josie

if you want your blog to work, try republishing the index. I don't see how anyone else could do anything to your blog unless they had your dashboard password. I don't really know if Rainy cares enough with a new baby and everything to screw with your blog, but ya never know I guess. If that doesn't work, you're prolly gonna haffta to make a new one.

a whole lotta nothin'

The last two weeks have just been... off...We've moved out of our apt. in Grand Forks, and now we're moved into our apt. in DL. Still have a lot of unpacking to do though. I lived in the Hotel for the past week so I can continue working, but I'm home in DL now for two days, then I go back to GF to work for two days, then I'm in DL for the weekend, then BACK to GF for Monday and Tuesday to work, then I get to come to DL for good! SO I've done a lot of driving the past two weeks and even more to come. But I have to keep working so we have money. I haven't even slept in our new apt. yet, tonight will be the first night so I guess we'll see how it goes. That hour and a half drive used to be relaxing... crank up the music and just drive, but now it's a pain in the ass. I only have 4 more shift at the hotel in GF, moving to DL is going to completely throw me off for a while. I like having somewhat of a routine and the past two weeks has been kind of hard on me. When I was staying in the hotel, it was weird because I just kind of sat in my room and read or watched TV. I didn't have internet, I used Jan's computer in the office once, but I felt kind of like I was intruding on space that i shouldn't be in... so I didn't blog or anything.

I'm looking forward to moving to DL because it's a whole new apt to decorate, and I get to see my friends here more. But I have to be honest and tell ya, I hate Devils Lake. This town has nothing to offer. No shopping, no good restaraunts... and a lot of older people. But I'm sure I'll just find my 'groove' and everything will be fine. I'm gonna really miss the people I work with, and the restaraunts that are open ALL NIGHT. I'll post pics of our new apt. once we get unpacked. Fuzzybutt loves all the space, and he was a little hesitant when he first saw stairs (he's never used stairs on a daily basis) but now he flies up and down them pretty well. He likes sitting in the windows and not getting punished for it (in our old apt. we weren't allowed cats so we had to hide him) Our new apt. is RIGHT behind the middle school playground. So all day you hear kids screaming and playing and the Middle School band has MARCHING practice on OUR street... you know the one that our bedroom window faces! I haven't had the experience yet but Kevin says its great to wake up to drums and trumpets. School will be out soon though so I'm not worried. Actually I think tomorrow may be their last day. I remember marching with my clarinet down this streen when I went to school there, I never thought of the people who live in the houses!

Well, I think I'll be on my way, I hope you all still check my blog! It's been a while!

later gaters!

Kevin and his buddy Jason who was in his class 

Kevin and his parents (now you all know who I'm talking about when I say my In-Laws! 

me and the Doctor 

This is me hooding Kevin. 

CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. KEVIN!

Kevin is now officially a doctor (okay, not until he passes the national licensing exam) but he has his DPT now and YAY FOR HIM! Lucky for us, Kevin was in the first 15 people out of about 1000 people to walk through and get his diploma (first because they do Docterate degrees first) So even though they ask you like 10billion times to stay in your seat for the duration of the ceremony, my mom and dad and I snuck out right after Kevin's class walked. I mean do you really expect me to sit through 2 more hours of name after name being called of people I don't know or care about? There were close to 8500 people there at the Alerus Center! I don't think us leaving will make a big wave.

I hooded Kevin this morning in a special hooding ceremony, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, there were quite a few people there, and I wasn't scared or anything.... not even nervous cause everything was going well... until... bum bum buuummm...It's my turn to go up there and meet Kevin in the middle of the stage, I put the hood over his head ( it isnt' really a hood to cover your head, it is like a cape that goes around your neck and hangs in the back down to your knees) I give him a hug and we turn to shake the hands of the important people standing there like Deans and things... then.... Kevin's MOM starts yelling out to me very loudly I might add... "APRIL APRIL STOP APRIL STOP I WANT TO GET A PICTURE!!!" So now that I'm embarassed cause NO ONE DID THAT!! So I wave like "um... kind of busy here" and then instead of walking directly off stage like YOUR SUPPOSED TO DO, we have to hold things up and stop to take a damn picture... and then her camera, of course, doesn't work right away so its not like its a quick thing... no she has to fuss with it and there I am thinking "oh my god, i don't know this woman and she was NOT just screaming my name"

