Kayaking

Here are some lovely pictures from my kayaking adventure on Saturday. Sadly Waymond was at work building a house while we went kayaking and eating Mexican food! The first picture is Annie (taking the picture, some of her head is gone), Matt, Jeny, Kandi and Me. It's the whole group that went. Me and Jeny were in a two man kayak which was nice for my first trip out. It was a bit less intimidating having someone else right there.
The place we went kayaking is a Mexican restaurant on top and kayak rental on the bottom. Apparently they are famous for there tacos and margaritas. Both were very tasty!!

We are trying to become NorthWesterners!

2 weeks under my belt

Today marks my two week anniversary at my new job. I'm still really enjoying it. Several times I've had Waymond give me some remodeling tutoring over dinner at night. It is nice to have him to ask questions. He can explain things well. In fact, last night we went to Jazz Under the Stars and before it began Waymond was explaining Allowances to me!

Back to School!

This evening after dinner, Waymond signed up for his first class. It's official...he's going back to school. We are hoping that he'll be able to finish in 2 years. He'll be taking classes in the evenings two days a week in Seattle. Should be crazy! He'll still be working full-time at Habitat while going to school.

Birthday Goodness!!

Today's my birthday!!

To celebrate we invited some friends to Ben & Jerry's Scoop Shop for a giant sundae! It's called the Vermonster...22 scoops of ice cream, cookies, brownies, hot fudge, caramel sauce, whipped cream and cherries on top, oh and bananas!! Here are a few pics of the fun! We all left with our bellies full and on a bit of a sugar high!

3rd Day

Two thumbs up on the new job!! I'm really enjoying the work and the people!

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to my baby brother! He's 27 today!

1st Day

I had my first day of my new job today! It went really well. I'm still pretty clueless, but everyone is extremely nice and helpful. All day long I had two prevailing thoughts: the first was, 'I can do this. I can see myself doing this.' the second, 'I'm never going to be able to do all this. I don't know what I'm doing.' But the prevailing thought and feeling was that it will take some time, but I'm sure I'll get it all down!

Today was much better than my first day at the gym. I want to go back to work tomorrow!

THE movie

We went to see the Simpson's Movie last night. It was really funny, but there were some annoying girls at the front who laughed at everything so, it was hard to hear all the funny parts. And, there were a few annoying guys behind us. I'm not sure why some people think that the entire movie theater wants to hear his/her comments.

So, we'll have to buy the DVD and watch it in the quietness of our home!! We did bring our own donuts to eat during the movie.

Just another picture of our goodies from the Kwik-E-Mart!

Got a job!

York called me yesterday to say that the first lady they hired (over me) didn't work out, so they offered me the job! I called today to let them know that I'm going to take it and I start on Monday!!

Thank you, come again

We went to the Kwik-E-Mart on Monday! In celebration of the Simpson movie a handful of 7/11s across the US have been changed to Kwik-E-Mart and there is one in Seattle. We stopped by Monday night with Waymond's parents before we went to the Mariner's baseball game! We could leave without a pink donut & squishee!! mmm... donuts...

Jesus cookies

Last night we went to a jazz under the stars night at one of the colleges here in Tacoma with a few friends (Jeny, Kandi, Annie & Matt). I'll post a picture when our friend Annie emails them to me. Anyway, Matt had made some oatmeal raisin cookies that we all enjoyed. While eating our cookies our friend Jeny mentioned an oatmeal cookie recipe that we got from our friend in Kansas City (Heather). Jeny said (and I quote) "Those cookies are so good. If Jesus made cookies it would be those cookies. They're that good." I thought I'd share Jesus' Oatmeal Cookies. They really are that good!!

Oatmeal Cookies

1 Cup Shortening
1 1/2 Cups Flour
1 Cup Sugar
1 tsp. Salt
1 Cup Brown Sugar
1 tsp. soda
2 Eggs
3 Cups Oats
1 tsp. Vanilla

Cream shortening with sugars. Mix in eggs and vanilla. Stir together flour, salt and soda. Add to creamed mixture. Stir in oats.
Place on a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350° for 10—12 minutes.

Job

I heard back about the job and they hired someone with a human resource background. I guess I'll be writing more cover letters and sending out more resumes!

2nd interview

Had my 2nd interview this morning...think it went well. I should know something this evening or tomorrow. They said they were going to make a decision by today!

the end is near

Me and our friend Jeny went to Border's last night at 11:00pm to get in line for the new (and last) Harry Potter book, that I reserved (for our friend Jeny) several months ago. It's was a bit crazy. Thankfully I went early that morning (after my interview) to get a wrist bracelet to get a place in line, so we got our book at about 12:45am. Me and Waymond have the paperback books and don't want to get the hardback just to find out what happens, so our friend Jeny (who has the hardbacks) got the book and is spending her free weekend reading it and then is going to let us borrow it. She promised not to say anything until we get it read. In fact, last night when I dropped her off at her apartment (@ a little after 1:00am) she said we might not hear from her because it may be hard not to tell us what happens.

For all my troubles, i.e. reserving the book, getting the line bracelet early, and going at 11:00pm to stand in line with half of Tacoma, she bought me a chocolate frog, which I am enjoying this morning for breakfast! Thanks Jeny!

free night @ the museum

On the 3rd Thursday of every month the museums downtown are FREE! So, we try to take advantage of it. Here is a picture of the glass museum in the hot shop where they demo blowing glass. It's so amazing! Tacoma has a program for high school students where they can take glass blowing as a class. Some of the kids in the picture are high school students. We had a great time at the museum and I ran into a girl I worked with at the mall Starbucks!