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Well i guess i wont leave it for over a month like i did last time. The new news of today is that there really isnt any new news but of course that wouldnt be new because thats the same new news i gave you last time i wrote. As stephanie was so kind to remind me, during the month btwn the last two posts i did indeed go shopping with kirstyn and while i dont think i actually bought anything we did have fun wandering around trying to find a store that turned out to be in the mall... the lady on the phone sounded like she thought we were totally stupid or something for asking where the store was when we called. Oh well thats just one of the joys of shopping i suppose. As of yesterday... or early this morning- i purchased myself a new computer to replace this old and rather worn out on that i am currently typing on. I think it knows its getting replaced because it has been acting up more than usual today. :) I should get it in about a week and a half or so and the best part is that its going to be BLUE how amazing is that. doesnt everyone wish they could have a blue computer?
Rick and i have ridden his motorcycle around a bit the last couple weeks. pretty soon its going to be to cold to ride it at all. we rode it to the stock car races about a week ago and i almost froze on the way home even though i had on tights, 2 pairs of pants, a t-shirt, sweatshirt and a jacket with gloves. needless to say.
We got to see Uncle Marv and Aunt Sue for a little bit today. they are making the rounds of their grandkids and stopped to see Aiden. This would be swell however on the way to Kay and Todd's last night they hit a deer with Aunt Sue's car and had to spend the night in Big Timber and Kay and Todd had to drive up there to pick them up this morning so they could get a rental car here in Belgrade. We all ended up having lunch together at a pizza place in town so while we didnt get to see them very long we did have a nice meal.
Well thats all for now folks, until next time i hope you all fare well and leave me comments as well.

Forever

To all my adoring fans, it has been to long since last i spoke with you. At least according to mom it has been... I have been working and sleeping a lot the last while although it seems to be more work and less sleep. I managed to get some time off for Boring convention over in OR and that totally made my week, the only down side is that after a week of sleeping nights now i have to go back to sleeping days and its not working very well. ah well thats the price i pay for going to convention and it was definatly worth it. On the work side of things i managed to give my self a bit of a shiner the other day. I was turning a handle on a machine and it popped out and caught me in the eye, it was a bit painful and left me a pretty mark lol i must say i was rather surprised that i actually got a mark off of it but its all gone now. I suppose i should have blogged earlier because i cant remember what all ive done since my last blog, since i have to head for work now im just going to end this now

revision

it would seem that i need to make an editors note to that last post, there are actually 768 tsps not 568, seems i forgot to carry a 1 after the quarts i believe it was. oh well, honest mistake at 4am :)

Gallon

so in order to waylay the boredom that comes from not being able to sleep at 4:30 am i am now going to figure out how many teaspoons are in a gallon with out using a calculator and im going to do it all on here. you dont have to actually read it all since i imagine it will get rather dull rather quickly.

3 tsp= 1T
4T= 1/4 cup
1/4 cup=12 tsp.
1 cup=48 tsp.
2 cups= 1 pint
1 pint= 96 tsp
2 pints= 1 quart
1 quart= 192 tsp
2 quarts= 1/2 gal
1/2 gal= 284 tsp
2 1/2 gals= 1 gal
1 gal= 568 tsp

there that wasnt so bad now was it? would any of you be so kind as to go back and check my figures?
unfortunatly that really didnt take me very long and i am still wide awake. i think it took me about 4 minutes to do that and mostly because i cant see where the numbers are on my keyboard to type so i had to keep backspacing. :P

If you were wondering at all why it is that im awake at 4 am it would be because of my "wonderful" job that keeps me up all hours of the night and then i sleep all day... in theory at least. so on my days off i find that i cant sleep during the night regardless of how tired my body says it is. and that ladies and gents is why i am posting this blog at 4:42am on sunday morning.
tomorrow is gonna stink (not in a literal sense i hope)