But then I relaxed and thought "Its good that this day isn't about ME, it's about Kevin, and how proud we are of him. So even though my mother in law is a total spaz sometimes, it went well and I'm soooo proud of Kevin! He deserves every inch of that pretty pink hood! He has worked so hard for 8 years to be done with school! He skipped out on a lot of fun stuff to stay home and study, he went out on clinicals and was away from home for 9 weeks at a time, he met with study group after study group, walked ENDLESS blocks to class in the snow and sleet across campus like a total of like a 10000000000 times He has done a thesis study that is now PUBLISHED and in it's own little BOOK! He balanced his social life and school life perfectly. I mean, I'm soooo damn proud of him! It is and always will be one of his biggest accomplishments in his lifetime, he was so happy today, not just to be done with school FINALLY, but I think he realized that all that hard work payed off in the end, and he knows he has every right to feel like he's totally "THE MAN" because to me he is! It must be sooo nice to realize that you accomplished something so woth everything in the world. To some people it may just be Kevin graduating... and I know people are used to seeing kevin do well in most things he does (I mean I'm not bragging, but he's really good at school) but this took a lot of hard work, he may make it look easier than it is because he is passive like that, but I saw first hand how much this meant to him and he did it, all by himself, HE DID IT!!! I love ya Dear, and I want you to know how proud I truely am today, I'm so happy for him that I just don't even know what to say right now except for YAY!!!!!!

Do you know how many people have asked me "you don't mind that Kevin wants a Big Screen TV?

Um, no I don't care, he has worked his ASS off to be TOP OF HIS CLASS for 8 years, he graduated with an undergrad degree with HONORS and now he is a DOCTOR of Physical Therapy, why do you THINK I don't mind!

YAY FOR KEVIN, pics to be here soon.

getting ready for changes

The next few days are going to be VERY busy! Saturday is graduation, festivities will begin at 8am and end late at night with us driving home to DL in separate cars (I get to ride with Mr. Pie because Kevin thinks that if he rides with him, it'll scar him and Mr. Pie will hate Kevin forever and never trust him again, but if I do it, it'll just be less painful for the both of them) Sunday is Kevin's open house, then I have to drive back to GF late at night to work Monday morning while Kevin stays in DL to meet the Furniture people, and the cable/internet/phone people. I work Tuesday and on Wednesday we get the UHAUL. No one is here to help us move, so its just me and Kevin moving all our crap into the UHAUL. Then we drive back to DL (me in my car, him in the UHAUL) then we get back to DL and UNLOAD EVERYTHING with little help (everyone seems to be really busy that day) then take my car and drive BACK to GF thursday so I can work Friday, this is when I move my butt into the hotel. From there on, it is all fly by the seat of our pants... till May 31st when I'll be done at the hotel here in GF, and I'll then move to DL for good, leaving all my friends in GF.

I start my new job at the Comfort Inn in DL on June 6th. That wasn't my first pick of jobs but I couldn't get any other job, so there I am. Go with what ya know.

I have a headache today, stupid head.... On a very good note, I'M FULL!!!!!

another awesome chalk drawing. 

what people can do with chalk can blow your mind! 

WHADDYA MEAN, I CAN"T EAT THAT, IT's SHAPED LIKE SOMETHING YOU EAT!

For the past 2 days, I have been constantly hungry. My stomache will growl AS I'm finishing up my meal. My stomache will hurt like it is hungry from the time I wake up until the time I go to bed. This either means A: My motabolism FINALLY caught up with me, or B: I have a tapeworm. (okay, probably not, but it IS a possibility right!) Now, most people would think "oh, no, I shouldn't eat anymore, I'm gonna get fat" but not me, OHHHH no no no. I don't have that inner girly girl... unfortunately, so I do eat everything. NO, I'm not pregnant so don' t EVEN go there! cause I know there would have been a lot of posts like that. This isn't worring me for some reason... should it? If I still feel like this tomorrow I'll stop eating and worry about it, but for now... PASS ME THE WON TONS!!! mmmm... I wish I had won tons!


Anyway, Jan okayed me staying at the hotel for that time I am going to be bedless and posessionless. (yup thats a word, I used it) So thats a relief. I don't think I'll like being at the hotel ALL THE FREAKIN' time, so I'll have to visit peeps a lot, but it won't be sooo bad, I won't have to wake up so early to go to work, I'll just.... roll out of bed, shower and walk downstairs.

I can't believe we're only going to be in the apartment for another week and a half. I'm gonna miss the place. Not the panel walls, not the bongo playing neighbors (yeah he really does play the bongos.... and the guitar... amped) I won't miss the brick walls and the tile floors, nor will I miss the closets that consists of hooks on the walls with no doors, I definately won't miss the shitty water pressure, I won't miss the nasty laundry room, and I think I'll live without that funny smell coming from the vents, and the lack of closet space (none).... okay maybe I won't miss the place. but I'll miss the memories I have of the place, it was me and Kevin's first apt. together, and it reminds me of UND and going to school here. I'll miss Grand Forks in general, I love living here. Hopefully some day I'll be back, but right now moving to DL just makes sense.

Tonight I'm packing some clothes (stuff we dont' wear that often) and some more small boxes of odds and ends. I haven' t decided whether or not I feel like driving to DL on my days off this week, that drive is getting a little mind numbing but it'll be nice to have MORE stuff out of the apartment. hm...

anyway, I'm hungry, I'm gonna go find SOMETHING to eat.

