm reminded why I enjoy thanksgiving, and then regret enjoying it every year. Every year, I bring homework home to do. Every year, I do some, but not ALL of it. Every year, I regret not doing ALL of it. With only 2 weeks and finals after thanksgiving 'break', there isn't much time to finish all the papers, projects, homeworks, and studying needed. So yup, I have two weeks left as an undergrad student...plus finals. Assuming I'll pass all my classes (no worries there), I'll be a college grad before the month is out. Scary huh?!? So yeah....Welcome to the home stretch.

Still sniffley

Yup, I still have a cold, and today I was graced with an allergic reaction to wearing a winter coat (for that is the ONLY thing I did different...). Oh well, at least I can tell I'm getting better. Now, to just get the right amount of sleep tonight and throughout the weekend, and I should be fine for the home stretch of this semester! I can't wait to be "graduated" officially! I'll be re-enrolled within a month, but still. I will be doing something entirely different. And, with the exception on my cousin Mike Jr., I think I'll be the only one of the first cousins to get a Masters. (Maybe one other has one, but I don't know about it)...

My house is cold tonight for some reason, and making funny noises. I'm not quite sure what to think of that. I think perhaps there is a ghost, or something. That would account for both cold and noises. AND the cabinets opening themselves when I tell them to stay closed. Perhaps the ghost likes cookies, I know I do. I'll have to make him some more. I ate all of the pumpkin-oatmeal-raisin-walnut cookies. Perhaps that is why he's mad.

Ok, so I don't know why I'm just babbling on, probably it's the medicine head! I'm off to go stall and do homework, and then try to get to bed before midnight!

I'm dreaming of a white Thanksgiving

With every word I sit and write. Where tree tops, glisten. And children hasten, to make snowmen with delight....

Ok, so I changed it a bit. I know it's not the first "official" snow we've had this yaer, but the last snowstorm didn't last nearly long enough, ro leave nearly enough snow. Thistime the roads turned white and snowy too, unlike last time where the ground was just too warm. We're apparently in for our first 'snow storm' right now though. Up to 12 inches, or so they say. We'll see. It certainly felt like the air was heavy enough to produce that much earlier tonight when I took the trash out. (I didn't want to do it tomorrow, if we did have a foot of snow, I would have gotten covered trying to open the garbage cans)

I bought a bookcase today. My first one ever! "I am still awesome. Seriously." ( --strong bad from the "new hands" email ). I put my bookcase together all by myself, and now all my books have a home. In fact, I got the bigger one, and I still have room!!! I can put MORE books on my bookcase. This nice new bit of furniture in my home makes the floor much cleaner. There is even a floor to vaccuum now! Wow, that means more housework**sigh**. Well, I've had about enough of today-really! I've been up since 8 since I had a fight with my bed, and a strange dream (something tells me one begot the other). I have been working on cleaning, and organizing since then--AND I have the sniffles and a sore through, so bedtime would be a good idea just now. Hopefully I can sleep past 8 tomorrow. I have homework, yes, but not so much that I need 14 hours of a day to do it.

Goodnight everyone, and hopefully you have snow where you are too!

Why always me???
My computer broke at work again today. It just started to randomly restart itself. Of course, when I called the nice Help Desk people, it started behaving. Then the printer broke, so we fixed that. Now I think everything is working the way it is supposed to. (shhh, don't tell it.)

Today I had to put thirty boxes together for the project I'm working on. Corrogated Cardboard ones. Made me think of Katie, and her summer at the box factory. I have sooooo many little paper cuts on the hands and forarms right now from them. I'm sure Katie could sympathize. I'm now waiting for the printer, which has taken an abhorence to printing, to finish the color job I sent to it (in small increments so as to make it THINK it was doing less work.)

Eh, what a day!

Little Ms. Housekeeper

That was me this weekend. Saturday I cleaned the house before going out with my neighbor downstairs. We went to Kierans and the Tims were playing! Yummy food, a Strongbow cider, (I like Blackthorn better than Strongbow, though Strongbow makes for a nice pint) and good music. Today I woke up and decided to play Betty Crocker. I made a pumpkin pie, and pumpkin-oatmeal-walnut-raisin cookies. I couldn't decide what I wanted in them, so they got everything. I forgot the chocolate chips, or they would have been added too. The whole time I was baking, I was listening to my Mannheim Steamroller "Christmas Extraordinaire" CD. I know it's not even December yet, but it wall all grey out and I found myself humming christmas songs anyway, so I ran to my room and threw the CD, very nicely of course, into Katie's CD player that I'm babysitting. I wouldn't want it to feel neglected after all. Then, since I didn't want to start work on my paper yet, I iced them with powdered sugar frosting. I did already finish that paper I was dreading, it is entitled "Property For Sale--On Mars???" It's about overpopulation. Ok, now that I've made you all hungry, I'm off to finish up some other homework.

