Since it's 5am and I'm still awake, I figured I'd send a little love your way. I've been up later and later each night for the past week! I'm getting full into swing...Jerilyn hours! I love sleeping till noon or later and staying up late! So here I am..up the latest I've been in quite a while. A few short months ago, I was on the other side of the AM...where I would set my alarm to get up at 5am. Now of course, I rarely was up at 5am...just hitting the snoze for 30-45 minutes, but you know what I mean.
Just a little over a week until I head for Wichita. I still can't believe it at times, but it's slowly sinking in. Sorry if I keep talking about it, but it's pretty much what is going on in my life right now. I've got plenty to do in the next week...to keep me busy. I'm hoping to get it all done, the list includes...Christmas Shopping, completing it. Wrapping all presents to leave here. Christmas Decorating...cause it's fun! Christmas Baking....oh how I love me some Baking! Oh there's more, but they aren't important.
That's all for now...I hurt and am getting sleepy.
Much Love
Friday, November 30, 2007
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Seven Weird Things
I've been tagged for a meme! Thanks, Susan!
I will now do my best to complete this, even though it is 3am and I'm still awake, but should be going to sleep! As Susan says I'm am weird, so be it I guess.
So here are the rules of this meme:
1. Link to the person’s blog who tagged you.
2. Post these rules on your blog.
3. List seven random and/or weird facts about yourself.
4. Tag seven random people at the end of your post.
5. Let each person know they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
And here are seven weird facts about me:
1. Until the age of...I'm not sure, 12-13, I wanted to be a babysitter when I grew up. I always wanted to be a babysitter so when I was old enough to not be taken care of by my sitter, I helped her out, being an extra set of eyes to watch the kiddies. When I got even older, I had decided this was not going to be my career, but I still would go watch the kids (sometimes up to 8-10) while she was at an appointment, etc.
2. I'm not the cleanest person when it comes to household tidiness, but even when my house is a pit (Which it often was while I was crazy busy with my Thesis) my kitchen would still usually be quite clean.
3. I absolutely love to cook, bake you name it! I love it. I cook things I don't even like, just because others do and I enjoy cooking for others. I also want a meal when I eat dinner, so I will cook one, no matter the time of the day or night. I might be working until midnight, but I will still go home and cook a meal and eat it. That is, of course, if I haven't already eaten dinner.
4. I do not have a middle ear in one of my ears. I had 2 major surgeries 10 years ago where I had a tumor taken out of my ear. The tumor destroyed the bones in my middle ear, however, the great doctor made some type of reconstruction so that my hearing is better than it was before the surgeries. So if you ever see me turning my head one way or the other, it's to hear you better with my "good" ear.
5. I broke my arm when I was four. I hold on to the story that one of my brothers pushed me out of a truck we were playing in. After it was in a cast, that was up to just over the elbow, I wanted to run, so I got my arm turned around in the cast and straightened out my elbow to run. My parents found out, and I had to get another cast that went up much higher so that my arm was immobilized.
6. I HATE it when things are not cut or done in an orderly fashion. Mostly pertaining to food. For example take a cube of butter, it HAS to be cut at in a straight line, none of this crazy angled junk. A bowl full of a dessert or something, must be gotten into in an orderly and neat fashion. Turns out I'm a bit OCD about somethings...which I didn't realize till recently.
7. When I was really little..probably 4 or 5. I had a dream about a tornado, now you might think...oh this is how she got into meteorology.... NO, this tornado was a tiny little midget man who came out of the kitchen light in my house. He threatened to kill me and my family and I from then on until I was about 10 was terrified of the dark. Think about being that little and having your family threatened, scary! I've grown out of my scared of the dark phase, but I will always remember that dream.
Now I am to list 7 people to continue this blog, but I'm afraid I don't think I know 7 people that blog. I also know that some that do, have already been asked. So I will just list them.
Kristen
Haley
Elin--already been sent this
Laura--already been sent this
Nicole
Sarah
Emily
Much love all!
