June 2nd, 2012: Shrug

Day well spent reading the next book for my book club, BBQing, and watching Doctor Who.

I hope that this time actually finish reading the book for once.  I have not made it though one of the books for the book club yet.  Last month's choice I didn't even pick up because by the time I got around to trying to read it all I heard were bad reviews and the month before that I just couldn't get into the story.  I've read about 50 pages into this months and I like it so far.  So that is a good sign.  The book is Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey.

BBQing was a success.  I let Thor give it a try. He seemed pretty handy at it.  For some reason I wasn't able to size the patties very well and we ended up with a couple baby burgers.  They were around the size of a slider.  Besides having oddly shaped ones they still tasted good and that's all that counts.

The Doctor Who we watched today was the episodes where the Angels are back and being creepy in the catacombs.  I was all up in Chad's grill during the creepy parts because those things are freaky.  Also watched the Vampires in Venice episode and that made me want to knit her scarf, but I still haven't decided on my next project for sure yet.  Still a work in progress!  We shall see when I get the nerve to work on it.

Goodnight.

June 1st, 2012: Stupid Construction!!!

Welcome to June!  When did that happen?

I spent my day fussing over my blog for a bit trying to edit it.  I'm really annoyed by how it looks and the lack of ability to make a second page for other content besides my daily blog.  If anyone wants to offer up some free advice I'd be grateful.  I'll pay in high fives and possibly brownies if you live in my area.

Other than fussing about that I had a fun time hanging out with my friend Anna and her doggy Tig.  She was also doggy sitting a corgi named Finley (I'm guessing on that spelling).  It was a little puppy party.  I wish I would have got some pictures of all of them but I never got around to it.  

We spent the night eating pizza, drinking Dr. Pepper, and watching some pretty obscure movies on Netflix.  They were really strange and I'm not even sure ones that I would recommend.  One of them was based on a book but I really hope that the book is a better read than the movie, although I wouldn't probably read the book now either.  It was super hard to follow and bizarre.  If you are really curious about it personally ask me and I might tell you.  It will depends on your taste in movies.  They weren't for everyone.

After watching some movies I didn't expect to have any trouble getting home, but I was wrong!  I ran into what construction guys think is a fun time; closing off main highways.  I had no idea how to get home without taking that route so I spent a much longer time driving around trying to find my way to a main highway I know.  I kept trying to get back on the same one but all ramps I tried were closed.  Eventually I woke Chad up to try to get help from him, but mostly so I didn't freak out at being trapped in the city.  I felt bad waking him up but I thought it was better than the alternative; me crying like a wussy and driving in panicky circles.  I did make it home eventually in one piece.

Sadly no pictures today.  I didn't take any and I really don't feel like taking one of myself after that drive.  I just feel like going to bed.

Goodnight!

May 31st, 2012: Bad Dog!

I'll give you a hint about who was misbehaving today.  She is small, white, and sometimes fluffy.  When Charli decides she wants to go for a walk when not on the leash then she does.  I opened the gate to bring her inside like usual but today I could see the evil in her eyes when she kept going down the driveway instead of into my house.  I could have dropped kicked her. Not really though.  

She is the kind of dog that doesn't like to be picked up right away.  She prefers to play 'catch me'.  So when I call her to come back to me she comes juuuuuust out of my reach and scurries off when I try to grab her laughing manically in her mind or so I imagine.  It drives me bonkers!  I was super lucky that a neighbor was outside and offered her dogs up as distractions to help me catch her.  I just had to have quicker reflexes than her and become one with the air or something. Now as her punishment she gets to drag around her purple lease until she learns to behave.  I wish she wasn't so brain dead about things or I might actually think there is hope to train her some day.

In other news: Had my one night of tech rehearsal for the show I'm working on.  I get to do some quick changes.  For those who don't know that means when the actor has only a little amount of time to change there costume there can be people back stage to help them change.  That'll be me!  I do a few other things but it's pretty easy.  

I'm just really looking forward to being back in the Theatre.  I don't like being away so long.  Time for naps methinks.

