New Townhouse

Okay so buying a house/townhouse is probably the one most stressful thing I have done in my life. Most of you out there are probably like okay whatever, you just got married, wasn't that stressful. Well yes but that decision was an easy one. And it was a one time price. I mean yes it was spread out over time, but i am not paying the florist every month. Even though it has been a stressful two weeks, I haven't yet regretted the decision yet so I will fill you in on our new place.

First of all it is a townhouse so of course we are attached to other people. We have a two car attached garage, two bedrooms with a loft about the same size as the smaller bedroom (that is going to be the craft area), a large kitchen and eating area, a living room with a lofted ceiling and an alcove space that we will be making into our office. We have a laundry room and 2 and a half bathrooms. We are upgrading by almost 1100 square feet in our new home, but i think a lot of that is because we are getting a garage. We are going to have a whole extra bathroom and two extra rooms to put stuff in.

While we were in our apartment we decided it would not be a good idea to spend energy on decorating the place. So now that we will be moving into a new place, one that we own, I want to decorate. BJ has a good eye for design due to his art background, however, I think we will still new help with decorating if anyone wants to offer there expertise.

A Tribute to Elvira!

So in case there are some of you reading this that did not know, we name our cars. Elvira was the name of our Focus. Tonight we sold her. So now we are down to Beguira (Mazda 626) and Miki (Nissan Altima).



Elvira here's a look back on our good times.



- When I drove you off the lot the first day



- Remember the first week when we were driving to Kelly's and we almost hit a skunk, that was when your name almost ended up as Pepe Le Peu



- You kept us warm while we "talked"



- All the trips to Augustana



- Your "cruise control", oh yeah it didn't work



- The drive up to Stevens Point that we decided to go for a "spin" literally only we ended up in a ditch and had to be towed out!



- Delivering me safely to any event for our wedding



- Long nights and early mornings



- The way you cried everytime I washed you or drove you in heavy rain (leaky windshield)



- Your first pair of new shoes! Aquatreds baby!!



- Your implants!!! Nothing beats upgraded headlights!



- The day you officially became ours when recieved the title in the mail.



- The morning you decided you didn't want to start because your ticker (battery) stopped working.



- The night you left in good hands!!



So long Elvira we wish you well!

Word of the day is SNOW

Due to the snow i saw 3 out of my scheduled 12 children today. Sucky! There is consistently 2 inches of snow covering the roads. Doesn't matter what road but it is covered by snow. The worst part about it all, the snow is that flaky stuff that doesn't pack to make a snowman, cuz that would make it all better if we could make a snow man.

Hope you like the new face lift of the blog site. (It's like plastic surgery but not as dangerous or expensive).

I Suck Do you still read?

I know I suck a lot. What can I say. I havn't updated my blog in about um a million years. Sorry. Do you want to hear excusses? Well since you are reanding my blog you will have to read the excusess cuz that is what I am writing about. Okay so first of all, I stopped living off of my computer. Once I graduated I found that the amount of free time I once had left me and gave me adult responsibilities like cleaning, cooking and working. With all of these at hand when I get home frm work I just want to eat and sleep. Okay, the the other reason, my O button does not work out so well so unless I hit the button a million times i get no "O". In ther wrds this is what it wuld lk like with out the "" buttn wrking prperly. Sorta sucks doesn't it.

I pleg to try and do better with my bloging in the next couple of months.

I won!

I won, I won! That isI won my fantasy football league this week. I'm excited but I don't' know if I totally like this whole fantasy thing. It's one thing to join a sports thing when you are really into sports and competitive and all and another to join one just for fun. When you choose to join something like this you need to make sure that everyone else in the group is joining for the same reason. When everyone but you is super competitive and can spew sports trivia when they are half asleep, you should not join just for fun. In other words, its hard for me to enjoy the fantasy Football thing because BJ takes it sooooo seriously that I feel I should also take it seriously, however, I don't know what the heck I'm doing. Then I feel defeat before I even begin because the week previous my teams scored half as much as everyone else's team, so why even try. And if I wanted to try how do I go about doing so? I just don't know. Then if I ask for help my whole team is taken over and run for me. I don't know what questions to ask, or how to make my sucky team better, or who to play because it's always my luck that the people I chose to play don't do anything and the ones on my bench score more that the ones playing but I dosn't count cuz they are on the bench. GRRR its a bit frustrating. I just think this could be a very long football season. OHH and now that I have these players I can't just watch football and cheer for the team with the best colors, cuz when I do that BJ is always like, no you don't want to cheer for them cuz you have a guy on the other team. Well now the little bit of football that I liked I am not allowed to like cuz then I just cheer myself to lose. Ahh thanks for listening.

SURGE

BJ and I are being Jr. High mentors with our church. Many of you probably think we are crazy for spending our free time with Jr. High schoolers but it's really not that bad. Tonight was the second night and the first night we have with our groups. I have a group of 6th grade girls and BJ has a group of 6th grade boys. I enjoy the fact that I have sixth graders because it is easier to start fresh with a fresh group than come in and try to change the way they are used to. Any, my girls are great. Very, Very talkative. Plus i have two members of BJ's first group as my high school helpers. I think it's only fair to give back to the "organization" that I was so involved in when I was in High school and Jr. high. My girls are super talkative and active. I will have more of an issue of keeping them quiet than getting them to participate.

Husband vs. Wife

First- I lost my first football game. Sad. But more to come.
Second- Husband wins! Sad again. Many of you are probably wondering why were the husband and wife dueling? Well let me draw you a picture.

It all started many many months ago. Some time around December of 2005. The husband and I (then not husband) decided to go and register. Yes register. While out we started to get distracted and started registering for odd items. One of which was DDR (Dance Dance Revolution). And one of my delightful co-works went ahead and crossed the formal wedding present line and gave it to us for a wedding gift. Now fast forward to last night and I decided it was time to test out our skills. So off came the shoes off came a sock and whap. Elmo sock across the face followed by I challenge you to a duel! After a little trash talk and everyone in there protective and competitive gear. We plug in the floor mats (one that we bought separately sucks) and we go at it. End result Wife sucks, Husband rules and that is that.

Hut-Hut- Dumb Luck

I would like to introduce to the world the beginning of Dumb Luck fantasy football team. Head coach Kelly, assistant coach Kelly, and special teams coach Kelly. That's right folks, I have decided to have my own fantasy team. I named it Dumb Luck because if I win anything it is strickly because of that. I do not follow football much, I watch it because The men in Spandex look great and sometimes they do fun stuff. Other than that I couldn't tell you much about it. And this is my Logo.

Anyway, I just wanted to say hi. I have missed blogging but these 10 plus hour days really make me sleepy. By the time I get home at the end of the day I am ready to go right to bed. BJ and I are going to try and work together and remind each other to blog more. I mean come on we are newly weds we should have a whole lot to write about.

Huge Favor to ask

This is a shout out to everyone who was able to make it to our wedding a couple a weeks ago. Due to some majorly unfortunate events and technology our photographer's hard drive crashed and ate some of our pictures. So I am asking people to check their photos they took and see if they have any of the following.

1. Pre-wedding anything. (Any with the boys or girls both inside and out).
2. Pre-procetional. (boys at the alter or walking in).
3. Procetional of the bridesmaids.
4. When BJ first saw me or as I was walking down the isle.
5. And most importantly my dad walking me down the isle.

Were Freezing

Just kidding. Its so flipping hot around here I am sure I will melt when I put on my snow suit next weekend. We are trying to lay low and say cool. Now let's all hope that next weekend it won't rain and it won't be toooooo increadably hot. This afternoon, BJ and I are going to see Cars for the second time just for fun! see you later.

Wedding Crazyness

I will be sad and happy at the same time with I don't have to plan and prep for the wedding. I love being a bride don't get me wrong. I get happy attention and best of all I am the center of attention. The part I don't enjoy as much is being the party planner. It feels like everytime I turn around I get the "oh congradulations your getting married" then not even 10 seconds later they ask are you ready, is everything done? So it is like a happy sun then flashflood. I can't wait for the actual day though because by then evertying will be taken care of and it will all fall into place with no actuall planning that day. CRAZY WOMAN ON THE LOOSE!

All things naughty

So in honor of my lack of posting and BJ's bachelor party and my Bachloret party we will talk about naughty things we have done lately. In other words, it is a little like confession blog. And to make it fun to read it will be in list form. GO!

1. Sometimes I don't brush my teeth before I go to bed.
2. I hate doing all house work so I push it off as long as possible.
3. I don't drink as much fluid as I should.
4. I don't want to do any of my wedding planning stuff.
5. BJ pretended to enjoy his bachelor party but he really didn't.
6. Sometimes I secretly wish some children won't show up for therapy.
7. Sometimes I use shampoo as soap when I want to make my shower shorter.
8. I never wash my clothes in warm water because it might ruin some of my outfits.
9. I watch more TV than I should.
10. I have begun to really enjoy fake-n-baking.
11. I made $35 at my bachloret party.
12. BJ is proud of me for actually making money at my party and not spending it.
13. I get very annoyed when people tell me I am to little because they think I can control it.
14. I really enjoy cop shows on TV
15. I love to gossip.
16. I never make my bed.
17. I enjoy being lazy.

Confess something!

Ahh Up and Running

Okay we are good now. BJ and I are moved in (for the most part). Most of our rooms are unpacked and look good, however, there are still some random things around the house that haven't found homes just yet but we are getting closer. Friday we had Cable, Internet, and Phone installed. However, of those things the phone only works half the time. For example, we can call you but you can't call us. The wedding is getting closer and we are still in a bit of denial that it is right around the corner. It is one of those things where we have been dating for soooooo long that it doesn't actually feel like the wait is finally over. So now that we have internet keep your eyes open for some blogs. I should be posting more in the coming days/weeks/months.

And Katie, I don't think BJ and I will combine blogs, but maybe I can get him to blog a little more.

Don't worry I didn't die

I didn't die, I just moved. Simple answer. I didn't fall off the face of the earth but the earth is keeping me very very busy. Work is going great, I love to spend my day playing with children and hanging out. It was a fun time when I got my first paycheck, I really havn't seen that much money go into my bank account at one time. I thought it was cool. Like I said BJ and I moved last weekend. We now live togeather **Gasp** but no worries, we are spending so much time getting settled it won't actually feel like we are living togeather until after we are married. Maybe we will get internet and I will be able to become more frequent of a writer and you all won't have to have worry about me anymore. I'm Okay!

Day late 6

So yesterday was 6-6-06 as everyone knows. If you didn't know I'm not really sure were you were at but you have bigger problems than knowing what is going on in my life.

Anyway, nothing really spooky or evil happened to me yesterday, basically it was just another day. Today however, I forgot my lunch, was originally scheduled for 5 kids but ended up having 6, got stuck at subway for the majority of my lunch, had a twilight zone moment at White hen right after that, and left work late. There that was six weird things that happened to me that would have been a little more meaningful if they had happened yesterday.

How to fill a 10.5 hour day doing nothing

This is great. You actually can take what you learn in school and apply it to the real world. Yes, I learned a lot of information about child speech and language development, but I also learned how to do nothing for several hours and still look busy. Yesterday and today I put this knowleadge to the test to see if I could go all ten hours and a half hours. Now just a side note: In the past two days I did have two clients so it is not an accurate to my day but if you need pointers to a ten hour day I can help.

8 am-turn on your computer. Put your lunch in the Refigerator and say good morrning to the front desk staff. Log onto the computer (computers are old so it takes a while). Check e-mail accounts, and daily schedual.
9 - Go see the Front desk staff again. See if more of them are there, Stop and fill up your water bottle. Review your plans for your future days to see if you need to do anything. Check your e-mail again.
10- Pick a letter of the alphabet and see how many arts and crafts you can find that will help your client with that letter.
11- Go to the bathroom. Wash your hands real well. Look through random toy closets and pretend to be planing something really good to do with the toys. (It helps if you take some things out and lift them up.)
12- Eat lunch real slow and talk to the other people you are eating with you. (Hint: go about 10 min early and stay about 10 min longer than supposed too.) Check e-mail and schedual to see if anything has changed.
1- Print out some craft activities and Color them. Bug the other therapists and ask them questions about their day and clients.
2- Check e-mail and the next days clients. Print out some e-mails. Get directions to some place on Mapquest. Check the directions to make sure they are correct. Zoom in and out on the map to make sure you know where it is. Fill out some paper work, make sure you make some mistakes so you can use the white out.
3- Pull a couple of charts to review. Maybe grab some new charts and make notes about the kids.
4- Have a snack. Check on the front desk staff. Make sure they are doing okay. Use the bathroom. Play with all the little gadgits in the bathroom, like the arisol can and towels and stuff. Check mail again. Write a couple of e-mails.
5- Check the next days sechedual to make sure nobody new was added to your day. Review the next couple of weeks, see how they look. See what other therapists scheduals are looking like. go back in time and see how past weeks looked.
6- Pack up for the day take a long time. Say goodbye to everyone, and ask them what their plans are for the day. And leave a couple min early.

Hope this helps you firgure out what to do with your day.

First week of work

Well I didn't die! Actually, I had a hard time remembering that I was actually getting paid to do what I was doing. And really, I didn't do much work at all. Just a lot of reading, listening and watching. I am working at The Rainbow Center, A PhysioTherapy Associate. I am now a full time Speech Pathologist. I actually got to say my title the other day and it completely threw me off. I had to identify myself over the phone and it was very hard to not say student speech pathologist. However, I am having a hard time remembering what clinic I work for. There have been several times when I say I am from Action for Kids or refer to my co-workers as Gina my old supervisor. I think I will go back next week.

On another note BJ and I got the apartment we were waiting for and Brett graduated. It was a fun and very busy week.

A week of nothing

I made an executive discussion a couple weeks back. I decided that after I graduated I would take the week off and just enjoy myself. And that is exactly what I have done. Monday I slept in and started cleaning/packing my room, which is actually really hard because I'm not moving for a month. Monday night I went down to watch BJ play softball. Tuesday I spent the day at BJ's house and then watched another softball game for BJ and then one later in the evening for his brother. Wednesday mom and I went shopping for a mother of a bride dress for her. It wasn't as easy as you might have thought but we did finally find a dress that looked good on and wasn't a fortune. Thursday BJ, McGuire and I went couch shopping and we found one we really liked. And today is Friday and I am doing more of the room cleaning/packing.

Also though out of the course of the week I have finished two books "L is for Lawless" and "M is for Malice" and I have done a bunch of cross stitch.

Here Ye, Here Ye

**Trumpet Sound**
Just thought I would let you all know that I am now an official Speech Language Pathologist!!! Yes I did it. I got hooded, I climbed the steps, I walked across the stage, I shook some persons hand, and then walked down the stairs. I didn't fall and they said my name correctly. As far as school goes, I think I am done for a couple of years. Now it is time to grow up and get a job. The thought is a little frightening just because it is something new. It's not that I don't think I will be a good SLP but the fact that I am no longer a student. It took me 6 years to finally figure out how to do a good job at school now it will all change and I will have to be a professional.

Thanks for your attention, you can go on with your day.

Mythbusters

So I'm not really all that sleepy because I am sleeping in until about 9 or 10 every day so I feel the need to stay up until odd hours of the night just to spend at least a 60:40 ratio of being awake to sleep. So I need something to do to keep my attention long enough and I found MythBusters. For all of you who have not seen this show it is on Discovery Channel and they take urban legends and use scientific practices to prove or disprove the legends. Tonight I found out that talking on the phone, and taking a shower during a thunderstorm could get you killed (they proved this one), your toothbrush can collect fecal mater by being in the bathroom (so cover it up or put it in another room), and eight men in a rowing boat (like the one in the Olympics) can pull a water skier. One of the ones that they disproved was a man in the civil war was shot through the leg and the family jewels then the bullet hit a woman a couple hundred feet away in the abdomen and impregnated her. For anyone who enjoys seeing the research about statements, they would enjoy this show. So no more showers for me during a thunderstorm.