Today it's my birthday!

Hello everyone! Today was a pretty good day. Just doing the class thing. :) I finally met with Charli, the new first year experience person (in charge of the PAs), and it looks like the internship will work out. My main responsibilities will be to get together the Contact Sheets from the PAs and put together a newsletter for the freshman parents (it's an e-newsletter). So we'll see how it goes. If it gets to be too much, i'll probably step down. But Charli is aware of my other commitments and is willing to work with me. So all is well with that. Classes don't look extremely difficult, which is good. It should be a good semester. A good balance between challenging and not so challenging. Well, that's my mini update for the time being... I have some Greek to study!

More pictures for you viewing pleasure!

We stained some boards and made some shelves for our bathroom and put them up. :0)



We also got a big wall clock for the dining area. It was on sale for 15 dollars at Kohls. I like it a lot.


And we got a table finally! It came today and Brad got it all put together. It was even done in time for Dinner. It's smaller than I thought it would be, but it's ok. Any bigger and I think it would be cramped. We just have to eat Buffet style when we have company.


Today was also the first day of classes. Everything seems to be going well for the most part. I don't have many of my books yet, which is a little annoying because I do have reading I should be doing. It was especially annoying because for Western Civ, I borrowed the book because its really expensive and I didn't want to pay for it... So I got to class, and he TOTALLY CHANGED THE BOOK. And it's a brand new, just published book...so I can't even find it used online. But I did find it for significantly cheaper than the book store had it. I also found out that our apartment is pretty far from everything... My feet/legs are a little sore. At least I know I won't get fat!! Haha.

~Beth

After Pictures

The Bedroom:

Here's what our room looks now! :0) We still have some tweaking to do, but here's the general idea:



The Office:



The Bathroom:

The Living Room:


The Kitchen:

Just For Grandpa

There's the TV. We don't have much, but we do have a really huge TV!!! :0)

Apartment...Before...

Hey all! I decided to take up my blogging again. I figured this would be the best way to communicate instead of sending out mass emails. This way you get to choose whether or not you want to hear about my life. ;-)

Anyway, I thought I would start off this blog season by posting some "Before" pictures of our apartment. "After" pictures will come after we get things done... hopefully sometime today or tomorrow. But Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither will our apartment be organized and ready for presentation in a day. ;-) Enjoy!

From the outside:


our tree!

Kitchen/Dining Area:





Living Area:


Spare Bedroom:


Our Bedroom:

The Big Closet in our Room:


And the Bathroom:





That's all for now. I'll post after pictures when we're all ready to roll!

Relaxin'!

This last week was one of relaxing. I didn't do a whole lot of anything, really. I worked some on my scrapbook, hung out with my family, went job hunting, ect. It's been nice to do whatever I want, even if it's nothing. I do need a job though, and it will be nice to get one at some point.

Yesterday for Mother's Day, we went to Treetops for a Mother's Day Brunch. It was sooooooooooooooo good. They have so much food, it's impossible to decide what you actually want. I ate way too much. But it was pretty dang good. Especially the Desserts. Tonight I think my Dad and I are taking Grandma Kay out to dinner to celebrate Mother's Day.

Other than that... I don't really have anything going on. I'm boring these days. And I like that. :D

I'm Home!

Well, I've been home since Sunday. I haven't really done much. Yesterday and today I spent filling out and turning back in job applications. Turns out, no one is hiring. I feel like i've applied EVERYWHERE.
Places So Far I have Submitted An Application or Left My Name:
Bath and Body Works
Home Depot
Alpine Oven
Ben Franklin
Lowe's
Spud Warehouse
Diana's Delights
Oliver's Trendz
The Library (yep, I even asked if the Library needed me at all this summer.)
Gobbler's

Places I have An Application to Return:
Arlene's Diner
Dress Barn
Fashion Bug
Starbucks
Bigby's Coffee

Places I Could Still Apply At:
Kohl's
Old Navy
Walmart
Glen's
SaveALot

It's a little depressing being told everywhere I go that they aren't hiring. :( I just need a job. At this point I'm even considering working at a grocery store.

Other than job hunting, I've been scrapbooking and working on wedding stuff. Tomorrow i'm going to go check on the caterer and pick up an invitation book so I can order invitations by the end of the week. I need to get Brad going on picking a tux and starting on getting the guys measured so I can order the tuxes. We're planning on going downstate Memorial Day weekend to shop for wedding attire for my parents and brother as well as flowers. We need to get going on getting the flower's arranged and made. Yay wedding details!