Yesterday Noah and I signed for our first apartment together! It's this cute little studio with a nice big kitchen, which is perfect for us. Now our only problem is that the main room is... well, smaller than we had remembered, so we're trying to figure out how to fit a couch and a bed in there. I think we'll eventually buy or make some sort of loft but in the meantime, we'll have to be creative. It's over by Stadium HS in Tacoma and we're excited to get all moved in and have a small housewarming party. :)
Once we get more settled, I'll post some pics. Happy 4th!
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Holy Brick of Fries, Batman!
First the good news - Noah passed his Chemistry class and is able to move onto the next one! We're both very excited about it. He started summer quarter on Monday. Besides the Chemistry course, he's taking Math with our friend, Travis, so that's pretty cool.
Speaking of Travis, we spent a great afternoon with him and his wife, Eva, and their adorable new son, Aleksander at the Taste of Tacoma. Noah and I managed to eat (almost) an entire brick of fries! While they were delicious, I don't think we'll need to eat for the remainder of the weekend. We forgot to take a picture of it, but this one is pretty darn close.
Needless to say, eating all that was quite an accomplishment. Achievement!
We have a few other noteworthy things going on in our lives right now. My younger sister, Brynn, is engaged to a terrific guy. We're excited to be welcoming Dango to the family. The wedding is at the end of August, so we're going at the planning fast & furiously. I'm excited because on my first search on Craigslist, I hooked up with this gal who was selling rolls of unused tulle all for $15! I don't have any engagement pictures of them yet but here's a cute one of them from last year that I stole off her myspace. :)
Our other exciting news is that we are apartment hunting. We've been out twice so far. The first time we found out what we do NOT want, but today's trip was much more successful. We're turning in our first application tomorrow morning.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Final May Thoughts
Studying has paid off for Noah. He's just received 17/20 on his Biology exam and an 84% on his last Chemistry exam. His last math test he received a 95%. This coming week is finals, so you can guess what he'll be doing. Noah says, "I still think I'm going to fail Chemistry, but it's getting better." It has too. His test scores since he changed the way he studies have been a lot higher.
Today we're trying to get motivated to do much of anything, but we're having trouble. The weather's too hot so we don't want to do anything outdoors, such as ride our bikes or work in the yard. Money is tight, so we don't want to waste gas going anywhere or paying to do something. Instead, we watched a couple episodes of Heros Season 2 and one episode of Sea Quest. We did do a load of dishes and some laundry and a bit of cleaning, but not much. We're hoping to get the motivation to go work on the yard for a few hours this evening when it's cooler.
Yesterday I had went to my friend Monique's baby shower. It was fairy-themed, which meant that she and most of her family were in fairy costumes, complete with wings and fairy dust. I didn't have any wings or sparkles, but Noah did my eye makeup to be more fairy-esque. It was surprisingly fun. Not your usual run-of-the-mill shower at all. We played some entertaining games her aunt invented and her mom cooked up some delicious food. My favorite game was the clothes-line game. Each "fairy" had a basket of clothes she had to hang on the clothesline (with at least one clothes pin per item). While hanging the clothes, she also had to be holding the baby and carrying on a conversation on her cellphone. The fairy with the fasted time won. I went second and had a time of 2 minutes 23 seconds. The fastest gal's time was just over 1 minute. At least I didn't drop my baby! It was fun to see a couple of the ladies I used to work with at Insight, but it also reminded me of how happy I am not to be working in such a crazy, unstable environment.
I was looking at Craigslist at all the cute puppies and kittens and ran across a post with all the numbers of animals euthinized at the Tacoma Humane Society. The kitten rates were through the roof with 1,551 healthy kittens euthanized in 2008. That, of course, had me in tears. I turned to Noah who read it and asked, "What do they even do with the 1,551 bodies after they euthanize them?" Needless to say, that did not help stop my tears.
Today we're trying to get motivated to do much of anything, but we're having trouble. The weather's too hot so we don't want to do anything outdoors, such as ride our bikes or work in the yard. Money is tight, so we don't want to waste gas going anywhere or paying to do something. Instead, we watched a couple episodes of Heros Season 2 and one episode of Sea Quest. We did do a load of dishes and some laundry and a bit of cleaning, but not much. We're hoping to get the motivation to go work on the yard for a few hours this evening when it's cooler.