Goodnight.

May 30th, 2012: Back in the back

So, I just realized that yesterday's post was my 100th post on this blog. That's pretty cool, I guess.  

In other pretty cool news I'm going to be back stage for a show again.  I was asked if I could cover for someone as light board op and now it has turned into me being back stage again.  It should be pretty interesting considering I only get a day to pick up what I need to know about the show.  Guess that's one of the joys of theatre, you always have to be able to pick up anywhere at anytime.  Let's just say I'm looking forward to being back in the theatre after being off for 5 months.  


In other, other news someone was excited to get to go to PetSmart today.  I'll give you a hint, it wasn't me.  I decided to buy dog food before I ran out of it.  What a concept, right? 

Charli is plain and simple, an attention whore.  Her ears perk up when she see people and immediately wants to go say hi.  She is also interested in other dogs too, but only to an extent.  I think she prefers dogs her size but doesn't mind big dogs either.

I think the most interesting part of the trip was the lady dropping off her dog for a grooming.  She spilled her coffee on herself because her dog tugged on the lease when it saw my dog.  So she sarcastically told her dog thanks for spilling all over her.  The best part was when a guy drove by rather quickly and she yells at him "SLOW DOWN"  For some reason in my mind I remember it with curse words but I'm not sure if she did say any, but curse words make everything more funny.  Maybe I just find it funny.  Guess you had to be there.

Work is going to be a struggle for me today.  I can tell because I only managed to get around four hours of sleep.  I blame my dog for it because she was whining and being annoying.  How can you be mad at a face like that?


Plus it's hard to sleep when you are worried.  I try to not worry but I can't help it.  I'm doing my best to not be but still some positive vibes sent towards my Grandma would be nice.


Anyway. Must get dressed and ready to work again.


Goodnight!

May 29th, 2012: Uncle Thor

I'd like to introduce you to my new addition to my family.  Uncle Thor.  He is very sensitive about his lack of legs and he is actually missing his other arm.  I plan on putting him in my sweet garage, Frog Hollow.  Seriously, the people before me left a sign inside my garage that says Frog Hollow.  So now that's the name of my garage, and now my garage will be filled with things I snatch from work.  Only benefit of my job, free swag when you can get it.

I'm really hoping to get the Hulk soon.  He will be epic and if I don't get him I will Hulk smash some things!!!


After work I felt some sort of strange sensation.  I think normal people call it motivation.  I'm pretty sure it was because it was so nice out when I got home that I couldn't miss the opportunity to do some yard work when it wasn't a billion degrees outside.


So I rewarded myself with a kool-aid thing.  I've always loved having these after mowing the lawn thanks to my Grandpa.  That is what we would get after mowing the lawn for my grandparents and I bought some on a whim to help me motivate myself to do yard work.  I think it worked because I even used my weed eater!


Anyway.  It was a yard workin' kind of day and now I got to get ready to go to work.  Hopefully I can manage my bed head after falling asleep with wet hair. (worst thing ever)


Goodnight!

May 28th, 2012: Puzzling

Today was one of those days that I should have accomplished something but I all I could bring myself to do was finish watching Dance Academy on Netflix, and do puzzles. I've been doing puzzles on line at the website www.jigidi.com  but I also wanted to do break out this cute kitty puzzle I have had sitting in my closet for ages.  I did attempt a bit of job searching but I really had no motivation to do so.

I kind of forgot that it was Memorial Day.  I am grateful for those who have died in the service and those who have served  and made it home.  I would never be cut out for a job like that.  Takes a special kind of person I think.  As I write this blog I an hear the squeals from fireworks being lit in the distance and wonder if that really is a good way to 'remember' people who have served in wars, but who am I to criticize.  Well I guess I'm not really criticizing; more wondering.

Quit looking at me like that Charli.  I'm not a bad person, it's just sometimes people get caught up in the commercial of holidays instead of actually remembering.  Once again, not one to judge since I kind of forgot about it myself.  I don't have any family in this area for me to go out and put flowers on their graves or anything so it wasn't really something that crossed my mind.  I guess I briefly brought it up when I talked to my mom on the phone about whether or not they got their flowers up or not.  So I'm not all that bad, right?

