Winter Quarter

Its that time again, the holiday season is over and I'm back to school. Today is my first official day back to school for my winter quarter. It started off great today with a 9:00am-10:50am Philosophy class that went by rather smoothly because my teacher is a loud obnoxious maniac. Thus, it wasn't boring in the least bit. Next I have Advanced Lighting at 3:00pm-5:50pm and then I'm done until Wednesday when I do it all over again. On Fridays I have a Web management class from 9:00am-3:20pm, its only a once a week class so its extra long. I'm just really excited about this quarter because I have no night classes for once. The latest I will get out is 6:00pm on Mondays and Wednesdays. I have Tuesdays and Thursdays off so I can still get some hours in at work as well, hooray! I sure had a great break and the holidays were all amazing to. I just wish they didn't go by so darn quickly!

The Museum of Science and Industry

My holiday break is coming to an end, I start back to school on Monday. I wanted to do something fun before my break ended so I took John downtown and we went to the Museum of Science and Industry yesterday. I've been there a million times, its my favorite museum downtown. I got to sleepover there with the girl scouts once. I had one of my birthday party's there when I was younger. Not to mention all the times I've gone there with my family. John on the other hand had never been there before. He was so interested in everything, he loved it!
We both had an awesome day there. Not to mention it was a free day so we didn't even have to pay to get in. In celebration of the new year all this week was free day at the museum. Theres so much to see and do at the science museum. Its very interactive and that's why I love it so much. It's definitely a day trip every time, no matter what. The place is just so huge, it has three floors. If you want to see everything you have to spend the entire day there.
John and I got there at 10:00 am and we didn't leave until 3:00 pm. I'm glad I got to do one more fun thing before school starts up again. It's hard to find time with work but some how John and I both had yesterday off.

Happy 2011!

I've been so busy since New Years because I've been working alot that I haven't been able to blog about my amazing new years! My parents were off in Michigan on a ski trip with our ski club so I was stuck home with my grandma and the sister. I ended up not having to work night shift on New Years. Thus, I was invited to a New Years karaoke party by my friend Chandra. I knew the people a little bit but they hadn't seen me since I was a little kid. However, we had a great time! They have a whole karaoke set up in there back room. A huge book with any song imaginable in alphabetical order and then another book with any artist imaginable in alphabetical order. They program the number into the computer and WALA! sing along to the lyrics on the TV. Its amazing! I had so much fun doing karaoke, its my favorite!
One of the guys there is retired so now he's a professional karaoke singer haha. Didn't think that was possible? Well I didn't either but it is.
So we sung karaoke all night and then counted down the new year, toasted with champagne to the New Year and sung more karaoke. It was a blast! I couldn't of asked for a better New Years. I got home at 2:00 am and crashed in my bed and luckily I got to sleep in the next day. I didn't have to be at work until 3:00 pm.

Happy 2011 Everyone!

