Dance Around the World

I want to be this guy...he looks so happy and carefree!

Honor Roll :)

I just thought you all might want to take a look at the OSU honor roll.

I made it for the second term in a row, over a 3.5 GPA. :) :) :)

http://www.newsreview.info/article/20060717/STUDENTS/107170049

Check it out!!!

One Frustration Down--2 Million to Go!!!

Rick and I finally got the townhouse we have been trying to get! I was very excited, it seems like a really nice place, and we were having paperwork issues. Also, my property management company here in Corvallis decided they were going to be jackasses and make everything a lot harder than it really needed to be. They were refusing to send over my rental verification, which was holding up the entire process of completing our application. Gahr. But! We got it!! Needless to say, I'm excited!

The place we will be staying is called Dutch Village, and they are townhomes, which means they are two stories. The first floor is the living room, kitchen, and laundry room(which is really just a closet) and a half bath, the second floor is two bedrooms and a full bath. Here is the floorplan.

We got an apartment by the pool, which I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing. I'm hoping it will be fine. Rick is worried about people being noisy and inconsiderate, but the community we will be living in isn't really a college community, so I don't think we'll have to worry about that too much. The inside of the apartment from what we can tell looks really nice. There's laminate wood flooring in the kitchen and dining room, and large french doors that lead out to the patio we have. There's also a pretty big living room, and lots of closet space. The only thing we haven't seen a picture of is the bathroom, so I'm crossing my fingers its bigger than the one I have now!!

So needless to say I'm pretty excited! I was getting really worried that we wouldn't get the apartment, and we didn't really have a backup plan. When Rick called this morning, the first thing he said was: "We didn't get the apartment". I was so bummed out. But then he was like "No I'm just joking, our address is.....".

Well...enough about apartments. I've slowly been getting things packed up, but man it seems like I still have a million more things to get into boxes. I think I'm going to get rid of a lot of stuff, just so I don't have to pack it all. Free stuff at Kailey's!!

That's all for today.

Love,
Kailey

Idaho--The Way To Go!

Ok! So! MFC stands for Materials and Fuel Complex. That is where Rick works at in the lab. He is sort of finishing up the project he worked on last year, and some other projects that they have given him. The lab gates had guards with M-16's at the entrance, which was sort of intimidating when I drove Rick and his friend Adam to work. It really is out in the middle of nowhere!

So! For more on what we did, we saw Pirates of the Caribbean II (finally!) which was SO good! I had been waiting to watch it with Rick, so I was so psyched when we saw it! We also went to the Farmers Market in Idaho Falls, and an art show that they had. Rick bought two cards of paintings that are really cool. We are going to frame them and hang them up in our apartment next year :).

We also went out to dinner a couple times, both to mexican food places. Yummy! Bummer around Target a lot, picking out future furniture for our apartment. There is so much I want to get! Later in the afternoon, on one of the days where it was really hot, we drove around and looked at all these really nice custom-built homes just a little bit out of Idaho Falls. They were so pretty. All of them had full basements too. They were really nice.

The company picnic for INL on Saturday was a lot of fun as well. Rick got suckered into playing soccer with about 20 other guys, which was kind of funny to watch them all run around. Most of them had worn flip flops, so there was a lot of guys out there running around barefoot. Ouch! It was rather humerous watching all these engineers run around on a little tiny field. I don't know how they could tell who was on what team. There was so many people out there! I sat with the wives as I watched them play. LOL.

I had such a blast while I was there! Rick bought me a really cool Van Gogh puzzle of Starry Night, and the entire picture of Starry Night is made up of little pictures of outerspace. I can't wait to put it together! We are going to frame it and hang it in our living room. We want to have a nice place next year, not the typical looking college apartment.

There you can kind of see the little individual pictures. It's really really cool. Probably the coolest puzzle I have ever seen. But it will definently be hard. We are going to put together a bunch of puzzles and use them for wall art. Its cheaper than buying paintings. :D

Well, anyways, this entry is getting a little lengthy so I shall go.

Oh Boy oh Boy

Well, I decided to copy Rick and make a blog so that everyone can know what's going on in the life of me, since I will be so far away. I'll probably write in it as much as I can, because well I like blogs, I think they are somewhat fun. =)

Anyways.....For those of you who don't know, I am moving to North Carolina with Rick, my boyfriend of 1 and a half years. He got accepted at NCSU, and was offered not only full tuition paid but a living stipend per month for being a TA. Needless to say, I was very excited (and proud!) for him.

Moving to North Carolina is an adventure in itself, as I have never even been on the east coast, except for in an airplane on the way to Germany. I'm very excited to get there, but I will have to take a short break from school. However, once I can get back into school I will be attending NCSU as well. Unfortuantely, they don't have a Radiation Health Physics program, so I will have to change my major, but I am thinking about Biomedical Engineering, Biochemistry, or Toxicology as a switch. Then I hope to go on and get my Masters degree in Radiation Health Physics.

Rick is in Idaho for the summer, which is really hard being apart from him for so long. I did get to go see him last week, and I had a blast! I even got to see where he works, the MFC building of Idaho National Lab. (MFC stands for something I can't remember....something about fuel.) I also got to go to his company picnic, and meet many of the people he works with. Its funny to be around a bunch of Nuclear Engineers, I notice they all talk really smart. :)

Anyways, thats about all I have for this post. Need to get packing, finish up the rest of the apartment. I'm going to quit my job probably sometime this week, mainly so I can go home and spend some time with Mom and Dad before I have to move so far away. I won't be back on Oregon untill Christmas time, but I'm crossing my fingers Mom and Dad can come visit me in November so that I can cook them Thanksgiving Dinner. =D