Not so Super

Two things
1. My parents computer which can't keep up with my typing this blog entry.
2. The Super Saturn.

Yes, that's right, I thought she was fixed, but Sunday she didn't want to start...at all. So now I missed a day of classes trying to sort that out. I changed her battery, the bad one had a corroded-off possitive terminal, it fell right out of the battery. Now she starts like a dream. I'm just hoping that it was only the battery and not the alternator. Time shall tell, good thing I have a cell phone, a blanket in the car, and good auto insurance.

Here's to hoping I make it home safely. I'm gonna leave GB about 1, so I should be back to the cities about 5:30--right during bloody rush hour, oh well. I know the way through town. I'm off to drive in to the great blue (grey) yonder (rainstorm coming, maybe snow...oh, the joys of driving in Fall/Winter in Wisconsin/Minnesota). Good news is the packers play tonight, and I'm sure they will win. GO PACK!

White as snow
Yes indeedy folks! Today marks the first official big snow that I've seen this year. I'm sure that there have been others, just not here, in the MSP area while I've been in town. It was so pretty, and very very wet. I threw a snowball and made a small (about 1 foot high) snowman. I didn't make a snow angel-can't do everything on the first snow, or what will you do the next time. It was nice not having the plows out right away, to see WHITE snow, not brown or black snow (or even yellow snow). I don't know about others, but I happen to like winter, especially the skiing part, and big snowstorms, so I say-bring it on Old Man Winter. I have my "LJ's" and my hat (I need a scarf again). I want a 30 or 40 in storm. That would be great. Ok, so it would suck to drive, or dig out cars, or walk around in, and the logistics of cleaning that much snow up suck too, but I'm not worried about that. I want a 30-40 in snowstorm with packy snow, so I can make a fort, and a snowman and...well you get the idea.

Katie, can't wait to you get back so we can make an even bigger snowman this year!

Super

The super-saturn is once again super. Today, with Lance's help, she got an oil change, more power steering fluid, more coolant/antifreeze, and a new serpantine belt. The serpantine belt was a chore. I found out that my hands fit very well into the engine compartment, so I did most of the putting on of the belt, but it still took two of us, and two belts--the idiot at pepboys gave us the wrong one at first. So, after struggling with that one and cutting my hands up, we went back and got the right one. Amazing how much easier that one was. Once we got the thing around the crank shaft--poof, it was on. Then Lance grilled stakes while I made acorn squash and fried potatoes with mushrooms and onion and pepper, and a bit of my finger (not realy, but it was a near miss). Oh, don't worry it's still all attached. I was cutting the pepper and cut through my thumb to the bone. BUt, it's a thin cut even though deep, and it's my left thumb, so I don't use that one while typing :P Always thinking of my blog, yeah, that's right. So, all is well. I simply put down the knife and calmly asked Lance for a bandaide. He then ran around looking for one while I bled all over since there were no napkins to stop the bleeding with. It worked out though, I didn't season the food with my finger really, it didn't start bleeding til I was well away from the pepper. I really need to have a chit chat with the knives of this world and see just why, exaclty, they have it in for me. Oh well, now I'm off to clean my room.

And I shall call her...

...? I'm not sure. I got a new computer today. Well...scratch that. I got a bunch of new components, added a few of my other ones, and made a new computer for me. Nate helped cause I bought his machine. It's sweet. I now have:
*60 GB hardrive
*1.21 GHz processor
*1 GB ram
sweet sound and video cards etc, etc. I kept my old monitor and speakers andmodems and ethercards and joysticks and ...I'll stop being a geek now. Well, she's fast, she's loaded, she's raring to go and help me play great games...er...and do homework. The only question now is--what shall I name her?

ROCK!!!!!!

