Hello people, if you are still out there. Life has been crazy. We are finally in our house (YAY!) and we are working our butts off getting it presentable. So far we have all the carpet ripped out, wall paper down, all the walls, floors, and ceilings washed and have started to paint the master bedroom! We also have the closet in our room out, we are planning on building a built in shelving/bookcase/entertainment area for our TV in that existing area and then turning one of other the bedrooms into a walk-in closet for us!! We have another wall to move before we can really get started on the closet though. Cory has also been busy with his dad and friend Mike out in the yard getting a lot of stuff down out there. they have taken down a lot of dead trees and removed over grown bushes and weeds etc.
This weekend the plan is to get more priming/painting done and Cory and his dad are going to move the washer and dyer into a laundry room/mud room they are going to be building in the back entry way. I've been taking pictures of the progress I promise I will post them to facebook soon enough. Maybe even a few on here.
Besides the house I am taking a class this summer semester, which, let me tell you, has been a bit tricky without internet for the past 3 weeks. My class will be done in about 2 weeks and then I'm done for the summer... I'm looking forward to the break. Also, I have recently started selling Mary Kay (feel free to call me crazy, I know I may be). A client at work confronted me about it about 2 weeks ago asking me if I would be interested. She gave a pretty good pitch by saying that she feels bad for me because I have a degree, am working towards my masters and I am working as a bank teller making pennies. It's all true so I figured why not give it a try, a little extra money never hurts right? Plus, maybe I can earn myself an awesome pink Cadillac and take trips to Dallas for the national seminars! (you don't have to be high up to attend seminar either) I also decided to do it because we haven't really met any new friends since moving down here and I figured this would also be a good chance to meet new people, network, and have some fun. So, with that being said, feel free to check out my little website it's www.marykay.com/ashorkey or if you would like I can mail you a catalog :) online ordering should be up with a day or so too.
Ok, so that's pretty much my life update, off to go work on homework now.
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Thursday, December 09, 2010
where is your coat?
The other day Cory's sister and I went out to eat for a late lunch with Corys mom. After lunch Kristi and I decided to go shopping and check out a new store down in Ferndale (a little town south from where we live) on our way down there we were driving through some neighborhoods, school was out by this point so kids were being dropped off at bus stops and running to their houses, I'm guessing it wasn't because they were excited to be home but because they were cold because none of the kids were wearing their coats! I never understood how one could leave their coats at school or on the bus in the middle of winter. Maybe its because I'm a girl (it seems like more often than not its the boys that leave their coats). But don't people think, oh hey, its snowing, it must mean its cold out so I need my jacket? or don't they go outside and wonder why its so cold out and then realize they don't have their coat?
I was thinking about this again earlier this morning and think that if a parent can get in trouble for sending a child to school without a coat, then the teacher/school should get in trouble for letting the child leave school without their coat if they went to school with one.
I was thinking about this again earlier this morning and think that if a parent can get in trouble for sending a child to school without a coat, then the teacher/school should get in trouble for letting the child leave school without their coat if they went to school with one.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
odd coincidence
Today I took the GMAT. I don't get my official score for 20 days because they have to have an actual person grade the written part. Needless to say I'm a bit nervous to get it. Anyways, this morning as I was getting ready I started to think about school and how academics are not the only important thing that you learn/need to learn in school and how the social skills that you also learn are very important. AND GUESS WHAT! That is what my second writing portion on my exam was on! I was pretty excited seeing how it was already in the front of my mind once today :)
Thursday, September 02, 2010
A beggar? At church?
Cory and I have been trying out new churches the past few weeks. We've been talking about doing it since we've moved down here but have been putting it off and have ended up at Christ the Redeemer (where we got married) on Sundays. This past week went to a church close enough to to our apartment that we were able to ride our bikes there, which was really nice. the church was ok, we didn't realize that the priest was a guest that week until the end, which makes all the difference because the priest was the same person that married our friends last summer at another church and we didn't really care for him then either. We will most likely go back so that we can see how we like it with the regular priest.
When we were leaving church we saw something that we did not expect to see, especially at church. It was a beggar. She was holding a sign that read "I have 5 kids and have no job, need mone for food and clothes" (yes, money was spelled wrong) I was a little astonished because who holds a sign outside of church like that, AND on top of that, she had her kids stationed around the parking lot and at all the exists holding signs! I think there are much better ways to get money if you are in need of it then begging out side of church when everyone is leaving like going and talking to the pastor to see if he can help. I think what she was doing was almost taking advantage of all of the people leaving because she knew that they would be in a more generous mood and more likely to give money after church. oh and no, she wasn't there before mass started either.
When we were leaving church we saw something that we did not expect to see, especially at church. It was a beggar. She was holding a sign that read "I have 5 kids and have no job, need mone for food and clothes" (yes, money was spelled wrong) I was a little astonished because who holds a sign outside of church like that, AND on top of that, she had her kids stationed around the parking lot and at all the exists holding signs! I think there are much better ways to get money if you are in need of it then begging out side of church when everyone is leaving like going and talking to the pastor to see if he can help. I think what she was doing was almost taking advantage of all of the people leaving because she knew that they would be in a more generous mood and more likely to give money after church. oh and no, she wasn't there before mass started either.
a beggar? At church?
