Moving up

I have a new house!!! I found a house to rent and I am totally excited!! Even better, it is going to be ready tomorrow!
Some family friends of ours have houses that they rent and one of them was available. It is an older one bedroom house, which is all that I need right now. And the best part is, they are letting me have the dog. It is pretty much impossible to find rental property that will let you have pets. It will also be nice to be renting from ppl that I know. The house is right across the street from a park which I am sure Ms. Lily Muffins will love.
I am just so excited to have my own place. It will really make things feel official. So far I have just continued to kind of feel like I was on an extremely extended visit home. But once I get my own place, and am able to get my things put away. Rather than having to dig through boxes when I need to find something, I think things are really going to fall into place.
Both jobs are still going really well and things are going great.

Can't wait to see everyone this weekend at the Halloween party!! :)

The Schmidt Fam

I love going to weddings on the Schmidt side of the family b/c they are drinkers and they love to have a good time. Plus there is like 100 of them!
This weekend was my cousin Ben's wedding, he is a couple years younger than I am. We had a great time. The kegs were gone before dinner was even served and I don't even know how many jello shots my aunt made. Needless to say, I was hurting this morning.

However, on the plus side, I didn't drive the car into a ditch like I did at the last family wedding in Carrollton! For those of you who don't remember, I was pulling out of the hotel parking lot, which for the record, had no lights or markers or anything! But I missed the road by like 2 inches and the passenger side of the car went in a ditch :) We tried to walk back to the reception before getting pulled over by a cop, who escorted us back to the reception! Luckily I didn't get in any trouble, from the cop at least.

Went to St. Louis to visit a friend today. Was going to go on to Eville but decided to come back home. Jake leaves tom. so I wanted to see him and I also wanted to start out the work week nice and rested.

Change of Plans

I was on my way to St. Louis Sunday afternoon when I suddenly decided why not just drive all the way to Little Rock? Jake is always giving me shit that I never come see him, so why not? So just like that, a 2 hour drive turned into 8! Yeah, I am crazy.
What really sucked is that I got about 5 minutes away from where I was supposed to meet Jake and I got stuck in stand still traffic for an hour!!! Are you kidding me! I don't know what ended up causing it. I figured it was a wreck, but when we finally got moving, there was nothing there, just a cop. Maybe the cleaned it all up before they let anyone go, I don't know.

It is definitely nice to have a couple of days off though! It worked out b/c Jake was coming home this weekend for a wedding so this way he can just drive back with me. And when I say drive, I mean just that, he can drive!! :)
Haven't done anything too exciting, he worked yesterday and I went to the store, considering I didn't come with any provisions. Lucky for me I have to live out of my car on the weekends, since I work so many different shifts. So my car pretty much looks like a closet!

This break was nice to have considering I have just become the bar manager at the bar, (the previous one quit). So along with handling the merchandise at the Park Bench, I am now in charge of the bar too! My days are only about to get busier! Can't wait!

What a Great Weekend!!

After getting past the long ass shift I had to work on Friday, and then getting up really early to work on Saturday, the rest of the weekend was great. Saturday nite was a blast. It was the first chance I have had to go out in Quincy and I had a lot of fun. It is impossible not to have a good time when Trudy is around!

Sunday I drove down to Grafton and went out on the boat with the guys, it was a beautiful day for it. The drive itself was awesome b/c all the leaves are changing, it was really pretty. After "boating", technically we just hung out at the dock, which is just as fun, we drove back to Eville and hung out. It was great to see everyone, and Halloween is only a few weeks away and I will be back down for Steph and Will's "Loft of Terror" party! Can't wait! I just hope Steph gets my costume all figured out...since she is the Halloween queen! :)

This weekend is the 150th anniversary of the Lincoln Douglas Debate, which took place here in Quincy. So they are having this huge thing all weekend celebrating it. They are predicting that there are going to be thousands of people here.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but does anyone else find it strange that thousands of ppl would travel to go to some event about something that you most likely slept through learning about in school??? Yeah, that's what I thought.

So, we are supposed to be super busy today at the Park Bench b/c the debate sight, and the location of all the events, is the park right across the street from us. So I should probably get to work.
Looking forward to tonite though b/c I have a bunch of friends in town, including Trudy!! So it should be a good time, b/c I actually have the nite off!!

Traci's Wedding

so I swear I am going to put pics up. I just didn't think it was going to be as much trouble as it is turning out to be. It is one thing to have to work on a computer that you are not used to, but when that computer is super old it makes things a little harder! I am having the worst time trying to get pics downloaded to the internet so that I can get them put on here! I can't get any of the applications to work. Then again, I could just be retarded :)

Things have been going well. I am trying to figure out what I want to do with my living situation. B/c I obviously don't want to stay living at my parents forever! I have been looking into renting an apartment or house but it makes it a little harder to do when you have a dog. The listings that don't say "no pets" are very slim!
There are a few really cute houses that are for sale and my parents had mentioned buying one and having me rent from them which, I thought, was a great idea. However, I am not sure what I want to do in the future and how long I want to stick around Quincy. But as for right now I am really enjoying it and I love working at my mom's place.
It would be nice to get into my own place soon though, I am kind of getting tired of climbing over a mound of boxes when I need to get something out of one of them!
I have also been finding great things in all the merchandise catalogs for my mom's store. I have my whole house decorated in my head already and it doesn't even exist yet! :)

Busy, Busy

It has been another busy weekend. Meaning that I worked a 15 hour shift yesterday (at both places) and I am getting ready to put in another approx. 14 tonite! It's good for me though! :) It feels good to be busy and have so much to do. All though I am starting to feel a little run down and the circles under my eyes are starting to show it.

I have plans to get some pics up soon. I am going to take pics of both the Park Bench and the bar so everyone who has never seen them can see what cool places they are!
I also have pics from Traci's wedding that I need to get up!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Where to Begin

There have been some major changes in my life lately and I am in the process of trying to get over that. That is why I am just trying to go into every new day with a totally positive outlook and trying to make the best of it.
Breaking up after a 4 year relationship was pretty devastating to me but I am a firm believer in the fact that everything happens for a reason. I think there are going to be a lot of great things in my future, the possibilities are endless.
One of the hardest parts of breaking up, after losing my boyfriend, was having to move away from all of my friends and the great family that I got to know so well. I miss you guys!!!

That is one of the main reasons I wanted to start another blog. (The other one just no longer seemed fitting) This is a great way to keep in touch with everyone and keep updated on what is going on in your lives as well. Plus I kind of got addicted to the whole blog thing! :)

Each day is getting better than the one before so that is why I am just going to start living my new life and loving it.