Hmmmm...

As I sit here reading other people's blogs I thought maybe it was time to update my own...

A few things:
After spending the majority of last week and this week with Evan, I realize he has some habits that drive me crazy! Is that bad news? I hope not. Sometimes he does things just to annoy me. I don't know what that is about, but I certainly did call him on it on Friday night. It was like everything I said/did he knew more, better, etc. and I was getting sick of it. I think I can deal w/these habits, it just drives me crazy sometimes. He had to go home this evening because his vacation ends tomorrow. He has to work from 9-9 and then he says he is coming back here for New Years. I don't want him to do all that driving if he is too tired, but you know, he'll do it anyway. I love seeing him so it's okay.

This weekend was "THE BIG PARTY." Saturday from 12-4 we had the open house. I would say about 150-200 people showed up. It was really nice to see the people who my dad has worked with over 32 years and people my mom has worked with for 30 years and people they have both known over the 35 year course of their marriage. The open house turned out really good. My mom, aunt Cheryl, & aunt Tammy made all the food and it was PHENOMENAL!! If we were having a smaller wedding, I'd just have them cater it. It was that good. Then Saturday night about 24 of us met at the Iron Skillet and had a very nice sit down dinner that included a reacreation of my parents wedding cake. Most of the people at the dinner were in the wedding or were family members. The kids stayed at our house w/Mrs. Brenda (from preschool) and Emma & Wil were heathens, as always. But it was very nice. Everyone was exhausted last night. I've been looking forward to this party forever (almost more then Christmas) because I love having our house full of people. Staying here were Marty & Carol (who, btw, flight was delayed 2 hours, they go to Indy at 2am and guess who picked them up & then didn't get to sleep til 4?), Mark, Cheryl, Josh & Jade, and Evan. It was really fun and Im glad everyone is coming over tomorrow night for New Years Eve. We haven't had a nice sized crowd for New Years in awhile. It will be fun.

I still havent finished blankets for Mark or Evan and I still haven't received Maci's other Christmas present in the mail. It was supposed to be here on the 22nd. I'll have to call tomorrow and see what the deal is. I really don't want to go back to work. Just like I didn't last week. But more then that, I do NOT want to go back to school. It's been so nice to be able to eat dinner with my family and not be tired 100% of the time. But at least I have off until 7th.

This next weekend is Jeremy & Becca's Wedding!!! Im so excited. I was hoping Evan could go but he has to work not to mention he has to get off early on the 9th (for our tasting at JB's) and another exciting event to be mentioned in just a second. I know everything is going to be beautiful and they make such a nice couple. It's just gonna suck going to a wedding with only my parents, but oh well. I need to find out where they are registered so I can get them a gift.

More exciting news! Evan passed the written exam given by the Indiana State Police!! There were 6400 people that took the exam and they took only 250 from that group and they will take 120 new officers in the next class. So already he has cleared a big hurdle. His oral interview will be on the 10th in Indy. Im so excited for him! I just want him to get a police job. The only problem/issue is that with the state police they do their training in Plainfield and require that all students live on the campus! WTF? Get this. If he gets into this class, graduation will be in November of 2008. Thats a month after we get married which means that for the first month we are married (well 2 months since we are getting married at the beginning of October) we won't live together! We will only see each other on F/Sa./Su. SUCK! Thats gonna be fun. Maybe I won't even need to move out of my parents house. Seriously. Cause there are not apartments that rent for 8 weeks adn we couldn't sign a lease because they will assign him after graduation and if we aren't living in Indy, then we'd have to pay to break the lease. Not to mention moving everything in and out in a 8 week span. I don't know what we are gonna do. I guess we'll figure it out the closer we get to that time. He really wants to work for IMPD, but if he gets a conditional offer from ISP in May, then that is what he is taking. We talked about that he could try again for IMPD after he had been w/ISP for a year. We'll see.

Okay, I know there is more, but I can barely keep my eyes open. More later!

PS: Oh yeah! We added Jade as flower girl 3 and Josh as the junior grooms man. They will be great!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Merry Christmas!!