Cory and I have been trying out new churches the past few weeks. We've been talking about doing it since we've moved down here but have been putting it off and have ended up at Christ the Redeemer (where we got married) on Sundays. This past week went to a church close enough to to our apartment that we were able to ride our bikes there, which was really nice. the church was ok, we didn't realize that the priest was a guest that week until the end, which makes all the difference because the priest was the same person that married our friends last summer at another church and we didn't really care for him then either. We will most likely go back so that we can see how we like it with the regular priest.
When we were leaving church we saw something that we did not expect to see, especially at church. It was a beggar. She was holding a sign that read "I have 5 kids and have no job, need mone for food and clothes" (yes, money was spelled wrong) I was a little astonished because who holds a sign outside of church like that, AND on top of that, she had her kids stationed around the parking lot and at all the exists holding signs! I think there are much better ways to get money if you are in need of it then begging out side of church when everyone is leaving like going and talking to the pastor to see if he can help. I think what she was doing was almost taking advantage of all of the people leaving because she knew that they would be in a more generous mood and more likely to give money after church. oh and no, she wasn't there before mass started either.
When we were leaving church we saw something that we did not expect to see, especially at church. It was a beggar. She was holding a sign that read "I have 5 kids and have no job, need mone for food and clothes" (yes, money was spelled wrong) I was a little astonished because who holds a sign outside of church like that, AND on top of that, she had her kids stationed around the parking lot and at all the exists holding signs! I think there are much better ways to get money if you are in need of it then begging out side of church when everyone is leaving like going and talking to the pastor to see if he can help. I think what she was doing was almost taking advantage of all of the people leaving because she knew that they would be in a more generous mood and more likely to give money after church. oh and no, she wasn't there before mass started either.
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Shopping at the in-laws
Yesterday I was talking to Golda and I realized something. About 2/3 of our furniture is from Cory's parents basement. lol. This past weekend Cory and I went "shopping" in their basement again. This time we came home with chairs for our dining room table (FINALLY!) and a computer desk chair. Other things that we have acquired from their basement include a coffee table, couches, and lamps. We've also acquired a book shelf and lamp from Cory's sister. And our table originally came from Cory's parents house too.
Our apartment is slowly coming more together, we have also gotten a real TV stand from IKEA along with a really nice office desk off of Craigslist. There's one slight problem with the TV stand though. The one we got is just one section of an entertainment center and we didn't think about measuring our tv before we bought it. Because of this, we can't ever buy the rest of it because its 2 bookshelves, on on each side, and a little section that screws into the top of the bookshelves to connect it all together. Well, our TV is about an inch too big on each side so it wont work :( I think thats the one bad thing about having a huge tv.
Our apartment is slowly coming more together, we have also gotten a real TV stand from IKEA along with a really nice office desk off of Craigslist. There's one slight problem with the TV stand though. The one we got is just one section of an entertainment center and we didn't think about measuring our tv before we bought it. Because of this, we can't ever buy the rest of it because its 2 bookshelves, on on each side, and a little section that screws into the top of the bookshelves to connect it all together. Well, our TV is about an inch too big on each side so it wont work :( I think thats the one bad thing about having a huge tv.
Monday, June 07, 2010
Cory and I are pretty much moved into our new apartment now! YAY! We still need to get some furniture but we are slowing acquiring it. We have Cory's parents old couches and his aunts old coffee table which he refinished. Kristi also gave us an old lamp and book shelf too. we still need to get a stand for our tv along with night stands and furniture for our guest room. We're really not worried about stuff for the guest room at this moment though.... we'll probably wait until we know that we are going to have a visitor before we do. Here are some pictures of our new place.. I'm sure by the pictures alone you can tell that its quiet a bit larger than the old place!
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Timberlea Village
In case you haven't heard....Cory and I found an Apartment!! AND it's 3 times the size of our current place!!! We went down state last weekend to go apartment hunting, we looked online to narrow down our search of places we wanted to look at before we left so we weren't overwhelmed. One of the places on our list was a place where a couple of our friends, Mike and Karly, used to live. We knew we liked it but wanted to look at a few other places just in case something was nicer. We ended up going with where they used to live.
We're moving on the 14th as long as the weather is nice, other wise Cory will leave a day or two earlier and then I will drive down by myself on the 14th because I have to work on Thursday. We're both starting to get excited too and have started the packing process. It's kind of hard to pack with a week and a half left because we doing know what we are going to need between now and then and on top of that we don't really have anywhere to put the boxes once they are packed.
We're moving on the 14th as long as the weather is nice, other wise Cory will leave a day or two earlier and then I will drive down by myself on the 14th because I have to work on Thursday. We're both starting to get excited too and have started the packing process. It's kind of hard to pack with a week and a half left because we doing know what we are going to need between now and then and on top of that we don't really have anywhere to put the boxes once they are packed.
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