Reason I've been out of the loop lately is I still don't have internet. Im waiting because there's a possibility we might be moving again by the end of the month to a bigger, slightly more quiet apartment. I dont' want to get internet and a new cable hookup set up in the room if I'm going to have to pay again later. I'll keep everyone informed!

 Still don't have internet at the apartment, so I'm going to be out of the loop for awhile until I can get them to come and set up something for us. The internet we have apparently only works for ONE computer, so we may have them set up a networking system so I can just use wireless in the apartment. It's frustrating, but hopefully will be fixed soooon. Ashley and I have been watching Band of Brothers together, which is amazing and sad, and I love my bed and my room and everything. There's still a LOT to be done. We have no dining room table, we need to do a lot more shopping, I still need to bring over another shelf and my books and knick-nacks over, but it;s very nice. There's an older Chinese couple who is outside EVERY time I am leaving/coming home, the woman holding a baby and the man walking a child by the hand while he fans him with a fan. WE say good morning when I leave the house and it's kind of cute. Also been getting reading done, finished Tuesdays With Morrie, and started Schindler's List. 

NOT FUN: Last night our downstairs neighbors had a huge fight from 2:45-3:30am. SERIOUSLY, like with screaming and something breaking and it went on FOREVER. What the hell?

Did a lot of moving today. Got the bed in and bought a new bed set to go with it, and that is all set up. My clothes are moved in and hung up, and an empty shelf, but there's still a lot to do. I need to decide where I want to keep my computer, and if I decide to put it in my room, I need to rearrange the furniture to make room for a desk. If I decide to keep it in the living room, I need to buy a small table or a portable eating tray thingy to keep the computer on. So there's still a lot to do, and it may not get done this weekend. Istill have to shop for food and buy something to keep my dvds in. Arrg.

Things I need:
DVD holder
stepstool
over-the-door shoe holder
desk chair (?)

 Oh, St. Louis. A high of 96 degrees with humidity already at 79% at 8am? Do you WANT me to die? We were having SUCH a lovely mild June!!!! I mean, the storms weren't fantastic with all the damage, but still....

TOmorrow is my last day at the house-sitting house. That means tomorrow night I will be doing laundry and trying to gather all my crap together so taht I can drag it with me to work in the morning. I work a split shift, which sucks, but at least it will be Friday. Haven't had much to update here, I'm afraid. I've watched more movies in the past two weeks than I can even imagine. They have a ginormous movie collection, so it was easy to keep myself entertained! I even watched Sharpe's Rifles on youtube. XD 

Move into the apartment in almost exactly one week. 

UPDATE: Ashley and I got the Amherst apartment (our second choice, the one with the photos on facebook). Even though I only just turned in the applications as of Wednesday morning, I had a message on my phone by lunch today saying we'd been approved, and all they needed was our deposit and a move-in date. Figuring Ash's lease ends June 30th, I decided on June 26th as our official move-in date to give us some time to get everything that needs doing done. I am beyond excited and can't wait for this to actually happen!

Settled in the Kirkwood house for the night, though am still doing laundry in their washer. XD After taking the dogs for a nice long walk (it is GORGEOUS out tonight, somewhere in the low 70s), I took my ass down to downtown Kirkwood where I planned to eat at Kaldi's. Apparently Thursday nights in the summer, they do free music in the square where Kaldi's, Bar Louie's, Salsa's, and San Sai's is. Anyone up for this next week? Also Kaldi's messed up and never brought my food out, so even though I got it a lot later than planned I also got a $10 gift card to use next time. Thanks, Kaldi's! On a similar note, there is a farmer's market here on Saturdays downtown Kirkwood, might be fun!


interesting things I found out that are going on thnaks to "Healthy planet Magazine:"

May 20th-June 16th: Shakespeare in the Park : Wives of Windsor. Preferably on a weekend, cos even though more crowded, I could actually get there EARLY. And we'd need to. Maybe a picnic waaay early, wine, snacks?

June 6th-7th: Wentzville Renaissance Faire: -- last weekend for this, don't know if it could be fit in?

June 5th-6th: St. Louis Brewer's Heritage Festival -- tickets miiiight not be available anymore or expensive this late, but it might be worth a look?

*June 10th- Parties in the park Ticket to the Beatles (A Tribute) -- free concert 5-8pm after hours half price drinks in Shaw Park in Clayton

*June 20th:Soulard Earth Festival -- Join word in motion at Soulard Park from 10am-6pm. Drummers, Dancers, musicians, poets come together for a celebration of he summer soltice. Informational presentations regarding the environment, vendors selling original art and jewelry, bicycle tours through the Soulard Neighborhood and more.  Apparently hippies, more hippies, Etc, Etc.,

So Ashley and I didn't get the apartment we had originally wanted. But at least the lady said that there were no issues with our credit or references or anything, so it means that getting another apartment shouldn't be too much of an issue. Apparently it just took too long to get some of the information and since it's a family who owns the place and not a company, they didn't have to do first come first served. So we're pulling for our second choice, the one I posted pictures of on facebook: www.facebook.com/album.php   Of course the office I went to to drop off the application had no power thanks to the storm, so let's hope that doesn't delay things too much-- we need to be able to move in by the end of  the month!

