I'm going to miss my window

This is my view from the driveup window


don't forget about the creepy dancing ice cream cone painted on the DQ next door.

christmas tour 05

Christmas has come and past. I got a lot of good stuff and gave a lot presents that people seemed happy with. You can't do much better than that.

Over the past week and a half I have done a fair amount of traveling. Last wednesday I drove to the cities. I stopped at Matt's Bar to do a little socializing before heading to my sister's. Thursday Tina, Naughty and I headed to Mom and Dad's. Sunday I went with the fam down to Grandma and Grandpa's for Christmas there. Then on Tuesday I came back to Brookings (after a good 6 horus of shopping in Sioux Falls). This weekend I'll be wrapping up the last leg of the tour with another trip to southern Minnesota for a New Year's Eve party.

My brother Marvin is home from Colorado for the holidays and it has been great spending time with him. He heads back to the mountains on Sunday provided he behaves himself tomorrow night.

Last night we got half a foot of wet, heavy snow. The view I have out of the drive up window is beautiful. If I remember, I'll grab my camera while I'm home for lunch.

That's all for now.

Let me go home, I’m just too far from where you are, let me go home

I'm tired. I'm sick. I dread going to work tomorrow. Is it Wednesday yet? Hopefully I'm unsick by then or I won't be able to go home. I'll be better by then, right?

ETA: I saw King Kong this weekend. It was long, but good. That's all I did. :lame:

:)

it's just hair!

My last final was yesterday at 9. YAY! It's winter break. No school for a month!!

After my test I came to the apartment, packed and headed home for a dentist appointment. While I was there, I also got my hair cut. I'm muy happy with it. You cant tell, but there are blonde and red highlights too. Here are the pics:

yay for me!!

It's been a good day. My car is still working. It has been turned off and on several times in the past 24 hours and works like it usually does.

The best part, as most of you already know, is that I got hired for a new job today. I start on January 3rd. It will mean a pay raise, no work on weekends, and getting off of the teller line. I'll also be done at 5 as opposed to 5:30. So that's that. We'll see how it goes once I start.

new template

I finally got around to putting links on my blog because I was told they were necessary *cough*Dawn*cough* even though I'm not naming names. However, I'm not blog savvy enough to add links without changing templates, so this is what I came up with. Love it? Hate it? Indifferent? Tumbleweed? Let me know.

it lives!

Ace and I went to the bank at about 3:30. Got the jumper cables attached and went inside. Got sodas. Drank part of said sodas. Went outside at 3:45 and attempted to start the car. Didn't quite go, but it was close. So we sat there for a few minutes and tried again. Success! Then I drove around for about 45 minutes giving the alternator enough time to do it's job. So at least the beast is now in my parking lot at the apartment. I'm going to go out in a few hours and see if it still starts. Of course I'll keep you updated. I'm sure you're all dying to know :)

monday part 2

Here's how Monday ended:

It was super busy at work all day and when I balanced my drawer before leaving it was $20 long. As I'm leaving the bank at 5:45 I look at the temperature/clock thing and it says -6. Great. It's still -6. Anyway, I get into my car and it doesn't start. Joy. So my co-worker says she'll stay so I can jump my car. Super! So I get it all hooked up and get into my car. Nothing. She has to get her little girl to gymnastics so I say I'll call someone else so it can sit and charge for a bit. So my friend Claus comes with his car and we hook it up. It's -8 at this point. I decide we should go to Dairy Queen next door and sit inside while we're waiting. So we do. We get ice cream (irony?) and sit by the window so we can see the cars. Upon finishing our ice cream, we go back out. My car has just as much life as it did when we left it. At that point I say fuck it and went home (via the liquor store) and had supper. The end.

why must mondays suck?

For the first time in a long time I was fully rested at the beginning of the week. So this morning, I get up, take a shower and at 7:30 I go out to start my car. Little do I know that the latch on my back passenger door had frozen and didn't allow my door to shut after going to Hyvee Saturday night. My battery was D-E-A-D. So in order to get to my 8 am class, I woke up Ace and took her car. And I couldn't find one of my mittens. So I was walking around in -6 degree weather with no mittens. Brr.

So it's 10:50 am and class is over. I drive home and pull Ace's car up to my car. I have to crawl into my trunk through my backseat (the stupid key unlock for the trunk doesn't work and obviously the trunk button won't work because my car has zero power) to get my jumper cables. So I attach the jumper cables, start Ace's car then go to start mine. My car doesn't start. My car still isn't running at 11:25. At this point Ace needs to get to work and so do I. I go into the apartment to change clothes because Ace is going to give me a ride. I come back down and give it one last try. Success! It starts!

Now I have to get the back door to shut. I call my boss and let her know what's going on and that I'm going to be a little late. It gets to be 11:40 and the stupid door still won't shut. As a last resort Ace loops the jumper cables through the handle on the back passenger door and I tie them to the front passenger seat's head rest so the door doesn't fly open as I drive to work.

I make it to work and get clocked in. It's 11:50 at this point. I'm 20 minutes late *grumble*. I go to unlock my drawers and surprise, I don't have my keys. They're on my desk at home. So then I sit for another 10 minutes waiting for my supervisor to go get the spare key from our security officer. I actually didn't mind that so much because it gave me a chance to eat and warm my toes up. I thought they were going to fall off.

So that's my Monday so far. *sigh*

tis the season

As Dawn and I were sitting at Chipotle last weekend, we decided to send Sarah a present. What could be more fitting for a memeber of team Chipotle than a framed napkin?!