Madison

Wow look at how bad I have been at updating this blog! Well I guess the last 6 months went way too fast that I didn't even have time to blog or something. So lets see what is new.....

I graduated from Mankato May 9th and that ended my life as a college student... well for now. I do plan to go get my masters in about a year but will take it part time and probably online. I'm thinking of getting my MBA. So for the next year I am going to ponder that and make sure that is what I want to do. I moved back to Wisconsin the weekend of graduation because I started work here in Madison WI on May 11th.

So I entered the real world of work. Everyone asks how it feels to be graduated and the truth is it doesn't feel any different right now because everyone is on summer break and it feels normal. Now ask me in August and i'll probably say I want to go back to school. Well hopefully not. I am working at Orange Shoe Gym in Madison as personal trainer. We are a small gym that offers onlyl personal training, individual and small group (max 4 people) So my days are filled with training and coming up with fun things to do. I really like it except I am getting used to working from 1-10 which is my shift. I would much rather be up early but oh well. In June I moved into a 2 bedroom apartment in Madison only minutes away from work. For the last two months I have been living by myself and with no internet!!!! My roommate Amanda, is one of my best friends from high school and she moves in this weekend which I am super excited about. I have realized that I never want to live by myself again! It is awful!!!!! Ok so its fine for 5 minutes but then I have no one to talk to except myself and I am trying to make my neighbors think I am normal so I have avoided that. Another one of my best friends from high school is also moving to Madison the middle of August so that will be nice. We were all apart for college and now we are all in the same town.

All in all summer is flying by! I can't believe that August is almost here. The middle of August I am going to the Virgin Islands just for a long weekend with my cousin Jane so I am looking forward to that. You see the weather here hasn't even been nice enough to get a tan so I have to go find the sun. Well thats a short update for now.

Back to School

I have back in Mankato for two weeks now, well i think.... I came back a week early because I had a workshop that I needed to do and I had work. Classes started on the 12th and I only have three of them this semester.... three that I have to physically go to and then an online class in medical terminology. The weeks have been flying by as I have busy with work. I work at Lake Crystal Rec center where I help design programs, teach classes such as Butts and Guts my favorite, and personal train. I have my internship at school which has been really busy will all my teams signing up for Boot Camp which I came up with. I have 16 teams so now I need to match them up with trainers. Then I work some weekends at the YMCA. So that is my life right now.

My roommates and I just booked spring break to Jamaica. We are staying in an all inclusive for 7 nights so we are all excited. It has been so cold here so just the thought of having tickets to some place warm makes me much more excited. Last week the coldest morning was a wind chill of -45. I had to be at work that morning at around 5:30 and let me tell you it was cold cold cold when I got up at 4:45. I thought my body froze and I was still in bed. Haha Anyways I can't complain right now because it was 30 degrees today.

Tomorrow we don't have classes because of Martin Luther King Day. I will probably go to campus and work for my internship a bit so I feel more caught up. I have to go get my bridesmaid dress fitted tomorrow too. I am in my roommmates wedding which is Feb 7th. So I guess the moment of truth will come tomorrow..... we will see how much I really ate over christmas break. I don't ever have class on Fridays and I did not schedule any clients on Friday so I will be able to go home Thursday night for the weekend. Gotta go home and hang out with the fam :)

Well thats just a short update. I am really going to try to do better because I love reading all your guys' blogs!!!!!

Happy New Years!!!

I hope everyone had a good New Years. Can you believe it is 2009? Scary. Well not much is new over here. I don't even have any pictures or anything to put up. Yesterday was my last day of work at Nike and I told them this was it. No more coming back because I need to grow up now. Haha. Today Mom, Angela, and Angela's friend Katie went on a little shopping spree. We went to Kohls and didn't even look at clothes because with all those holiday treats all the clothes would be too tight so instead we got purses. Those always fit! We went out to eat and then ran into the mall and Wal-Mart and now we are home. A nap sounds really good but who takes a nap after 4? Tonight we have a volleyball get together so I can't wait to see my dad's moves on the volleyball court. :)

I will head back to Minnesota on Monday. I have some workshops and work to do starting Tuesday and then school will start the following Monday. It will be my last first day of class at MSU. Crazy. I signed up for the 1/2 marathon in Madison in May so that will give me something to train for in the spring. I can't make up any excuses not to go to the gym like I have been lately. Anyways hope 2009 is going great for everyone so far!