Today was my first day of classes. I really don't want to do another semester, but then again it is my last one. There is just a pessimistic part of me that wonders what lame reason UND is going to come up with to not let me graduate. I need to go talk to my advisor and get a signed statement or something that says that I have enough to graduate. I was so mad last semester when they suddenly decided some of my transfer classes weren't good enough for them.
Anyway, this is my last semester I guess. I just need to focus on that fact and do my best in my classes.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
Success
After a month of looking for a new job I finally got one. I was really beginning to think that I was going to be stuck at TJ Maxx until we moved back to California. This morning I got a call from Amazon. I went on an interview there yesterday afternoon. It pays $1.50 more per hour than I am currently being paid. I will be working Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday which works perfect with my school schedule of having classes Tuesday and Thursday. Orientation is this next Wednesday and then I start training on September 2nd.
I'm really excited about having a new experience. I really hope that it will be a good one.
One of the best things about this job is that it is only seasonal, so I won't have to feel bad about working there for four months and then quiting. This job will be ending about the same time that we will be leaving for California.
Yay for me! I will now be raking in the big bucks.
I'm really excited about having a new experience. I really hope that it will be a good one.
One of the best things about this job is that it is only seasonal, so I won't have to feel bad about working there for four months and then quiting. This job will be ending about the same time that we will be leaving for California.
Yay for me! I will now be raking in the big bucks.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Husbands...Can't live with them, can't live without them
Okay, I suppose I shouldn't have two posts in one day, but I just had to share this. Soren and I have different jobs when it comes to taking care of things around the house. Dishes are usually his job. Laundry is always my domain. We help each other out when needed.
Well, today I didn't get the chance to finish the laundry because I had to go to work. Soren being the wonderful man he is offered to do it for me. I didn't really think about until I was going in to bed. I was in the process of unbuttoning my jeans to get changed into my jammies and I casually asked him if he had finished the laundry. He looks up at me and says "don't take off your pants!"
He had left our whites down in the laundry room of our apartment building. So, I go down the stairs hoping that no one has removed our undies from the dryer because they needed to use it. (The laundry room of our apartment building only has two washers and one dryer.) Luckily the clothes were still safe in the dryer.
I just find it funny because this is a common occurrence when Soren finishes up the laundry for me. I will be leaving for work and I tell him the clothes in the dryer will be done in 15 minutes (or however long it is) and ask him to bring them up. I get home 5 or 6 hours later and where are the clothes? Are they in our apartment where they should be? No, they are in the laundry room still.
I can't tell you how many times I have gone down there after work to find our clothes sitting in our laundry basket or on top of the washer. Thank goodness that I always do the whites first so that it is at least only our shirts and pants that people are touching. It will be so nice to eventually have our own washer and dryer so that we don't have to worry about remembering to pull our clothes out of the dryer before someone else does.
Well, today I didn't get the chance to finish the laundry because I had to go to work. Soren being the wonderful man he is offered to do it for me. I didn't really think about until I was going in to bed. I was in the process of unbuttoning my jeans to get changed into my jammies and I casually asked him if he had finished the laundry. He looks up at me and says "don't take off your pants!"
He had left our whites down in the laundry room of our apartment building. So, I go down the stairs hoping that no one has removed our undies from the dryer because they needed to use it. (The laundry room of our apartment building only has two washers and one dryer.) Luckily the clothes were still safe in the dryer.
I just find it funny because this is a common occurrence when Soren finishes up the laundry for me. I will be leaving for work and I tell him the clothes in the dryer will be done in 15 minutes (or however long it is) and ask him to bring them up. I get home 5 or 6 hours later and where are the clothes? Are they in our apartment where they should be? No, they are in the laundry room still.
I can't tell you how many times I have gone down there after work to find our clothes sitting in our laundry basket or on top of the washer. Thank goodness that I always do the whites first so that it is at least only our shirts and pants that people are touching. It will be so nice to eventually have our own washer and dryer so that we don't have to worry about remembering to pull our clothes out of the dryer before someone else does.
And It Poured!
If there is anything I will miss here in North Dakota it would be the awesome thunderstorms. It is one of the coolest things you can experience. The amount of rain that can come rushing out of the sky is unbelievable. It was raining a lot this afternoon. I think I was in the rain for about two seconds and I got drenched.
There were huge puddles in the road. It reminds me of two years ago. It was just after Soren and I had moved here. We had a classic down pour and one of the major roads near our apartment was flooded with a few feet of water. We own an SUV and we were having fun driving through it and spraying all kinds of water everywhere. Well, one of the times I was driving through I didn't realize that the car driving the opposite direction we were had their windows down. By the time I realized it was too late. The image of that guy holding his hands up to the window to hold back the water will always be etched in my memory and it still makes me laugh uncontrollably. Did he really think that he would be able to hold the water back with his hands?
I absolutely love the rain. I never use an umbrella. The feeling of raining hitting my skin makes me happy in a way that I can't explain. About a week ago we had an amazing thunderstorm. It was the kind that you could feel even inside of a building. The rain was coming down so hard it looked like a waterfall coming out of the sky. I had the irresistible urge to play in the rain. I tried to convince Soren to play in the rain with me, but he said no. So, I went without him. I kicked the water in massive puddles and danced in the rain. It was so much fun! We need more thunderstorms like that for me to play in.
There were huge puddles in the road. It reminds me of two years ago. It was just after Soren and I had moved here. We had a classic down pour and one of the major roads near our apartment was flooded with a few feet of water. We own an SUV and we were having fun driving through it and spraying all kinds of water everywhere. Well, one of the times I was driving through I didn't realize that the car driving the opposite direction we were had their windows down. By the time I realized it was too late. The image of that guy holding his hands up to the window to hold back the water will always be etched in my memory and it still makes me laugh uncontrollably. Did he really think that he would be able to hold the water back with his hands?