Yesterday I had went to my friend Monique's baby shower. It was fairy-themed, which meant that she and most of her family were in fairy costumes, complete with wings and fairy dust. I didn't have any wings or sparkles, but Noah did my eye makeup to be more fairy-esque. It was surprisingly fun. Not your usual run-of-the-mill shower at all. We played some entertaining games her aunt invented and her mom cooked up some delicious food. My favorite game was the clothes-line game. Each "fairy" had a basket of clothes she had to hang on the clothesline (with at least one clothes pin per item). While hanging the clothes, she also had to be holding the baby and carrying on a conversation on her cellphone. The fairy with the fasted time won. I went second and had a time of 2 minutes 23 seconds. The fastest gal's time was just over 1 minute. At least I didn't drop my baby! It was fun to see a couple of the ladies I used to work with at Insight, but it also reminded me of how happy I am not to be working in such a crazy, unstable environment.
I was looking at Craigslist at all the cute puppies and kittens and ran across a post with all the numbers of animals euthinized at the Tacoma Humane Society. The kitten rates were through the roof with 1,551 healthy kittens euthanized in 2008. That, of course, had me in tears. I turned to Noah who read it and asked, "What do they even do with the 1,551 bodies after they euthanize them?" Needless to say, that did not help stop my tears.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
First day of a long vacation
We are celebrating because Noah received his best score so far on a chemistry test! Way to go, Love! He stayed up until 2 am studying for it, so it's nice to see his hard work rewarded. He got 12/22.
Noah's excited to go see Wolverine tonight with the guys. I'm still debating whether or not to go. It depends on how I'm feeling. We're trying to decide if it'll be cheesy or awesome. Hopefully the second since we thought the other X-Men movies were great.
Last night my parents dropped off some boxes filled with assignments and projects from my childhood. I'm looking forward to going through them and remembering.
Noah's excited to go see Wolverine tonight with the guys. I'm still debating whether or not to go. It depends on how I'm feeling. We're trying to decide if it'll be cheesy or awesome. Hopefully the second since we thought the other X-Men movies were great.
Last night my parents dropped off some boxes filled with assignments and projects from my childhood. I'm looking forward to going through them and remembering.
Friday, May 1, 2009
May Day, Mayday!
Let me tell you how the world ends.
Ok, well, Noah insisted that would be a good opening sentence and help inspire me to write. I would disagree, but I am writing, so....
Today Noah was, as he so loving puts it, "fired for being incompetent" from his job at the coffee shop. It sucks because there was no warning. We went in to pick up his paycheck and Michele pulled him aside and said, "I'm taking you off the schedule." At least she offered to be a reference.
I feel angry over the whole thing and, perhaps worse, justified in my anger because I don't understand why they would let him go. He's great with people, is a hard worker, and is great at the food prep. So even if he did mess up a coffee a day, he was still new and learning and at least he tried and cared. And I'll admit, I am completely biased in my view. I love him to death and think the world of him, so when someone hurts him, it really upsets me. I can't even imagine what I'll be like when we have kids!
Noah can't really explain how he feels. He says he thought he was doing ok, but clearly he wasn't so he doesn't feel his thoughts hold any weight. After talking to Michele, he understands the logistics of it - Their business is based on repeat-customers and if they're complaining, then their business suffers. But he just wishes he had known that something was wrong. He would have done anything from taking a paycut, to reducing his hours or spend more time training to avoid losing the job and having to go out and try to find something new. It's not that he minds failing. He doesn't like it, of course, but it doesn't bother him. What does bother him is not improving and to not even be given the chance to improve really gets to him.
So for now we'll go back into survival mode for a bit. And tomorrow Noah will start searching for a job. Maybe something in a lab. A little experience in his field of study would be good.
Ok, well, Noah insisted that would be a good opening sentence and help inspire me to write. I would disagree, but I am writing, so....
Today Noah was, as he so loving puts it, "fired for being incompetent" from his job at the coffee shop. It sucks because there was no warning. We went in to pick up his paycheck and Michele pulled him aside and said, "I'm taking you off the schedule." At least she offered to be a reference.
I feel angry over the whole thing and, perhaps worse, justified in my anger because I don't understand why they would let him go. He's great with people, is a hard worker, and is great at the food prep. So even if he did mess up a coffee a day, he was still new and learning and at least he tried and cared. And I'll admit, I am completely biased in my view. I love him to death and think the world of him, so when someone hurts him, it really upsets me. I can't even imagine what I'll be like when we have kids!
Noah can't really explain how he feels. He says he thought he was doing ok, but clearly he wasn't so he doesn't feel his thoughts hold any weight. After talking to Michele, he understands the logistics of it - Their business is based on repeat-customers and if they're complaining, then their business suffers. But he just wishes he had known that something was wrong. He would have done anything from taking a paycut, to reducing his hours or spend more time training to avoid losing the job and having to go out and try to find something new. It's not that he minds failing. He doesn't like it, of course, but it doesn't bother him. What does bother him is not improving and to not even be given the chance to improve really gets to him.
So for now we'll go back into survival mode for a bit. And tomorrow Noah will start searching for a job. Maybe something in a lab. A little experience in his field of study would be good.
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