Ok, I thought I couldn't be more impressed by Sue Generis or DNA, but I was wrong. I went to Sue Generis's CD release party at the Quest last night. 8 bands, Mainstage: Johnnyrook, down and above, Skywind, with Sue Generis headlining; Ascot room: Sounding Moods (used to be Subnormal), Shadowbox, EXO (from Chicago) and Ginger Jake headlining. Ok, first off, I was sore from dancing at my cousin Leon's wedding this weekend. Side note on that-it was a beautiful ceramony, Leon and Lacy are perfect for eachother, and I had a great time dancing for hours at the reception after. So I am sore from that, and from climbing, and from sitting in a car for 8 hrs, but ready to have a good time. I went with Chris, my concert buddy here, and we watched part of Sounding Moods, then all of Johnnyrook, then all of dna, then part to most of EXO, then part to most of Skywind, then all of Sue generis. Man--I was so impressed by all these bands. I had never heard Johnnyrook. I like their style, but I have to admit, I'm not as huge of a fan as some of the other bands I've heard. I have only heard them once though, and there isn't much in the way of music that I hear just once and like instantly. dna, sue generis, skywind, and B! I did like instantly. The rest of the local music I've heard so far I have had to hear more than once to decide. EXO rocked the house, as usual. I love their sound and it's great they get up here often enough for me to hear them live more than once a year! Sounding Moods--hm, liked them much better as Subnormal. They are WAY too mainstream for me now. Not to say they are bad, they are very talented, and their stuff should get radio time...it just sounds like everything else on the radio. Didn't get to see Ginger Jake of Shadowbox, so can't say anything about them. Skywind had the energy turned up--and I danced out to them. My new fav song of theirs is Kansas. Extremely powerful.

dna--what can I say? The new stuff Rocks! It has more energy, it's faster but cleaner, and deeper--better put together. I love the old stuff too, but I really like the new direction. This show they gave it their all, not that they don't always, but I'm sure the venue and the crowd helped to raise it up a notch and make it the most memorable show that I have seen recently.

Then Sue Generis came out to do their thing. They had an intro song, and a little slide show--very sweet. (I'd use bigger and better adjectives and verbs if only I could spell, but I'm not running this through a spell checker, so I'm stuck with the old verbage for now--even though half the time I spell those 'old tried and true' words wrong anyway) I had heard some of the new stuff, but there was one or two songs I hadn't, and I was again blown away by the energy. There were some sound issues, that they had no fault in, but they played on, and the crowd rocked on, and I almost punched out a fan in front of me for being annoying and attempting to ruin my show experience. But, all was not lost, I squeaked into the broiling fans trying their best to create a mosh pit and found myself in a much more animated section of the crowd, that was much more fun. I could rock out there without fear of getting a cigarrette or an elbow in the eye, getting my ass slapped or receiving a misplaced 'wet willy'. I mean seriously girls--you are at a show, in the frontish rows, to watch a band that is pouring their hearts and souls out in the music in front of you. Could you at least TRY to pay attention!!! Ok, end of rant. She did not ruin my show experience though, cause I made it better, and with music that good, it would take a lot to ruin it.

So, a great show, and a great time, though about the only part of me that doesn't hurt right now is my nose. I went climbing tonight too, so I made sure to catch any muscle that wasn't complaining and give it cause to strike. **A note, I'll link the bands websites later, I'm tired now, and my fingers are also sore!

To the Masses:

Meandering Evengale has been updated per your request. You may check it out at your convenience. I heard this from a little bird, or maybe it was the house elf, or the monster under my bed... Anyway, I know it's been updated, so you may read whenever!

Home..working...bound???

That's where I was all weekend. Doing homework. I seem to have lot of it, but at least I go the stuff for the beginning of the week done. I still have to buy a scale and protractor for my surveying and mapping class, and I still have to memorize the map for Anthro, besides all the other studying in that class I have to do, but it's coming along. Now if only I could get the rest of the stuff I told myself I would get done, done. I STILL have to redo my resume, and I have to email the lady about a Masters, and I need to apply to some jobs.

Right now, I am not really wanting to do any of it. Oh, don't worry it will all get done, but I want to just, I don't know, take a trip, or something. I think I'm getting senioritis. Scratch that, I already have it, badly. I wonder if there is a pill you can take to make it go away, or a magic remedy. I prefer those. Something that doesnt involve me being bored with my classes and not really caring. I'll get the work done, and it will be good work. I'll even enjoy bits of it (like Self Defence) but. I really don't feel like being here right now. I'm sure the feeling will go away. Eh, I think I need to cut myself off of fantasy books and etc. They are bad for my head. Make me want to be out having adventures, taking on the world and saving it, learning new talents. Not stuck here in the city doing same old, same old all the time.

