Visiting the Internet

Hello. If it weren't for my job and an hour-long lunch break, I wouldn't be here. So you should thank DePuy!

(Actually, you're probably thankful to have a break from this blog.)

My sister Kendra is all moved into Grace and even has an ethernet connection in her dorm room, which is more than I can say for myself.

This is just to let the few readers know that all is well. Stacey has moved into our new apartment too, and we are having fun evenings of cleaning and organizing. I did almost burn the house down yesterday by turning on the iron, leaving it to warm up and forgetting that it was lying down on the ironing board, not standing up... God has been very gracious to let me grow up, I think sometimes!

This weekend's excitement

Too bad! I give up on not writing another personal blog post. Too much exciting stuff is happening.

First off, tomorrow Mommy and Kendra drive out here from Ioway! We have big plans for registration and the Big Dorm Move-In on Saturday.

Tomorrow the gas is finally coming on in the apartment. It will be a very fun Friday night of cleaning and cooking my very first meal and messing around with technology set-up, like rigging up the sound system for the bedroom.

It should be a very enjoyable weekend -- family, virtually no phone, and hopefully very little Internet.

Out in the middle of Everywhere!

When I went to put the first groceries in our new apartment, I met the couple that is moving in to the studio right next door. Guess where they're from. Waterloo, Iowa.

My "adopted" brother and sister just got back from a missions trip to Brazil. Hannah told me that they were going through an antique shop and saw a license plate selling for at least $50 or $60 bucks. It was an Iowa license plate.

Oh my goodness, life is just too funny sometimes, isn't it?!

August 13

Happy birthday to Daddy! the most wonderful man in the whole wide world.

My mom has a great picture of him on her birthday post today.

The big day

Yaaayy! Tonight we start moving in!!

Wedding photos

Long overdue, but here are some photos of the 3 June 2007 wedding, when my dear friend Rachel married Luke.

If you click on this link, you should find the photos on the second row, captions included!

If you prefer, here's the album homepage; click on the album "Tysons" and click to the second page.

That decides it

The first paycheck! I'm very thankful.

But the amount of taxes withdrawn is enough to make me a libertarian.

No More Screen, Please

I mean to post more, but real life keeps distracting me.

The new job is going well. It's quite fun to be on the inside of a big company. Someday, if anybody could be interested in anything so ridiculous, you may get some Perspective on the Corporate World from an insider-of-all-of-two-weeks.

And now, if you don't mind, that's really enough looking at a screen for one day!

Real independent adults

Oh boy, this is exciting! My friend and I signed a lease on an apartment today. The most exciting part is that we signed it without getting the keys, and now we get to see if they turn up tomorrow.

No sooner do we begin mentioning the plans to church friends than they offer us all kinds of furniture, dishes, even tea. Best of all is having to pick between TWO mattresses to borrow. Guess all we need to buy is food and a shower liner.

9:30 and feels like bedtime.

Just because I can

It's 12:22 and I'm sitting in my cubicle during lunch break. And I'm online because they finally came around and installed my computer! How exciting is that!