I will now do my best to complete this, even though it is 3am and I'm still awake, but should be going to sleep! As Susan says I'm am weird, so be it I guess.
So here are the rules of this meme:
1. Link to the person’s blog who tagged you.
2. Post these rules on your blog.
3. List seven random and/or weird facts about yourself.
4. Tag seven random people at the end of your post.
5. Let each person know they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
And here are seven weird facts about me:
1. Until the age of...I'm not sure, 12-13, I wanted to be a babysitter when I grew up. I always wanted to be a babysitter so when I was old enough to not be taken care of by my sitter, I helped her out, being an extra set of eyes to watch the kiddies. When I got even older, I had decided this was not going to be my career, but I still would go watch the kids (sometimes up to 8-10) while she was at an appointment, etc.
2. I'm not the cleanest person when it comes to household tidiness, but even when my house is a pit (Which it often was while I was crazy busy with my Thesis) my kitchen would still usually be quite clean.
3. I absolutely love to cook, bake you name it! I love it. I cook things I don't even like, just because others do and I enjoy cooking for others. I also want a meal when I eat dinner, so I will cook one, no matter the time of the day or night. I might be working until midnight, but I will still go home and cook a meal and eat it. That is, of course, if I haven't already eaten dinner.
4. I do not have a middle ear in one of my ears. I had 2 major surgeries 10 years ago where I had a tumor taken out of my ear. The tumor destroyed the bones in my middle ear, however, the great doctor made some type of reconstruction so that my hearing is better than it was before the surgeries. So if you ever see me turning my head one way or the other, it's to hear you better with my "good" ear.
5. I broke my arm when I was four. I hold on to the story that one of my brothers pushed me out of a truck we were playing in. After it was in a cast, that was up to just over the elbow, I wanted to run, so I got my arm turned around in the cast and straightened out my elbow to run. My parents found out, and I had to get another cast that went up much higher so that my arm was immobilized.
6. I HATE it when things are not cut or done in an orderly fashion. Mostly pertaining to food. For example take a cube of butter, it HAS to be cut at in a straight line, none of this crazy angled junk. A bowl full of a dessert or something, must be gotten into in an orderly and neat fashion. Turns out I'm a bit OCD about somethings...which I didn't realize till recently.
7. When I was really little..probably 4 or 5. I had a dream about a tornado, now you might think...oh this is how she got into meteorology.... NO, this tornado was a tiny little midget man who came out of the kitchen light in my house. He threatened to kill me and my family and I from then on until I was about 10 was terrified of the dark. Think about being that little and having your family threatened, scary! I've grown out of my scared of the dark phase, but I will always remember that dream.
Now I am to list 7 people to continue this blog, but I'm afraid I don't think I know 7 people that blog. I also know that some that do, have already been asked. So I will just list them.
Kristen
Haley
Elin--already been sent this
Laura--already been sent this
Nicole
Sarah
Emily
Much love all!
Monday, November 19, 2007
A new place to call home
Well it's been now almost 2 weeks for my job to be the center of my thoughts. It's all still pretty hard to believe. We went down to Wichita early last week, I went to about 6 apt. complexes, some extremely dumpy others really really nice! I mean one was crazy nice, and only about 1000 for a one bedroom! HA! I'm happy to be back in the plains where the cost of living is decreased! I did, however, find a nice 2 bed/2 bath apartment on the west side of town (where work is), that I LOVE! It has basically everything I wanted! 2bedrooms, walk-in closets, lots of kitchen space, washer/dryer hookups, and a storage place out on the deck. I'm excited to move in!
Because I'm somewhat picky and wanted an apt. toward the back of the complex, away from all of the road noise that accompanied the busy road it sat on. My apartment will be available the 14th of December. Now this could be a problem when I start work on the 10th. Hmmm....well one of the forecaster's has been in contact with me and early on offered to let me stay with her while I was looking. She is very sweet to extend such and offer and I think it will be fun to stay with her for a little bit before my apt. is free.
