The adventures of today...

Jese is getting strong!! By the looks of this picture our study needs some cleaning, and it looks really small!!

Oreo is studying tax for me...she still hasn't put the book away!

Finally, I am making cookies!!

The cookies are ready to go in the oven!

Hello! I am procrastinating right now! I have been sitting at the desk for 1 1/2 hours now pretending to do my Fraud homework! It should have taken me half an hour to do, but this stupid computer keeps distracting me! Don't worry I am almost done, just four more questions to answer! I don't think I will be getting to my tax homework today, I will do it in the morning I guess! Good thing I don't have class until 12:30! Well seeing as this is like my third time updating today I don't know anything new yet!
Christa
Oh yeah, I just looked at the weather again and now they are saying on Saturday it will be 33 degrees, not 32, that means snow melting for sure!

YES!!!!!

Well after much thinking this week in my classes I decided that I can graduate in May. I need 15 more credits to get the 150 for the CPA exam, which I am planning on taking this summer. However, I am able to graduate after this semester because all of my classes that I need are finished. So I had to find out if I could still take classes after I graduated and I just got an email telling me that I could. Now I just need to find out if I need to come up with$3500, or if I can still get financial aid for this summer. I guess if I can't I can just accept more for this semester and just put it into savings until then!! Now I can find a real job and start it this summer. So far I have found 3 online classes, I just need to find 2 more and we will be able to live where ever we want in May, that will be so nice! I hope I can find them. Now I just need to declare my minor, get a class substitute request filed, and apply for graduation, yippee!! My day just got much better!!
Christa

Being Active!

Hello! Well today I am being more active, sort of! When I got up I ate breakfast (pop tarts!) and then read for about half an hour. Then I took a shower and dried my hair. Then I decided to start our taxes, I got them done but there is a form not up yet on H&R Block so I have to wait till mid-February to file. We should get about$1000 back total, that will be helpful! Right now I was going to make cookies but after I started I discovered my brown sugar went up and got hard as a rock on me! So my knight in shinny armor (Jese) is on his way to the store right now to get me some new brown sugar so we can have cookies!! Oreo is being super clingy today, she won't leave me alone! In three hours I have class, I am not excited for it. Next week I have my first tests for the semester, I have two, on in Auditing and one in Fraud Examination. So far Fraud is my favorite class, I think I want to go into Auditing after I graduate. Jese is having no luck finding a new job yet. I told him to spend a day back home and go around every where around there and find a job, so he might do that. I have a little bit of homework I have to do today but I don't think it will take me too long, I will probably do it tonight after my class or tomorow morning! I only work two more weekends till I get one off, woohoo! I like having four days off in a row but the weekends are soooo long because I do all day Friday now. Good thing I only have to work there a few more months. Okay well I guess I don't know anything else. Have a great day!
Christa
Oh yea, on Saturday it is supposed to be 32 degrees!!! That means the snow will start melting, woohoo!!!

Where will we go this year??

Whitewater State Park
Zumbro Falls

South Dakota

Wyoming

Mt. Rushmore

Grand Tetons

Glaicer National Park

I wondering where we will go camping this year!! I hope we can go somewhere new for at least one weekend! I want to for sure go back to Whitewater State Park, we didn't get to go there last year, it is a fun place to go! Alls I did today in class was think about spring and how I wish it were here. I really really need to get out and do something outside, but not get cold! Right now Oreo is sitting on my lap and Jese and I are watching Buffy. Classes were boring again today, don't worry! Jese made muffins today, I didn't eat any because they are banana nut, gross, but he said they are good! He also made tator tot hotdish for supper, it was yummy. Well I guess I don't know anything, bye!

Christa

I still have no new photos...