 Does that toothy grin mean you agree or disagree, Charli?  I always feel like she is in a disgusted mood when her lip gets stuck under her teeth and her little toothy sneer shows.  She looks absolutely ridiculous because she is far from being angry or mad about anything.  She is so blissfully ignorant about life to know what angry/mad is.  She does do pouty and whiney quiet well though.

She does seem happier today after dealing with storms yesterday.  Which wasn't fun if you didn't read yesterday's post. Judging by my last picture for the day I think she is very happy today.
I'm happy too.  Feeling lazy and under accomplished for my day but I'm still happy.

Goodnight!

May 27th, 2012: Thunderstorms

I'm just going to put this right out there I'm not a fan of thunderstorms; to an extent.  I like them from a distance, a far distance.  When they are above my house and all up in my grill is when I don't like them.  Not in the least.


Today I was lucky enough to have Chad to cling to.  I'm beginning to think my dog really doesn't like storms either.  I think the biggest sign was when she peed on me for the first time today.  That was pretty much super disgusting.  Blegh.  She had gone outside a little while before hand and then I went to pick her up to put her in her crate but I guess she didn't take the time to pee when she went outside.  I even took her out when it was only light rain.  I'll stop complaining about my dog now.


My day was really good besides that.  I enjoyed watching the old episodes of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with Chad and just lazing about.  I finally gave him his scarf and he was able to model it for me. 

He looks good right?  Scarf looks pretty good too I guess. :P I'm just waiting to see which version of the scarf he picks next.  I'm also trying to figure out what I want to do for my next project. Still working on deciding.  It'll be interesting to say the least!


Look at this devil beast making a mess on my pants.  What a poop.  I'm gonna go finish washing my clothes.

Goodnight!

May 26th, 2012: It's a Cheetah

I had a great day today.  I got to spend time with Chad's family today for a get together at his sister's house.  It's always great to get to have some family time, or at least I think so.  I brought my families 'famed' cookie salad and everyone seemed to really like it.  I was super nervous it wasn't going to go over well but it did.  

After we ate our foods we played Cadoo, I believe that is what it is called.   Another version of Cranium it seemed.  The best part was when Chad's little nephew Diego got to act out one of the cards and he couldn't read what was on it so he just made something up.  I decided I would rather know what the card say than guess and read it.  The card said "blowing bubbles" but Diego decided to be a cheetah instead.  It was hilarious.

It was fun together and I'm glad to be able to finally have some family time in Minnesota now too.  I just hope Chad doesn't mind sharing his family with me because they are fun to be around.  

But we are pooped...well Chad is because he has had a long day so I'll finish this up get to bed so he can sleep.  I bet he feels like Charli did earlier today.

Tough life she lives.

Goodnight!

May 25th, 2012: Dog walking

Finally it's Friday! I really struggled to stay up after work to enjoy the day.  I was surprised when I made it past noon.  It did help that I had foods with Chad after work and did some grocery shopping.  I'd have to say the thing I'm most excited to eat is some Apple Dapples.

Scuba diving lizard thing with a harpoon to advertise your cereal? Sounds like a winner to me.  Know what we are having for breakfast this weekend. Woohooooo!

Besides my super exciting news about breakfast cereal it's been a pretty slow day.  I am going to try to ignore my dishes for a few more hours but I can only take them staring at me for so long.

Everyday my dog and I take a walk to stretch those little leggies after being cooped up while I'm at work.  Today I decided to take pictures of her while we walked.  Also I'm feeling rather uninteresting myself and that means more dog pictures. Ha!

Charli likes to think she owns the road sometimes.  Which I think I prefer over her walking behind me or under my feet.  Can't even count how many times she has tried to kill me with that leash.

I caught her mid body shake for one of the pictures.  You can see her little teeth.  She doesn't have that much teeth just from the whole being a puppy mill dog in a previous life thing.  Well not a previous life but before me.  I like the fact that she is missing teeth. Gives her character.  I'll only show one more picture of her. I promise. It's my favorite I took.