The rest of this week has remained busy with visits and shopping and cleaning and all of that fun stuff! I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving this week, getting to see all of my family that I haven't seen since last Christmas! Will be very exciting! It's hard to believe it's been so long! Then after Thanksgiving I'm hoping to have some time to just chill with the family before I head off for the real world!
Much love
Because I'm somewhat picky and wanted an apt. toward the back of the complex, away from all of the road noise that accompanied the busy road it sat on. My apartment will be available the 14th of December. Now this could be a problem when I start work on the 10th. Hmmm....well one of the forecaster's has been in contact with me and early on offered to let me stay with her while I was looking. She is very sweet to extend such and offer and I think it will be fun to stay with her for a little bit before my apt. is free.
The rest of this week has remained busy with visits and shopping and cleaning and all of that fun stuff! I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving this week, getting to see all of my family that I haven't seen since last Christmas! Will be very exciting! It's hard to believe it's been so long! Then after Thanksgiving I'm hoping to have some time to just chill with the family before I head off for the real world!
Much love
Friday, November 9, 2007
What a process
I've had a couple days to let it sit that I have gotten my dream job...and my attention span is getting shorter! It's weird, I'm so excited...yet it's hard to believe that my life is going to change big time. I'm going to be a working girl! Which is what I've wanted, nothing after work to do that will make me feel guilty for having fun. Earning real money! It will be so fantastic.
In the past few days I've needed to do somethings for a background check. It's been crazy! The funniest part is that I needed to go and be fingerprinted. I got the cards on wednesday around noon. I went down the the sheriff's office to the county jail around 3:45. I waited forever to be talked to. Then I finally got to talk to someone. They had to go ask, but yes, they charged 5 dollars to have fingerprints done. Well I didn't have any cash, so i went out to the car where my mom was, she had a 20 so i took that back in. Guess what? The jail won't break anything, so I had to go find change for a 20. I mean come on...it's a 20 for someone who hasn't broken the law! So I went to my aunt's place of business and she changed the money for me and I got to tell her my good news. So I head on back to the jail...it's 4:45 by this time. I get there and the lady says "we just started meals, so you'll have to wait till they are over". I'm like this is crazy, the only thing I could do by that point was laugh. So eventually I went back that night and got it done. The jail has a nifty fingerprinting machine...it's all computerized...last time I had my finger prints taken which was in kindergarten, it was all ink and paper! Overall the process isn't bad, just crazy experiences like that one!
What I have accomplished: looking for apartments, looking at uhaul rentals, booked a flight for graduation, and other stuff...Much still to do. I'm looking at apartments this upcoming week, I'm pretty excited about that! Yippee. I hope I can find something good...I hate searching online, you can make a dump look good online. Plus once you find one that you think looks like it's actually a winner, you go to apartment ratings and see all this bad stuff about it. I decided in raleigh that apartment ratings isn't always right...so I'll check it out in person. Good times! More about this process as it continues....!
Much love!
In the past few days I've needed to do somethings for a background check. It's been crazy! The funniest part is that I needed to go and be fingerprinted. I got the cards on wednesday around noon. I went down the the sheriff's office to the county jail around 3:45. I waited forever to be talked to. Then I finally got to talk to someone. They had to go ask, but yes, they charged 5 dollars to have fingerprints done. Well I didn't have any cash, so i went out to the car where my mom was, she had a 20 so i took that back in. Guess what? The jail won't break anything, so I had to go find change for a 20. I mean come on...it's a 20 for someone who hasn't broken the law! So I went to my aunt's place of business and she changed the money for me and I got to tell her my good news. So I head on back to the jail...it's 4:45 by this time. I get there and the lady says "we just started meals, so you'll have to wait till they are over". I'm like this is crazy, the only thing I could do by that point was laugh. So eventually I went back that night and got it done. The jail has a nifty fingerprinting machine...it's all computerized...last time I had my finger prints taken which was in kindergarten, it was all ink and paper! Overall the process isn't bad, just crazy experiences like that one!
