School is yuckie!

I know its been forever! Schools been going good...it's starting to get a little overwhelming seeing how the end of the semester is finally coming!!! But break starts Friday at 11:00am for me! YAY!!! 2 of my three classes have been cancelled! however, in my 10am I have an exam yuckie! Over the ENTIRE book! don't ask me how it's only a quiz...I think the teacher is a bit nuts.

Last week the sorority had our group picture taken along with our indiviual pictures for our composit. The link to look at the pictures is attached. The indiciual ones are going to be cropped and matted with the crest being in the center. It should look really good. The guy who took the pictures is another student and does it on the side for a bit of extra cash.

http://jbaumann.zenfolio.com/p891292365/h23624dd7#h2792eff7

Can't wait to see everyone next week!!! YAY!! :)

A great weekend with a horrible ending

This past weekend Cory and I went over to the west side of the state for a big river tubing party with a bunch of our friends from school. We car pooled with a couple of other people who live in the Detroit area to help save on gas. Cory and I both left our cars in a park and ride just down the street from where he works, hopped into our friends car and were on our way. We had a blast! Friday night everybody hung out and then Saturday we went out to breakfast at the ONLY restaurant in town, Bob Evens. After that we all went back to the house to get ready to leave. We got picked up by a bus from the tube rental place got to the river and rode down. I think the trip took about 3 hours do get to the pick up station. Once we were there the bus picked us back up and brought us back to the house that everyone was staying at. When we got back we cooked out and then hung out for the rest of the evening. Sunday everybody packed up and headed in our own directions again. It was pretty nice car pooling because that meant that I didn't have to drive and I could sleep the entire was home. It was nice.

Well it was nice. Right before we pulled into the park and ride I was joking around about hoping that both cars were still there and hadn't been stolen. What was supposed to be a joke turned out to be not so funny. Somebody smashed out one of my windows and stole some stuff out of my car. They got away with about $70 Canadian cash and some pampered chef stuff that I had in my car. I'm pretty sure there was nothing else in the box besides that...there might have been a couple of little things but nothing I can think of off the top of my head.

After waiting an hour and a half for the police to arrive, we were finally able to file the report and let them know what happened. Apparently that park and ride gets hit all the time, which surprised us because while we were waiting we had to of seen 20 people going in and out of it getting dropped off or picked up. The Cops said that because it was only a total of $170(ish) lost that there is nothing really that they can do about it. If they had stolen a larger amount in value then they could. Also, because the window is only going to be $190 to fix insurance wont cover it because the deductible is more than that. So including what we lost to the river on our trip (Corys native sunglasses and my crocs) we are out a total of about $450 in two days. Awesome. Well, at least we had fun.

Kid Rock

Each summer Cory's dad gets 4 free tickets to all of the DTE energy concerts because he takes care of all the lawn equipment for their venues. So with Cory's dad being nice he gives us some of the tickets to some of the shows... past weekend Me, Cory, Ashley, and Erin went to go see Kid Rock in concert! It was a REALLY good show too! Uncle Cracker opened for him and then Rev. Run from Run DMC did a couple of songs with Kid Rock...The music never stopped and he played hit after hit!

So far this summer we have seen Stevie Wonder and Kid Rock. This Friday we're going to see O.A.R. Also on our list to see is Josh Turner, possibly 3 doors down and Finger 11, and maybe Maroon 5...I really want to see them but its the night before a wedding that Cory is standing in. Journey is also coming, but unfortunately I'll already be back up at school when they come. Backstreet boys are coming as well haha, but we're passing on that one.

Last weekend Cory and I went up to Houghton for the fourth. I think this year was the first year that I actually noticed how many people actually go places for the long weekend. In the UP they always talk about everybody traveling but you never actually see it on the roads, there might be 5 cars instead of the usual 2 or 3. We left after Cory got off work on Thursday, the trip generally takes 8 to 9 hours depending on traffic and the weather it took us the full 9 this time because of everybody heading up north. When we got in we met up with everybody that was in town and hung out.