A giant tree fell over our front yard and porch after the giant storm yesterday. The tree was actually ripped from the sidewalk (taking two concrete slabs with it) and fell completely whole over our steps, yard, and driveway... where my mom's car was parked. The car has a dented roof and cracked windshield, and we have minor roof damage, but otherwise got off pretty easy! We couldn't get into our house from the front door because it was so blocked off (this is like a giant tulip tree we're talking about) and we had to go in and out through the backyard. I have pictures, and will post as soon as I can actually find my sister's transfering drive thingy. All is cleared away now, so that's good.

Start housesitting in Kirkwood tomorrow night, for two weeks.

My new favorite thing right now-- my Aladdin 12oz travel tea infuser. I got it as payment in addition to some money in thanks for housesitting for my coworker. It can be microwaved and have boiling water poured in it without getting hot on the outside and has a little basket inside for tea bags or loose leaf tea that flips down with the handle and back up when it's done steeping. See how shiny?

Tomorrow I put in an application for me and world_falls to rent a lovely little 2 bedroom apartment on Dartmouth, all of 5 seconds away from where I live now. XD We had three favorites in mind after a whirlwind of searching, but this one is really very nice. Wish me luck in getting it! If not, we'll quickly try to procure our second favorite. I'm really really excited!  Really, really excited. If we do get the apartment, we'd be moving in at the end of June.

Been watching a TON of Jericho lately, and definitely loving it. And Psych. Of course.

Picking up my very own teapot tomorrow that I'm buying from someone off craigslist, as well as making sure my car income tax stuff is all in order.

Billy Joel- AMAZING and wearing his classy suit
Elton John- AMAZING in his glitz and glam sparkly suit full of glitter

First they played together, then they each played a set, then they played together again! It went from 7:30-11:15, and not a second of it was boring at ALL. Elton John only played two songs I didn't know, Billy Joel played a few more that I didn't know either, but for the most part it was just... unbelieeevable. Now sleepy, so bed.

stolen from chershey :
Ask me to take a picture of any aspect of my life that you're interested in - it can be anything from the house I live in to my favorite shoes. Leave your choice here as a comment, and I will reciprocate by taking the pictures and posting them as an LJ entry.

Tonight was Beethoven's 9th Symphony at Powell Symphony hall, and it was BRILLIANT.

Flight of the Conchords concert was AMAZING.
Afterwards, had maybe one too many beers at the William Shakespeare Gastropub, which is NOT a good idea on a work night where I have to get up at 7am, but here's hoping it all ends well.

Had a restless, awful night last night full of allergies and sneezing and dry throat and itchy eyes and all that fun stuff, so the long day today was a little hard, but I made it through. I have a LOT of work to do since I have to have my observation and paper postmarked by Sunday May 3rd (which is a Sunday, so technically that means it has to be in the mail by Saturday, not Sunday), and I haven't had a chance to take off work to DO the observation until tomorrow. It's going to be a last minute paper, so let's hope it doesn't suck too bad. >_<  Hopefully this weekend after the paper is done, sleep will be had.

Wednesday
-work 8-4:30
-Parent teacher conference
-Literacy night

Thursday
-Observation at Kirkwood Children's House 9am-10:am
-work ?-6pm
-Flight of the Conchords!

Friday
-work 8-4:30
-knitting night?
-work on observation

Saturday
-allergy shot
-work on observation paper
-mail observation (post-offices close at 3pm)

My allergies have been insane lately, but I feel like shit today. The Zyrtec helped a little bit, but barely. Called the allergy doctor and got a perscription for a nose spray (and a recommendation for an over the counter eye drop that the store was out of) and hopefully that will help.

Working split shifts today and tomorrow. Have a parent-teacher conference to do on Wednesday afternoon (and a lot to prepare for it) as well as Literacy night on Wednesday. Thursday morning is an observation at a Montessori school and then FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS that evening. Busy busy week, I hope I'm feeling better for it all. >_

Pretty awesome day. Took a drive out on Highway 94, which is absolutely GORGEOUS by the way. Missouri is so pretty and taking long drives is one of my favorite ways to spend a pretty day. On the ride to the winery, we saw a sign advertising the house of Daniel Boone. I did NOT recall that Daniel Boone had ever lived in Missouri, but it was right there! We decided to go after we ate/drank. Ash and I went to a great winery with a beautiful scenic overview of hills and bluffs and woods and farmland and all that good stuff and sat out in the sun sharing a bottle of blackberry wine and eating foodstuffs. The wine was sweet and tasty and I probably had more than I should have, so that by time we got to Daniel Boone's house I was definitely more tipsy than one ought to be at a historical landmark. XD The house tour was nice, if over-long, and we didn't get to see the rest of the village/historical houses because it was a whole separate tour, but whatever.

