First of all, I want to say Happy Birthday to beldurnik. Robert and I are planning on making it to Como this afternoon.
Sorry for not posting for so long. I haven’t been spending much time at my apartment, and there is no interent there. I am up at 5 am everyday, work from 6-2:30, and then usually head over to Robert’s. The apartment gets lonely if I’m the only one there. Once I’m at Robert’s, the last thing on my mind is to post. So here it is at 7:20 on a Saturday morning, and I’m posting on LJ. Wow, what a live I have. My life seems to have setteled into a routine. The semester ended well for me. I ended up getting Bs in my Multicult and Reading Guidance for Children classes, and As in my French, math, and exceptional child classes. I was so happy with my B in multicult. I was sure I was going to get a C or so.
I started working on Tuesday, May 27th. On the first day of work, we were told what weekends we will have to work. There is a stretch sometime in either July or August that we work for a month straight without any days off. At least when we work the weekends, we don’t work a full day. Once our work of wiping down the rooms is done, we can leave. I am so glad that laundry is starting next week. There are two people I’ve been working with that I can’t stand. Luckily, they are both switching to do laundry now. 
At first they weren’t bad, but the more I worked with them, the more annoying they got. It got to the point on Friday that we were counting down the hours we had left to work with them and even the sound of their voices drove us nuts. We didn’t even have to see them. If we just heard them talking it bothered us. When I say us, I mean other people on the work crew in addition to myself. I don’t mind cleaning the dorms, or res halls to be pc, but what gets to me is they run out of work for us to do so we sit around sometimes. If we are caught sitting down, they we get in trouble. My thought is, if you don’t want us to sit, then find more stuff for us to do! But at least it’s a job and I get the hours that I need.
I’m really disappointed. Today I was supposed to go over to Minneapolis and spend the day with my best friend Meghan. She and I have been friends since third grade. It’s funny that she is so close to me, but I haven’t seen her since January. We both have very busy lives. I’m going to try and find an evening where I can head over and spend time with her during the week I think. I have to be in bed around 9, but it would give us a few hours. I find that after I spend time with her, my mood drastically improves, and I could have used that today. Oh well. It will just have to happen a different time.
Next weekend is going to be a hectic one. Friday afternoon after work, Robert and I are heading down to DeForest. We are going to spend Friday night there, and then go to Tomah Saturday morning for the tractor pulls. We are heading to DF because A) it’s my mom’s birthday and I would like to see her a little bit B) DF is closer to Tomah than Hammond is. Sunday is going to be a day of rest and doing a whole lot of nothing. I’m looking forward to it though. I can also get my book from home that I accidently left there. Of course, I was right at a good part too.
I’ve gotten 2 e-mails and 2 snail mail letters from John this week. This has made me so happy. In his letters, he talked about how life is over there. At one point he was telling me about going pee while in a convoy and water bottles are his best friend at that point. In his second letter dated in May, he said that the higher ups are noticing there are too many units over there like his. He is hoping that means he might be coming home soon. I’m really hoping. I would love for him to come home. I miss him so much. I remember hugging him in Kentucky when we went to visit him. That’s all I want to do right now. I just want to give my brother a hug. I guess I’ve been really hiding how I feel about it all. Until typing this out, I didn’t realize just how much him being gone affects me. His e-mail from yesterday says he got the pictures we painted for him on Thrusday and “they kicked ass”. Those were from the night Natalie came up here and Liz, Robert, Natalie and I all painted pictures for him. Some were fingerpaintings, others were pages from a CareBear coloring book. That was a fun evening.
Liz and I have e-mailed back and forth a little bit. I can’t wait for her to come over some weekend so we can sit and chat. Maybe I’ll even give her a call sometime this week just for the heck of it. I miss being able to just sit and talk about whatever with her. Last night Robert was talking to her on IM and she asked how he and I were doing. He dodged that question, which he is very good at doing. I’m pretty sure she knows by now that he and I are dating. I’m just wondering how things will be in the fall. But I’ll worry about that when it gets here. I just need to survive this summer first.
Well, it’s been nearly half an hour since I started writing. I think this catches up what has been going on in my life. Oh yeah, the other night I talked to JD (ex-bf) online. I don’t know if that was a mistake or not. I do know that it ended on a bad note. He wanted me to compare him to Robert. That just isn’t right or fair. I refused to do it. Ok, I think that is all. I’ll try to write a little bit more frequently. Write more later!