I am typing this entry on my new LAPTOP!!! Holy heck! I did so well this Christmas. Good grief. Evan's family went above & beyond. Here's the rundown

Dennis & Ziaga (his dad & stepmom)
Dooney & Bourke purse
Avica watch
Bath & Body Works Wild Honesuckle body wash, lotion, & spray
Victoria's Secret 6 mini body sprays

Lindsey & David (his sister & her fiancee)
Bath & Body Works Fresh Vanilla spray & body wash
Victoria's Secret 4 mini Angels perfumes
Purple micro-fleece blanket
2 pairs of froggy socks

Becky (his mom)
$100 (WHAT!?)
A mini frog figurine
A big frog figurine
Stocking Stuffers: sour straws, sour gummi Life Savers, a body pouf, tea light candles, a purple/black/silver necklace
An oil/candle diffuser w/wild honeysuckle fragrance
A froggy desk calendar
Victoria's Secret Little Flirt bubble bath

Evan
A sapphire & diamond heart necklace
JLO Live perfume
The complete boxed set of Harry Potter books (hard back books 1-7 in a Hogwarts Trunk)
Harry Potter 5 dvd

My mom & dad
This HP Laptop
HP5
HP books 3 & 4
A Bath & Body Works "Softest Robe in the World" and it is, it's like micro-fleece and phenomenal!
3 sweaters
Pirates of the Caribbean 4
5 books, cooking, cleaning, anatomy and froggy

It was obviously a good Christmas.

So I really thought we had a wireless router in the house but Evan says he doesnt think so cause the only place we can pick up the internet (with a laptop) is in the living room. And then we pick up like 5 different interent connectors from around the neighborhood. Oops. He'll have to check that out when he comes back on Friday. He's currently over on the couch trying to go back to sleep..LOL..I surely did stay up til 3:30 AM watching the new HP movie on my laptop. It was just as good as I remembered. Now I just need to clean my room so I can display all my stuff.

This weekend is my parents 35th anniversary party/open house. The open house is at the clubhouse in my neighborhood and the formal dinner is at the Iron Skillet (which doesn't seem very formal to me, but I didn't pick it out so that is that.) Then I have next week off from IBC but I still have to go into work. Kind of like today, although this week my schedule is drastically shortened. I work today 2-6, tomorrow 8-12, and friday 6-10. That way I have time to spend with everyone coming in from out of town and w/Evan. We are supposed to pick up Spin & Marty Friday night when they get back from Vegas. Yeah, they went to Vegas for their honeymoon over the week of Christmas. Neat.

Okay, thats all for now. More later when we get this internet thing figured out and I can used the damn computer in my room.

It's Beginning to Look A lot like Christmas

Oh I should be studying for a final I have in 2.5 hours..But I really don't feel like it. I FINALLY feel good about all my classes. I passed my Basic Insurance Competencies, all of my Clinicals, and only have 2 papers left to BS, I mean do for Communications. I also rigged my schedule so I have at least 3 classes so Im not a quarter behind for graduation. School in general still sucks, but at least after tomorrow, I have 3 weeks off. Im not gonna know what to do with all that free time. Hopefully the "boss" lets me work some serious hours. If not, we may have to throw down.

What else? Wedding wise nothing is really happening right now. We (my mom, Angel,and I) are going to a bridal show on the 6th of January, hopefully we'll get some flower/cake/invitation/bridesmaid dresses ideas. We are scheduled to attend a tasting at JB's on the 9th of January (Evan, my parents, & myself) and I think we have to pick out our wedding cake that day. We'll see how that goes too. My dress should be in sometime in February and I know we need to order invitations and OBVIOUSLY the girls dresses and make sure Kristi is on schedule for making the junior bridemaid & flower girls dresses. I still haven't settled on colors..Surprise..I really like the burnt orange, but Im also a big fan of chocolate brown & ivory and a deep wine/berry color (since my favorite color is purple). Evan said he doesn't care (yet another huge surprise) and he'd be fine w/anything. My mom wanted him to go to the bridal show and I was like "yeah, that'll work, it's a BRIDAL show, on a Sunday during the NFL playoffs." Probabley not. So thats that, basically (trying) to focus on Christmas and my parents big anniversary celebration. That will be so much fun!