Then on the drive back to St. Louis, Ash made an amazing discovery. She had read about this in her Weird Missouri book. In Weldon Springs, there is a waste disposal cell. Right around WWII, the surrounding areas where evacuated so that a factory for TNT and DNT could be built there. Later the giant disposal cell was built, and I believe it has uranium in it? I don't remember. XD But you can walk all the way up to the top and see for MIIIIILES, and it's kind of fun and scary at the same time. I'm not glowing green yet, so I think I'm ok. http://www.ruralmissouri.org/04pages/04SeptWeldon.html

Tonight was cosmopolitans and order-in pizza with John and Jenny, along with watching Mr. Brooks and Hunter, Hunter. Sweet!!!!

I finished knitting my very first hat and I'm SO happy with the result! Pictures (just 3) under the cut since I don't feel like doing some resizing.

( Knitting Project Complete )

Last night birthday celebration ROCKED. Cleaned out my car in the morning and then went to the tea room with Ashley and Allison, and then to the mall where I bought LUSH products and a shirt. Then we headed out to Blueberry Hill an hour early because they don't take reservations on Saturday nights and I had a group of like 12 people coming. Turns out all they said was "come up when 6 people of your party are here," so I didn't NEED to be there that early. Luckily there was a bar, so Allison and Ashley and I had drinks while we waited. Dinner was delicious (and drinks too, of course!), and even though I'd invited the most mish-moshiest group of people I could come up with, half who didn't know each other, everyone seemed to get along well enough! The only drawback of the night was the non-splittable check which resulted in everyone spending a half-hour figuring out how much everyone had to pay.
After dinner, my girls from work, Tanya, and Bre went to the city museum which was AWESOME. They turn out all the lights at night and gave everyone little keychain flashlights because it was so dark! We went into tunnels, up coils, into the caves, and down like a 9-story slide. I wish we had even gotten there EARLIER.

Pictures on facebook here, though you don't need to be on facebook to see them:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2091980&id=36100011&l=b665f09849

I would love to live somewhere with mountains and lakes. A city where you can see mountains against the skyline, with lots of hiking and backpacking and lakes nearby would be so nice. I don't know what it is about mountains, but I love them.

This video makes me so happy I can't even begin to explain it. If groups of people broke out into dancing more often, it would brighten everyone's day. I love the public hazing groups, or whatever they're called.

http://video.yahoo.com/network/100000089?v=4816051&l=100022574

ALMOST done with the baby blanket! Finally! The entire blanket is knit, as well as the pocket. I'm SUPER proud of the pocket because it's my first time doing a successful stockinette stitch AND I did a rib on top! Left to do, none of which should actually take very long at all.
-stitch together 2 sides of the border
-weave in ends of blanket and pocket
-block blanket and pocket
-sew pocket to blanket

Celebrated my birthday tonight with the family since Dad teaches tomorrow night. The sister surprised me by making me a DELICIOUS cake (dubbed the "better than sex" cake, which was super sweet and absolutely amazing) of which I couldn't get enough of. Mom and Dad got me tickets to see Beethoven's 9th Symphony at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Sister is treating me to a pedicure and lunch at the London Tea Room. Whoooo! Today at work one of my student's mother brought me and my coworker in a cookie cake, and I think there is also going to be ANOTHER cake tomorrow. So much for all the weight I lost, but hey, it's worth it! Birthday time is a good time.

Have to be in at work at 7:30, and getting up at 6:15 was definitely no fun-- in fact, I'm not sure how people who get up that early ever make it past the hot shower since I certainly couldn't make myself get out. It didn't help that at 1:30am I woke up in a half-dream... I'm not exactly sure waht to call it. Obviously I was mostly asleep, but I was aware that I was awake and of what I was doing despite it not making that much sense. I guess I figured that I was late and had overslept (my mind knowing that it would still be dark at 6:15 so it being dark at 1:30 didn't change my feelings). My clock didn't seem to be a good enough sign to me of what time it was. I had to get up and go downstairs and check my cellphone's clock, then bring it upstairs and plug it in when I realized that it was really only 1:30 in the morning and went back to bed. Hmm.

Eye-doctor after work to see how things are going with the new contacts (eyes are still getting used to them, I dunno) and I may or may not stop by a family friend's knitting night because I'm WAAAAY behind on this paper and probably screwed. But the weekend is coming, yay!