Yeah, original title, I know.
Today, Travis is moving up to Fargo but before he gets here there are a few things I want to try to finish. I need to stop by the ID card place to have my motorcycle permit renewed for the last time. We need to stop by our respective schools and drop off our verification forms since we both were selected for verification. Then later today I have my motorcycle classes beginning. Sunday is the last day and hopefully I will have my license by then. Now I just need my clutch cable to get in so I can turn that in.
In cleaning-up related news, bedroom is now rearranged and next will be the living room again. I am passing off a couple pieces of furniture for Travis so that will help out a bit. I am also considering gathering up old games, movies, and books that we don't watch or won't be of use later and selling them on Amazon. I need to grab some game cases when I go home next weekend and then I can start organizing. Maybe I will even find those games I am missing.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Making Progress...also? (Reference)
Well I finally beat back the beast that is procrastination and organized the furniture in the office. Next is the bedroom which requires the clothing situation to be figured out first. We are getting there but there may need to get here a lot sooner with my family coming up tomorrow to move Travis in. At least I ave tomorrow off. I will be starting day one of the motorcycle training classes. Woo! Soon I will be able to do legally what I have been doing illegally since I first sat on a motorcycle when I was just a little guy.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Dreamer
Thinking about making a Photo album on Facebook that has images poorly put together to represent all of the ideas I have for business ventures in the furture. They change quite often and as such s will the album. I guess I will just throw that on the projects to be completed. I hope to have that list down to zero by the 20th of next month.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Looming Ahead
I feel like this is something I should be counting down. Within a few weeks I will be leaving the ranks of active guard duty and entering a new phase in my military occupation. Starting mid-August I will enter a national list of soldiers biding their time with their fingers crossed. For 9 months I can be attached to any unit that needs a body. Luckily, much to my semi-regret, I chose an MOS that was more brawn than brain and as such makes it much less likely that I will be pulled from the list for a deployment. They say that people around 8 months are safe so I feel fairly comfortable having 9.
Also upcoming, I will soon be returning to school. For those that haven't heard yet, I am starting the 5-year program of Architecture. It was something I enjoyed being part of when I assisted an ex-girlfriend. She wouldn't let me try it out back then since she wanted me to do "my own thing" but now I am finally able to push forward with it and am pretty excited. This first year is a sort of test year and it will decide if I am to actually be accepted into the program. The place I work for currently is great with students. They are letting me drop down to Part-time during school which will really help. It will definitely assist in helping balance school, home, and work. There are days I wonder what it would be like to have a regular job again where I work during the beginning portion of the day and actually have my nights off. I miss enjoying nights but during school I will have that opportunity once my homework is complete.
Funny Fact: I look up to Brad Pitt for his success in both architecture and acting. Someday it would be great to reach that level of success. Aim for the stars!
Also upcoming, I will soon be returning to school. For those that haven't heard yet, I am starting the 5-year program of Architecture. It was something I enjoyed being part of when I assisted an ex-girlfriend. She wouldn't let me try it out back then since she wanted me to do "my own thing" but now I am finally able to push forward with it and am pretty excited. This first year is a sort of test year and it will decide if I am to actually be accepted into the program. The place I work for currently is great with students. They are letting me drop down to Part-time during school which will really help. It will definitely assist in helping balance school, home, and work. There are days I wonder what it would be like to have a regular job again where I work during the beginning portion of the day and actually have my nights off. I miss enjoying nights but during school I will have that opportunity once my homework is complete.
Funny Fact: I look up to Brad Pitt for his success in both architecture and acting. Someday it would be great to reach that level of success. Aim for the stars!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Massive Update
Goodness, I have just been putting this whole blog thing off for a while but I figured I better get to it with it being Thursday and all.
Sad news, Dutch passed away the other day. My parents said that it looked like a woodchuck out maneuvered him. Dutch was 15 years old and just didn't have the reflexes he used to. Even so both Dutch and Bear protected the farm from apparent dangers. Bunnies and cats no longer made their list of dangers to the family. He was found dead by my grandpa while my parents were out camping. Dad says that if he would have been home he would have been out there with a shotgun and the whole situation could have possible been avoided. Dutch was a good dog and even in his old age and breathing problems still acted like a pup. He now joins his family on the other side.
We also now have brought back Iris. Ma was sad to see her go. They do sure grow on you after a while. Iris is still adjusting to the apartment but if we are up super late she comes out of hiding and begs us to play with her. I think I was up until 4am last night so I was able to hang out with her quite a bit.
Last week I finally received my title for my motorcycle in the mail so I was able to go ahead and change states. With the new plates on, I have been making good use of this wonderful weather. Kat and I even went for a little motorcycle ride last night and stopped by Kroll's for a couple cups of hot chocolate. She definitely would like a helmet that has a visor though. She was using a fairly old helmet I grabbed from home that has the old snap on visor...only it was missing the visor. Maybe this weekend we can check out what is out there. Someone told me that my style helmet was fairly cheap right now.
The 60 day was much better than the 30 day. Not only did it help by going their with a better attitude about the whole thing but they also provided better classes from what I saw in the ones we took. With my better attitude I was able to talk with and joke around with the other soldiers instead of Kat and I doing our best to keep to ourselves. We also used the GPS to take us there and back. We made it into quite an adventure by making it recalculate quite often by deciding not to take turns when it wanted us to. It was a wonderful trip.