I translate this one as her thinking something along the lines of "Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!" or "Deeeeeeeerp"  She is a derpy derp.

That's it.  All I got for today.

Goodnight!

May 24th, 2012: Fangirl!

Today was an awesome day for the fan girl in me!  To those of you who don't know I'm a pretty big fan of Felicia Day.  She isn't just adorable but incredibly smart.  She is definitely someone to look up to.  Everything she has accomplished with just the powers of the internet and I'm sure more.  I'm just going to stop talking about my girl crush now...well okay I'm not because I haven't told you the story yet.

Basically in a nut shell I sent a tweet about a game called Wine Extraordinaire to Felicia and a couple other girls (@bonniegrrl @Veronica @Kiala) from the Vaginal Fantasy book club I'm part of.  Lets just say they have a thing for wine.  I didn't expect them to respond, but they really liked it. Felicia even went so far as to buy the game because she liked it so much.  I feel so cooooool. I'm really just such a fangirlly nerd right now and totally letting the world know it!



I have the most excellent news.  I finished the doctor who scarf!!!  It's all done.  Knit. Trimmed. Tasseled. It is around 11ft long and I think almost 9inches wide but I think I might be able to stretch it out for a bit of width.  I'm very pleased with how it turned out; especially the whole it being my first project thing.  I had to stand on a chair to get a picture of it across the floor. It isn't even stretched to it's full potential on my floor.  Charli looks unimpressed.  Maybe she is just jealous of Chad getting a scarf. 

Speaking of Chad.  I'm super glad to say that today was our 6 month anniversary and I couldn't be happier. He is my best friend, confidant, nerd, cuddle buddy, inspires me probably more than he even knows, and he is so much more to me. I love him more than toast and I'm not afraid to show it.

Anyway it's almost time for work and I'm going to hopefully keep this good mood I have going even though I have work.

Here is a happy faced Charli to leave you with!

Goodnight!

May 23rd, 2012: Drip, drip, drip...

First day back to work this week and I'm surprised I was able to stay awake so long.  It's so hard to get back into my sleep schedule for work especially when I have been off for five days.

What I hate the most is getting woken up early when I'm trying to sleep.  I slept so well when it was my days off but now that I'm back to work it is back to chunks of restless sleep.  I'm not sure why I can't seem to get a full night of sleep on work days.  Today the culprit of waking me up was the dripping noise coming from some place in my bathroom.

I hate being woken up by the smallest sounds because I feel enraged by the tiny noise waking me from my awesome dream about Wil Wheaton giving Felicia Day some lemonade but making sure that she didn't drink his glass because he was saving it for a special occasion inside a card board box.  My dreams are gold!  Should make movies about them. Ha!

Besides getting woken from my dreams today; I found another pretty flower in my back yard.  I feel like I need to take pictures of  all of the flowers the previous owner planted this year in case my terrible gardening kills them off and they don't come back next year.

I believe my grandmother said this is a peony.  All I know is that it's pretty.  I am very grateful for the landscaping I didn't have to do anything for.

Also just because I'm so used to talking about my scarf.  I have begun putting tassels on the end.  It's a process that's for sure, but I'm pretty excited to see it done.  For your daily dose of Charli here is her modeling some tassels and bonus pic of her wanting to eat my turkey and cheese omlette I made for breakfast.

Ah, also Eternity Clock is now out for download on PS3 and PSVita in June I believe.  I don't have either so I can't play it yet. : (  Eternity Clock is the new Doctor Who game for those of you who don't know. Enjoy the launch video below.  I'm gonna sit around waiting for pc version to come out or convince my boyfriend to let me in his clubhouse whenever he decides to get it.

Goodnight!

May 22nd, 2012: Neil Gaiman might just be my hero

What I did today is paled greatly in comparison to how I feel right now.  The video of Neil Gaiman's address to the University of the Arts class of 2012 (http://vimeo.com/42372767) has been circulating for some time now.  I hadn't got around to watching it until today and it couldn't have come at a better time in my life. 