The next day a bunch of us went out to eat and then went to the Gay parade and all of the festivities there. No, it's not a parade full of gay people, there is a itty bitty town in the Keweenaw named Gay and all that they have there is the Gay Bar. The parade was interesting to say the least, it even rivaled Gladstones! Anybody can be in the parade as long as they come up with something interesting to do while in it. One guy just wore a bathrobe and underwear and drank beer as he walked down the street and there was another guy that took 10 wiener dogs and dressed them up like baby reindeer and made them pull a mini sleigh as he walked next to them as Santa. There was also a group that danced to the chicken dance the entire time. After the parade everybody gathers in a field for the trout tossing competition. After that we all headed back to Houghton for dinner and to hangout until the fireworks. The fireworks were good but nothing spectacular.

Saturday I actually had to do something productive, move all of my stuff into my new room. That was actually the reason that we went up to Houghton. At the end of last semester the girl living in the room that I am going to be in next year wasn't out yet so I had to pack all of my stuff up and put it into a corner in my old room. Seeing how I'm not going to be up until after the girl living in my old room is there we had to go up sometime to move everything around. After getting everything moved in we met up with everybody at the beach and hung out down there all day and then a bunch of people came back to our house for a BBQ! All in all it was a fun weekend, it was nice to see everybody and be up there for the long weekend.

Schools out for summer!

WOW! have the past couple of weeks been hectic! Last weeks were exams, I had three in class exams, one take home final, and one final project! The final project wasn't difficult at all, it was actually really fun! It was for my Rhetorics class, I had to design a campaign piece for a presidential candidate and it could be whatever I wanted it to be. Seeing how I'm a marketing major I wanted to go for something a bit more fun and people could see very easily and all over the place. It ended up being a t-shirt. I took a different approach on the project then everyone else (like always because I think outside of the box) and made my piece more of a get people to vote in general than for one person in particular. Although I did put a candidates name on it(because I had to), it wasn't my main focus. The shirt ended up saying McCain 2008 on the front and then on the back it said "You say one vote doesn't count...What would happen then if nobody voted? Make you vote count Vote McCain" I didn't really have a reason why I chose McCain I just did because I knew not too many people would be doing pieces on him.

My three in class exams were finished by Tuesday and I wrapped up my take home Tuesday afternoon too. I think I put a total of 12 hours working on it. My teacher said it would take anywhere between 8-24 hours to complete it so I was really nervous that I wouldn't do good on it. I've been freaking out about getting a good grade on it since I turned it in seeing how I had to do good on it to do good in the class because I struggled with the class this semester. But guess what! I ended up getting an 81% on the final! I was so excited when I found out I jumped up and down! haha!

Now that school is done I get to relax (YAY!) for a bit. I'm living downstate for the summer just North of Detroit with Cory, and I'm looking for an internship / work for the summer and I'm also going to be taking a couple of classes, but they don't start until July. Right now I'm just waiting until Golda's wedding and starting to try to get everything together so that Cory and I can start planning ours too!

My Ring!!

Sorry it has taken so long for me to get this up. I lost my camera at first, it was then found when I was gone on spring break and then lost again. I ended up finding it last week in my sock drawer, weird I know. Anyways here is a picture of my ring. its the best I could do.

Update on life

Its been awhile since I've posted so I figured it was time for an update. My computer is back up and running for the most part, my wireless internet doesn't work which is a pain but at least it works again with it plugged in to the cable. School started back up again on Monday, the semester shouldn't be too bad I have one class Mon. and Wed. 4 on Tues. Thurs. and none on Fri. YAY for long weekends!!! Unfortunately with the start of the semester means carnival (UGH!) so that will be keeping me pretty busy for the next couple of weeks. mandatory hours aren't as bad as last year luckily its only 5 this week, 6 next, 7 the next with a work party (3 hour block) each week as well, and then a 6 hour shift on the all night which is was better seeing how it was like 12 last year. I really shouldn't complain about the hours at all because some of the frats put in 30+ hours a week per person plus going to class and studying, needless to say they don't sleep for like a month. Also this semester I am the sororities Social chairman and House manager. Thats really all thats new with me my life is pretty boring.