Stuffed!

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! I ate way too much (as always!), but got to spend a lot of time with my family and friends. Although I realized this weekend that you have to be very forgiving of cousins and grandmas who just cannot seem to keep up... I think I was asked three times how I was liking my sophomore year of college!

Also got just about all of my Christmas shopping done! The mall we were shopping at in the Twin Cities had a table set up by Santa where they were giving away free chocolate chip cookies... I managed to "inadvertantly" walk past it at least half a dozen times!

Seems like everyone else is doing well! Crazy to think that it has been almost 7 months since graduation! Half of us have already celebrated another birthday since then... we are just growing up too fast (well not Meghan, she will always be the baby ;) )!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
Hope everyone has a wonderful day tomorrow with your families and happy full bellies : )
Sarah, hope your early Tgiving went well!
Love to all!

so soo long!

Ladies!!! Thanks for the birthday texts and calls..they really meant a lot to me :) My birthday was tons of fun I saw The Blind Side and New Moon, got my nails done with Char and went out with friends - pretty much a great day! lol Nothing is crazy new here just working and trying to have fun lol thats really what its all about.

I just finished making the stuffing for Thanksgiving - which I am sooo excited about! Meg and Amy I think about you every day I walk into work because we have been listening to Christmas music for about 3 weeks now - grr hahah.

Miss you all tons and tons and tons :) Have a great Thanksgiving!
Love you

Hi girls! And happy birthday Maggie! What are your plans to celebrate???

Absolutely nothing new here... work is going well. I had to give a presentation for career day at Johnston High School yesterday morning. Had to do the same 30 min presentation 3 times... I like to talk but man that was a lot of talking! And I don't know how high school teachers do it, those kids are impossible to entertain! Although I did get a few questions that I luckily enough knew the answers to!

I am planning on heading home on Wednesday after work for Thanksgiving, which I am really excited about. I was talking to a friend of mine who still lives in New Ulm and he said that my parents already have our Christmas lights on, the only one on the block to have them up before Thanksgivin. I have never been more proud of my parents :)

Happy Bday to Maggie in 4 hours!!!

Hello girls,
   My life is still pretty boring, so even though I noticed you all haven't been posting, I didn't really feel like updating lol Anyways, I have been waitressing a lot lately, though I finally just had a day off - I think I worked over 70 hours in a week, which is a lot on my feet in terrible black gym shoes lol But more importantly, I had a job interview with Oprah.com yesterday for an editorial itern position - keep your fingers crossed for me! I know, funny because she announced the end of her show today, but I can only intern until May anyways, so no problem there. Other than that, nothing too much, I still can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving, time has been flying lately, but I'm hoping something exciting happens soon - hope your lives are lovely :)

Mich

Hey!

Hola!

So apt update: I get my keys on monday! =) Hopefully I'll be making an IKEA trip (sorry chicago girls, the mn one is closer!)

Maggie- happy early birthday!

I hope everyone is doing well! How many are going to New Moon this weekend?? lol

Anyone out there?

Hey girls! So, we've been slacking on the blog. How is everyone??!!
My bday was pretty fun. BTW, thank you all for all the bday wishes! I wish you guys could have been there : ( Went to a lame piano bar (probably cuz you guys weren't all there to sing it out ; ) ), but ended up at this fun bar with dancing. Highlight of my night was Amanda throwing up on the side of the busiest road of our town lol.
Work is going pretty well. I was just offered a long term sub position for the end of the year when one of our teachers goes on maternity leave. That means more pay, which is obviously good. It's not set in stone yet, so we'll have to see.
My sister is a few short weeks away from having her baby. Mike and I will most likely go out there over New Year's to visit.
Amy, hope the job is going well!
Meg, hope the new apt is working out!
Sarah, let's stop playing phone tag!!
Mich, one of these days our schedules will mesh.
Mags, IT'S YOUR BDAY IN 3 DAYS!!!!
Just think girls, one year ago we were at the midnight showing of Twilight and I was puking my brains out lol.
Miss you and love you all!

Piano bar anyone?

Hey girls!
Hope everyone's Halloween was fun! We had a bunch of ppl over and then went to see a band at a bar. We even won second place in the costume contest! We won a whooping $100 between the 7 of us lol.
Meg, your apt looks awesome!
This week I have been helping a local jr high pom team by doing some dance workshops. I was walking in today and the girls didn't notice me and I overheard them bitching about me. I confronted them as a team at practice and then they kissed my ass after that lol. In an ideal world, if I were to get a job as a teacher in this school next year the coach said she would give the team to me : ) But like I said, that would be in a perfect world.
For my bday tomorrow both sets of parents are coming over for dinner but they are cooking. On Friday a bunch of us are going to a piano bar to celebrate. I sooooo wish you all could join : ( Piano bars just aren't the same without you : (
Miss you and love you all!

Moving!

Hello hello! I hope everyone's doing well! I think most of you know this already but I'm officially moving to a new place! It's in the East Village (so just by the Capitol) above Projects Contemporary Furniture store. It's absolutely beautiful!! I figured if I'm going to be in Des Moines until May anyway waiting for acceptance letters I might as well live somewhere cool! =) Here's a picture of part of the kitchen and some of the living room. Will post more pics once I actually move in!

November, already? Seriously?

Holy Cow - is it me or are you guys surprised it's November already too? I know I haven't been posting lately, I'm finally catching up with computer stuff today since I have to keep myself busy until work at 5. Eww, totally the worst thing about waitressing is working Sunday nights, which I always am - and next week I have a double at 10am and 5 pm, gross, real job... please find me!

Which brings me to my fingers crossed news - Harpo studios called last week (Harpo = Oprah!) and my God that would be perfect. They called about an editorial intern position, which is only $10/hour but its for Oprah.com in Chicago, so basically I'd do it for $2/hour lol. She talked to me for about ten minutes and told me to send a few things their way and that its the beginning of the process for this position so not to be discouraged if its a week or two before I hear anything, so that would be wonderful. I would actually be doing something related to my degree and I don't have to move and Oprah probably isn't going bankrupt or anything soon... so that's where I am in my job search right now. It was pretty nice because I didn't even apply for this position, but they kept me on file from a previous app, so that's a good sign too!

As for my current job, I don't hate it but I don't love it. I work pretty much 5-6 shifts a week and make about $40/lunch, $90ish at dinners, which would be ok except my shifts are anywhere from 3-8 hours which sucks because they don't post "closers" but just decide when we're there which means I can go in for a dinner shift at 4:30pm and end up there until 1:30am... without a break, food or the ability to sit down, except for the many times I take pee breaks of course lol.

The rest of my life is pretty boring filled with little bursts of baking and drinking I guess lol I went to a wedding last week and was told I had sexy calves lol and spent Halloween dressed as a bottle of ketchup with Bridge & Mags last night, so that was a nice add on to my usual work and sleep schedule.

Feel free to read my stuff at Cake Journal or nillarose and keep your fingers crossed that Oprah (or someone that works for her :) calls soon!

Hope you all had a great weekend and enjoyed your extra hour of sleep!!!