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Friday, August 22, 2008
Graduate Student
I am officially in graduate school. I am not sure how I feel about that. On one hand, I am glad to be starting because that means I'm closer to finishing! Sad that I'm already thinking about graduation and I haven't even been to my first class yet! I ran by campus today and turned in a recommendation for a former student that is going through sorority rush. I have to admit, it was very strange being back on campus. I'm sure it will be even stranger when I am walking on campus and run into a student I had in class and he/she calls me "Mrs. Cline." I'll keep you posted as to how my class goes. I'm only taking one class. It is almost as much for one graduate class as it was for an entire semester when I went to Western the first time around. Crazy! I figure one class at a time won't break the bank and won't stress me out too much! I'm getting the hardest class out of the way this semester (Research Methods!) so that when we start a family I won't have to worry about it! We'll see what happens!
Monday, August 11, 2008
Back to School
As you have seen, I haven't posted anything in a while. We've been busy, as you will read shortly. Sophie had her first birthday on July 20, I went to the Sheryl Crow concert on July 24 (also Ashley's 27th birthday...took her and Sophie to P.F. Chang's on the 25th before heading back to BG), and we've been renovating the house since May (more below on that!). So, I am catching up now...be ready for a long read!
Right before we went back to school, Ashley, Neal, JoeDan, and I headed up to Cincinnati, OH and pretended to be kids again! We went to Kings Island and The Beach (a water park). We gave the tickets to Kings Island to Ashley and Neal for their birthdays (Ashley's was July 24th and Neal's is August 12th - he'll be 30!!!) It was so much fun, but the rides killed me and totally freaked me out and took my stomach! I screamed on every ride!!! I definitely felt 30 by the end of the second day!!! I was so sore and ready to be on solid ground :)
School has also started back. We started last Tuesday, August 5 and I guess I'm pretty much back into the swing of things. My students are great for the most part...some wild ones in one class! I'm the yearbook sponsor for the first time this year...that scares me to deal and excites me at the same time. I hope I do the school yearbook justice! I have a great staff, so I'm sure all will turn out well! I am also teaching Business Principles (two class of this...all sophomore class...pretty much just business basics), Accounting I, and Accounting II (I have one class of Acct. I and Acct. II together...hard to balance giving both enough instruction time!). I think it is going to be a great year!!! I would post pictures, but I don't think I can put pictures of my students on here...there's a law against it!
Right before we went back to school, Ashley, Neal, JoeDan, and I headed up to Cincinnati, OH and pretended to be kids again! We went to Kings Island and The Beach (a water park). We gave the tickets to Kings Island to Ashley and Neal for their birthdays (Ashley's was July 24th and Neal's is August 12th - he'll be 30!!!) It was so much fun, but the rides killed me and totally freaked me out and took my stomach! I screamed on every ride!!! I definitely felt 30 by the end of the second day!!! I was so sore and ready to be on solid ground :)
School has also started back. We started last Tuesday, August 5 and I guess I'm pretty much back into the swing of things. My students are great for the most part...some wild ones in one class! I'm the yearbook sponsor for the first time this year...that scares me to deal and excites me at the same time. I hope I do the school yearbook justice! I have a great staff, so I'm sure all will turn out well! I am also teaching Business Principles (two class of this...all sophomore class...pretty much just business basics), Accounting I, and Accounting II (I have one class of Acct. I and Acct. II together...hard to balance giving both enough instruction time!). I think it is going to be a great year!!! I would post pictures, but I don't think I can put pictures of my students on here...there's a law against it!
The Never-Ending Renovations
So we started renovating our house back in May and it still is not finished and I have no idea when it will be...aaahhhh!!! Our plan for the kitchen was to have the cabinets painted black and change out the hardware, tile the kitchen floor, replace the kitchen sink and faucet, and get new counter tops. Here is where we are on the kitchen: the cabinets are black but the paint scratches off every time you touch them! The painters are to come back and fix them but aren't sure when they can get back because they are so booked! The counter tops got here this past weekend and are somewhat on...some parts cannot be screwed down because the people who built the cabinets (back in the 70s) put the old counter tops on and then completed the cabinets so now you can't screw one side down because of the way they are built (too hard to explain, but trust me on it...JoeDan, my dad, and I worked forever trying to do it!), the tile will PROBABLY be laid in two weeks...which is about a month past when we were told they would have been laid originally! We are currently walking on sub flooring since we already ripped the linoleum out a month ago! Here are the pictures of what my house looks like right now in the kitchen and what the back room looks like with all the kitchen stuff piled up in it!