Eh..HEM

No, that is not me trying to get your attention, that is me trying to clear my throat. I have a really annoying cold that WON"T GO AWAY! I got it last week, and then I thought I was over it, and now it's back with a vengence. I coudln't sleep at ALL last night cause I was so chilled, and so stuffed up and so coughing. I bough better medicines for tonight I think. I think I'm in the final stages....but I'd like to kick it out. My cold doesn't pay rent, and it isn't a welcome houseguest.

Rachel had one before me, and she is still in the coughing stages, even though the major part of the cold is gone for her now. I have been drinking lots of juice, and plenty of water, and hot cocoa (hey, it makes ME feel better) and hot cider and hot tea, and taking my vitamins, so now it's just a matter of time. Still, I'd like to know where the battle horn for raising the white blood cells and T-cells is. Nae, any ideas? I think gollum stole it. Or maybe one of the fighting Uruk-hai broke it. Maybe Denethor is staring at it in his White City now, thinking it is the horn of Gondor that his dear Boromir carried, all the while it's just the broken horn of a college student who can't rouse her white blood cells into action. Without my horn, who then will come to my aid?

I went grocerying this evening, and remembered to buy more hot cider and orange juice, but forgot the chicken soup. I will have to nourish myself with something other than the "perscribed medicines for cold". Mayhap some noodles, or...Potato and Ham chowder--even if it doesn't sound like a good soup to Katie. It will have to do. Unless of course there are people in internetland who want to travel to middle earth, steal my horn back, and bring it here--along with chicken soup--to help this heroine get better.

Or maybe...I just need the King. After all, the hand of a healer are the hands of the King, or so Ioreth the healer would tell us. Where is the King of Gondor when you need him?

Ice caves

Had another dream last night--two actually, but the details of the second one are too sparce to write down. I was on a grand adventure (I seem to be doing this a lot lately...maybe I'm being told something) I was climbing down a cliff, and when I got to the bottom, and had walked away from it a ways and looked back up, I noticed that I was really climbing down a giant carving in the cliff (aka my handholds were outlines of things). It was like the Argoneth or a giant carved Tapestry from the middle ages. There were people carrying things and leading animals and a war scene and in the top scene there was the King. I kept walking, next to a river by the cliffs and I looked at another cliff carving, and this was was intricate geometric designs. Someone was at the top, one of my companions, and I wanted to take a picture with them on top to get scale. So I aimed the camera that magically appeared in my hands, and I was about to take the picture when the person jumped. Now, these things are about 1000 feet tall or so, many heights of man, way more than any building, save perhaps the sears tower. But my companion jumped just as I took the picture, and I watched them move out of my shudder range just before I snapped the pic. I was ok with it though, aparently this person can jump that far and not be hurt, I could too, I guess, but I enjoyed climbing. My companion...I don't know if they were male or female, though I suspect male, and all in black, with a trench coat thing happening. Still it was more "vampire movie" than "matrix movie" Then we walked along the river and eventually got into an boat. The boat looked very much like an elven boat from Lorien, but it was made of ice. It sailed itself down this river, whick looked much like the River Anduin from the Fellowship of the ring. At some point we got out of the boat to swim. The water was very clear, and of a blue green color, and very, very cold. Colder than Lake Michigan, yet it was a cleaner-almost sterile cold. Where the lake feels more...Organic. I don't know how to describe that, it's just what came to mind. So we swam, and we were more in an underground now. IT was man made, with tile, but looked like a giant room under a temple or something. At the end was a grand pool, and many steps that led out of the water into this room under the temple or great building of some sort. I got out of the water there, and woke up.

Blustery Day

Today it is very windy. I'm thinking it just started raining too, and it wasn't supposed to, but my window is getting wet and there isn't a sprinkler in the neighborhood that can reach the third story flat we live in. I just about was blown away by the wind as it fought with trees and buildings and I think just blew to show what a mighty wind it was. It's getting colder now, really starting to feel like fall. Today I relearned taht sweaters have holes in them, and sweatshirts don't. Note to self: wear a sweatshirt next time.