What I have accomplished: looking for apartments, looking at uhaul rentals, booked a flight for graduation, and other stuff...Much still to do. I'm looking at apartments this upcoming week, I'm pretty excited about that! Yippee. I hope I can find something good...I hate searching online, you can make a dump look good online. Plus once you find one that you think looks like it's actually a winner, you go to apartment ratings and see all this bad stuff about it. I decided in raleigh that apartment ratings isn't always right...so I'll check it out in person. Good times! More about this process as it continues....!
Much love!
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Kansas here I come!
Welll....I think I've called just about everyone that I can think of to call, so I can now post to my blog. I was offered a job on Monday! I'm way excited! It's with the National Weather Service in Wichita, Kansas!
I couldn't have asked for a better office to start in. I'm so excited to get a job with the NWS, and it being in Wichita, KS is just icing on the cake! I fully expected this process to take about 6 months and then be in the middle of tin-buck-two. But NO! This is a dream location for me!
-It's only 4 hours from home, which is the closest I've
lived to home since 2001.
-It's only 2.5 hours from my awesome friends in Norman.
-It's in a bigger city, so I don't have to loose my city things
-It's in the Plains!!! I've missed it so dearly when I was in the east coast
-The office is amazing, filled with amazing people! I'm excited to work with
I'm sure that's not it, but it's all I could come up with right now.
So far my start date is early December, so I'll be there for the Christmas Holiday, but because I'm so close to home I won't have any problem getting home to see the family when I do have off!
So basically I will be a new resident of Kansas. I can say that I never thought I'd be a resident of Kansas, but I'm happy to be. The next few months will be great fun and also some what nerve racking and scary I'm sure. I'm excited to go find another new place to live, as well as joining the "real" working world. It will be weird to not be in school, but I haven't been in school all semester and it hasn't been to bad....however, it just seems like summer break or something to me. I'm going to enjoy leaving work at work and not having any extra things to do when I get home.
So if you ever find yourself driving through Wichita, KS, be sure to give me a shout.
Much love!
I couldn't have asked for a better office to start in. I'm so excited to get a job with the NWS, and it being in Wichita, KS is just icing on the cake! I fully expected this process to take about 6 months and then be in the middle of tin-buck-two. But NO! This is a dream location for me!
-It's only 4 hours from home, which is the closest I've
lived to home since 2001.
-It's only 2.5 hours from my awesome friends in Norman.
-It's in a bigger city, so I don't have to loose my city things
-It's in the Plains!!! I've missed it so dearly when I was in the east coast
-The office is amazing, filled with amazing people! I'm excited to work with
I'm sure that's not it, but it's all I could come up with right now.
So far my start date is early December, so I'll be there for the Christmas Holiday, but because I'm so close to home I won't have any problem getting home to see the family when I do have off!
So basically I will be a new resident of Kansas. I can say that I never thought I'd be a resident of Kansas, but I'm happy to be. The next few months will be great fun and also some what nerve racking and scary I'm sure. I'm excited to go find another new place to live, as well as joining the "real" working world. It will be weird to not be in school, but I haven't been in school all semester and it hasn't been to bad....however, it just seems like summer break or something to me. I'm going to enjoy leaving work at work and not having any extra things to do when I get home.
So if you ever find yourself driving through Wichita, KS, be sure to give me a shout.
Much love!
Friday, October 26, 2007
Pictures
It's been 4 weeks since I've been back in the States, and I have yet to post some pictures...but a new hard drive and memory on my computer makes downloading pictures difficult. But I'm happy to say in the past few days I've downloaded over 2500 pictures of my 2 months away...of course they will not all be posted...not even close, probably not even a 10th.....but still I will get on to posting them soon. Keep a watch on facebook.