Work is turning into quite a roller coaster ride. The mood of the day shift and management has slowly been changing since my return. They seem to be drifting away from their team idea and working more towards individuals and setting up systems that will make it easy to pick someone out and fire them. We have a meeting tonight but more and more I am feeling like I should be looking for something better suited for my schooling although the hospitals health care is fairly decent. Although, I think I am eligible for government health care now because of the whole 30% disability thing. I guess I need to sit down with my case manager and go through a few things. Who knows, maybe they know some jobs out there in the building business.
School is also fast approaching and both Kat and I need to turn in verification of our taxes for the FAFSA. Kat has had to verify every year, but this is my first time. Tonight I need to make copies of our taxes at work so we can send those out. I also need to jump on the FTA and STR so I can have that financial help for school. All and all I am pretty excited to start the courses and although it won't be super in-depth right away I am glad to be returning to the pursuit of scholastic knowledge.
That is is for this update I guess...I am sure there are quite a few things I missed but I will do my best to stay on top of it in the future. :)
Sad news, Dutch passed away the other day. My parents said that it looked like a woodchuck out maneuvered him. Dutch was 15 years old and just didn't have the reflexes he used to. Even so both Dutch and Bear protected the farm from apparent dangers. Bunnies and cats no longer made their list of dangers to the family. He was found dead by my grandpa while my parents were out camping. Dad says that if he would have been home he would have been out there with a shotgun and the whole situation could have possible been avoided. Dutch was a good dog and even in his old age and breathing problems still acted like a pup. He now joins his family on the other side.
We also now have brought back Iris. Ma was sad to see her go. They do sure grow on you after a while. Iris is still adjusting to the apartment but if we are up super late she comes out of hiding and begs us to play with her. I think I was up until 4am last night so I was able to hang out with her quite a bit.
Last week I finally received my title for my motorcycle in the mail so I was able to go ahead and change states. With the new plates on, I have been making good use of this wonderful weather. Kat and I even went for a little motorcycle ride last night and stopped by Kroll's for a couple cups of hot chocolate. She definitely would like a helmet that has a visor though. She was using a fairly old helmet I grabbed from home that has the old snap on visor...only it was missing the visor. Maybe this weekend we can check out what is out there. Someone told me that my style helmet was fairly cheap right now.
The 60 day was much better than the 30 day. Not only did it help by going their with a better attitude about the whole thing but they also provided better classes from what I saw in the ones we took. With my better attitude I was able to talk with and joke around with the other soldiers instead of Kat and I doing our best to keep to ourselves. We also used the GPS to take us there and back. We made it into quite an adventure by making it recalculate quite often by deciding not to take turns when it wanted us to. It was a wonderful trip.
Work is turning into quite a roller coaster ride. The mood of the day shift and management has slowly been changing since my return. They seem to be drifting away from their team idea and working more towards individuals and setting up systems that will make it easy to pick someone out and fire them. We have a meeting tonight but more and more I am feeling like I should be looking for something better suited for my schooling although the hospitals health care is fairly decent. Although, I think I am eligible for government health care now because of the whole 30% disability thing. I guess I need to sit down with my case manager and go through a few things. Who knows, maybe they know some jobs out there in the building business.
School is also fast approaching and both Kat and I need to turn in verification of our taxes for the FAFSA. Kat has had to verify every year, but this is my first time. Tonight I need to make copies of our taxes at work so we can send those out. I also need to jump on the FTA and STR so I can have that financial help for school. All and all I am pretty excited to start the courses and although it won't be super in-depth right away I am glad to be returning to the pursuit of scholastic knowledge.
That is is for this update I guess...I am sure there are quite a few things I missed but I will do my best to stay on top of it in the future. :)
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Incoming Holiday
Not sure if I posted this yet but we have decided to chock the Xbox 360 off as a loss. It may still be out there somewhere but if it is no one knows where and no one can seem to dig it up. Last time anyone has any memory of it was when we were all moving out. It was double bagged into a grocery bag. The tent is also a loss since no one has any memory of any sort of lead.
July 4th sneaked (although snuck is widely accepted I found that it is not actually the proper word) up on us. We were caught without a single firework in the apartment. I am planning on calling an old friend and finally writing a letter to the family in San Fran as a celebration. Katrina works Sunday until 6pm so we will be grilling out on Saturday at our spot in Moorhead. I am going to use more coals this time so we don't have to group the hot dogs so close together. Also, making sure that we don't buy cheese dogs for the grill. :)
Thinking about making an excel document to help remember events and occurrences of friends and family to battle my unreliable memory. I feel that all too often I ask the same questions over and over. Well, that is it for now. Time to fill gas, pay the monthly due on a loan, eat something, then go to work.
July 4th sneaked (although snuck is widely accepted I found that it is not actually the proper word) up on us. We were caught without a single firework in the apartment. I am planning on calling an old friend and finally writing a letter to the family in San Fran as a celebration. Katrina works Sunday until 6pm so we will be grilling out on Saturday at our spot in Moorhead. I am going to use more coals this time so we don't have to group the hot dogs so close together. Also, making sure that we don't buy cheese dogs for the grill. :)
Thinking about making an excel document to help remember events and occurrences of friends and family to battle my unreliable memory. I feel that all too often I ask the same questions over and over. Well, that is it for now. Time to fill gas, pay the monthly due on a loan, eat something, then go to work.
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