If you hadn't noticed by my previous post I'm in a bit of job jam.  I've just felt stuck and helpless when it comes to being able to do something I actually enjoy, but his speech has given me a new found hope and drive.

These are just snippets from the video that have stuck with me.  First one involved pretending to be someone that can do what you want to do.  That sentence kind of doesn't make much sense without seeing the video but I'll do my best to explain.  If you don't think you can do it or don't know how to; then just pretend to be someone that can.  That is mind boggling brilliant advice.  It's such a complicated but simple idea that part of me can't really believe I hadn't thought of that yet.

Another is treating the goal as a mountain and that each choice you make will either bring you closer to that mountain or further away.  It kind of helps to bring a light to the fact that the choices you make always matter.  Where you are on the path could call for a different decision to a choice than it would have at a different point in your path.  I've definitely felt some road blocks in my way but I think now with a fresh perspective I can try to find the unbeaten path around the annoying road block.  I at least feel like I should try my darnedest to do so.

Probably my favorite thing(Ok I loved everything) he said was about how he felt like life was like an adventure and when it felt like work he stopped because life isn't not supposed to feel like work.  I love that.  It shouldn't feel like work to live life, but like an adventure.  Some of my favorite moments in life is when I've been able to just let go of the 'work' of life and just have an adventure.  I'm seriously going to start working on my adventure in life.


The more advice from the address was about failure.  I'm just writing this from my memory of what he said ;he said that failure is like putting messages in bottles on a deserted island and hope that someone will find it and read it and send something back to you.  Something back could be in the form of a job, money, love, etc.  You just keep sending out these bottles and they are considered failures only until you get something back and then. Well, then what are they?  Success.  You just have to keep sending out those bottles and the right ones will come back, or sometimes you might even have to turn down the returned bottles.  Failure goes both ways.

My brain has just been filled with so much.  Ideas. Hope. Nervousness. I have to keep trying to make it in this crazy world and I won't stop cluttering it with bottles until I'm satisfied with my mountain.


Here is the video link again.  Please watch it. My words probably don't do it half the justice it deserves but it is well worth the watch.  Plus who doesn't love listening to Neil Gaiman talk?
http://vimeo.com/42372767

May 21st, 2012: Lazy can't be helped.

When you have the privilege of getting a long weekend it is incredibly hard to do any of the productive things you should do.  There just isn't enough time in the day to accomplish everything during the work week and then when you have your weekends, well who really wants to do housework? No one. That's who.


This has been a most delightful extended weekend for me and I was just so lucky to have it happen over my birthday weekend too.  It was like a little present for me.  I will not be happy to go back to work tomorrow that is for sure.

I did try to accomplish a few fun things though.  I worked some more on the Doctor Who scarf I'm knitting for Chad.  Even though it is my first ever time knitting something; I think I'm really getting the hang of it.  I think I'm starting to get a technique down, or at least I'll be really good at the garter stitch now.

My dog looks really enthusiastic in the background.  At least she is using the dog bed correctly for once.  I can't even tell you how many times she just lays next to it or half in it.  I'll have to search for a photo of that some time as proof of how amazingly 'smart' she is.


Charli is a pretty good distraction for me sometimes though.  For example; when I'm feeling down she'll let me set her in my lap.  She really enjoys laps but most dogs do.


Anyways! Enough about Charli! What else did I do today? Glad you asked.


I did a rather unsuccessful job search.  I'm still trying to find a new job that isn't terrible.  I am glad I even have a job right now, but having a job and feeling like you are wanted and needed at your job are different things.  Does that make sense?  I could have a worse job, that is certain. I could be doing so much more else where and would be appreciated way more than where I am now.

When I talked to my friend Jason on Saturday about his new job (he just recently got out of the job I'm currently in) and it sounds like the stuff from fairy tales and tv at this new place.  I want to find my fairy tale dream job doing something I can get my heart wrapped up in.  Instead of getting my heart stomped on.


Is that too much to ask?


