we moved

it has been raining here in denver quite a bit. every time it rains we have get a puddle in our northwest corner of the living room. every time this happens we have to call maintenance and get the guys to clean the carpet. by the third time around, having to stay up late and be very tired for work and school, we asked for a change. the smell of the corner is horrendously icky, like a bad guys locker room. they ended up giving us a second floor apt for the same amount of money each month. this is awesome! we now have a brighter nicer apartment with a deck that the cats love. (we think the smell was getting to the cats, they have been much nicer since the move) so that is what is up with the three of us roommates lately.
jon is leaving for grad school on the 12th of august.

stressing

I am a stressing a lot.... life sucks sometimes but yet is good at the same time. So Jon, Jenny (my good friend from BHSU), and I are moving tomorrow. My car is packed, I have my bosses okay on using the plumber van on Friday night to move the big stuff, and we are on our way to the other side of Denver. So, moving is taking my time.
Second, I am on week 8 of an 11 week quarter. Things are coming to an end and I have a lot to do!!! Time is of rarity. The weekend of the sixth Jon and I are going back to Minnesota for my sisters graduation party, which couldn't be at a worse time for me. It is the weekend before my dead week. The following weekend, the one before finals week, Jon and I are flying out to Connecticut for my mother in laws induction to the new church she is becoming a pastor for. Money is low, credit cards are high, rent is due tomorrow, the day we move in...
I can't wait until summer break! I will have no idea what to do with my time. Oh, but hey, my job is pretty much done except a few hours here and there. We don't get back on the bandwagon until mid-August. Soooo, job hunting for Jenny and me. Woohoo.
I need some alone time. My head is spinning, my world is like a those yellow change things that used to be at the MN zoo. you put in your penny or nickle and watch in go in circles, getting faster and faster until it goes down the little funnel at the bottom.
Life is life! It just needs to slow down a bit.

Update:

These are some photos from last quarter:






Thankfully Jon's car wasn't as bad as we thought it would be. It ended up to need a mighty tune up and fixing of a leak from the coolant. The amount was $586 which was much better than predicted, like I said. So we aren't as bad off.

We had burgers last night. The meat tasted sooo good! It had been a while. Pay day = grocery shopping wohoo

long time, rough times

it has been a while since I have posted. Lots of things happening here. Jon is graduating from Regis University in less than a month. His car is now not running as of yesterday. I borrowed my work van and towed his car to the shop. The shop called us this morning saying that they don't fix German cars. So now what? We are either going to push it across the street to Meineke or else tow it to a place that the first shop told us fixes German cars. I guess, who do we rely more? I don't even know.

Because of the car troubles, Jon drove me to school today at 7:00am. My class doesn't start until 12:30 and then he will pick me up after he is done tutoring at Arupe (a high school affiliated with Regis). I got some homework done this morning, that is always a good thing. I am quite tired now though.

Do you like Ramon and Mac n' Cheese, cause that is pretty much all that is in our cupboards with the exceptions of tortillas, cheese, bread, water, milk, and jelly.

We are looking at new apartments closer to my school so I don't have to pay $5 a day for parking. Jon is going away to grad school in Fargo, ND next year and I have talked to Jenny and she is cool with moving down here if everything goes all well. So we would split rent making it less than Jon and I are paying now. It's just the trouble of getting the down payment/deposit. Along with fixing Jon's car, paying our bills, getting the money to drive back to MN for Erin's graduation, and so on.... It goes on and on. Can you tell I am stressed! Add to that, that my job will be ending in a month or so for the summer season. Money, money, money!

photo design

some Pics 2

there are just some of my pics from last quarter of school. a few are from my first project this quarter. school is being good to me. I think i am sort of figuring out what i want to do. i dont know if journalism is the thing for me anymore because what i want in journalism is not really there anymore because of the internet and so on. i might decide to do advertising with my still lives and studio shots. for right now, i am just enjoying doing what i want in the studio shooting antique stuff. i have always had a thing for old random stuff and thinking of what it was like when they weren't old. i love antiques and old stuff....

Some Pics

my nieces pics

Here are some pics of my nieces that I took last night for my portraiture class and for my sister in law. It was fun.

denied health insurance

i have now been denied health insurance because of my brain tumor six years ago...

how bad is the system?

in class

here are a few of my latest images, the first is the gradient assignment for advanced lighting, and the last is the shiny object. the middle image is the one i created in class for an in class assignment. we were given 6 images and had to put them all together within an hour and a half. so that is what i got out of it.





so not much is up lately, i quit target because it was the worst job i have ever had. my last day in next saturday. school, the quarter is already over 1/3 of the way done. how crazy is that. i think its going pretty well. it could be because i dont feel as stressed out this quarter, which is awesome! jon and i are doing well with our relationship. we have been watching tons of movies. we watched malcolm x the other day, it is about 3 hours long and took us three nights to finish because we are like old people and stop the movie halfway through and finish it the next night. the other day jon and i went hiking, it was awesome. we finally got a hicking book with lots of trails in it. we are planning on going camping sometime here.
its been way too hot out here, it was 103 the other day. and we have broken a record here in denver. the record was in 1901 with 19 days of over 90 degrees in a row we are now around 23 days i believe. its no fun... jon and i have camped out in our living room where the air conditioner is the last two nights. way too hot for us. thats it all i have to say today, sorry it took me so long to update

scooter updates...

oh, the little scoot and the big coco bean





scooter is doing pretty good, its coco who is crazy. scooter is like that annoying little sibling to coco. scoot likes to chase coco and play lots and lots, coco has long forgotten how to be a little kitten. coco licks scooter here and there, then bites him...i dont really know how bad of a bite, but scoot seems to know coco will get in trouble if he squeaks. its all good though

Another day of finals

I think it's pretty much official I want to be a photojournalist. Maybe I will go to college another couple years and do journalism as a minor. All I would have to take is another couple english/journalism credits. Tell me what you think about my pj story...







lots of stuff happening for me so it seems.

Joe in Denver

Joe was in Denver this last week. He, Rachel, and Ricky drove out last Sunday. We went to Red Rocks, drove in the Mountains, went up Pikes Peak, and had they did some other stuff while I was in school and Jon was at work. I really enjoyed having Joe here. I was thinking about it and this week was the longest amount of time him and I have been together since he was kicked out of my parents house. I had forgotten how much I missed him. I love having a big brother! This morning was when the three of them drove away. They got up around 7am and Joe made a stink in the bathroom before I took my shower (some things never change.. okay so I couldn't smell it). As I was leaving for work they were headed up to 72nd and Federal and then they were on their way out of Colorado. I drove off on my moped with my pink helmet and wished I could give him another hug. A few tears came out of my eyes and then blew off my face by the wind as I drove down Lowel. It's kind of weird how years don't always change your feelings for the people you love.
Also, big news, the long awaited proposal happened at the top of Pike's Peak! the pictures above show Rachel and Joe hugging and she was crying she was so happy, it was very cute and the ring is gorgeous!
Funny, Joe had gotten quite the sweet tooth since I have hung out with him last. Make him anything sweet, and he will love you lots. hahah

moped and credit cards

The moped was a smart decision, we have already saved lots of money on gas and my school parking. sweet-hola

Jon and I got a moped!! I have totally wanted one for forever.