Our beautiful kitchen floor...I'll give you the number to our interior decorator!!!
This is an up close picture of the new counter top, the brink wall, and the painted wall in the kitchen. We think it all blends really well together. I just hope the tile looks good with it too! It will be a while before we get to show the finished product :)
This is the room in the back of the house. Thank goodness we have this room and that it was mostly empty at this time. We have used it as a storage/catch all room recently. Everything in the hall closets, kitchen, and part of the bathrooms are back there right now since we can't have anything on the floors because of tiling...of course this stuff has been back there for about a month because we didn't want to put it back after we knew the tiling was pushed back since we would just have to move it again.
The kitchen sink is leaking and we have to have a plumber come this week. This means we have no sink to wash dishes in and no dish washer right now...fun :)
Okay, here is what we planned for the bathrooms: 1/2 bath - retile floor, replace cabinet and faucet, put in new base boards. So far, we had the floor finally tiled today and we'll be able to put the cabinet in shortly...we'll be out of town this coming weekend, so hopefully we can get the cabinet from my parents' house (my dad sells them and got us this one for free!!! Thanks dad!) and install it and then it will be done. Here are pictures from earlier and then today:
Where the cabinet/sink and toilet used to be...we need them back. JoeDan is in my space in the other bathroom!
The sub flooring, which we had to put down ourselves because the old one was rotten from a leak in the toilet...we had to pull up two sub floors, which were pressed wood, which when wet is pretty much saw dust...I was miserable!
Bathroom floor laid today!!! Can't wait to get it finished! At least it is STARTING to look like a bathroom again!
One of the guest bedrooms piled with all kinds of stuff from the bathrooms...or at least it used to be a guest bedroom!
Main Bathroom - replace tile in shower/tub; replace faucet; replace tile floor; replace counter top; replace sink and faucet for sink. Here is where we are today - The tile has been put up for the shower walls and will be grouted tomorrow. It looks great and we are so excited to be able to shower again! We have been taking baths for two weeks now...baths are okay when you want one, but not when you HAVE to take one...baths are never fun for guys! As of last Thursday, we also had no faucet going to the tub and had to fill the bathtub with the shower head (one of those what you can pull down to was your hair, the dog, etc.)...it takes 30 minutes to fill the bath tub! I can you say pure hell!!!! The floor is to be tiled tomorrow and also grouted (I think!). Because the grout has to dry over night, we can not take a shower or bath for the next two days...we will have to wash off with wash cloths at the sink (the only sink we have might I remind you since the one in the 1/2 bath is gone right now and the kitchen one is out of order due to leaking!). That should be interesting to say the least! The counter top is suppose to be ready tomorrow (they called today), so as soon as we can demo the other one out and find some strong friends to help us put it in (granite is SUPER heavy), we'll have that room pretty much done!!! Here are pictures of this room:
The counter top is somewhere under there...this was before school started and when we still had other sinks to use!
The hardworking man of the house taking down the drywall around the tub (I helped, but there are no pictures since I was taking them and couldn't do both!)
The drywall coming down...check out the beautiful 1970s tile...now you know why we are renovating!!!
Drywall is gone! Notice we still have the old faucet (hot and cold are separate). We had to have a plumber come in and change it to a single handle faucet because no one sells the two handle ones anymore...imagine that!!! You'll see the other one in the next photo!
Finally tile!!! Though there is no grout yet (should be tomorrow!), we already love it! Can't wait to take my first shower this week!!!!
Up close of the tile and the border!
Yes, that is a toilet in our bedroom! It is suppose to be put in the 1/2 bath tomorrow...hopefully it will be!
Needless to say, we currently live in a live version of the movie "The Money Pit", but hopefully it will be worth it in the end! I'll keep you posted! Pray we make it through the rest of these never ending renovations :)
Our beautiful kitchen floor...I'll give you the number to our interior decorator!!!
This is an up close picture of the new counter top, the brink wall, and the painted wall in the kitchen. We think it all blends really well together. I just hope the tile looks good with it too! It will be a while before we get to show the finished product :)
This is the room in the back of the house. Thank goodness we have this room and that it was mostly empty at this time. We have used it as a storage/catch all room recently. Everything in the hall closets, kitchen, and part of the bathrooms are back there right now since we can't have anything on the floors because of tiling...of course this stuff has been back there for about a month because we didn't want to put it back after we knew the tiling was pushed back since we would just have to move it again.