Hello! I don't really know too much today. Friday I worked all day, it was boring and long. On Saturday I worked all day again, it was boring and long. On Sunday I worked most of the day, it went by faster but it was still boring! Oh yes, on Saturday after work Jese spent four hours taking out all of my hair extensions, now I have plain Jane hair again. Today I didn't do much, just some homework and school. It was another pretty boring day. That is why I haven't updated all weekend, because it was boring and long. I don't really like my weekends because I work the whole time. In Feburary I will finally have a day of no work or school, it will be nice. But that weekend I will be making a cake for Liam so that will take up the whole weekend and Jese will be up north. Right now I am watching the movie Silk, it is pretty boring. I have been crocheting a blanket for our bed but I made it too long, I don't really want to take it apart yet so I think I am going to take all of the scraps from all of my other blankets and make one from those, that will give me something to do. I was going to make cookies today but I just didn't feel like it. I am getting the winter blues, I don't feel like doing anything, I basically just sit around whenever I am at home doing nothing. I hope spring comes fast. Okay well I am going to go dig out all of my yarn now.

Christa

The rest of my day...

...the rest of my day was loooooonnnng. I had 7 1/2 hours of classes and my back hurts now :( I thought it was because I was slouching so I sat up straight for all of my classes but it still hurts and I don't like it. Jese made me supper today, we had sloppy joes and cheesy veggies and pasta. It was yummy, he didn't plan a dessert for me though, that is okay I will forgive him this one time. Right now we are watching Buffy. I have decided that I am ready for my hair extensions to be taken out. They still look really good but they are becoming too much work with school. It takes me an hour just to fix it and I would much rather do other things before I go to school than sit on the toilet (my chair!) in the bathroom fixing my hair for an hour. I probably won't get them taken out for a few more weeks. Also my hair is growing out so much since they have been put in so the regrowth is strating to tangle and it is hard to get out because of the glue. Also since the glue is getting further down it is getting harder to not hit it when I curl my hair so then it gets hot and that isn't a good thing. Okay well I don't know anything else.

Christa

Congrats Jese!!

Hello! Well it is official, Jese got accepted to Graduate School! He will be starting next fall and St. Mary's!! The lady he interviewed with yesterday thought all of his answers were great and she only interviewed him for 20 minutes!! Yea for him!! Yesterday I was super busy. After I got up I took a shower and then did some of the laundry. After that was all done I did the grocery shopping, I saved a whopping $7.60 with coupons! Then I came home and put all of them away, and then I had to go to class. After my class I came home and made pizza burgers, ate, and then did homework for about an hour. After that Jese and I watched Burn After Reading, it wasn't nearly as good as I thought it would be but it was still okay. After that we watched one episode of Buffy and then I fell asleep. I didn't sleep very good last night, I kept waking up so I ended up getting up at 8:00 this morning. I haven't really done much yet. I have to leave for my class in an hour so I think I will get a little ahead on my homework now because I don't really have much else to do. I love that it is warm out again today! I wish all of the snow would melt already and it would be spring! I can't wait to go camping again and grill outside! As soon as we can I want to go camp at Whitewater State Park, we didn't get to last year because they were still getting everything built back up from the flood and didn't open back up untill later in the year for camping. Okay well I guess I can go do some homework now. Have a great day!
Christa

It's going to be a busy day!

Hello! Well today I have a lot of things to do. I have to do some grocery shopping, the laundry, some cleaning, some homework, and go to class! I have class from 3-4:20 so hopefully I will get all of that stuff done before it. Jese is going up to the cities today to have his interview with St. Mary's and he will find out officially that he is accepted (there is no other option he has to be accepted!!) Yesterday I went to Target to use some coupons I had for there and I ended up only spending $30 I also saved $10.59!! Then when I checked out I got a coupon for $5 off a Blu ray movie!!! I think I might go use that today, after all my pay check finally went through so I have a little bit of money! I don't really know to much today. I am glad it is warmer out but I just looked at the weather and it is supposed to get colder again, but not as cold as last week, and then it should warm up again! I just wish all the snow would hurry up and melt, all of the parking lots are a mess to drive in and they all get my pants super dirty!! Tonight for supper I am making pizza burgers and green beans, yum! And for dessert we will have skinny cow ice cream sandwiches, I got them yesterday with a coupon, I LOVE them!! Okay well I am going to go make some eggs for breakfast, have a great day!
Christa

Help Jese Paint--Liam

Liam helped Jese put mud on the wall of my old bedroom today, he LOVED it! Today Jese and I went to Faribault to play games! We played Five Crowns and Risk and then we played outside in the snow! It was lots of fun. We just got back a little bit ago. I don't really know anything. I have two classes tomorrow, and I still have to do my homework for them. I will get the stuff done for auditing tonight and then I will get up early and do my advance tax homework. Okay well I guess that is it.
Christa

Are you joking!!!

