June 9th 2007
The past few weeks has been taken up with work and preparing for college. We’re moving in August, probably around the first. I’ve been looking at apartments and collecting furniture from relatives and friends. I think we’re actually going to have plenty of stuff. I really want a washer and dryer because Don and I have to do laundry twice a week because of his job. I’ve been looking on craiglist for some, maybe I’ll find a cheap one.
I also want to get an XBox 360. Not a priority at all, but still something fun for me and Don. My reasoning behind it is if we have internet, TV and a video game system, then we won’t need to go out and bother ourselves with spending more money to keep entertained. As it is, we go out a lot. We went bowling, to a movie and to dinner a bunch this week. Too much. So anyway, I’ve been looking for a good used core system or even a modded system for semi-cheap on craigslist and ebay. I don’t want to buy a new one, but if I do, I’ll just get the core system and mod it myself. I’d want to add a huge hard drive to store games and movies on.
Which brings me to my ultimate entertainment system that I’ve been planning. I want to *eventually* have a full entertainment system run off a Mac. A huge hard drive, I’m talking terabytes huge, that I burn all our movies to and TV shows of course. With a fabulous TiVo or DVR system hooked up to a monster high definition plasma TV or something. Man, that would be awesome…A girl can dream.
May 30th 2007
I graduated last Friday night. Had dinner with my family and dinner with Don’s. I’m glad to finally be done with high school. But I am a little scared about college. Being on my own does seem appetizing, but it’s also intimidating. I’m pretty confident that Don and I will be fine. Or we’ll get through it at least.
We went to an exotic zoo yesterday. Rode around in a wagon thing and animals could come up and we’d feed them. There were bison, ostriches, emus, ria birds, some other animals and millions of deer. They had whitetails, red deer and fallow deer. There was also a petting zoo which had goats and deer. We went in there and the deer surrounded us. It was pretty fun. I’ve got pictures since I have a new digital camera. I’ll post them up here when I get around to it.
April 30th 2007
Don’s ankles have been hurting him for about three months now. We originally thought it was his boots that he has to wear to work. The other day he finally went to the doctor and apparently two bones in each foot are semi-fused together and when he dropped a deer blind on his feet back in January, it caused inflammation. So he got a steroid shot in his left one and he’s getting one in his right on Wednesday. This semi-fused bone thing is more common than you’d think. The doctor told us that a lot of people have it and never know. Most people don’t drop five hundred pound deer blinds on their feet either.
I’m starting my new job today. It’s tech support for an ISP. I’m excited. Finally a job with computers. 
Training is all this week, from five to ten. We get to pick our schedules so I can work as much or as little as I want. I don’t have to put in notice two weeks in advance just to find out the time I needed off wasn’t given to me (like my dad’s wedding, something important that I had to go to, not the dodgeball tournament that half the store took off for).
April 13th 2007
Well, I fixed my layout in IE. It seems that the header was causing something. After a little trial and error, the site looks good in all browsers. Next I’m working on my sidebar. For different sections of the site, I want the subpages linked in the sidebar. I know it can be done, but I haven’t had a chance to sit down and completely figure it out. I’m about half way there.
Last night I went to Fite Nite sponsored by the Kappa Sig fraternity at the local college. It’s their 47th annual Fite Nite and they have people, mostly students, who box each other. It was pretty fun. Some good fights, some bad ones. A few knock outs. Then me and my mom were going to go see my cousin’s band, Nothing More, but they were over by the time we got there. They’re pretty good actually. Then Don and I went to Wal-Mart because we were bored and didn’t want to go home. So we bought season one of House MD, one of our new favorite shows, and some other stuff. I got some great scrapbooking things on sale.
Sunday is my dad’s wedding. I’m excited to see my family that lives in Colorado that are coming. My dad’s two sisters and they’re kids. I haven’t seen them in two or three years. There’s one that I haven’t even met, she’s about two.
April 5th 2007
A really good resource is The Blog World. Amanda has lots of tutorials, tricks, etc. for bloggers that are really helpful. I have it bookmarked and check it regularly to see what things she posted. It definitely warrants a visit.
I’m working on mine and Don’s budget. I’m trying to keep track of all our purchases in 2006. What goes to the car, what goes to food, etc. It’s slow-going. I’ve finally found a program I like that’s free. It’s got a reports feature that will give me graphs and that’s really what I’ve been looking for. Now I’ve just got to type everything in.
I’m also loving the Firefox extension Stumble Upon. It’s great. I’ve found a lot of good websites through it.