Sixth Grade

On Monday my best friend Chandra and I hung out with our sixth grade best friend Josie Carou. In sixth grade Josie moved away to Montana, we had all been the best of friends through middle school. Thanks to the power of mail we were able to write her occasionally and keep in touch. Over the years we really didn't keep in touch with her that much. We grew apart but Chandra and I stayed best friends since we lived so close to each other and because we went to school together. In our later years we started writing her again but since the Internet was then so popular Chandra became close friends with her again through Facebook. The power of the Internet has brought us back together again. Josie came back to her original home of Illinois last week and texted Chandra saying "I'm home, when are we going to hang out". So on Monday we picked her up from Hoffman Estates and we all took the train down to Chicago.
We hadn't seen her in ten years since sixth grade. She looks exactly the same though, shes still her bubbly self. Nothing has changed about her at all! We were at the art museum almost all day and then we went to see the bean, had lunch and walked around Chicago. We left at 8:00 am and got back home around 7:00 pm. It was a very long day with lots of walking but it was great fun. Josie loved being back and seeing where she used to live, seeing the middle school again and visiting the city. After all these years we finally got to see her again. Next trips going to be a road trip to Montana, she wants us to come out to her house and visit her.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! Today is Christmas day, we woke up early this morning so we could open some presents before Kristi had to leave for work. Unfortunately she had to be at work by 9:30am so even though I stayed up until 1:00am last night I couldn't sleep in. I was up by 8:00am to open presents and after opening presents there was no way I could go back to sleep.
I got most everything I really wanted and I think everyone else enjoyed there gifts as well. I didn't have a huge Christmas list or anything, I like everything I got.
We all got some new clothes as usual, everyone can use new clothes once in a while. My mom got a kitchen aid from Cosmo, George and Harry. Her pets love her very much!
Its amazing! Its red, it looks awesome! I cant wait to use it. My sister and I got my dad a new beer flavor for his new hobby of beer making. Its called Dunkelweizen which means dark in German. My dad likes dark beers so I made a good choice!
My sister hasn't finished opening all her gifts but she got some clothes and a new pair of boots. My grandma got some new books, a sweater and of course the traditional frango mints. We get her those every single year, there so tasty. The smell is so strong, you can smell the frango mints even when there wrapped up from a mile away.
Later on we're dropping grandma off at Laurel and Larry's house and then we're going to the Porters house for presents and dinner. It should be fun! We've gone over to there house for Christmas day in the past and its always a real good time.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was a blast! For the first time ever we had Christmas Eve at my cousin Owens house. Our family tradition has been to have it at my Aunt Laurels, then our house and then my Uncle Gary's every year since before I can even remember. It goes in order from oldest to youngest. Now every year somebody new will have it, it rotates through the family. Now that Owen and Donna, Kyle and Teri and Jessica and Carl all have there own houses we can start having it over there. Thus, somebody will have Christmas Eve and then they wont have to have it again for another six whole years.
We had lots of good foods, everyone brought one new item this year just to spice things up. Our tradition is to do finger foods, snacky stuff, we don't eat a real meal. Everyone brings different foods and we have it all buffet style. Eat what you want when you want. Its nice having little kids around now as well because we get to watch them open there gifts and play all night.














One of our other traditions is white elephant. Everyone wraps up some junk, an item they don't want anymore. Its fun seeing what everyone gets because some of the stuff is just ridiculous!


































































For the first time ever Kristi brought along her boyfriend Shawn to Christmas Eve and what does he get for a white elephant... a penis cake mold. That was the joke of the night! What are is parents going to think of our family when they see that. Or there going to think he wasn't really at Christmas Eve and he went somewhere else instead.














































I hope everyone had a Merry Eve! I sure did.

A Michael Jackson Christmas

Most people may not know this about me besides my friends and immediate family but I freaking love Michael Jackson. I'm a huge Michael fanatic! I own all his albums, his ultimate collection, DVDs of him dancing, posters ect.

Now this blog post is mainly for my best friend Danielle because I know she'll appreciate this more then anyone. So Danielle, I hope you enjoy reading this post.

I didn't think I was going to see John on Christmas Eve or Christmas because he was working and going to his moms house. Thus, I had already given him his gift before Christmas. I got him a GPS for his car, he wanted one badly. I had already been thinking about getting him one and when my dad said he had been talking about getting one of those I knew for sure it was the right thing to do. So I went to Walmart to buy him one because they were on sale there and I ended up getting him the same exact one I have. It works out well though because I know mine well so I can show him how to use his.
Anyways, he ended up coming over in the morning on Christmas Eve because he wanted to give me my present. So he came over and he got me a huge 3D Michael Jackson picture. Its Michael Jackson and when you move it side to side Michael dances. Its in a nice black frame and everything. Its going right on my wall! I already have a spot for it and everything. Unfortunately I had to take down my Michael Jackson Thriller poster to put this picture up but I'll put that poster somewhere else in my room. This picture is even more amazing!
On Christmas morning I also recieved the new Michael Jackson Album. Its called Michael and it is brilliant!! I've listened to it straight through about ten times already. My ears are in heaven, every song is amazing!