I spent this past weekend visiting my second 'family' in Kalamazoo. It was phenomenal! I pulled up to the driveway, got out of my car, and Mama J exclaimed "There's my other daughter!". :) Awwww! Before I began my drive north Susan had commented "I'd share my room with you, but you've got your own room in the house. And of course 'my room' was just as it was when I left at the end of last summer. It was unexpectedly comforting. :) It truly is another home. I loved having girly chats while prepping food in the kitchen, eating family dinners (including Sunday lunch with the grandmas!) and joining in on night time conversations around the table. Incredible!
Saturday night Sarah, Susan, Steffi and I went to a local community theatre to see a production of "Peter Pan". It was extra special since they knew several of the cast members. What a great way to spend the evening! Church on Sunday was marvelous. Wedged between Steffi and Suz I felt right at home. :) Suz departs for med school again at the end of the month. Hopefully this will be the year that I make it out to CO to visit her. As I've never been west of Iowa, that trip will be especially monumental. She has her exam schedule, I have my cross country meet schedule... now we just need to find a weekend that coordinates with both schedules. ;)
Mama J sent me home with a giant cool-whip container of MI blueberries. They're delicious... and half-gone. ;) Thanks Mama J!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Cleaning the Inbox
I just cleaned out my e-mail inbox- I went from 746 to 75. Oh yeah. Another one of the items on my summer 'to do' list can now be crossed off. :)
I've spent this week being slightly productive and completely relaxed. It's been divine. My linens are all refolded and rearranged so the edges don't show. My car had an oil change and a bath. I cleaned out several binders from my bookcases. (The hallway bookcase still needs to be tackled. It has all the materials I gathered for textbook adoption this past year. On second thought, maybe it'll just stay like that this year until we actually complete the adoption process.) I applied for a passport, ordered more checks at the bank, painted, ran, biked, wrote letters, etc.
Despite the fact that I've spent the past 6 school years in IN, this is actually the first time I've spent any relatively significant portion of summer vacation in the state. During college I'd return to MI to see my family and work. Even this year I went to NC to work for a few weeks. But now I'm here, in IN, at my apartment, my official place of residence, just hanging out. And it's not at all odd. Perhaps it has something to do with how happy I was to see the corn fields when I returned to the state (yes, excited, and that is in no way an exaggeration) or how familiar, normal, and right it felt to be driving back into town and my apartment complex.
I've spent this week being slightly productive and completely relaxed. It's been divine. My linens are all refolded and rearranged so the edges don't show. My car had an oil change and a bath. I cleaned out several binders from my bookcases. (The hallway bookcase still needs to be tackled. It has all the materials I gathered for textbook adoption this past year. On second thought, maybe it'll just stay like that this year until we actually complete the adoption process.) I applied for a passport, ordered more checks at the bank, painted, ran, biked, wrote letters, etc.
Despite the fact that I've spent the past 6 school years in IN, this is actually the first time I've spent any relatively significant portion of summer vacation in the state. During college I'd return to MI to see my family and work. Even this year I went to NC to work for a few weeks. But now I'm here, in IN, at my apartment, my official place of residence, just hanging out. And it's not at all odd. Perhaps it has something to do with how happy I was to see the corn fields when I returned to the state (yes, excited, and that is in no way an exaggeration) or how familiar, normal, and right it felt to be driving back into town and my apartment complex.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Home again, home again, clickity click
After traipsing about for the past month or so I once again find myself in the comforts of my IN apartment. While I was gone, IN experienced its fair share of summer storms. Naturally, the winds (and flimsy deck railing) knocked my satellite out of alignment. I've spent the past three days periodically shaking, twisting, and using all my usual tricks to make it work again. But to no avail. So this afternoon I resorted to calling tech support. The normal tech gal had me unplug the receiver, replug it, and then try to turn it on. It didn't work. So they transferred me to the advanced tech department. The gal there had me go through and check device numbers, satellite numbers, etc before determining that there wasn't anything she could do. She suggested that they send a tech person out to check the dish since it probably wasn't aligned (I could've told you that). Great, I like that idea. Except that it would cost $95. No thank you. I will gladly find new ways to contort the dish so that it points to the sky at precisely the correct angle. Two minutes after I hung up my TV was working. ;) Now, resetting the receiver probably helped the process, but I would like to say once again that I am a master at fixing the dish.
Since being back I've been to a hog roast (a-mazing!), went running with the gal I used to coach with (and stopped for an Ivanhoe's lunch), and helped a friend paint her and her husband's new apartment. Tonight is kickball and tomorrow morning I have a coffee date with another friend. Love it. Hopefully I can get my bike in for a tune-up so it'll be ready for the team tri in 2 weeks. Woo hoo!
Whelp, it's about time I get back to cleaning out the cupboards and reorganizing the closets. How in the world have I managed to collect so much in just the past two years? This is not good...
Since being back I've been to a hog roast (a-mazing!), went running with the gal I used to coach with (and stopped for an Ivanhoe's lunch), and helped a friend paint her and her husband's new apartment. Tonight is kickball and tomorrow morning I have a coffee date with another friend. Love it. Hopefully I can get my bike in for a tune-up so it'll be ready for the team tri in 2 weeks. Woo hoo!
Whelp, it's about time I get back to cleaning out the cupboards and reorganizing the closets. How in the world have I managed to collect so much in just the past two years? This is not good...
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