Enough of this depressing topic.  I've already tried to work off that depressive mood by riding some on my squeaky exercise bike that makes my butt fall asleep, but that didn't help.  You know what will help?  Pictures of me and my dog with our unkempt hair from our lazy day.  She looks so 'pleased' when I make her take pictures.

I just realized that I have been mispronouncing/spelling unkempt all my life. I could have sworn it was unkept. My world is rocked by this.  I think I need a moment to collect myself with this new found information.


Goodnight!

May 20th, 2012

Such an original title. No?

Suppose I could have made it something along the lines of "IT'S MY FREAKING BIRTHDAY!1!!!one!!!" but I felt the date itself would suffice. 


As I had planned before I was going to start up with my daily posts once my 25th birthday rolled around.  So here I go! As of right now I'm not doing any sort of 25 things to do while 25 but I still might do something along those lines.

24 was a good year but it definitely had it's bad moments.  To put my year into a nut shell I will give some incredibly vague descriptors of negative and positive experiences throughout my 24th year.


Negatives: Breaking up, random depressive anxiety attacks, feeling alone, strong dislike for my workplace, lack of funds
Positives: Breaking up, finding the courage and strength to make bold choices, buying a house, dating my current boyfriend, realizing I don't really have it all that bad, comfort in family, rescuing a dog who is 'special' to say the least, learning how to make cinnamon roll waffles, working on White Christmas, tweeted back by Neil Gaiman


Well some of them aren't all that vague, and I'm sure there are more positives and negatives to add but can't think of them right now.

When I think back on that year of life I really don't want to focus on the negatives.  They were a big part of the choices I made but I definitely prefer to remember the positives in life.

I think you should do the same.  Just an idea.

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Now for what I actually did today!


I spent the day lazing about with Chad.  We watched My Neighbor Totoro and he decorated a store bought cake for me with some of the fasting burning candles on the planet.  


I decided to wear one of the shirts Chad bought me for my birthday today as well. (He let me open my presents the day before)

I love this shirt.  I remember when I first saw it online and how much I laughed at how brilliant it is. The fact he remembered I liked it was awesome. (If you don't get it then you probably haven't seen Dragon Ball Z.  Here is a little video link to see the Fusion in action.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0uQor_juqE&feature=related )

He got me another shirt and My Neighbor Totoro was actually a birthday present from him as well.  I'm fairly certain the mustache wallet he gave me last week was also apart of my birthday presents too.  (I think he was afraid I would buy one...and I almost did)  I'm sure I'll get a picture of the other shirt and wallet at some point.

Today was also the solar eclipse happening.  Minnesota was only cool enough for a partial eclipse but I'm just glad I managed to see it.  I was so worried that I was not going to be able to see it because when I woke up earlier in the day it was very cloudy out and I was almost certain it would not clear up by the time the eclipse was going to happen. (Chad can vouch for my whining and 'crying' about it)

After the eclipse I enjoyed a good laugh at The Pirates! A Band of Misfits with Chad.  I seriously recommend it.  Those kind of movies are always for a good laugh and totally not just for kids.

I think it may be time for bed after my rousing weekend of fun.  Charli and I say bring on another year of life!

I look slightly terrified while Charli is clearly unimpressed.  

Such is life. 

Good night!

The way we get by

I'm having one of those days where I'm feeling slightly retrospective.  As I get closer to my birthday memories from the past year seem to be flooding back to me.  It goes back more than just the last year, but mainly 2011.

So much change can happen in just one year and you hardly realize what has happened until it is done and gone.

But I digress, this blog is starting to get to bleak for me and I don't want to be a blah-de-blah blah blogger.  At least not today.

I've been working on my list of 25 things to do while I'm 25.   So far; if I'm remembering off the top of my head correctly, I would like to read 25 books.  I'm looking for must read books that I haven't read.  I would considering reading something I have read before if it is something really good.  There are plenty of classics that I haven't read and need too, but please suggest some!

Doing a marathon of some sort was something I thought about but I can't really run because of my knees but there are walking ones too, right?  That one I'm still on the fence about.

