Day 11: 9/8/2011

Ahhhh, the feeling of sleeping in is a great one. That's exactly what I did today. I slept in until about 9am. My 8am class was cancelled so the next thing was choir at noon. It felt really good. Also since I was able to leave later, I decided to ride my motorcycle. Not only is that a more fun way to get there but the gas is a heck of a lot cheaper too. 

So I went to the couple classes I had, signed a petition to get the Libertarians on the ballet, picked up some paper work to turn my job into credit for an internship and confirmed that hopefully my financial aid will be in by Monday! Woohoo!

Then I got home, ate supper, watched an episode of 30 Rock(A Valentine's Day show where Jenna loses her stalker and Liz schedules a root canal so she doesn't have to be awake that day.) and then played a couple games of League of Legends.

I am kind of disappointed that we ended up just skipping the podcast tonight. One of the guys couldn't make it and we didn't really have much material anyway so we just decided to not do it. I really think we need to have a talk about what the future of the podcast is. I really love doing it but it's going nowhere fast right now. We need to figure out what to do with it otherwise I have a feeling it is just going to keep going downhill.

But I'm looking forward to tomorrow. It's Friday, my last day of work at the court house, I get to see Katie and we are definitely going to be doing something fun whether it be the drive-in or the Bike Night Finale, who knows! The sooner I go to bed the sooner it will be here though, so goodnight!

Day 10: 9/7/2011

Dang it! Day 10 comes around and I just completely forget about it. Didn't even cross my mind. So I'm going to try to make up for it. I think that getting it done sometime is just as important as doing it the actual day, I just don't want to get a couple weeks behind, because then it's just lame. And I don't want to be lame...

So work was good today. Second to the last day at the court house. I'm pretty excited for the last day, it will be a lot of cleaning and stuff. I'm going to try to get done with the Windows 7 upgrades I was assigned but I'm kind of doubting that's going to happen.

After work, it was time for Wednesday night Brother Suppers, and it was my turn to host! Of course, Jeff couldn't make it, but I still made some amazing burgers! Along with the burgers, I fried up some potatoes and make some of those pickle and cream cheese roll things. I have to say, I was happy with the meal. I like home cooked, simple, good meals like that. Give me burgers over fancy shmancy, expensive restaurant food any day.

After that I stayed up and got some of my Windows Administration lab done. It's taking forever because we are setting up our servers right now so it takes figuratively, a million years to do all the updates and installs that we need.

Then I stayed up late and Skyped with Katie! I didn't have to get up early because my 8am class was canceled!

Day 9: 9/6/2011

Tuesday means it's a school day. First day back after Labor Day weekend. I was up at 6am and in Wireless Communications by 7:30am. During my break before choir at noon, I ended up flashing CyanogenMod 7 onto my phone, throwing on an updated radio and playing with my newly flashed Thunderbolt. The GPS wasn't working quite right but many people commented that it could easily be fixed by flashing a different ROM and then restoring back. It didn't work and was way too long of a process. Flash forward to now and for some reason it magically works, I'm not complaining.

Tonight I played a couple of League games, I really love Teemo and we had a couple fun games. Then I remembered I'm hosting the Brother's Supper tomorrow so I figured I should do a little prep. I'm making these amazing burgers and fried potatoes tomorrow. Tonight I put together a couple of those pickle wrapped ham and cream cheese things. They are really good. I ate a few. But it should make for a good meal tomorrow.

I'm looking forward to my second to last day of work at the Courthouse tomorrow, there will be a lot of cleanup and general housekeeping stuff so it will be fun. That and I can't wait for this weekend. I'm not 100% sure what Katie has planned but I'm sure it's going to be a lot of fun! :D

Day 8: 9/5/2011

So luckily, I remembered to blog before I got into bed today! Sadly, I should have been in bed a long time ago already. I put my laundry in right about supper time and forgot about it until about 10:30. So it's drying now.

On a better note, I have had stuff to do. I've been talking to Katie on Skype, blogging and trying to reroot my Thunderbolt. It's been a while since I tried the first time so I figured I would try again.

Earlier today, Katie and John swung through on their way to Vermillion and had lunch. We went down to HuHot, it's one of our favorites!

Keeping it short tonight though, going to go get my laundry and head to bed. Back to school in Madison tomorrow morning.

Day 7: 9/4/2011

Today was our last day in Minnesota. The family started out by going to church at the Church of our Lady of Victory in Fergus Falls. It was a nice service and not to far from my aunt and uncle's house where we were staying. We drove back to find a giant meal of scrambled eggs, sausage, toast, fruit and fried potatoes so we figured we should stay and eat some food.

Then we headed for home. Stopped in Watertown and got some Starbucks and my mom and I got into a big argument about who's frappuccinos were better, Starbucks' or McDonalds'. I'll give you one guess to who won :).

Then we made it to Sioux Falls where we went to eat at the Big Cheese. Pizza and beer always hits the spot. There I handed an old tablet off to my dad that I put Ubuntu onto. He's not very good with computers so we'll see how he does with Linux. Now I'm sitting at home relaxing. Looking forward to a day of seeing Katie and John and not much else tomorrow!

Also, if you want to see some pictures I took of my relative's game room, you can find them here. They are pretty ridiculous.

Day 6: 9/3/2011

Yay! Second blog post from my phone/Minnesota. Actually, I don't really like blogging on my phone, it takes too long. Today was also family pictures day. *sigh*

So we took a bunch of pictures, it was pretty nice outside so it wasn't too bad. Then we pretty much just ate, drank and had a good time with family. But I'm going to make this a quick post and end it before my battery dies. Goodnight!

Day 5: 9/2/2011

Alright, I'm up in Minnesota for Labor day, visiting some relatives and I don't have internet other than my phone. So you will have to bare with, I'm writing this with my phone.

Today was a big day for me. I'm still not sureif I can talk about it yet but I'll just say I have a job secured for after the court house job is done. So I interviewed and accepted a position today, then finished the business day upgrading computers to Windows 7.

After work, I drove to Watertown to meet my brother, then we drove the rest of the way to my aunt and uncle's.

Tonight was a lot of fun. We had some drinks, played some darts, and enjoyed some animals. If I don't post some pictures when I have real internet, yell at me because I got a couple good ones of all their taxidermy.

Overall tonight had been really fun. Seeing family after this long is always fun. I just wish that Katie could have come this weekend, that would have made it a million times better.

Also, their cat is really friendly! :)