tomorrow, you will wake up.

Thank you for your patience during the no blogging break. Last week I was sick like death. I didn't go to work for three days. I've never taken three days off of anything to be sick. Fever(topping out at 102.7), achy body, hot/cold, headache, sore throat, runny nose, head congestion, coughing...you name it, odds are I had it. I'm happy to report that I'm mostly better. I'd put myself at 93%.

I'll be one of the many to point out how nice it has been the past couple of days, but honestly, what happened to spring. It seems that we've gone straight from winter to summer. Where are my 50-something hoodie, jeans and flip flops days? Trust me, I'm not complaining. Tonight will be a great, open-window, sleeping night. I'm rather excited.

Now for the title of my post. Today we had a client come in who claims she is a psychic. I got to thinking about something. How do you discover you're a psychic?? It's not like it is as simple as learning you're a good singer or a good softball player. You somehow have to figure out that you can tell the future with some sort of accuracy. How do you know that what you're "seeing" isn't some crazy daydream or hallucination? If I ever had a feeling that some random woman that I saw was having twins or you were about to paint your house blue, I would probably think I was going crazy. How does a person go about validating those things without looking insane or like a total ass? The only things I could come up with are the obvious things like, tomorrow you will wake up or you will put on your pants one leg at a time. It's just something I thought was kinda funny and thought provoking.

Baseball starts in a week. We should all look forward to that.

And just for fun, I've added a few pictures from when Jess came to visit for spring break a while back. Rach, Claus, Jess and I took a trip to the Mall of America. Our most entertaining stop was at Kokomo's. These are some of my new favorite photos. And now I want a moJIto.

they say that new life makes losing life easier to understand

As I stated in my previous post, little Charlotte was born last Friday night.

Sadly, I now have to report that my betta fish, Rob, was found belly up this evening. He was given a proper burial at sea around 5:15 pm.

That is all.

I [heart] weekends

While this weekend was super busy, it was insanely fun.

Friday night led Rachel, Claus, Jess and me to one of my least favorite places on earth...the Mall of America. You know what? We even made that place fun. We started at Teavana where I had one of my new favorite non-alcoholic drinks, the Karma Carmachai. Then it was off to Famous Daves for supper where I was served the worst mai tai in the history of man. Shortly after, it was replaced by a beer. Post Famous Daves drinking was done at Kokomo's Island Cafe. It seems that the guy who started Famous Daves also came up with this place. Anyway, I had one of my favorite alcoholic drinks at Kokomo's, the moJIto. Ok, so I had 2 mojitos. And a cosmo. As well as a strawberry margarita. Then it was off to Reno 911 the movie. It was so good I fell asleep during it. I think it may have had something to do with the alcohol.

Saturday I spent a crap ton of money on my hair. I also drank a lot of coffee. We went downtown to Brit's Pub for supper. Then after a trip to Target, the day ended.

Today I went to Faribault to meet the love of my life. I'd like to introduce my Goddaugther, Charlotte Jessica to all of you.



This little wonder came into the world Friday night. At birth, she was 8 pounds, 6 ounces and 21 inches long. She has a lot of dark hair as well as a pair of beautiful blue eyes. And here she is with her parents Ginger and Peter:

A few weeks ago, I went to visit Ginger. We ended up going down to the furniture outlet store in Medford because they were shopping for a new couch. In the Ashley Furniture store, I saw a little camel statue thing. My first instinct was to buy it for Nick because of a fun apartment shopping adventure that took place last year. It turned out that the thing was in quite rough shape so I decided not to get it. While we were shopping, I told the story about the "this is where we keep the camel" story and she thought it was pretty funny. To make the rest of this story short, they ended up buying a couch from the Ashley Furniture store. While they were there, they picked this up for me:Now I have to find somewhere to keep the camel.

I hope you all had as great of a weekend as I did.

the lost has been found

Today I found my jump drive that has been MIA for over a year.

My Oregon trail program is back(!!) as well as many pictures I didn't even know I had

Let it be known that a jump drive can survive extreme tempuratures. It seems the thing was in my car this whole time.

“Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute”

- I don't know who said that. The quotes page didn't tell me.

Today has been super productive for me. I took care of a lot of things that I've been putting off, including:

• talking to the insurance people about getting a new windshield,
• figuring out where the ABRA glass place in Eden Prairie is,
  
• opening an ING Direct savings account...the "don't go broke fund",
• laundry,
• making a hair appointment,
• cleaning my room,
• freezing food that I made over the weekend, and
• taking out my bedroom garbage.

It's only 7:09. It's hard to say how much more I'll get done before the night is done. I do know that at 8, I'll be watching Heroes on NBC. You should all do the same.

“I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.”

-Oscar Wilde

I really don't know anything. It's mostly just day to day grown up life stuff (translation: working, laundry and sleeping). Sometimes I break out into the wild for some fun, but that's mostly on weekends.

Work is going well. For the most part, I like the people I work with a lot. There is one exception, but I won't get into that. I love my short commute as well as
being done at 4:30 every day. I like having meals provided for me at least three days a week. It's good on my grocery budget. I can't get onto the payroll fast enough...this temp to hire stuff is crap. I'm being exploited for my talents, but oh well. For now I'm paying the bills easily which is more than I could say for myself a month ago.

Last night I decided I want to live in the Cloud 9 condo building. It is super close to my office and the condos, while expensive, are quite shiny. It could be a while before I could live in one. A permanent job would be the first step in the right direction, so hopefully that happens soon. Here are some pictures:

Look out the window. See the tall tan building? That's the building right across the road from where I work.

I like to picture myself and a group of my friends having a rockin awesome movie/dinner party here.

Rachel thinks the kitchen is too small. I think Rachel is crazy.

That's all for now. I have to go fold laundry so I have pants to wear to work tomorrow.

ETA: For those of you who care, the Swarm/Get Psyched mix is going to be a 2 cd set. pre-order your copy now!!

the lovers, the dreamers and me

I've had "The Rainbow Connection" stuck in my head for days...hence the title.

My job is still going well. They're already talking about hiring me on full time after the temp period, however long that may last. That's all about that for tonight. I could go on for a long time (ask Claus or Rachel, who both had to hear about it tonight on separate occasions).

Speaking of Rachel, we had a Valentine's Day date tonight. We hit up the Chipotle in Richfield (or one of the Chipotles in Richfield - I don't know if there is more than one). It made today probaby my favorite Valentine's Day. It's quite the contrast from V-Day last year. Needless to say, I'm quite happy about the turnaround.

I'm getting ready for a weekend of chaos. More on that later.

Hope you all had a great Valentine's Day.