Last night I had a really strange dream. Part of it was Mark and another guy getting in the wrestling match, adn then I got involved and my cellphone face cracked. I don't remember why this happened, and only remember being mad i cracked my cellphone. Then later in the dream, I took the Circulator bus (the little busses we have on campus that go around east bank or st paul) to Wales (yes, the country...don't ask how the bus got there, I'm not sure myself). I took it to the bus stop by the train station in Bangor, and I wanted to get to Caenarfon (which is kinda pronounced (can-a-rvOn long O) took a while to get that one right. Anyway, I had to run to this other bus stop, and I wanted the 'H' bus, but it wasn't going that day (it was saturday) so I ran to catch the B bus, which went somewhere else, and I was bemoaning the fact that I couldn't stay at Trodder's , and would have to find somewhere in Bangor. Then I realized that the bus I was on, the "B" (these have nothing really to do with the actual busses in wales, not even the right letters/numbers) was taking me to chicago and to a giant "El/bus combo station" where I had to meet my parents at their hotel after changing to a train, and tell them why I was late, which somehow tied back to the being over at some random wood grained apt. room and watching mark and some other random person wrestle. Like I said...strange.

Today Prime Minister, Tomorrow...

Head of the entire class? Yeah, in my Poli/sci class we did an excercise where we had to run for office and then, since I ran for a legislative type position, and I'm calling our legislative body parliment, cause I can, and I was "speaker of the house" for my "parliment" that makes me Prime Minister! Call it creative license, or maybe political license, heaven knows most political leaders try to bite off more than they are allowed to chew. But I didn't. I was a good prime minister, I kept order, yelled at the interlopers, and got a decent immigration policy passed through in our 20 minute 'legislative session'. It kept most of what I wanted--I mean--what was good for the people, and made all the (5) political parties of Trumania happy...ok, only 4. There was this whole gripe about actually having Trumanian blood. But we couldn't have that. That's...well....yeah.

At one point, I got a bit snippish with the TA. She kept interupting my legislating team to ask if people from the class could immigrate to my--errr--our country. I got the vote to say yes. After all, more citizens means more people trying to find work and out of our recession...well, there is a bit more complexity there, and it also involves Beer--but that is another story. So, I told her to stop interupting...so did some of my other parlimentary members. SHe told us in real life interuptions happen all the time. I told her that In real life we'd table it to the next legislative session.

I decided I make a great world leader, even if I am only head of a fake government in one third of a class. You have to start somewhere, right?

"She's Everything to me, I'll bet she's 23"

That would be a lyric from a little ditty called Candycane by Down and Above. Always was one of my fav dancing-to-and sing-alonging-to songs. Yup, this weekend I turned 23. It's a bit odd, I don't feel older--other than the sense of impending doom that nags whenever I think of that life-after-school thing. I chilled with Katie and Chris and Lance for my b-day. Friday night Katie, Lance and I had chicken and fried potatoes and steamed veggies for dinner before having a few drinks and watching Superman, which Chris joined us for. Then it was a late night to bed. I took a benadryl for my snuffy nose and was promptly groggy and fast asleep at the same time! Saturday was for a bit of shopping and then it was out to eat to Old Chicago and then to watch Count of Monte Christo with Chris and Katie. Then sunday I watched the Packer game --GO PACKERS (yay for beating the Lions) -- and then I want to dinner with Katie and Chris before Katie went home again. All in all a good weekend. I was pleased.

Now, for the pleasure of all who read, here are the lyrics to Candycane

Bare feet in the grass she watches as I pass
I turn around, she looks away
Twinkle in her eye the color of the sky
I want to wrap myself around her
She's everything to me
I'll bet she's 23
I know that she's the one
Can't live without you dream about you all my life
Dancing in the rain and licking a candycane
I just can't walk away
Daisies in her hair, laughs without a care
I think she's beautiful

(you can listen to other dna songs here

I'm a great 'Holder-of-the-Rod'

And I'm great at reading instruments! I had my first Surveying and Mapping lab today, all about leveling. Let me tell you, after 2.5 hours out in the sun, we were pretty good at leveling. First I held the rod. A nice stick that is 7.35 feet tall, but doubles, and walked about campus being cute. Many people stopped to ask the obivous, "are you surveying something". Funny-"no I'm holding this stick becuase I like to know how tall things are....in the middle of a field" Then I got to record things in my new, orange, field notebook. Lastly, I got to play with the instrument, and level it and read the nice rod that one of my lab partners was now holding. We did the same route (well close) three times, each taking a role. We were only off by 3 hundreths of a foot (about 3/8 of an inch)--we're pretty rockin for our first try. I think I'm gonna like that class!