There must of been something else that I can't think of at the moment. Usually they come to me while I'm in bed trying to sleep.

I should put unpack my boxes from moving finally and paint the rooms in my house to my list, but I don't know if those are considered must haves of my 25th year.

OH! I just thought of one that's on my list and I actually have progress on.  I want to go to my first ever convention.  My boyfriend and I have already preregistered for Gally!(What Gally is: http://www.gallifreyone.com/ )

He went this year and loved it, and is willing to share it with me next year.  It should be super awesome since it is the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.  The convention would still be exciting minus that but 50th anniversary could mean some pretty cool things might happen.  I just can't believe I'm already excited for something that is happening 315 days from now.

Now I'm just excited thinking about Gally and this blog isn't going anywhere.  Here's a good song.

P.S. Why does typography look so cool?

P.S.S I realized that was a really short video of that song after I posted it...so here is a longer one but less cool because it lacks typography. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5dCKc7LxaI

Updates coming soon!

So it is pretty clear that I have let my daily blog go to the wayside but I have been making plans to bring it back. I'm not sure if anyone will be excited for it or not but I think it will be good for me to have it back again.

I will most likely be doing the picture a day again like I did two years ago.  I'm thinking of starting this up again when I hit my 25th birthday.  It will be a nice way to remember how I handled my quarter life crisis (assuming I have one).

Another idea that I have is to bring back my list.  That list being twenty something things to do before I turned twenty something.  For some reason I can't seem to remember if it was 23 or 24.  I could just do some digging in my blog and find out but I'm far too lazy for that right now.  Instead of it being 25 things before I'm 25 the list will be 25 things to do while I'm 25.  I'm taking any suggestions as far as what those 25 things should be.

Lets hope this post isn't an empty one and I actually succeed in bringing back this blog.  I still find myself planning out a picture for a blog post even though I haven't really blogged for almost a year now.  I've got a few months to prepare since my birthday isn't until May!  Better start making my list!

June 27th - July 1st, 2011

Phew another week has swooped on by and I have found myself behind on my posting.  I'll condense my week done into a few paragraphs and of course some pictures.

Mostly I spent my time working and all those fun shenanigans.  One of the days I went to the History Center in St. Paul with some free tickets I got from the library.

I saw this plane and had to think of my friend Jenny.  It also didn't help that I was in a history center either. :P

Did I mention that I was there two days before the State was planning on shutting down because they can't seem to figure out what they want to do with their budget.  Is it really that difficult to plan a budget?   How is it that all the other states have theirs planned but we don't?  Come on Minnesota.  Get your head in the game.

Also, I have to wonder what they removed just for the shutdown.  All the items that seemed to be missing were from the Minnesota History part of the place and no where else.  It was really odd.  They close down the whole building anyway...so why would they need to remove things?  Weird.

 One of the cool items that was there was this sweet mustache cup.  The extra ledge was made specifically to protect your bushy mustache from getting wet from you drink.  How brilliant is that?!  Why don't we have those now?!  I would totally want one of those if I had a bushy mustache.  Me thinks I need to go online and see if I can find some for sale.  I have plenty of relatives that I'm sure could use some mustache protection.

Now for something completely different!  I had my house inspected on Thursday and you will be glad to know that nothing to wild and woolly showed up.  I took some more detailed pictures of things like the tile on the wall in my bathroom(above).  The walls in the house aren't bad but I'm really considering painting them.  I like the idea of having colored walls for once in my life.  Not sure what I can do with the walls in the bathroom.  Only part of it has the blue tile.

I've been more concerned with the kitchen.  There is this blue and white vinyl on the floor and wooden panel part way up the side of the wall.  I'm thinking I'll paint my cabinets a white color to brighten up the room because they are a dark brown right now.  There is also a small amount of yellow/white tile on the wall next to the shelves.  Sooo.  I'm looking for ideas on what color to use. Any one?

