“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.”

- Chuck Palahniuk

So how was your weekend? ;)

Mine was chaotic. I took Friday and Monday off of work. Thursday night and Friday morning I spent packing and moving random stuff into my new apartment. Then Friday afternoon I headed to Pine Island (a bit north of Rochester).

Saturday was wedding day. Wedding #1 was in Rochester at 6 pm. It was a beautiful ceremony at the Rochester Art Center. After that, Claussen and I headed to Fairmont to catch the dance portion of Wedding #2. Much alcohol was consumed and many good times were had.

Rach, remember when we saw that lady eating a Chipotle burrito in her car and we made fun of her? It's really not as hard as you'd think. Not only did I eat a Chipotle burrito while driving, but I was wearing a white skirt and came out of the experience unscathed.

Sunday was mostly a quiet day spent at my parent's place. Marvin and Sarah were home from Colorado, it was good spending some time with them.

Monday was spent driving back to Brookings, moving more stuff, and attempting to get settled in. I'm liking the new place a lot and I'll be quite glad when I only have to worry about one apartment. The end of the week can't get here fast enough.

"silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone"

~G.B. Stern

Thanks to those of you who made my weekend one of the best I've had in a long time. I appreciate it.

hooray for road trips

I'm not sure if this week could be any longer. Normally softball gets me through the week, but this week it didn't. On defense, I was just fine. Offense can only be explained with one word...assbat. It gets frustrating when you can't help out your team produce any runs. By the time our two games were over I was frustrated and feeling sorry for myself. Not good. I hate nights like that. The remedy: a mojito and bed.

Today work is dragging. I've been here for two hours and it feels like I've been around for a full work day. When I get off of work I need to clean out/pack my car with stuff to drop off at my parent's place this weekend. I need to pack more too.

Tomorrow I head to the cities to hang out with my peeps and go to a Twins game (Saturday is DQ hat day!). I've been taking short lunches and coming in early so I can leave early. So I'm hoping to leave b-town around 2. Sunday on my way to my parent's place I'm going to swing by my sister's place in EP and hang out there for a bit. Then it's off to Dunnell to switch vehicles so I'll have a truck for the move at the end of next week.

everybody's workin for the weekend

Yeah, I have a case of the Mondays. The day is going pretty well considering that fact. I'm just excited for the upcoming weekend. Since I rocked the socks off of my summer classes, I decided to reward myself with a trip to the cities. Friday can't come soon enough. I don't fully know what's on the docket for the weekend, and I don't really care. I'm just excited to be out of Brookings and having a bit of fun.

I'm going to try to work a bit extra every day so I can leave a little early Friday. They days will go by fast because there's a lot going on. On top of work, I'm playing a lot of softball. Co-ed starts this week so now I'm up to 6 games a week. Our co-ed games will either be Tuesday or Friday night. If the games are scheduled for Friday, I'll start co-ed league next week. Between softball and packing, Friday will be here before I know it!

Happy Monday everyone!

a mojito weekend

Class is finally over. The past five weeks have been five of the busiest five weeks in my life. I'm now six credits closer to graduation and will have a much easier fall semester because of those credits.

This weekend is my last free weekend of the summer. I have a lot to get done:

• make a dvd list for Dawn
• go to the liquor store, buy rum (I should do this at lunch today)
  
• make mojito bucket and put in freezer (also to be completed during my lunch hour)
• beat up the UPS guy if he doesn't deliver Nip/Tuck today (he lucked out. he stopped by friday)
  
• if Nip/Tuck is delivered, spend the time that I would be beating up the UPS guy watching it.
  
• start going through the multitudes of crap that I have and throw lots of it away two goodwill bags and a garbage bag later, I've made a good start.
  
• pack (eek! I'm moving in two weeks and haven't started!)** I started. yay for me.
  
• track down boxes to pack stuff in
• finish playlist for cd swapI have most of it figured out, it counts as a win
  
• stage an intervention - interventions are more difficult than you think
  
• drink multiple mojitos
• catch up on sleep
• watch the Twins sweep the Rangersso it wasn't a sweep, I still watched.
  
• talk Ike into taking the floaties to the lake for a couple of hours (there's not enough time)
  

**This is going to be one heck of a process. All of my stuff is mostly getting divided up into either "I can't live without this" or "I won't need this". The "I won't need this" pile will be going to my parents house so I don't have to move it three times in the next year. This step needs to be done by next weekend since I'll be dropping by their place on the way back from my trip to the cities to pick up the truck.

I confirmed yesterday that graduation is December 9th. That's just a touch over five months away. I can't wait.

What are your big plans for the weekend? I seriously doubt they're more exciting than mine :)

you know you spend too much time in the apartment when...

your roommate's mom tells your roommate to tie you up and drag you out to watch fireworks if that's what it takes. I went. My arm wasn't twisted very hard either. AND I got a free Diet Coke out of the deal.

I can't wait for Friday!!

lazy summer day

I took a break from homework. I slept in. It was great. I spent most of the day in the living room just hanging out and talking with the roommates.

This afternoon, Ike and I decided it would be a good idea to make sandwiches for supper. And I wanted to make salad. So we trekked on down to the HyVee and got the stuff: vienna bread, cajun turkey, lettuce, provolone cheese, and the stuff for salad. We came home and proceeded to make one of the biggest sandwiches I've ever seen. We split the loaf of vienna bread, lined it with cheese, added the pound of cajun turkey, then added the lettuce, more cheese and topped it off with ranch dressing. It was pretty much the most delicious sandwich. Ever. And the salad I made turned out good too. Needless to say, we didn't finish the sandwich but we made a good dent in it. We didn't get to the watermelon either. So.Much.Food.

While we were out and about, we also rented movies. So as soon as Ike gets back from playing tennis, we can start watching Failure to Launch or Cheaper by the Dozen 2. Maybe we'll be brave and get after the rest of that sandwich too. When I get to my other computer, you better believe I'll add a picture of the sandwich to this post.

Have a good holiday weekend everyone!!

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