In other news..My cousin Grant is engaged. He is getting married on August 18, 2008. Now lets chat about this for just a quick second. When we went to the Heidorn family reunion the first weekend in December, I asked when the wedding date was & Grant's mom (aunt Chris) told me it was 08-18-08. No big deal, but later my mom was asking details about it & she said "none of YOU are invited." WTF?!!?!?!? Why? My mom and her brother aren't EXTREMELY close, but they have never had a falling out. Why would her (the bride, Sandy) family be invited but not us? What kind of sense does that make. And the 4 year old in me says "well if you aren't inviting us to his wedding you can't come to mine." Well coincedently, the 18th of August in 2008 is a....MONDAY!!! So no one wil be able to go. I don't know what the deal is. I understand about having a small wedding if you want to, but to not invite even immediate family? Maybe not even cousins, but at least aunts & uncles? I don't know. It just seems fishy.
In other family news, Carol & Marty's wedding is this Saturday. It's honky-tonk. Let me explain. They are getting married at 10:30AM..Okay, no big deal. But it's like they were going to jeans & t-shirts until we convinced them otherwise. Not to mention the reception? At the SHONEYS in JASPER!! WOOT WOOT!! Bring it on! I bet we have to pay for our own meal and everything. I think they are having the dessert bar as their wedding cake. I made her buy a new, pretty outfit for the wedding and told her she at least needed to have a bouquet. I figured, no matter what the scenario, a wedding is a wedding. ANd it's not like it's her 15th. Her husband passed away in February of 2005 and she is getting remarried and she's very in love and he treats her well so we might as well celebrate it. So Im making her a bouquet which I keep forgetting about and we are going down Saturday..The one maybe major glitch in the plan is that the weather people are forecasting a "Nor'Easter" for our area on Saturday, including ice & snow accumulation. If that occurs, we won't be able to travel to the wedding (which does kind of suck, even though it's hokey). I don't want ANY snow or ice unless it's enough to close Wayne Township Schools. I won't have to work if they are off from school. Now, what happens if we have a lot of snow while Wayne township is on break? I don't know. But anyway, that wedding is this weekend. I do hope this Nor'Easter skips us. It's been HORRIBLE out in Oklahoma and other parts of the midwest.

Okay, my arm is starting to hurt cause there aren't any supports on these stupid computer desks at school. I think Im going to start listing prayer requests at the bottom of my entry for anyone who wants to leave any or emails them to me. Also, just a random FYI, there are 4 marriages in my family in the next year.
12-15-07 Aunt Carol & Marty
05-31-08 Megan & Tim
08-18-08 Grant & Sandy
10-04-08 Evan & I
EXCITING!!




Prayer Requests:
1. Those affected by the ice storms in the midwest
2. The presidential race
3. Safety at preschool and church
4. Evan's ISP test(s)
5. Finals this week at IBC

Quickly, because I hate everything

Basically..as of now, life blows.

1. Financial aid changed mid-quarter and I didn't know about it. So instead of paying $80/month I now owe $481 a month! Nice, and since I didn't know, I owe the school $1203 but January 7th. Oh, and that will be my price per month til I graduate cause I made about $19,000 last year have no illigitimate children & am not married. Good plan, punish the person who is doing the right thing.
2. Classes I need to graduate aren't being offered in the evening next quarter. Such as Clin2, Patho, Pharmacology & Lab. Neat.
3. Work is wobbly. Well people I work with are, and this morning I came in to find teh preschool and church ransacked/robbed/broken into etc. Neat.

So basically, it's been a meltdown type of week. Literally, after I met with financial aid last week, I spaced out in Comm. class. Angel said "umm you just weren't there." And I wasn't, I dont' remember much of Comm. class, so thats good news.

I went to financial aid (<--oxymoron) today and had to pay $450 of the $1203 and my parents offered to pay the rest but Im SOL on the monthly payments. I told Evan I'll be living REAL lean until we get married. So yay for having NO money. LOVE IT!!

Okay, Im going now cause looking at all this depresses me even more. More when I have good (better) news.