Archive for August 16th, 2005

admin August 16th, 2005

So I haven’t posted in a week…whoops! I decided to quickly get an entry in before work gets crazy today. This week fall sports teams are moving in and starting practice. So that means…new students to meet! It’s so exciting to see new faces on campus…that I helped bring here. I love this job!

Jared and I had a pretty good weekend. Friday night Jared finally called a guy to come and pick up his old car. They came and towed it away and gave us $35. It was actually really sad to see it go. Jared’s had that beast since his junior year of high school (almost 10 years ago). We quickly cleaned it out (there was so much stuff in there!) and had it ready to be taken away. We took lots of pictures of it…which hopefully we’ll get those posted on the picture page at some point. So now there’s a big space in front of our house where it used to sit. It’s going to be tough seeing my car go as well, but I’m sure I’ll get over that as soon as I see our loaded Grand Prix. Yay for new cars! Since they gave us $35 for the car, we decided to go out to eat. We went to Farmer’s in Highland and stuffed ourselves silly. I had some super-yummy fried porkchops with mashed potatoes and gravy. It was sooooo good.

Saturday morning I had to get up early to drive to Belleville for Mary Kay training. Yes…I now sell Mary Kay. Don’t worry though…I’m not quitting my job at the college and I don’t want a pink Cadillac. I just wanted to be able to get my Mary Kay product for a better price and sell to several others. So anyway, I went to my training on Saturday. It was fun. I have all of my start-up things, so I guess I can start selling to anyone who wants Mary Kay stuff. If you want a facial…I have stuff to do that as well. (Let me know if you want any of that!) After my training I stopped through Fairview Heights and did some shopping. It felt good to be at the mall! I actually got some pretty good deals. As I was leaving though, I noticed that it was storming outside and sirens were going off. Apparently there were tornado warnings. So needless to say, I decided not to leave right away. I bought a book from Walden’s and got a bagle at Panera and waited it out. About an hour later I got to leave.

Sunday we went to church (Jared got to play in praise band again this week). The service was great as always. After church we went to see a movie (Must Love Dogs) and ate at Steak-n-Shake. Both were fantastic. The movie was a definite chick flick, but quite wonderful at the same time. And of course Steak-n-Shake was awesome. We had stayed in Edwardsville after church because we attended a membership class that night after supper. We love our new church and have really felt like it’s the place we need to be. So we’re taking the steps towards becoming members there.

So it was a great weekend and now I’m back at work. It’s going to be a busy week (I’ve already had a visit this morning and my phone’s ringing off the hook). It’s all worth it! Oh…quickly…on another note. I’ve now read all of that books that Nicholas Sparks has written…and I don’t know what to do. I need to find a new author apparently. Any suggestions!?