Vancouver

So here are the promised pictures (and they are not 2 months late). I am going to experiment with photoshop and maybe add some more but that are not all just one after another. Park that I played at as a child by my Grandma's house.

Cute pond within the park.

Kitsalano Beach (pretty sure I misspelled that but I don't want to look it up right now).

Family picture...all happy of course to be there...cough cough. I should be nice and say it was great being back together but its my blog so I can be honest and say it was really really (in place of another word I wanted to use) akward.

Beautiful Sunset, my grandma would have loved it.

So there are a few pictures for now. Will post more later when I have time. Pretty busy lately, I am trying to come up with an extra job to save money for this fall semester. I am in the process of making business cards for babysitting and dogsitting so I can hand them out. Don't have much of a life so why not watch children/dogs. I like both so its a good idea I think. Hopefully it works out.

Also planning something for when I graduate to celebrate, keeping it quiet right now because I want it to pan out and not jinx myself.

Summer

Summer is here in force, triple digits and all.

I am so glad from the break from school, just wished they hadn't raised tuition once again. Uhh, three more years before finishing with school forever, wonder how much more they can raise it (sarcasm intended).

Job one is going great, I love my co-workers and bosses, we are always playing pranks on one another. This week we are plotting what to do to my boss that is away, changing her background is something that is expected so we are trying to think outside the box. I should take pictures...maybe, not the best at doing that...

Starting tomorrow (I keep pushing it off but I will begin tomorrow) I am starting to studying for my GRE, not looking forward to it. I am horrible at math, but I need a good grade so I can apply for scholarships, time to suck it up and study.

I promise (E and GP) that I will be posting pictures from my B.C. within 2 weeks. (Just email/nag me to...)

Quick Update

So, back at work now, after two weeks away.

My friends wedding went really well. I hated the bridesmaids dresses but it was her day. The groom looked excited to see her walk down the aisle. Nikky's nephews were adorable. So was her tiny niece. My feet were killing me after wearing heels for 4 hours something I rarely do. After the wedding I hung out with her family (her Aunt Denise invited me, she is who we stayed with while in Michigan, she is amazing). That was incredibly fun, hung out with Ian who turned 3 and talked with Aunt Denise. Then I went home at like 1am, then went to my 2nd job at 9am. Fun times. But I survived. Then I got on a flight to Seattle early the morning afterwards.

Okay, Flying sucked! I didn't like the flights to B.C. Sam didn't think here was anything wrong but there was too much bumpyness for me. The first week was okay, very stressful but dealing with my mom always is. E. was great :) Couldn't have made it through the week without him. We scattered my grandma's ashes on Thursday May 27, that was an interesting evening. Mom put on the act of her life and then preceded to drop my grandma into the ocean, container and all. Tigh was able to get her out and then we spread the rest of her remains in the pacific ocean by Kits. Beach. I just did my own little thing, telling grandma good-bye and I'm glad I did.

The second week I mostly hung out with friends. Learned that some friends have changed a lot and others haven't which was nice. Hung out with my bestie 3 times which was amazing, and my other bestie once, hopefully I get to hang out with them more when I road-trip it up next summer.

I did go see two movies, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and Robin Hood, I would see them again because both were very good.

Now I'm back to 'real' life, working six hours a day and hopefully get to hang out with my nephews and niece a lot this summer.

Sam is back at work and doing good. Not much to report on him. He did enjoy his short trip but he also got his eye's opened to a lot of things that he needs to think about.

That's a very quick update, sorry no pictures this time.

Pictures

And a truly recent picture of myself, taken on friday.

Now off to study for my finals.

Finals

Well, finals are next week. It has been a crazy semester (or more like whole of junior year). I’m going to write a reflection next week about all of 2009 and 2010 so far (I know I should have written about 2009 in January but hey this is my blog). Looks like a mostly B semester which is a downer because I like to keep my grades at A’s to keep my GPA up. But after this semester I will only have one more year before I graduate with my Bachelors degree. I am still debating on if I want to go straight to a Master’s and get school over with or to wait. I am going to study for the GRE just in case I do decide to go because I need it to be accepted into the graduate program and to get scholarships.