One reason I couldn't live in a bigger city with tall buildings, I like seeing sunsets and not having to drive a long ways to see the sun going down behind the horizon. 

These clouds do not look very happy! This is a pic from the first day I got my camera, I drove out of town to get awsome pics of the thunder clouds. I forgot I still had these pics! 

Mr. Pie is curious as to what I'm doing. This pic is old, but I laugh everytime I see it.

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

Happy mothers day to:

MY MOM
Karissa
Janelle
Jessica Rabbit


and of course JOSIE, cause even though her baby is still baking, she is a mother who is nurturing and loving and caring for her baby every day! Just think of next year, Josie when you have a wee one to help you celebrate mothers day!

flood, and hail, and tornatos, OH MY!

I'm over at Blakes, because we are under a Severe Thunder Storm Warning and a Flood Watch. The radar looks icky, and I HATE big storms when I'm by myself. Kevin is still in DL, I drove back to GF last night.

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to my BEAUTIFUL, SMART, CARING, CREATIVE MOM!!!

We moved a whole lot of stuff back with us this weekend, and Kevin finished painting. We get our new furniture next Monday, and the UHaul next Wednesday the 18th. Then all my stuff will be out of the old apartment which means I will be homeless for a week or so. Hopefully Jan will let me stay at the hotel so I don't have so be in my empty apartment sleeping on a box.

I'm gonna go watch the storm now... I'll write more later.

not so bling bling

Kevin and I went shopping today for furniture for the new place. We bought a nice Leather sofa set with love seat and a stone coffee table and end table...some time soon, we'll be getting a new washer and dryer. Gotta love Master Card. It's nice to know that in a couple of months, we will be able to start paying a large chunk of the balance for the furniture. I have to admit, growing up, graduating and having more money will be very nice. Kevin has worked very hard in school, thanks to him, we'll be able to afford new stuff like that. I can't wait to move into our new place! Just 2 weeks until Kevin graduates!!!!

FuzzyButt is not amused when I interupted his suckling my hair to take a pic.  

"what do you want you inferior creature, what could be so important that you find it necessary to wake me at such an early hour of the afternoon, now go, before I get angry and you will no longer get the pleasure of caring for my every need!" 

I may resort to sleeping in a box, eating out of the garbage, and smoking crack... oh and if any one is interested... $50.00 and I'm all yours.

They say that after you graduate with a 4 year degree that finding a job is a lot easier... hm...I guess I wouldn't know. You know WHY I wouldn't know? Cause I went to school to be a photographer... yup I was really thinking THAT through when I changed my major. I can't find a job in DL. When I move, I'll be a bumb.. first class loser. I've worked at the Comfort Inn in GF for almost 5 years. Even when I was working there, I applied for 4 different jobs, and I was offered all of them. But I didn't take them because I liked working at the hotel, it just doesn' pay me enough. But I stayed. So Hotel work is all I have experience in. I worked at Sears but only for a couple months. I don't want to work at Walmart, I don't want to work in telemarketing, nor do I want to call BINGO numbers every Wednesday at the "Night Owl" Even if I did want to do those things... they probably won't hire me either. I applied for a graphic Design job (by the ONLY graphic design place in DL) and they apparently didn't care much for my application.

Now, I know I being picky here. A job is a job, money is money.... I know. I've told people to stop complaining about not having a job because you can ALWAYS work at McDonalds if it comes down to it...now I AM one of those people, and you know what I'd rather roll around in a big litter box before I take a job at McDonalds (no offese to any of you loyal, much loved and appreciated McWorkers) just not for me! I've looked on Job Service website and have found NOTHING. DL needs teachers but a teacher I am not. They also need Milkmen(women) (I didn't even know that job exsisted anymore!) I wanted to apply to be a correctional officer at the jail... sounded interesting... but Kevin said HELL NO to that one. I think He's just jealous cause I would get to pack some heat...he wants to be able to carry around a gun.

I can work at a Daycare, but then I wouldn't want to have kids of my own any day soon, so thats out.

There are NO clothing stores in DL except for old woman stores and Maureeces. They don't sell my size (long) so I refuse to EVER work there.

Amber and I are going to open a photography studio (that is a post all to itself soon!) but that won't be for a while yet, and I need a job until then!

Some people have even asked "why are you even going to work, Kevin will be making plenty of money for both of you for a while!" the answer is that I AM NOT LAZY! I don't think Kevin should HAVE to work to support me, I have been working since I was 14 and I'm not going to NOT get a job just because we won't NEED the money neccessarily. But really, we do need the money, because we'll have almost 60,000 in financial aid to pay off... School of Medicine is NOT cheap! and 8 years of it really adds up!

Anyway, I'm just venting, I'm sure I'll find a job I'll like, It's just frustrating, and I don't like change.