Winona Schools are closed again today!! Hello it is going to warm up, they could have just been two hours late like every other school in the state!! Yesterday was a super long day at school! My class just dragged on and on. Jese and I decided that on Thursday's he is going to drop me off and pick me up from school because I get done at 8:00 and there are no lights in the parking lot next to my building and there is nobody around there so untill it starts getting lighter out he will pick me up! Right now he is going to the store to get butter and he is also stopping at work to pick up my paycheck for me so I can drop it off at the bank on my way to work! I work all weekend but on Monday there is no school and neither of us work so we are going to Amy's to play games all day!! I have to work on my homework during the weekend so we can go but it will be worth it! Okay well I have to go eat and get ready for work now!

Christa

Holy Shit, I think Hell just froze over!!

Holy crap it is cold out! Lucky Jese gets three days off in a row because today and Friday are his days off and they already cancelled school for tomorow so he doesn't have to work, lucky duck! I cleaned today and everything, I should have just left it and let him do it since he will have so much time on his hands! I just got home from my one class today, it was boring. Yesterday my classes were loooong! Tomorrow I have 7 hours of classes, from 12:30-7:50, it will be a really long day. I like not having to go to work after school, it gives me much more time to get things done. On Monday there is no school and Jese doesn't work so everyone should come down here to play games, we would go home but then we would have to get gas, and that just costs too much! So far I don't have to use my computer in any of my classes so I don't have to break my back carrying it! I have two new classes tomorrow and I know I won't need it for one of them, the other one I'm not sure yet, hopefully I do because that class is way to long (5:00-7:50) not to use a computer! I got my books today from UPS! Now I can do my homework, I don't think that is a good thing! Okay well right now I have to do my advance tax homework! Don't freeze!
Christa

Oh yes, I forgot to write how smart Jese is!! Last night he didn't get home from work untill 12:30 (at night!) because smarty-pants that he is, left his lights on in his car so it wouldn't start!! So it took him awhile to get it jump started!! Today it didn't want to start for him either because it is soo cold out, but eventually it did!!By the sounds of the cars outside, lots of them don't want to start!

Yum!!

I just made the best biscuits ever!! They are so yummy, I just ate two of them with grape jelly!

Stupid weather!

Hola! Yesterday my first class went good. We got out early because my teacher had to drive to Rochester and he wasn't excited to do it in the snow! That was the only good thing that came from the stupid snow. I hate it and want it all to go away and it can take to cold temp. with it! I don't know much today, Winona schools were two hours late today so Jese is still here because now he doesn't have to be to work until 9:30. I have two classes today, Advanced Tax and Auditing, boring! I got an email today from one of my profs saying that we should be watching American Greed on CNBC during the semester, HELLO I DON'T HAVE TV, and I'm not getting it just to watch one stupid show either! I don't have my books yet but the tracking on them said they got to Winona this morning at 5:30, I am sure they will come here when I am not home so I won't be able to get them until tomorow. I won't even be able to go down and pick them up because the place is only open 4-4:30 and I will be in class, jerks! Okay well I don't know anything else I am going to go eat breakfast!

Christa

The start of a new semester

This is the smaller fish that didn't get away
This is the larger fish I threw back

Hello! Well today I start my new classes! I only have one today, but I said that before. I have to leave early for it because I have to run to the bookstore and get a few more things. I haven't gotten any of my books yet. I bought them on Amazon last week and they said they would be here by today but then they didn't ship them until Friday and now it says they won't get here until this Friday!! Good thing the shipping was free otherwise I would be super torked off! I don't know what I will do for my classes though this week because I have already heard from one prof. (and I have him for two classes) and he said we need to bring the book to class. Oh well, I know three or four other people that are going to be in all the same classes as me so I will just share with them I guess! Brrr...I am cold, I hate stupid winter! I don't really know much today, I haven't done anything but take a shower and watch 90210 so I guess I will get going and fix my hair! Good thing my class doesn't start for another five hours so I can get some stuff done, and I have find my calculator! Okay have a great day, and those of you who have drive in the bad weather, drive safe!