Work has been great! Love the people I work with. I know people who gripe about their bosses but I have to say I have the world’s GREATEST bosses. S.C. is just amazing. S.S. is who I mainly work for and she is GREAT. We are friends outside of work also so that has been great. I love working at the archive. Some of the time can be boring but meeting all the older folks that have stories to tell is just amazing. The other day I got to meet a WWII veteran. We are currently working on looking up the medal of honor recipients and honoring them.

I love history which spills over into my job because it is all about history. There is a display up about the history of the town and it is REALLY interesting to learn about how it came to be. It started because of the fort that was here, but the first business was a combined Saloon and Grocery store. And where there is a saloon you have soiled doves (a.k.a. prostitutes). S.A. also had a significantly high divorce rate then you typically think up during the 1800’s.

I am currently a little obsessed with Amazon’s Kindle E-reader. I want one soooo bad, I love to read but I just don’t have enough space to by anymore books and I think the library is tired of seeing me. I have read through, ohh, probably a good 1/3 of the libraries books. I am saving up for it but I am also saving up for a sewing machine…I know odd choices but I love to sew and the Machine F. has is just archaic and HATES me, not kidding. Fran can use the same thread and everything will work fine, I can use the machine literally seconds after her with everything the way she left it and the thread will break and the bobbin will do some crazy thing. It is really weird.

I can’t wait to go to Canada, I miss it A LOT! I am extremely sad about grandma but miss her like crazy. I wish I would have been able to be with her during her last days. It is going to be hard to go through her things, but I am glad I am going to be able to bring about some of her things to remember her by. I am also glad that I will be able to see people (most of the people who read this blog…) that I haven’t seen in like two years.

Well, this post was a little all over the place but that’s how life is like right now. I know, no new pictures, but I haven’t seen Sam in a few days as he is working 2 weeks on 1 weekend off. I will try to take some new ones this weekend. I am babysitting on Saturday and then I think celebrating my birthday on Saturday evening because Sunday is Mother’s Day, and even its my actual b-day it will harder to celebrate it.

Pictures....

So here are pictures of part of my campus and then of a park near me. See I can keep promises...
This below picture is part of the Computer Science and Accounting and Marketing building. This next picture is of the univerity flag along the "mall" its a long, straight path that connects the two parts of campus.

This next one is of the "mall" towards most of the dorms and cafeteria.

This is a small map of the university, it is very spread out.

The signs that help direct visitors and freshman to what buildings they want to get to.

Sitting area on campus.

The tennis court at the park near where I live.

The path that I walk in the evenings when I can.

Teeter totters, There is also a swing set and baseball area.

Interesting picture of the carport.

So I finally added some pictures. Sam has been away for awhile working so I don't have any pictures, when he gets home this weekend I will 'kidnap' him to take some pictures of him to post here.

Another Update sans pictures...

I know I keep promising pictures…but it’s just not happening currently. I AM going to be taking some pictures of my neighborhood and campus, tomorrow, truly…I AM.

Sam is doing well. He is working two weeks on and one weekend off currently. He is at a different site right now so he is staying in a hotel and living on ramen noodles and Peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches. He seems to like what he is doing so I am happy for him. He is already starting to tan again from working outside…I wish I could tan like he does, he does brown almost. I stay pasty white or look sick when I have a tan.

Me, hmm, there is 2 weeks left in school and I can’t wait. I do have a 5 page paper to write and a presentation to do next week but then there is dead week and finals. The running joke around where I work is that I should go get drunk on my birthday because I will be 21 but there are three things wrong with that scenario, 1) I don’t normally drink (I did a little while in Germany, where I sipped others beers and had ONE shot of something, but from that I found out I HATE beer and I am not much of a drinker), and 2) I have finals starting Monday no way I am going to be partying when I will be studying 3) My birthday falls on Mother’s Day this year so Yeah, going to be a crazy busy day anyway.

We are coming up to Canada, and I cannot wait. Sam will be there for a week and me, 2 weeks. Then I come back and work in my church’s nursery the rest of the summer.

I am so excited about June and July….it’s the FIFA 2010 Soccer Cup in South America. I am going to be watching as many matches as I can around my work schedule.

P.S. I have taken pictures I now just have to get them from my camera to here...