The kitchen sink is leaking and we have to have a plumber come this week. This means we have no sink to wash dishes in and no dish washer right now...fun :)
Okay, here is what we planned for the bathrooms: 1/2 bath - retile floor, replace cabinet and faucet, put in new base boards. So far, we had the floor finally tiled today and we'll be able to put the cabinet in shortly...we'll be out of town this coming weekend, so hopefully we can get the cabinet from my parents' house (my dad sells them and got us this one for free!!! Thanks dad!) and install it and then it will be done. Here are pictures from earlier and then today:
Where the cabinet/sink and toilet used to be...we need them back. JoeDan is in my space in the other bathroom!
The sub flooring, which we had to put down ourselves because the old one was rotten from a leak in the toilet...we had to pull up two sub floors, which were pressed wood, which when wet is pretty much saw dust...I was miserable!
Bathroom floor laid today!!! Can't wait to get it finished! At least it is STARTING to look like a bathroom again!
One of the guest bedrooms piled with all kinds of stuff from the bathrooms...or at least it used to be a guest bedroom!
Main Bathroom - replace tile in shower/tub; replace faucet; replace tile floor; replace counter top; replace sink and faucet for sink. Here is where we are today - The tile has been put up for the shower walls and will be grouted tomorrow. It looks great and we are so excited to be able to shower again! We have been taking baths for two weeks now...baths are okay when you want one, but not when you HAVE to take one...baths are never fun for guys! As of last Thursday, we also had no faucet going to the tub and had to fill the bathtub with the shower head (one of those what you can pull down to was your hair, the dog, etc.)...it takes 30 minutes to fill the bath tub! I can you say pure hell!!!! The floor is to be tiled tomorrow and also grouted (I think!). Because the grout has to dry over night, we can not take a shower or bath for the next two days...we will have to wash off with wash cloths at the sink (the only sink we have might I remind you since the one in the 1/2 bath is gone right now and the kitchen one is out of order due to leaking!). That should be interesting to say the least! The counter top is suppose to be ready tomorrow (they called today), so as soon as we can demo the other one out and find some strong friends to help us put it in (granite is SUPER heavy), we'll have that room pretty much done!!! Here are pictures of this room:
The counter top is somewhere under there...this was before school started and when we still had other sinks to use!
The hardworking man of the house taking down the drywall around the tub (I helped, but there are no pictures since I was taking them and couldn't do both!)
The drywall coming down...check out the beautiful 1970s tile...now you know why we are renovating!!!
Drywall is gone! Notice we still have the old faucet (hot and cold are separate). We had to have a plumber come in and change it to a single handle faucet because no one sells the two handle ones anymore...imagine that!!! You'll see the other one in the next photo!
Finally tile!!! Though there is no grout yet (should be tomorrow!), we already love it! Can't wait to take my first shower this week!!!!
Up close of the tile and the border!
Yes, that is a toilet in our bedroom! It is suppose to be put in the 1/2 bath tomorrow...hopefully it will be!
Needless to say, we currently live in a live version of the movie "The Money Pit", but hopefully it will be worth it in the end! I'll keep you posted! Pray we make it through the rest of these never ending renovations :)
Sheryl Crow Concert
On July 23rd I got a call from my aunt asking what I was doing the next night and of course I didn't have much going on because it was right before school was starting and I was trying to get my house cleaned up (that didn't happen obviously!). So, I told her I didn't have anything going on. I figured she was going to ask if I could come down and watch her son, Ben. But, to my surprise she asked if I wanted to go to the Sheryl Crow concert with her! Without any hesitation, I answered, "YES!" Sheryl Crow is one of my all time favorites and I knew the concert was that night, but also knew that we were trying to renovate the house and didn't need to be spending our money on concert tickets. So, obviously I was so excited! I had not been to a concert it what felt like forever! Our seats were great and we rode in her convertible to the concert and got to park in the garage under the Somet Center. I felt like a kid again and like a V.I.P. It was a wonderful night! Thanks Deana!!!
Sophie's First Birthday
Sophie's first birthday was on July 20. It was a great day! Ashley was such the super mom getting everything together, getting Sophie dressed after her nap, and playing hostess all at the same time. Sophie loved having all her favorite people there, but seemed somewhat overwhelmed when it came time to blow out her candle (the bigger kids helped with that!) and eat her cake. She never took even one bite of her cake. She just stuck her finger in the icing and tried to give everyone else a taste of it! She's a great sharer! Below are some pictures of the day. Enjoy! 
Sophie and her cake
Sophie and Mommy!
Sophie and all her birthday presents!
Beautiful birthday girl!!!
Sophie and her cake
Sophie and Mommy!
Sophie and all her birthday presents!
Beautiful birthday girl!!!
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