There are 16 days left until I depart for Austria, oh my gosh, I am getting so excited! What do I have to do before I leave? I need to pack up my room so my parents can move while I'm gone and I also need to repaint the walls but instead, I've been working on my webpages, which IS productive (mind you) cuz it is entertaining people and it's a hobby I enjoy. It makes me happy and makes me not think about food all day long...This past weekend was FUN! I went Friday night to Madison with Mitch as my buddy. Screw the diet! I am a horrible indulger, watch the weight disperse and add back on just like a roller coaster diet (that's a slight exaggeration). We watched a freakin' scary movie called "Kiss the Girls" and then retreated to bed. The next day after I had a delicious cup of coffee at Ancora (specially made for me by Lauren) I left to visit my best friend, Heather, in Milwaukee. It was a GREAT time eating at Rock Bottom (nummy nummy) and drinking too much at her friend's apartment (can we saw, VODOO?). The next moring sucked cuz my head was spinning but it was worth it. We shopped and I said a tearful (not really) goodbye to her since I won't see her until June. I drove back to Madison and got freakin' lost it pissed me off. I was ready to scream by the time I finally arrived to Lauren's but they made me feel better when we went on a food hunt for dinner, great fun in the car (Derrek, do you EVER stop laughing??) I can show you a worlddd (thanks for letting us listen to your CD, Kristy..I doubt she'll read this but Kristy is a very DIRTY girl). They cheered me up easily and then we drank drank drank and it was very dramatic (um, get over yourself!). What did I learn this weekend? 1. I absolutely HATE the Cheeky Song 2. Too much coffee makes you jittery and weird 3. Silver jeans are the greatest invention ever! 4. To stop letting too much bad stuff happen when I'm drunk, I'm an annoying drunk. That's all for now, yay for a new webpage design!
Friday, January 31 1:45 PM
Holy freaking lordy, I am leaving in 6 days!! OMG OMG OMG! Where the HELL does time go? I remember last spring when I decided I wanted to go to Salzburg I told myself to stop allowing myself to think about it cuz it was so far away and NOW...now it's less than a week away! This past week has been good...I visited my cousin in Duluth for a night to say goodbye to her, then it was Ben's Superbowl party (we just want to see the commercials!) BTW, did anyone besides me, James, Ben and Max see the cameraman who "accidently" ran into the cheerleader's boob?? I painted my room this week one solid off-white color so we can sell our house in March while I'm gone. Ben helped a little with that and I learned that owning a Steam Buggy has many benefits. I finished the last of the walls last night. I also baby-sat for Jenny's daughter, Kaileah. She is way gassy (haha) and her farts just penetrated the air, awwww! Isn't it cute?? Then yesterday me and Ben visited Jenny at her house with a nice cup of Caribou coffee, MMM!! Jenny is my new best friend, BTW...haha she won't read this. I really admire her for all that she has done and been through these past few months and she's doing great! Kudos to Jenny. I sit here now in a heap of a mess on my floor where I tore things off my walls and had to remove stashed stuff so I could paint. I will clean that out and then begin making lists to pack up for...AUSTRIA!! Do you realize in exactly a week I will be at some restaurant in London eating dinner!? WOOHHOO!! Oh god Kate, just shut up, I'm so sick of hearing how you're going to Austria and how much fun you'll have and blah blah blah...just let it go, ok?? Sorry, that was my superego talking to me telling me to calm down...I'm nervous to meet new people and adjust to a new environment but I have this feeling it will turn out ok. Tonite is party at Mitch's with Mitch and his crazy (yet hottie) co-workers. Tomorrow I spend the day with Al, that will be FUN cuz we're going to Chilis! (He prolly doesn't realize this yet but we talked about it a few weeks ago) and Sunday is a birthday party for my aunt and saying goodbye to me. ::tear:: Well this is the last entry I will make until I come back in June cuz now I will write on my Austria page (link is on my homepage). Bye all and have a good day!!
