day 2

Two new posts at the Caring Bridge website: www.caringbridge.org/visit/kolberding

I'm looking forward to sleep tonight. I ended up making a trip with Dad to Dunnell this morning so I spent 5 hours in the car today. I was able to take a two hour nap this afternoon but that's been it for sleep since I woke up yesterday morning at 7.

I'm celebrating our country's independence with some good ol' American baseball. Twins games Friday and Saturday night with a trip to Rochester inbetween.

Happy 4th of July everyone!

day 1

Just when I thought my life was boring...

This morning my mom and I were sitting in my parent's living room watching a movie. All of a sudden the phone rings. As it turns out, it was the transplant clinic at Mayo. We were supposed to gather our things and get to Rochester ASAP. So we called my dad at work, told him to head home and we threw a few things together. We got to Rochester aorund 3. They got her ready to go and we walked down to surgery a little after 4. Surgery officially started at 4:20 and since she's having a double transplant, they expect the procedure to take 10-12 hours. Last we heard, all of the incisions are made, the doner is prepped and they've started the actual transplant. So now we're sitting and waiting for updates. We're about to go across the street and get checked in at the hotel.

We put a CaringBridge page together to make it a little easier to update everyone. Here's the link:
www.caringbridge.org/visit/kolberding

I'll try to keep everything updated as often as I can. Luckily there's a computer on the floor Mom's room is on so it should be easy enough to do updates.

Happy good thoughts everyone!!

inevitable return of the great white dope

I'm back, I guess. So here's an update for the past month and a half...with pictures of course!

I moved. Yay! I'm loving the new apartment. There's plenty of room for me and my random guests. The view is pretty stellar out back. Here's the view from the dock
Overall, moving went well with the exception of one little incident that led to the purchase of something new and shiny.

So that's fun. It's money I wish I still had in my pocket, but it is what it is.

Work is going well enough. We finally have a full staff. It's nice not to feel totally overwhelmed all of the time.

A couple of weekends ago, I went to Fantasticland (aka Valleyfair) with a few college friends and then a steak eating, wine drinking party. No pictures of that. They're all on someone else's camera.

Last weekend I had a few of the high school friends & Rachel over for a small bbq by the lake. Zeke and I went shopping and he bought me an apartment warming grill.


We actually had so much random stuff to bring in that we had to use 2 shopping carts to bring it in.
I also got to see my adorable goddaughter.

That weekend I found out that my hard drive "may fail". So this weekend I got an external hard drive to back everything up on.

Yeah, I'm girly. I ended up getting the pink one over the bigger and probably better option that Zeke reccomended. I blame Rachel :)

As for this week? I'm on vacation. I took off the whole week to do nothing. I'm going to spend a few days visiting my parents and will come back for the 4th. I have a Twins/Indians game to go to on the 5th.

I'm running away

No, not really. I just won't have internet for a little while. So after this, it will probably be a bit before I post something again.

I'm in the middle of the move right now. Just about everything is in, with the exception of my bed and dresser which will get taken care of later this morning. The place is fairly nice. Only downside right now is that they don't have the air conditioners on yet. Needless to say, life on the top floor is a little warm.

an update

Last week was nuts. At work, we had our yearly audit. It's always a frantic time. The entire week was spent answering questions, finding various documentation and getting very little of the regular weekly work done. This year, we had the added challenge of being short staffed by two people. Needless to say, by friday I was exhausted. I tried watching the Twins game Friday night but I fell asleep in the chair around 8.

Saturday was the day of many decisions. I ended up sticking with the original plan - going to the concert. In the end, it probably wasn't the best choice. I was pretty disappointed in the show. It was cool to check out First Avenue though. AND we only paid $4 to park. Yes Rachel, I'm still excited about that :)

Today Rachel and I saw Made of Honor (Dawn, check out who plays Colin!). I'm not usually the chick flick type but the movie was pretty good. There were lots of laughs - from both the men and women in the audience. It gets 3 out of 4 stars from me. After the movie, we went to Target where I remembered how impatient I get with weekend shoppers.

That's it for the weekend. I hope the upcoming week is a lot less stressful. I'll get to packing since the move is in less than two weeks. I think next weekend I'll make a visit to my parent's home with it being Mother's Day. The more selfish motive is to get all of the stuff that I've been storing out of their attic. Mom will be happy to see me for both reasons :)

my savings account smiles...

...while the national defecit weeps.

I got my "stimulus" check today.

oh my god, broccoli rock

I'm going!!

http://www.thedailyshow.com/tickets_stpaul.jhtml

I couldn't be more excited. Thanks for bringing this to my attention Claussen!! :gold star: