Happy Halloween!

Meg and Amy, your costume sounds cute!
Where is everyone partying at this year?
Well I know where Mags and Mich are going lol. A bunch of ppl are coming over to our place then we going to a bar to see a cover band. I must say, I'm going to miss Halloween Hop this year, just not the part when I get obliterated and making a fool of myself : )
Today was my school Halloween party. It was lots of fun and the kids were super cute. We always do a parade around the school which is fun. My turtle costume was a hit : )
Other than that, Mike and I are paint the kitchen...for the 3rd time! We have bad luck with paint colors I guess : / I think we got it this time though. First it was baby room yellow, then it was school bus yellow, but now it's a nioce sage green.
I keep forgetting my bday is this week lol. I can't believe we're getting to be such old balls (well, except for you Meg : ) ) I dunno what I'm going to do to celebrate yet. Nothing spectacular.
Wish we could celebrate all these fun things together : ( Miss you girls like craaaaazy!

Have a fun and safe Halloween!

It's Almost Here!

Okay ladies.... this is it... Halloween weekend! Has everyone figured out plans?? It's weird to think that we won't all be together this year for our annual costume photo shoot =( Have the costumes been nailed down yet? I'm recycling Amy's Peter Pan costume from sophomore year and making the large leap to Robin Hood lol - but I'm in desperate need of a bow & arrow set! Amy is also recycling a costume - her oh so cute Red Riding Hood is now the German beer girl! Complete with beer stein!

Hope you all are doing well and I expect a LOT of photos from this weekend on fb!

Halloween

Soooo...what is everyone going as for Halloween? I know Bridget said she is going as a Ninja Turtle, which begs the question are you going to be Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, or Leonardo? Personally, I liked the Kate Gosslin wig idea and the Twitter Fail Whale option...but I'm still undecided.

Other than that there is not much else to report here. I am going home this weekend to raid our costume stash and hopefully put something together, and we are also celebrating both my parents birthdays this weekend since my dad's was last week and my mom's was this week. So hopefully my sister's remembered to pick up a gift for both of them, and then I can just sign my name to the card.

I have actually seen two movies in the last week, Law Abiding Citizen and Where the Wild Things Are. Both were really very good! Another exciting event in my life, I am going to Palmer's Deli tonight for supper with Meghan and I have never been there before! Big day!

Hope all is well with everyone! :)

Oh the dramz

Hey girls!
Meg, hope you are having a wonderful time in NY!
Sarah, I soooooo wish we could be there this past week to help celebrate!
As for me, life isn't all that exciting. Some dramz with Scott and stupid Amanda. They got in yet another big fight infront of us last week and now she is too embrassed to hang out with us. We saw them at church and Scott apparantly dragged her over to see us and she acted like a complete BITCH. So I told Scott this the next day and said she was being immature. He said she's afraid we think of her like we thought of Amanda. I was like well... So now we basically won't see Scott till she gets over this. And then she has the balls to invite us to her bday party (which of course is going by limo downtown to a club for the "great" deal of $35 all you can drink) and when Mike was making plans to go see this band on the same night she commented and said that we can't go cuz we're going to her bday. I was like um no hunny.
Sorry had to vent lol. The job is going well. 2 ppl are preggerz so Mike says I can't drink the water lol.
Hope everyone is doing well! Love you and miss you all!

Happy Birthday!

Happy 23rd birthday Sarah!

Hey girls! I haven't written in awhile because nothing has really been going on. haha Lane Bryant is alright we were the #1 store in the country so that was pretty impressive and now people from our corporate offices are coming to visit tomorrow. So we have been working tons of hours to make sure the store looks perfect :( NOT fun! We had our first hockey game on Saturday - we lost...big time! I guess we know what we need to work on now though. Thats really about it though :(

Miss you all!

Weather

It is really strange to hear about the cold weather. It has just gotten less hot here in the last couple of weeks. It usually gets to about 70-75 during the day and 50's at night. I was actually really happy to hear that it is supposed to rain this week. I know, I know its weird to wish for rain, but I can only take so much sun. In order to experience the fall, I have to drive down certain streets in LA. For some reason some streets have trees that change in the "fall" here, which makes me so happy.

I had my birthday party on Friday. It was really fun, but it was weird not to have you girls here. Thanks for all the texts from you guys that night. They made me smile.

Wish me luck with the rain (apparently LA gets even crazier when it rains, because people, specifically drivers, don't know how to drive in the rain.... CRAZY CALIFORNIANS!!)

Brrrrrr.....

Hi girls!
It is cold here! The window in my bedroom had a crack in it so I called my landlord to have it replaced and our repair man must be a genius because I came home yesterday to find that he had taken the cracked window out, but did not replace it with a new one. I guess he thought it was acceptable to start working on the job before the new window even came in. So there is just the storm window between me and the cold...brrrrr!!!!!

And to all our Chicago readers....sorry we didn't get a chance to meet up while I was in town earlier this week! Our schedule was pretty crazy and I think I was in bed every night by 9:30! But as I said on Twitter, the shopping was fantastic!

Halloween costumes.....hmmmm....you could always wear your Pippy Longstocking costume to school and then invest in a new one to wear out! I'm kinda stuck on what to wear this year too, I might have to go as someone who is going to climb Mt. Everest if it stays this cold!!!

And congrats to Michelle and Sarah on the jobs!!!

Suggestions Needed

Any good ideas on what i should be for Halloween? It needs to be school appropriate and a bonus if it makes a decent couple costume so I can wear it with Mike when we go to UofI to celebrate : )

yes.... snow

Can you believe it? Snow in the forecast already! It was just for saturday night and now it's for saturday AND sunday. Not a whole lot else going on... it's been pretty crappy gloomy weather for the past like two weeks. Except for yesterday! It was the most perfect fall weather you could ask for! Grad school applications are in process... still studying for the GRE - I hope to take it around the first week of November. B, I know how you're feeling about the stupid fees. $150 for the GRE and around $100 bucks for each application - it has me really reconsidering how many schools I'll be applying to lol =)

Hope everyone's week is going well! Tomorrow is Friday!

Boo Drake

Mich, sorry you are crabby with the job : ( At least you have the opportunity to meet new ppl and its a potentially fun nonsense job.
So I really hate Drake and never getting the right answers. I am STILL trying to figure out how to get my Illinois teaching certificate. I just found out I have to take ANOTHER stupid test. Even when I talked to someone a while back in IL about it, they said my Iowa test would count for it. Well, of course no one knows the right answer and I am still flushing away money on tests. I am seriously thinking about emailing ed profs at Drake and telling them the right facts so all those girls in the ed program from IL won't have to go through this crap. Ugh. Sorry, had to vent : )
Meg, I saw your status...SNOW??!! Ew! I always remember that time class got cancelled soph year and we ordered in Planet Sub at your dorm lol.
Sarah, as of this moment I am watching your brother get a massage on TV. Weird lol.
Well, I'm off to make dinner for both sets of rents. Love you all!

job update

So yesterday I began training as a server at Westwood Tavern & Tap, it's brand new and actually a pretty cool restaurant, but, I don't really want to be doing this and I dislike the fact that I have no prior skills because the other trainees have years of experience, and I don't like thinking that I'm spending so much time learning this and what if I suck at it or what if (hopefully) I get a real job soon and then wasted time training... but it will be nice to have food expereince so when I'm rich and open my bakery or chocolate lounge I've got somewhere to start :)
I also am interviewing tomorrow morning to be a fitness instructor at Village in the Park Apartments, which I'm hoping to get, but it's hard because I have the experience instructing from Drake, but I don't have any training certificates so I can't get an instructor position at Lifetime or Bally's or something, but hopefully this Apartment instructing job will work out, that would be great.

Right now I'm just focussed on training for this job and slightly crabby because I want a normal job with normal hours because my friends work during the day and I dont want to work every night, including until 3am on Friday/Saturday and then holidays too... holidays are my favorite and I'll be super sad if/when I have to wait tables instead of being with my family. But for now, I"ll just wait and see - it's werid to have no idea what's going on in life, very un-michelle! 

JOB!!!!! WOOHOOO!

Quick post before I fall asleep. I just have to tell you girls because I'm truly excited. I got a job...finally. I'm working at Restoration Hardware. It was quite the interview process. The second interview I went on, the manager started it off by telling me there was a good chance I wasn't going to get hired because she has only like one another person enough to hire them in the 8 months she has worked at the store. SOO of course when I got the job, I felt pretty good about myself. I start in a week, which means in a couple of weeks I can start to pay my own bills, which as you know will be the best feeling in the world. It really seems like a great job for me right now. Of course I just need to start making money, but this job allows me the time to continue to take these assistant editing jobs that I have been doing. For now this seems like all I need to get my life moving in the right direction. Love and miss you girls. Wish you could all be here to celebrate my birthday, but I will be thinking about you at my party and of course dancing to what I consider to be "our jams"!!