Tuesday, June 3 11:00 PM
I am back from Austria....unfortunately. I had the time of my life and I doubt I will ever encounter anything similar to it. It is funny how I expect so much to change or be "different" when I get home, like maybe my personality would be noticeabley different. Maybe I would be happy to be home or happy to be in Eagan but quite honestly, I really need to get the fuck out of here. I have never been so bitter about my hometown, I love Eagan, I love my friends but I am bored here, and not at specific times but just in general. It has been the same thing for me day after day and too much redundancy can't be a good thing. I thought perhaps I would drive around Eagan and see all the old spots and be like, there it is! Whatever..no, nothing stuck out, I looked at the Michaels Craft Store in Eagan and groaned. Damn the suburbs, too much commercialization. But in other news....I stepped on the scale today and I only gained about 8 or 9 pounds!?....wait a second....did you SEE the way I ate in Austria???! I am incredibly amazed, it just goes to show you how much walking I did in Europe each day. And as Mitch so kindly pointed out, I can lose 8 pounds in about 3 weeks, wow...and then I can lose another 10 pounds, that would be awesome. 18 pounds off by the end of the summer. Yesterday was my first "real" day home. Sunday evening I was greeted by my wonderful cousin and aunt, it was great to see them. My parents were (surprise surprise) late but they brought me Alan. I was really happy to see all of them but I was out of it. However, jet lag hasn't been difficult to deal with at all, I have gotten adequate sleep each night at a decent hour. Yesterday I hung out with Ben, Kristy and Alan and the phone rang too much. Today my sister and I caught up on some taped episodes of Friends and then I went to my cousin's soccer game to watch her coach 14 year old girls near Eastview, so Mitch met my sister and I there and then I got a good chance to catch up with Mitch about my trip abroad and fill in the blanks about things I purposely left out until I got home. It's funny how my life at home just got put on hold while I was gone, I barely rarely kept in contact with my friends by the end of the semester, I knew they would be there when I got back but now, I am still not so excited about "catching up", it just seems unnecessary and irrelevant for my friends to know EVERYTHING. I don't know, Gute Nacht!
Sunday, June 8th 4:00 PM
"Alan, your cell phone sucks, you are fading in and out!....Hello? Hello? Al?!?"...."What?? I can hear you." "Al, your cell phone sucks!" "It doesn't suck, I just don't get good service out here!" "Yes, cuz your cell phone sucks!!" "It doesn't suck, Kate! It is just a bad ser---" (phone call cuts off). I rest my case...
Today I visited some townhomes and condos along the river with my parents, it is gorgeous over there, you are smack dab in front of the St. Paul skyline, and very close to I-35 E access. The problem is the new condos won't be completed until Fall 2004 and my parents are actually considering buying these places, which I do not undestand. It was reather annoying the way my dad rambeled on and on with the realtor asking question after question and thinking outloud is really what it was. The other thing I don't understand is why my parents are searching for townhomes that are more money than what our house is selling for. I thought the point of getting a new place to live was to live in a smaller place and save money, wow....it just doesn't make sense. It is hard for me to belive that a week ago right now I was in the Detroit airport thinking how great it was to be able to buy a Mountain Dew and speak English. It is sad for me to think that I am away from Salzburg for good, I miss it tremendously and I am trying to supplement a similar lifestyle here which means I am starting to think about apartments in Minneapolis and how convenient they would be for me. A few days ago I went to the U of M campus with Heather so she could research, and then I met Mitch at the coffee shop and we wandered around downtown for awhile and I saw his new apartment. Realizing that this will be the way I live within the next coming year excites me, I can't wait to get out of Eagan and all the superficial suburban lifestyles, it disgusts me the way these rich people throw their money around, buying coffee after coffee and shopping for things that aren't necessary, I hate the upper class lifestyles. Here comes Minneapolis for me....