Heat Wave

There are better things to have waves of than heat you know. I like wave pools, and waves of knowledge or creativity. *sigh* School is now in full swing. I have assignments due and tests this week already. I finally broke down and just bought the course packet for one of my classes. It waas 78 dollars so I was going to use reserve and not pay for it, but at the same time, It was more inconvienent to do my homework on the little time I had between classes going to the library,checking it out, and reading it, than it was to pay for the packet and bring it home. I have to type the homework tonight and then hopefully use my roommate's computer to print it since my printer is still broken. Grrr. Anyway, I have lots of homework to do tonight, and none of it that I want to do, well-practicing my punches for self defense is always fun. Good frustration releaser.

I know I havne't posted much lately, and i mean to remedy that--soon, for now though I am going to get back to work.

I don't like homework

But then...does anybody?

School Days, School Days

Today is labor day, which means that tomorrow is the first day of school. I don't even get to ease into it. I have to go to class from 9AM to 9PM. SUCK! I have self defence, politics in the changing world, surveying and mapping, and rise in civilization. There are a few breaks in there, but for the most part, I have to be on campus the whole day. I may try to swing comign home, but I'm not sure about that whole first day and not being late thing. I should be a good girl this semester, no skipping class, and paying attention in class too :) I'll be working Monday, Tuesday and Friday. Hopefully I have time for fun, and now-to bed in preparation for the new semester!

It's a beautiful day!

...Finally! It's been so hot lately, and today it's finally cool. I know it's not that cold, but it actually feels it. It's 64 right now, and I was chilled walking into work. So much nicer feeling than sweating whilst doing nothing. It's supposed to stay cool through the weekend, which is a nice switch from the last few labor day weekends we have had. (it is, of course, because I don't have to do a major move this weekend.)

Labor day-the weekend before school. I think I'll be doing a lot of stuffs. Katie is coming into town tonight, and we get to chill together all weekend. Jenny may join us, I'm not sure. At some point I'm going out somewhere with Mark and Karin --I know, real specific, but nothing is planned as of yet. It's Mark's last weekend in MN before leaving on his road trip, so I have to do the chill and party time with him a bit too. At some point I'm getting to the MN State Fair. The only real thing I have planned is Sunday, at 11:30 is the official checkout at our old apartment. Monday is a day off from work AND school, which I will probably spend sleeping and organizing my house and myself. Tuesday is the first day of classes. I'll write more about THAT later.

I bought a DVD player yesterday, and I like it, but I am having some sound quality issues and I can't decide if it's the DVD I bought or not. I still have Mark's DVD player at my house, so I'm going to try the DVD in his player and see if I can find out if it's the DVD (LotR-Fellowship of the Ring, Extended Edition)or my player or the converter I bought or just some whacked out issue that I can't figure out. I'm an engineer for goodness sakes, I will have to apply the scientific method, coupled with a wine cooler, to figure it out. Speaking of wine coolers--yesterday I went to the store to buy Marguarita ones and I ended up with some Melon shit. I don't know how that happened, but I'm hoping these are ok. I just wasn't paying attention I guess.

Last weekend

Last weekend was great. I did the hairs cut thing, and the Dr. thing, and then it was on to a weekend full or horses and water and fun. Friday night we rode for a few hours and then we (Shona and I) went to the pool because she teaches scuba and she had a class that night. I just snorkeled around for a few hours and had great good fun. Saturday I woke up-more sore from the swimming for 2 hrs than the riding, and went out to Shona's again to play with horses. First we washed and clipped all three. Molly and Angel were pretty good (It was Angel's first bath, and she took it well) but Slammer...he hates getting the inside hairs of his ears clipped. He was being a twit-butt, and then at one point he reared up and came down on my foot. Didn't do any real damage, just a nice pretty bruise. He didn't get a treat--that's for sure. After they were dry, we took Molly and Slammer for a ride, but they both were hyper/misbehaving. It was cause they were tied all day and had so much excess energy..and for Molly's part (I was on her) she is afraid of cows and corn, and was using that as an excuse. We had some schooling to do when we got back. No treat for her either. Sunday I got my oil changed and my tires rotated and went to the farmer's market witih my parents--I have a really fun assortment of veggies in my fridge, I have to process them or I'm going to have lots of rotten ones soon. Then after a dinner or steak and salmon (I know, my parents spoil me when I go home--food wise anyway!) It was off to go see the horses again, on my way back to the Cities. We rode Slam and Molly again--but not on the road, since that long of a ride would have put me back in the cities too late. Molly had lots of energy, but so did I so we cantered and cantered, and loped and loped, and at one point gallopped. Getting her to walk after you let her go--takes a bit of skill, luck, and a whole lot of persuasion. But, I did and we went and played in the pond with them for a while before heading back and then me heading back home. Sunday night I went to Karin's for some Monty Python and the Holy Grail. How I DO love that movie!