I absolutely love the rain. I never use an umbrella. The feeling of raining hitting my skin makes me happy in a way that I can't explain. About a week ago we had an amazing thunderstorm. It was the kind that you could feel even inside of a building. The rain was coming down so hard it looked like a waterfall coming out of the sky. I had the irresistible urge to play in the rain. I tried to convince Soren to play in the rain with me, but he said no. So, I went without him. I kicked the water in massive puddles and danced in the rain. It was so much fun! We need more thunderstorms like that for me to play in.
Friday, August 8, 2008
My prospects are looking up
So, for those of you who don't know: I decided to quit my job a few weeks ago. I haven't been happy there for the last few months. The hours suck and the pay is horrible. Well, something happened a couple of weeks ago that was the last straw. I put in my two weeks notice and started looking for something new.
I have put in what seems like a ton of applications, but I haven't heard back from that many places. I was begining to think that I was going to be stuck at TJ Maxx. Well, yesterday I got a message from a place that I had applied to a few weeks ago. They said they have some openings and are looking to hire some people really soon. I had a phone interview today and at the end the woman told me she would pass on my info and someone would contact me in the next week. Well, two hours later I got a call back to set up a face to face interview.
How awesome am I that it only took two hours for them to call me back for another interview. The pay would be pretty good. (For North Dakota anyway.) I really hope I get the job. I am so ready to be done with retail and dealing with Canadians. (If you haven't already heard me rant about how horrible Canadians are as customers I'll have to share that with you some day.)
Anyway, I'm excited about the possibility of getting a new and better job. Wish me luck.
I have put in what seems like a ton of applications, but I haven't heard back from that many places. I was begining to think that I was going to be stuck at TJ Maxx. Well, yesterday I got a message from a place that I had applied to a few weeks ago. They said they have some openings and are looking to hire some people really soon. I had a phone interview today and at the end the woman told me she would pass on my info and someone would contact me in the next week. Well, two hours later I got a call back to set up a face to face interview.
How awesome am I that it only took two hours for them to call me back for another interview. The pay would be pretty good. (For North Dakota anyway.) I really hope I get the job. I am so ready to be done with retail and dealing with Canadians. (If you haven't already heard me rant about how horrible Canadians are as customers I'll have to share that with you some day.)
Anyway, I'm excited about the possibility of getting a new and better job. Wish me luck.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Scooter issues
So, Soren and i decided to buy a scooter. We bought it online because it was a whole lot cheaper that way. It took about a week to arrive and we were anxiously waiting that whole time. When it did arrive we thought that it would be ready to go. Not so fast!
The battery they sent us was bad. So after calling every place in town to look for a new battery we found one place that had it in stock, but they want $100 for it. We called the company that we bought the scooter from and asked if they could send us another battery. They didn't have any in stock, but they said they would reimburse us if we bought one locally. So, we got our battery finally, got it all charged and then hooked it up thinking that would fix everything. The scooter wouldn't start. Then we discovered something must be loose in the wiring. The scooter would start sometimes, but then it would die.
After calling the company again we found out that sometimes wiring came loose during shipping. They told us that we could have it looked at and that they would pay the costs after we paid $100. We decided it was ridiculous to have to pay more money for a brand new scooter and that maybe we could find the problem. We bought a tester at Walmart and started testing the connections on the bike. It ended up that the fuse was broken. You couldn't tell by looking at it because it was broken right under the metal end cap.
So after a few issues the scooter was working great. I rode around on it like crazy that night and had a ton of fun. Little did I know that would not be the end of our scooter issues.
The next day when I was at work I got a call from Soren saying he needed me to pick him up. I said "Okay, as soon as I get off work." He said "No, I need you to come get me now." He told me he had crashed the scooter and it wasn't drivable. So I told them at work that my husband have been in an accident and I needed to leave right then.
Here it is a week later and the scooter is being looked at to see how much it will cost to fix it. I hope that the damages aren't enough for it to be totaled. At least we have insurance so we will only have to pay $50 of the costs.
Good grief! Hopefully after this we won't have any more issues with the scooter.
The battery they sent us was bad. So after calling every place in town to look for a new battery we found one place that had it in stock, but they want $100 for it. We called the company that we bought the scooter from and asked if they could send us another battery. They didn't have any in stock, but they said they would reimburse us if we bought one locally. So, we got our battery finally, got it all charged and then hooked it up thinking that would fix everything. The scooter wouldn't start. Then we discovered something must be loose in the wiring. The scooter would start sometimes, but then it would die.
After calling the company again we found out that sometimes wiring came loose during shipping. They told us that we could have it looked at and that they would pay the costs after we paid $100. We decided it was ridiculous to have to pay more money for a brand new scooter and that maybe we could find the problem. We bought a tester at Walmart and started testing the connections on the bike. It ended up that the fuse was broken. You couldn't tell by looking at it because it was broken right under the metal end cap.
So after a few issues the scooter was working great. I rode around on it like crazy that night and had a ton of fun. Little did I know that would not be the end of our scooter issues.
The next day when I was at work I got a call from Soren saying he needed me to pick him up. I said "Okay, as soon as I get off work." He said "No, I need you to come get me now." He told me he had crashed the scooter and it wasn't drivable. So I told them at work that my husband have been in an accident and I needed to leave right then.
Here it is a week later and the scooter is being looked at to see how much it will cost to fix it. I hope that the damages aren't enough for it to be totaled. At least we have insurance so we will only have to pay $50 of the costs.
Good grief! Hopefully after this we won't have any more issues with the scooter.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Joined the bandwagon
So, I decided that it was time to join the countless others who have set up blogs. I probably won't have much to write, but it will be nice to have another way to keep in touch with people
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