Love
Love
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Finally
Well it'd be a lie if I didn't say I've sat down and started to write this blog about 5 times or so...failing each and every time. But here I am. State side for more than 3 weeks now, it's time to talk about my final days in England and being back in the good ol' USA.
Leaving England was sad, but exciting too. I was sad to be leaving England, a place I love, and especially Reading as it feels like another home...but I was looking forward to getting back to my american things and being closer to not living out of a suitcase. I left on Thursday morning the 27th of Sept....now I've been through airport security my fair share...and even England's security on this trip a couple times, but this time was AWFUL!!! I bawled clear through security! Which made wanting to get home more of a dominant feeling! But after getting through and getting on the plane I settled in for a nice 8 hour flight back to Washington DC. I got to watch 3 different movies, Georgia Rules, The Astronaut Farmer, The Ex (Fast Track) I enjoyed Georgia Rules the best, but liked them all! I got into DC on time, got through immigration easily...with a HUGE smile and headed to the waiting area to board my small plane back to Raleigh about 5pm. Thanks to my dear friends Adam and Miranda I was not homeless in Raleigh.
Less than 24 hours after arriving into Raleigh, I boarded an Amtrak train back to Washington DC where I was meeting up with a dear dear old friend Amy! I was so excited and yes it was crazyz that I was continuing to travel when I got back to the States, but it was easy to keep doing it. It's been probably 4 years or so since I've seen Amy and probably only seen here less than 12 hours since 2000. Sad, but we both have our busy lives, her's...becoming a member of the foreign service. It was so awesome catching up with her! We definatly didn't have enough time, just about 38 hours or so, but it was so great!
I then spent a week in Raleigh, catching up with friends and working on converting my Thesis figures from color to black and white. I also had the unexpected problem of replacing my hard drive and memory in my laptop that week which took up a good bit of time!
The following weekend, I got to go see Emily and Michael and my Pumpkin. It'd been 9 weeks since I'd seen my kitty and was really worried that he would have forgotten me. Emily was a great "mommy" to him. He was scared of me at first, but after about 20 minutes of me talking and things he came out and let me pet him...he ran in to sleep with me that night too..I was very happy to see him. Of course happier to see Emily! Emily and I shopped and had fun...I miss my Emily nights!
I then headed back to Raleigh from Wilmington for a day and a half while I finished up my figures and said my goodbyes. I drove back down to Wilmington to get pumpkin tuesday night before leaving for Nebraska Wednesday morning. I just tell people I wanted to start at the coast and really drive half of the country.
I drove through Tennessee, stopping and staying with family friends. I drove through Kentucky to see Zach and Megan in Bowling Green where they work. Was good to see them both as well and get the grand tour. It was a nice place. I then drove that night to Columbia, Missouri. Friday I headed to Kearney arriving around 3:30 where I got some things put together and then we all headed to Kansas for a dinner for my Brother. I got to see my niece Brynn for the first time ever so that was great! We got home around midnight, I did some laundry and got to bed around 2 then got up at 5am to drive back to Lincoln for my very first Husker Game. I met my Brothers and did some tailgating. The game wasn't very good as the Huskers are kinda sucking this year, but I enjoyed it all the same. I didn't go because I thought they might win...I went because it's an experience! I had fun!
Then that saturday night I drove to Omaha where I helped Jenni celebrate her birthday...I tried to hold on as long as I could, but I went out and fell asleep in the car around 12:30am...while they stayed at the bar. I was so very tired! By Sunday night I was finally back into Kearney!! It was great to finally be home!!! I continued to live out of a suitcase, because we are redecorating the bedroom downstairs, but it's now done and I will soon have that as my own room!
I'm currently in Oklahoma, I arrived last night (wednesday) I will be here for about a week, little over...but then I should be back into Kearney for a while without much traveling! Well at least until December when I drive back to Raleigh for Graduation. Good times!
I LOVE traveling, but I'm ready to have a "home". I have gotten to see a lot of friends in the past few months though which has been GREAT! I still have some to see, so I'm guessing the traveling won't stop for good! That's my long jerilyn story for now.