Christa

Winter Break is coming to a close

Hello again! Well today is my last day of freedom, I don't work, I don't have school, and I don't have to go anywhere!! Tomorow and Sunday I work and Saturday I am going to Faribault, and Monday school starts again. I only have one class on Monday though so it won't be so bad. My classes are spread out much more this semester so it won't be two long days of classes without any breaks. Although Thursdays will be long, I have class from 12:30-7:50, but it is only three classes. I am not sad that classes are starting because that means it is almost spring, yea!!! Oreo is enjoying my last day home, she hasn't left me alone all day, but that is okay because she is keeping me warm! Yesterday Amy, Liam, Josie, and Mama came down to play games with me and Jese, they had to leave at 3:30 though because I had to go to work. Work was super slow but that was okay because I got a lot of cleaning done that I have been putting off, now if only I could get the motivation to do the cleaning here too! A person at Jese's work today asked him if he was embarassed to use coupons for grocery shopping and another person thought that since we used coupons we were on food stamps, silly people don't know that you can easily save $5-10 on each shopping trip if you use them! I can't believe the amount of people that say no to free money. There is a coupon in People magazine for a free diet dr. pepper but since we don't drink diet pop I told everyone at work that it was there and none of them wanted it even though some of them drink that kind of pop!! If you are saying no to free money then don't complain you are broke!! I love coupons, Target sent me $28 worth of coupons in the mail and almost all of them are things I buy so we will save some money there too for our cleaning supplies and they had one for skinny cow ice cream, yum!!! Okay well my toes are cold so I am going to go curl up under a blanket now! Have a great day!

Christa

My first loves!

Me and Splaches, the Mamma to all of our kittens!

Homer

Homer again, wasn't our kitchen floor pretty!

My very first kitten of my own, Cinder!

Hello! I just got done going through all of the pictures I found in my closet back home, so I hope you are ready for old pictures since that is all I have! Today I am planning on being lazy! I have done the dishes today and brushed my hair, that is all! I slept in until 9:30, that is like a record for me! The last two nights I slept so good, and I admit it is probably because I finally got off my lazy butt and worked out!! I lost 2lbs so far, today I weighed the same as yesterday, but that is okay because I made brownies yesterday so who would expect me to lose weight! Oh, I should put up my inspiration picture for you, hang on, I will do that right now!

Okay so I know, I am not 16 anymore and I will never look like that again, I just liked that picture! Look how small my boobs were then they were a full size smaller, ah the good old days of just huge boobs instead of monster boobs! hehe!! Oh yes, back to what I am going to do today, next I am going to eat a brownie! Then I might put away the dishes and then make rochester cookies if I have everything for them. By then hopefully the mail will be here because I am getting the third season of Weeds today and so I want to sit on the couch with my kitty blanket and watch it while working on one of the baby blankets I am making for a girl I work with. I could do some cleaning today but I think I will wait until Thursday to do that, why rush it when I still have two more days off! Okay well that brownie is calling my name so I better go take care of that!

Christa

Hello! I hope everyone had a happy new year! Jese and I went to Dad's to play games, it was fun! This weekend Jese and I both worked, it wasn't too exciting. This is my last week of freedom, next week I start my classes again, oh well I am almost done! I bought four books yesterday for a total of $530, I still have a few other things I have to get from the bookstore so my total will go up lots more! If I would have bought everything there it would have been $750!!! That is just for four classes because I already own one of the books. That is just nuts!! Yesterday I worked out! I used the wii fit, Jese bought it with his Christmas money so I thought, okay I guess I will use it too! He has lost 4lbs already from using it and he has only used it for a week! I don't really know very much today. I have today through thursday off from work but I told them that if they get busy they can call me and I will come in and work. Then I work on Friday, on Saturday we are going back to Faribo and then back here so I can work on Sunday and then school starts! Today I am going to do some grocery shopping and go to the bookstore for the rest of my things I need. I guess I should buy some folders and notebooks too. Okay well I am going to go use wii fit! Have a great day!

Christa