Home again

Well im back from my sojourn to Linda's and I seem to have survived it with all pieces still in tact so yay me. I had a pretty good week and a half over there, I'd forgotten how far out Chicago Park is from town, im not used to driving for 20 minutes to get home from work anymore. It was fun to be able to be out in the sticks again with animals running around making noise all over the place again. Im going to miss Tony- Linda's latest dog- he was such a sweetie, followed me everywhere inside and out. I had a few friends over Wednesday night and we got a nice scare from one of the neighbors that stopped by to borrow something. Well as it happened, we didnt hear him knock and the door was open so he came in looking for me. We were all out back on the porch laughing and talking and just being hyper in general so when the door creaked open all of a sudden- and it actually did creak- we pretty much freaked out because to our knowledge we were the only ones around. (the neighbors car had been gone when we came home) It turned out to be the neighbor...kid? i guess you could call him. Linda had said he could borrow some stuff so he was just coming over to say hi and grab it. He was really nice about all of it but man it sure got our heart rate going lol. I didnt have to work this last thursday so i convinced dad to take his boat out... not that he really needed convincing but still. It was going to be just dad, carol and I but it ended up being Allyson, Kyla, Brandon, and Brian as well. it was a lot of fun I must say and to my credit, I was out on the water for about 6 hours and I didnt even get a sunburn how is that for awesome? My muscles are rather protesting the abuse i put them through while using the inner tube but I would have to say it was well worth the pain and i would do it again as soon as all my muscles work how they are supposed to. I think its pretty much for sure that im going to be moving in with Rick right after Devon for a few months at least, hes thinking he will stay put for at least 6 months and possibly a year or more so that should give me some time to get settled in and all that good stuff, who knows maybe ill move after 6 months its been known to happen :D

Well it looks like its been over a week since the last episode in the life that is mine. Not a whole lot has happened since then but I will do my best to regale you with wit in the shortness of this blog. Actually I'm not going to try for the wit because it would seem that I am rather witless at the moment. I started house sitting for Linda Compton on Tuesday of last week, I think it was around the 6th or something like that it has been going pretty good so far, had a wild party here on Thursday... well not really but I did have a friend spend the night with me so we can pretend it was a party. A group of us from work went to one of the girls houses Friday night for a going away party for one of the girls that quit about a month ago. We played guitar hero and got really loud and had fun playing with the birds and just had fun in general. I think dad is taking his boat out on Thursday again so I might go with him for some fun since I don't have to work that day. My last day of house sitting is Friday morning so I wont have to come all the way out to CP every day which will be nice on the gas end of things. I guess thats about all the news for now.

Long time

Well my adoring public readers- of which there are two I believe- it seems that i have been remiss about posting on a regular schedule. course I do believe I warned you that it wouldn't really be a regular thing in my first post. I haven't written because nothing exciting enough to warrant writing about has happened to me in the last few days. I got a rather bad sunburn at the rodeo but I'm pretty sure I told you about that. Well it blistered and now it hurts again but oh well such is the life of fair skinned people of which i am one. OH did I tell you, so we were at work the other day and this guy Nick and I were sitting in the break room just talkin about stuff and generally being a bit bored as we are prone to being on a beautiful saturday afternoon when we are stuck indoors, on the topic of being bored I turned to Nick and said "it would be really funny if someone were to page themselves over the intercom" so of course Nick being who he is said "hah ya I'm going to go page myself" well now I didn't think he was really serious but he left the room and about a minute later I hear "Nick call 22 please, Nick call extension 22" it was totally funny i must say and it caused a bit of commotion out in the store where employees were looking around in confusion and saying "was Nick just paging himself?" so ya that was the highlight of last week. Oh ya before I close this up I was going to tell you, I get to house sit for about a week and a half for Linda Compton (old neighbor for those non-existent people that don't know her) it should be fun i think and its some extra moo lah so its all good. This has been your not so daily reporter reporting in from another nothing-so-new-to-report- week.

Wicked Sunburn- Rodeo

so basically i got a really bad sunburn, on the one hand it looks rather funny, on the other hand it rather hurts a bit and i think im going to have to rule out some of the clothes i usually wear cause i think it would hurt to much. it all started out yesterday when i decided that i was going to go to the rodeo in auburn. Allyson, Kyla and Brandon decided to come along with me just for kicks and giggles. right after mtg we all came back to my house to get a change of clothes for me and to pick up my car. we then headed down the road towards the other VanDermyden household to get the others different clothes. on the way down we (of course) had to stop at target to look for cowboy hats, i already had mine but Kyla and Allyson needed one if they were going to the rodeo. we got part way to the rodeo and decided that we had to go to the bank (we wanted to be able to actually see the rodeo not just hear it) and after the bank we had to go to starbucks so we could look really cute in our hats with our starbucks. the rodeo was good as far as rodeos go, it seems like it was rather short but i guess it was about 2.5 hours long. well on this particular day it was very warm and sunny and i was wearing a tank top and sitting where there was no shade. not a good idea for one with skin such as mine i received a major sunburn- the first one of the season- it has turned to a nice shade of PAIN, no actually it doesnt hurt that bad its really bright red... at least the front half of me is. my back got almost no sun because the sun was in front of us the whole time so im a two toned person for the next few days. red on front, white on back. maybe i should go lay in the sun on my stomach for a few hours tomorrow...

Annoying Webkinz

Have you ever heard of things called Webkinz? well if you havent you arent really missing out on much. they are basically beanie babies but you can take them online and feed, play with, clothe and whatever else you want to do to them. So at Ben Franklins- the store i work at- and everywhere else that sells these animals is having a Webkinz Extravaganza which means that there are a lot of loud kids going all over the store all wanting the free Webkinz that you get when you buy anything in the store $10 or more. All day i had people getting mad at me because they could only have one Webkinz per transaction regardless of how much over $10 they spent. They kept telling me that they were spending $30 so why couldn't they have 3 Webkinz. They got mad when i told them that the policy from the Webkinz company was that you could have one per transaction. if you want to split your order up into 3 separate transactions so you can have 3 free pets thats fine but we cant give you 3 for spending $30 at once. How hard is it to get the concept- i didn't think it was that hard to comprehend but then i spose you should never overestimate the intelligence of people actually willing to buy these animals.

Now you cant say I don't have a blog

There I went and did what I said I wasn't going to do. Yes ladies and gents, I have a blog. I don't have the slightest clue what will be written on these pages but hopefully you will find it to some extent entertaining. If you don't... oh well no one is forcing you to read it. My life up until now has been a flurry of events that all came rather slowly. I suppose technically that wouldn't be a flurry but thats ok. When I left OR i was hoping that i would find life slightly more enjoyable back in california. what i got wasnt really what i expected but then what part of life is expected when you come to think about it. I sometimes wonder if there will ever be anywhere that i can find what im looking for in life i suppose it would help if i actually knew what it was i was looking for but as of right now i dont even know what i want to do for the rest of my life. I sometimes feel like my life is going no where except maybe in a circle or two and that really doesn't get you very far at all. Circles are good if you want to lounge a horse but if you want to make something of your life, well sometimes you have to step outside the circle into the unknown so to speak. Maybe thats why i have been moving around so much trying to find a place where i can be outside my circle.