Much love.
Leaving England was sad, but exciting too. I was sad to be leaving England, a place I love, and especially Reading as it feels like another home...but I was looking forward to getting back to my american things and being closer to not living out of a suitcase. I left on Thursday morning the 27th of Sept....now I've been through airport security my fair share...and even England's security on this trip a couple times, but this time was AWFUL!!! I bawled clear through security! Which made wanting to get home more of a dominant feeling! But after getting through and getting on the plane I settled in for a nice 8 hour flight back to Washington DC. I got to watch 3 different movies, Georgia Rules, The Astronaut Farmer, The Ex (Fast Track) I enjoyed Georgia Rules the best, but liked them all! I got into DC on time, got through immigration easily...with a HUGE smile and headed to the waiting area to board my small plane back to Raleigh about 5pm. Thanks to my dear friends Adam and Miranda I was not homeless in Raleigh.
Less than 24 hours after arriving into Raleigh, I boarded an Amtrak train back to Washington DC where I was meeting up with a dear dear old friend Amy! I was so excited and yes it was crazyz that I was continuing to travel when I got back to the States, but it was easy to keep doing it. It's been probably 4 years or so since I've seen Amy and probably only seen here less than 12 hours since 2000. Sad, but we both have our busy lives, her's...becoming a member of the foreign service. It was so awesome catching up with her! We definatly didn't have enough time, just about 38 hours or so, but it was so great!
I then spent a week in Raleigh, catching up with friends and working on converting my Thesis figures from color to black and white. I also had the unexpected problem of replacing my hard drive and memory in my laptop that week which took up a good bit of time!
The following weekend, I got to go see Emily and Michael and my Pumpkin. It'd been 9 weeks since I'd seen my kitty and was really worried that he would have forgotten me. Emily was a great "mommy" to him. He was scared of me at first, but after about 20 minutes of me talking and things he came out and let me pet him...he ran in to sleep with me that night too..I was very happy to see him. Of course happier to see Emily! Emily and I shopped and had fun...I miss my Emily nights!
I then headed back to Raleigh from Wilmington for a day and a half while I finished up my figures and said my goodbyes. I drove back down to Wilmington to get pumpkin tuesday night before leaving for Nebraska Wednesday morning. I just tell people I wanted to start at the coast and really drive half of the country.
I drove through Tennessee, stopping and staying with family friends. I drove through Kentucky to see Zach and Megan in Bowling Green where they work. Was good to see them both as well and get the grand tour. It was a nice place. I then drove that night to Columbia, Missouri. Friday I headed to Kearney arriving around 3:30 where I got some things put together and then we all headed to Kansas for a dinner for my Brother. I got to see my niece Brynn for the first time ever so that was great! We got home around midnight, I did some laundry and got to bed around 2 then got up at 5am to drive back to Lincoln for my very first Husker Game. I met my Brothers and did some tailgating. The game wasn't very good as the Huskers are kinda sucking this year, but I enjoyed it all the same. I didn't go because I thought they might win...I went because it's an experience! I had fun!
Then that saturday night I drove to Omaha where I helped Jenni celebrate her birthday...I tried to hold on as long as I could, but I went out and fell asleep in the car around 12:30am...while they stayed at the bar. I was so very tired! By Sunday night I was finally back into Kearney!! It was great to finally be home!!! I continued to live out of a suitcase, because we are redecorating the bedroom downstairs, but it's now done and I will soon have that as my own room!
I'm currently in Oklahoma, I arrived last night (wednesday) I will be here for about a week, little over...but then I should be back into Kearney for a while without much traveling! Well at least until December when I drive back to Raleigh for Graduation. Good times!
I LOVE traveling, but I'm ready to have a "home". I have gotten to see a lot of friends in the past few months though which has been GREAT! I still have some to see, so I'm guessing the traveling won't stop for good! That's my long jerilyn story for now.
Much love.