I blog because I care

I really have no idea what to post about. I'm more posting to post than anything else.

This past week has been a bit more restful than my first. I only worked a little under 40 hours, and got to hang out with some family and see The da Vinci Code, which was not amazing, but better than the critics made it out to be. Sometime this week I'll go to X-Men, I just need to find a night for it. It's looking like a busier work week again, so I might be in the mood for a good relaxing time at some point.

Oh, I did have a fun Friday. Abby was going to visit her friend Jess in CO, so I drove her to the airport at 2:30 in the morning, since Minneapolis is 2 and a half hours south of us and her flight was supposed to leave at 6:15. That got changed to 9:15, which meant she would miss her connecting flight, so we waited in line for an hour before she talked to someone who told her the best bet was to just fly to Denver at 9:15 and try and get on a connecting flight on standby. After waiting all day in Denver, she finally got on at 5:30. Me, on the other hand, drove back to Brainerd and hung out with my cousins for a bit, so I didn't sleep. Then I worked, then hung out with Aana and Seth, so I went to bed at 11, 21 hours after waking up. Glorious.

Tomorrow night I'm gonna try making Bourbon Chicken. If it turns out ok, I'll add it to my regular list at school. I hope it's good.

This will most likely be a movie summer for me. I have picked up six movies since arriving home, and that will only continue as I plan to buy at least one season of Friends this week, on sale for 16.99 each at Best Buy. Which one is still a mystery, but will most likely be season 7, for whatever reason.

My parents and I watched the first disk of season 1 of Lost tonight, and I had a really hard time stopping, but my parents want to spread it out a bit. I might cheat and watch some without them...

I think I've rambled sufficiently about nothing at all, check you later.

Living the high life

Man, time flies when you're... not doing anything.

I've spent the last week working basically, which is cool with me because even though I've been really sore and pretty tired most of the time, it's still worth it for the money, and my dad is being plenty generous right about now.

Today I begin living the immaculate life. You see, our house goes up for sale tomorrow, which means that people will be touring it until it sells, which I personally don't think will be too long, but until that happens I can't be messy, not even in my own room. Rather unfortunate on the whole. I have been able to look at the house plans for the new place and I looked at the land it will be on and it should be a pretty sweet set up. I might recruit a few people to help us move in, depending on when it's done. I smell a Fall Break road trip...

I should really start doing stuff with the few people that are in town this summer. No parties at my place (again with the whole immaculate thing), but movies, Applebees, Whipple, etc. should start going down.

In some of the lamest news of the year, Belmont has increased tuition another $550/ semester for next year. Yahoo for more loans!

17 hours later

So I made it home last night around 11:30, which gave me a grand total of 17 hours on the road. Special thanks go out to Yahoo Maps for getting me lost trying to get out of Minneapolis, and the wreck on I-39 in southern Wisconsin that had me move 5 miles in an hour and a half.

Today's agenda:
11:00 - hair cut
11:30ish - change oil
12:00 - lunch with sister sarah
1:00 til whenever - um.... no clue, except that 24's on at 8. That's all I need to remember.

Just need to get through Illinois...

I am leaving tomorrow morning at 6 AM. I should be home by 10 at the latest.

Loads of fun... er something.

Free as a bird

I am officially no longer under the restrictions of Belmont Dept. of Residence Life.

Last night was my first night in the house, and it was nice, except that the futon broke during the night, so I slept on an incline. Gonna try and fix that before tonight.

Today has been the most useless day ever. I've loved it. I just got out of my pajamas about an hour ago, and I've been up since 8. That's saying something.

This week will consist of very little on the whole. It WILL, however, consist of seeing M:I 3, because I still haven't seen it. Everyone else is slowly going to it without me. Rather frustrating on the whole, if I do say so.

I need to get food. But only 4 days worth...

Celebrate good times

My last final of the year was this morning, and it went fine. Now I get to hang out here for a week and then head home.

So I've been thinking about adding a second major, finance. It would only be an extra semester, I could totally do it. Then I could be out of Belmont after 3 and a half years with two degrees, both in business administration, one in music business and one in finance. Hopefully I could then find a job down here that would be in the music industry with something to do with finance. Plus, if I don't find anything in the music biz, there's lots of opportunities in finance, and they'll pay better. So kind of a win-win. I just need to decide if I want to put myself through 18 credits of high-level finance... Maybe I should look for the win-win-win, as Michael Scott would say.

We're having the Soccer Mom formal tonight, which means I get to wear my amazing new sport coat that I got at Southern Thrift on Tuesday. Should be fun.

M:I 3 is getting decent reviews, mostly that Philip Seymour Hoffman is amazing and the movie is nothing spectacular but entertaining nonetheless. Works for me. Might have to wait until Sunday to see it though, I'm running low on funds. And I'm making cookies this afternoon. Yep.

The voice of experience can change history

Things I love:

1. Pulling out gems like this title during an in-class essay final.

2. The new house, even though I've hardly moved anything in.

3. The new Elms album, The Chess Hotel. Bought it yesterday morning, probably on my 7th listening right now. Great rock and roll.

4. Knowing that in just over 24 hours I will be sitting in a movie theater watching M:I 3. And it's not going to suck.

5. Sweet thunderstorms.

Things I'm cool with:

1. Getting low on food right around the time I'll be moving.

2. Wanting to take a nap.

3. My finance final this afternoon.

Things that I'm not down with:

1. Running out of gas because of a stupid gas gauge. (Thanks to Tim, Kim, Susan, and Ryan for the help)

2. Humidity.

3. Spending $42 to fill up my tank yesterday.

4. Wanting to make cookies and realizing all of the cooking stuff was my roommate's and is now at his new condo.

Blogging Katrina and a new setup

Finally, my 10 page paper on blogs and Hurricane Katrina is complete! I turned it in about 15 minutes ago, and that felt great. I was hoping to get to around 12 pages, but after several hours of wokr and research I realized that was not going to happen, at least not now. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out though, so I hope she likes it.

The rest of my classes today should be uneventful. Accounting will be short, since she'll give back our tests and I'll decide I don't need to take the final and leave. Marketing will be review for the final, which I found out is on Friday instead of Thursday. Finance, we'll go over some new material and prep for the final. Loads of fun.

We got to move into our house yesterday! Well, I guess I should say we can move into the house, but nobody spent the night there last night. Tim should be in on Wednesday. I'm going to try and be in sometime this weekend, probably Sunday, though I most likely won't stay there until Tuesday, as I don't have a bed yet. Doug is basically staying in my spot for the summer, he just needs to confirm a few things, but I'm planning on him.

The place is really cool, I like it alot! The thing I might be most excited about is the basement, which is currently filled with crap, but that's getting cleaned out and I'm going to make it a sweet hang out/card game area. A chillax lounge, if you will. I'll try and post some pictures of the place sometime soon. First I need to find my digital camera that disappeared sometime in the last month...