Bread

So its been almost 2 weeks since my last post and i believe when i left you last i was heading out the door to go visit Uncle Marv and Aunt Sue. We had a great weekend just hanging out and not really doin much, we went to a shooting range for a while because A.S. just got a new pistol for her b-day and needed to test it out. Before we left on sunday we procured a bed for none other than moi, yes ladies (and well, i think its just ladies that read this but if not) and gents i have an honest to goodness real-but-not-live bed. its quite wonderful to be honest and i am emensily enjoying it to say the least. speaking of furniture, i also gave in and bought a dresser from walmart and spent a very annoying few hours trying to get the dumb thing together, (i later realized i was trying to do it wrong... thanx mom :-) ) OK so on to newer and i suppose better stuff, i think it depends on your point of view. I finally secured a job and after about a week of 2 interviews, orientation and a drug test they finally called me on sunday to go to work. I am working at Wheat Montana on the graveyard shift, originally it was going to be 4 ten hour shifts with wednesday, friday and saturday nights off. when i got there sunday evening i was informed that no we would all be working 4 eleven hour shifts and for the next while no one was getting their 3rd day off (the bakery/production part is closed friday and saturday) so on my first week i get to work 55 hours, so far (this is day 3) i am hating it and i hurt all over the place. im doing my best to stick it out if for nothing more than the paycheck- that sounds bad i suppose but thats the facts. i figure that if i do 55 hrs a week for 3 weeks i can buy myself a new comupter on just the overtime and that would be totally awesome i must say. ok, well its almost 8:30 am now and its time for me to hit the sack since ive been up far to long already. see you around 4pm... ish

Ok so i just looked at my last post and it turns out i lied, i didnt leave off heading to Marv and Sues but thats ok, im not gonna change anything cause like i said, its time for bed. ciao

HUZZAH

Huzzah- an archaic expression of extreme delight or excitement
Yes ladies and gents, that is definiatly the feeling I am having at this moment, as of today July 11, 2008 I Shawna V. do once again have a job. YAY you have no idea how long i have been waiting to hear about this job, its like one of the two that i applied for that i can actually say i wanted so its quite awesome to say the least. Im going to be working at Wheat Montana- for those non montana people that dont know what it is, it is a very large bakery/deli that has some pretty awesome food. Im going to be working the graveyard shift 8:30pm-7am. its basically 4 tens a week so i get my full hours and still get 3 days to goof off and do nothing hehe not that i would dream of doing that... Life in Montana has been pretty good so far i must say, I really like living here so far. Manhattan is a rather small town and you can walk to the far edge of it in about 15 min, its a little over a mile from my apt to the edge of town. Rick and i are getting along great, he is a GOOD cook i must say, steak and taters for supper last night, definatly cant go wrong with that. Kirstyn seems to think that im turning into a hick... we shall see i suppose it really wouldnt bother me if i became one seeings how i already act like one anyways. We are going to Lewistown this weekend to see Marv and Sue and get me a bed! that makes me very happy seeings how i have been using an airmattress for the last few weeks. they are all fine and dandy for a couple day camping trip or something but oy, weeks of sleeping on one will make you want to sleep on the floor thats for sure. well we are heading out so ill get around to updating this... actually i have no idea when i will update again, you'll just have to keep checking back

Annoyances at the apartment

So when i first moved into the apartment the land lord was so smart that he forgot to drain the water heater before messing with it thus flooding our apartment with 50 gallons of water. I wasnt here at the time because i was at Devon convention so a portion of my stuff got dampish and the floor in the closet and along one wall was rather damp. Rick and i have both been able to feel the dampness in the carpet and smell what smells like mildew every time we come into the house. the land lady came over wednesday (without any notice) and said "well maybe if you took out the trash and actually did some dishes it wouldnt smell in here" well what kitchen doesnt have a garbage can with some stuff in it and the few dishes that were on the counter hadnt been there long enough for them to smell anyways. Needless to say i wasnt very happy with her and she kept saying "oh it must be something you are doing cause we have never had a problem with this apartment before you guys came here." "oh and if you have stuff on the floor, well concrete will hold some moisture and it will be drawn to the stuff on the floor" i wish i had been brave enough to say "well they havent invented furniture that will hover yet and i have to leave some of the stuff on the floor" so she and a carpet guy came by again today to check it and she seemed bent on making us feel/look like we were idiots, seriously these people are way annoying. they take anything you say and turn it just a bit so you sound like trouble makers and that they are the "wonderful people who are just trying to help" gahh its so annoying. oh well thats enough for this post