Back to the Present

So, here I am, taking a quick break at work to write this--since I haven't blogged at home, or very much lately. I promise I will right more soon...I'll have so much to say whilst procrastinating from homework and whatnot. Now though I had better get back to my spreadsheet and editing my work website. (It's internal or I'd link it). Have a good Labor Day weekend everyone!

even MORE weekend fun!

My weekend will begin thursday after work, when I drive to GB. I have to remember to get my oils changed, and I need a new serpentine belt. I will have to have people look at that tonight at climbing. I'm getting my hairs cut friday morning, and then I have to go to the Dr.-the real reason for the visit, and then I'm free for the weekend. my parents are goign to marquette to take my little brother to school. I will be horseback riding all weekend long! Exciting, and making me sore. I'm not sure how many hours of each and whatnot-but it will work out. I will be getting to see Katie and Joe and others who might be in town. That's all for now, I'll write more laters

Weekend Fun!

I'm not going to be getting any sleep this weekend! I was out last night, got home and into bed by 2:30, then tonight I'm going camping in the Dells, and then tomorrow I'm in Milwaukee for a wedding, and then either there or back at the dells for the night, and then Sunday I have to move things. Sheesh- I hope I get a nap at some point!

The cable modem guy is coming later today. I hope that he can get it working this time! Then I'll be able to blog and update my webpage and all that from home. Until then, no weekend access...but I don't have time to go online this weekend anyway.

I sometimes wonder why I've picked up so many "extreme" sports lately. Ones that are prone to providing bruises! Rollerblading, Climbing...and now waterskiing. I have a beautiful bruise on my upper thighs where the little handle bar thing whacked me as I fell-but I did manage to stand up this time (for a grand total for about 6 seconds). It's already turning pretty colors, I can't wait to see it in a few days (another thing to explain while wearing shorts...)

I'm off soon here to go enjoy my weekend, have a good one!

On rabbit holes

Ever fell down one? I feel like I have this summer...but taht is a different story. There are bunnies that live outside my apartment, and while they don't make holes where I can fall into them (Maybe I haven't fallen down one, in which case I would like to try, thank you very much!) but they do hop everywhere. They like to hop out infront of my car and then they taunt me by hopping down the middle of our alley in front of me, just fast enough to escape my idling forward car. They are cute buggers, I just wish they would learn the benifits of looking both ways before crossing some pavement.

Speaking of alternate realities, I played Knights of the Old Republic this weekend. I didn't get very far, but it is a great game! I wonder if they have it for PC?, Speaking of PC. Mine tried to die/blowup/become unuseful this week. I fixed it, but I thinking I may get a few new parts for it. We'll see. specially if there is a KOTOR for PC. I'd need a few better things to make it go :D

Jenni was over for friday night and saturday, that's when the game was played. We also went climbing on saturday--her first time in a while, and she had fun. I'm glad! I am going tonight, as usual, and maybe rollerblading as well. I need to get goign on long distances if I'm going to blade a marathon in a month.

American Wedding???

Odd that this particular movie is coming out the weekend I go shopping for the first bridesmaid dress I will ever have:) I am standing up in my Friends' (Jenni and Chad) wedding. The color is Indigo-sweet color-and that is all we know now...until tomorrow when we will go down to David's Bridal to see what we can see. Katie and Jenny are goign to be in town all weekend. It will be a blast. I have seen the previews for said movie above. I know nothing as crazy and silly and comedic will happen at Jenni's wedding...well, maybe, but hardly as out-of-scale as I'm sure will happen in that wedding. We (the bridesmaids) will try to keep everyone in line (just call the three older of us Jenni's Angesl, and Natasha is our sidekick?!?--or perhaps our Bosley) It will be a weekend full of great times :)