Its almost 2010, can you believe it?!
We had our first snowstorm on Tuesday night. It took me TWO AND A HALF hours to drive back from Monticello, usually a one hour drive! Traffic was just craaaaaawling along, and I was reeeally hoping school/work would be canceled on Wednesday, but alas, no such luck. Sooo, I was forced to plow my way through the snow to work and had two close shaves on the road. First time I somehow drove myself into a snow bank (couldn't see where the road was due to snow everywhere), and was STUCK. Thankfully some kind stranger stopped his truck and helped me push my car out!! I barely got onto 494 when my car somehow skidded (never even saw it coming), but again thankfully, the car behind wasn't tailgating and so didn't hit me. Phew.
As such yesterday I went to a tire shop and got me some new highly recommended all-weather tires. A hefty $370 investment, but I figure my life is worth it. :P Plus there's a 70,000 mile warranty and free tire rotations, so I'm pretty pleased. :)
Looking forward to lots of fun and excitement the next two weeks!! We're going to do a lot of holiday baking to give as gifts because we are trying to save as much as possible. :) I read an article that said if you just eat oatmeal for breakfast, pb sandwiches for lunch, and rice and beans for dinner, your annual food expenditure would be $75!!!!!! WOOOAAAHHHH. Actually, thats pretty close to what I've been eating all week, except for the beans part because I don't like beans. ;)
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
December
Hi everyone! I haven't been updating too much lately, am too hooked on Cafe World and Yoville I guess. ;)
Life is still going great. Actually, its even better, now that I'm settling into my job and am definitely learning the ropes. The job is almost perfect and I can't believe how lucky I am to have my amazing awesome job!!! :) First off, I work exactly 40 hours a week, no more no less. Everyone shooes me home if I even stay 5 mins after! And I actually got two free movie tickets as a reward from my bosses last month for doing the most evals ever in a month, or so they say. HAHA. Well, I'm not complaining that people think I'm superhardworking. Sure is a nice change from grad school when I was working much harder - and not getting paid!
I do love the job. Some kids are sooooo challenging, but then its all the more satisfying when I make progress with them. I think I'm liking working with parents too. Its pretty amusing some completely clueless some parents are about child development. I always feel a little weird when little ol me, 26 years old with no kids, is giving parenting advice to parents sometimes 20++ years my senior??? Preschool is lots of fun too, a humbling experience to work with the very poor kids. Certainly puts a lot of things into perspective for me, when these kids come to school in dirty, torn clothes that are ten sizes too big or waaay too small.
I'm really loving Minneapolis so far. I love the city and the people are very nice and REAL, not roboty plasticky people who irk me to no end. I'm starting to figure my way around much better, and it was SOOOO beautiful today with the first snowfall this winter. Things I don't like too much: the road construction, and the fact that this state is wayyyyyy too big because its a whopping 5 hour drive north to his parents. Guess you can't have everything. :P
Thanksgiving was great. Very very busy, but loads of fun. We had Thanksgiving dinner at his parents, turkey, cranberry salad, cheese potatoes, pumpkin pie... all that good stuff. ;) Went to his friend Mike's wedding reception and chilled out at a bar with his old college buddies, then we went back to Shane's cute little house in St. Paul and crashed for the night. Guess we'll be spending quite a bit of time at Shane's since he's the only one of Troy's good friends in the Cities, plus me and Susanna (Shane's wife) get along pretty well. Maybe we'll buy a house in St. Paul too, ummm a couple of years from now, since the houses there are cheaper and lotsa young couples have their starter houses there, from what I hear.
Looking forward to the Christmas holidays!!!!!!!! Its great that all the holidays fall on Thu and Fri this year, lots of super long weekends! :)))
Life is still going great. Actually, its even better, now that I'm settling into my job and am definitely learning the ropes. The job is almost perfect and I can't believe how lucky I am to have my amazing awesome job!!! :) First off, I work exactly 40 hours a week, no more no less. Everyone shooes me home if I even stay 5 mins after! And I actually got two free movie tickets as a reward from my bosses last month for doing the most evals ever in a month, or so they say. HAHA. Well, I'm not complaining that people think I'm superhardworking. Sure is a nice change from grad school when I was working much harder - and not getting paid!
I do love the job. Some kids are sooooo challenging, but then its all the more satisfying when I make progress with them. I think I'm liking working with parents too. Its pretty amusing some completely clueless some parents are about child development. I always feel a little weird when little ol me, 26 years old with no kids, is giving parenting advice to parents sometimes 20++ years my senior??? Preschool is lots of fun too, a humbling experience to work with the very poor kids. Certainly puts a lot of things into perspective for me, when these kids come to school in dirty, torn clothes that are ten sizes too big or waaay too small.
I'm really loving Minneapolis so far. I love the city and the people are very nice and REAL, not roboty plasticky people who irk me to no end. I'm starting to figure my way around much better, and it was SOOOO beautiful today with the first snowfall this winter. Things I don't like too much: the road construction, and the fact that this state is wayyyyyy too big because its a whopping 5 hour drive north to his parents. Guess you can't have everything. :P
Thanksgiving was great. Very very busy, but loads of fun. We had Thanksgiving dinner at his parents, turkey, cranberry salad, cheese potatoes, pumpkin pie... all that good stuff. ;) Went to his friend Mike's wedding reception and chilled out at a bar with his old college buddies, then we went back to Shane's cute little house in St. Paul and crashed for the night. Guess we'll be spending quite a bit of time at Shane's since he's the only one of Troy's good friends in the Cities, plus me and Susanna (Shane's wife) get along pretty well. Maybe we'll buy a house in St. Paul too, ummm a couple of years from now, since the houses there are cheaper and lotsa young couples have their starter houses there, from what I hear.
Looking forward to the Christmas holidays!!!!!!!! Its great that all the holidays fall on Thu and Fri this year, lots of super long weekends! :)))
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