Saturday, September 17, 2011

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Update

Dang. It has been a long time since I've posted anything on here. Pretty lame, I know.

In no particular order, the following things have happened since February:
  • Brenna got married
  • Dillon Graduated from high school
  • Kati had a baby girl and named her Faith Rose
  • I got a cat
  • My dad got inducted into the Legion Baseball Hall of Fame
  • I went to Vermont for vacation
  • I finally went to my first regular season MLB game--at Fenway
  • I put my tootsies in the Atlantic Ocean for the first time
  • I gave the dogs their summer haircuts
  • I reconnected with a friend I haven't seen since elementary school
Faith Rose Scheetz, born 2/8/11
Brenna and I at her wedding in Arkansas 3/19/11
One of Dillon's Senior Photos
Jared and I on the beach in Portsmouth, NH
Sox vs Sox. Fenway!
Chibi, the best kitty in the world! Used to belong to an old roomie, now belongs to me!
Dillon with his diploma. I love the look on his face!
Dillon getting his diploma.
I wish these weren't all so blurry!
All of us with Dad at his Legion Baseball Hall of Fame induction dinner.
Dad and his buddy, Art, who introduced him at the Hall of Fame dinner. So funny!
Chelsi and I reunited after 10+ years. So much fun!
Dillon and 2 classmates at graduation. There were 2 boys to every girl in their class, so they walked in groups of three.
D-man giving his Salutatorian speech. He also got the Outstanding Senior Award.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Brrrrr...and Other Stuff

It has been absolutely freezing down here as of late. I'm talking like -30s at night, and just above 0 during the day. Cold. Record lows, freezing pipes, no gas, no heat, no water for a lot of the state. We lucked out and have been okay. If all else fails, at least we have the dogs to keep us warm!

It's snowing again now. Hopefully it'll keep up all day. I do like the snow, even though it makes me feel absolutely awful and makes driving here even more scary than usual, if that's even possible to believe! Also, I have officially become a reliable predictor of whether or not it is going to rain or snow. Yay for me, I guess!

Spring classes have started up again, and this semester I'm taking my warm water exercise class again as well as an online medical terminology course. The good news is that, after a lot of searching and heartache, I finally purchased a long-torso bathing suit that is long enough to keep all the appropriate parts covered! Woot! The bad news is that my medical terminology course is rather boring and tedious. (I probably should have seen that coming.) As expected, my professor arranged the coursework in an unimaginative and annoying way. Tedious... It's a 3 credit course, so a bit of work, but it will be nice to have it under my belt and to be one step closer to being able to apply to grad school. I hope the other classes I still need to take aren't so bad.

 In other news, the birthdays of Jared, Dillon, and Hyside are coming up. Quite a collection of Aquariuses or Aquarii or Aquarians or whatever the heck you call them (or used to call them, depending on which system you use). I had no idea what to get either of the human people, so I hope I don't completely strike out this week! I have some fun planned for Jared, so I"ll keep my fingers crossed. The dog person is a little easier to shop for. I'm thinking a fuzzy tree full of birds or a fuzzy hive full of bees since the tree of squirrels was such a hit at Christmas!

To backtrack a bit, Dillon is turning 18. Woah! I need to spend some more time trying to figure that one out...

I've got a trip to Arkansas for Brenna's wedding planned for March, a trip up to Montana for Dillon's graduation in May followed closely by a trip to Vermont, then I have to work for the rest of the year since all of my vacation will be more than used up. I'm looking forward to the time off. This being a grown-up thing isn't all it's cracked up to be!

That's all for now. I'm gonna go pop some Vicodin and finish my homework for the week. Two of the roomies are out of town for the week, so it's just Jared and me and of course the dogs, the cats, the frog, and all the fish. Sweet!

Wilderness Medical Systems, LLC.

The owners of this company are my neighbors in Montana. They are running a really cool company customizing and selling wilderness preparedness kits. Awesome!

Monday, January 24, 2011