Oh I almost forgot!  I had some delicious turkey sliders from Good Earth restaurant in Edina.  I really like their food.  I've never been their for lunch before but it is pretty good.  Their breakfast is pretty tasty.  Now I'm craving their breakfast!

June 26th, 2011

Never have been one to count my eggs before they have fully hatched, but in the case of my house I'm pretty sure I can put all of them in one basket.  (That was painful to write that many cliches in one sentence. )

Used my lovely Sunday afternoon to wonder aimlessly about Ikea to get ideas for what I would want in my house.  Got some good ideas as far as furniture for my living room and second bed room.  Probably won't fork out the dough for Ikea furniture but at least I can start visualizing what I'd like to have.

For a couch I would probably want something similar to this. The link for this couch is:  http://www.roomstogo.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=showItem&ipac_id=36886  One of the things I have come to discover I am a big fan of is a Chaise.  They work nicely when you can connect them onto a couch like the picture above.  Most versions of the chaise/couch combination at Ikea that I saw had the ability to switch sides or be free standing, and I really like that idea.

That couch also has a pull out sleeper inside the couch.  I'm think of getting just a small sleeper sofa for the second bedroom for guests to use when they come over.  Then I can still have the guest room to use as an 'office' but also a place to keep quests.  Plus if I had a big couch like the one above in the living room people could sleep on that too!

Who knew having a house could make one so excited about buying furniture!

June 25th, 2011

Good news!!! Excellent news! Probably the best darn news I can get...well me winning the lottery would be better, but this is pretty close.

Today was the day I found out my offer on the house was accepted!  Here I was thinking it was going to take until next week before we could even start to haggle with them, but they must be eager to sell because they got back to us over the weekend.

Now I have a place to rest my head after my lease is up.  There are plenty of things I will need to be figuring out now that I have a house!  Technically first I'll have an inspection done and then wait for all the paper work to do what it has to do.  Originally I was going to move end of August but the seller wants to move the closing date up to the end of July.  So, I will most likely have a whole month to move into my home.  That is crazy!

Still think I'm in a bit of a shock from having it go so well.  Please hope and pray that the inspection doesn't find something terribly wrong with the place.  Definitely don't want to look for houses yet again.  Plus I think I got the place for a pretty good price. : )

My house!  I'm so excited to be working towards owning a place instead of renting.  Lets just say the 'block' party our apartment place had while I was trying to sleep today was more than annoying and solidified my choice to get a house even more!

June 24th, 2011

Sometimes your body doesn't like to make plans.  Today was one of those days.  My morning plans went through without a hitch, it was what I had to do in the afternoon that got a wrench thrown in it.

My morning was filled with paperwork to make an offer on a house.  The papers probably won't be seen by the seller until monday.  Not really looking forward to waiting, but that is part of the game.  Despite the intial money I will have to spend on the house I can't help but look forward to the smaller monthly payments.  Need to be careful though...don't want to get my hopes up and have this get shatter.  Really, really, reaalllllly hoping that does not happen.  High hopes for all of this.

As for the rest of my day; did some picking up around the apartment because they apartment people wanted to show our place to a perspective renter.  Since the showing was at 5:30 I needed to get some sleep before hand because I had worked the night before.  Thinking I would get up an hour beforehand and scooch on out before they got there was my plan.  

Sadly that didn't happen.  My phone kept ringing while I was trying to sleep and kept me jerking in and out of sleep.  This ended up causing me to sleep through my alarm later and be woken up when I hear someone opening my room's door.  There was no panic or screaming "Omg who are you??!!?!"  Somehow I remembered they were showing it and laid still and the person mentioned something about someone sleeping and left me alone.  

Oops?  Guess I can't really feel too bad about it.  They got to see the rest of the apartment....just not my bedroom.  Not like they are judging my room, it's the place itself they want to judge.

Oh, one more thing about this viewing.  They told me that they would give us at least a day advance warning if they wanted to bring someone in and they had tried to schedule the viewing the same day they called.  Come on people, if you are going to say something please try to keep to your word.

P.s. Flower pots have their first bloom!  I can't remember what all is in there, but if you can tell me what it is you get a high five.