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Missing Minnesota

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Missing all things Minnesota SO much this week. I need a lake, friends, and family--like no other. Hopefully soon.

Happy Valentines Day!

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Whitney,

Much to be Done

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Can I vent for a second?

Thanks. 

So, yesterday I wake up and am super excited to get to work when...my computer crashed. Completely crashed. Like spent 3 hours in the apple store only for them to tell me my hard drive crashed...and I lost everything.

I never knew a machine could make me so emotional. It was weird. I held back tears in the apple store as the 'Genius Bar Man' lectured me on not backing up my stuff. Yes, I realize I should of had an external hard drive...but do YOU realize Mr. Genius Bar Man, that there are a million other things I would rather purchase than an external hard drive??  Regardless I have a shiny new external hard drive, and a shiny new internal hard drive. I still have my old computer--but it feels like brand new...mostly because there is not a single file on it.

Can I be melodramatic for a second?

I feel like I lost the last four years of my life! Well, not really...but all my pictures are gone, my music, my teaching files, my undergrad work, my resumes/cover letters, my grad school work....the list goes on.

So yesterday I was super emotional trying to calm my hysterical self down by repeating in my head..., "you lost files you did not lose a person...you need to stop being materialistic.

Today I am feeling MUCH better. I have so much work/recovering to do from emails and drop box.
Honestly, it's slightly refreshing having a blank computer. Stressful, but kind of nice and refreshing--a clean start.

On a side note...I have great friends. Very sad to be missing my music (which you can actually recover for free from I-tunes....but it's a bit like playing 'Russian Roulette', if you accidentally pick a song you haven't ever purchased you get charged), anyways, I realized a lot of the music I had by my favorite artist had come from a friend who burned me Cd's. I texted him in my dramatic style saying, "Can you do me HUGE favor." His immediate response, "Yup, what do you need." No questions asked! I mean I just needed some Cd's re-burned...but what If I needed a plane ticket to Brazil? Such a simple thing, but it always warms my heart to know my friends are there for me.

Now, it's time to attempt to recover files! Wish me luck!

Long Time-No Talk!

It has been entirely too long since I have updated this blog. Oops! 

I came back from Colorado and it was a whirlwind getting back into school, and work. I have been incredibly busy with classes that are much more challenging than last semester--which makes me a much more satisfied student. I feel like I am actually learning something I will use...

My view...for hours everyday...woo-hoo

I am doing more with work as well. This is great--If I am not busy, I go crazy! I guess I don't really go crazy, but I do get really into posting up on my couch watching Bravo marathons. This semester I have been given more responsibility and am actually doing more researching and writing! Woo-hoo (Okay, I am writing a manual--but still it's writing and I am happy).

Life in Kansas has been great, but I have been a little homesick lately--actually I would say I have been 'girlfriendsick'. I absolutely love hanging out with Spence all the time, but I am CRAVING some girl time. I would give just about anything to be with wine and my girlfriends. Poor Spence would probably like this too...as he has been my stand-in for girl talk...and as my friends know I lack a filter when it comes to girl talk...I think he's had enough :)

Last weekend, Spencer's parents came to visit. It was absolutely wonderful! It was so nice to see familiar faces. We had a wonderful weekend with them!

At the Allen Fieldhouse...Awesome museum I had no idea existed...

Chef Spence cooking for his parents.

Other than all this 'exciting' information I have updated you with; I am feeling the 'last semester' stress. Being in your last semester of school is scary! I'm bummed to find out it is just as scary the second time around. Looking for jobs makes my heart race. Looking at the price of the test I have to take makes me sweat. Thinking about writing my thesis, and what I will possibly write it on...makes my crazy eyes come out.

I have been trying to 'live in the moment', but sometimes the uncertainty of the future consumes my mind and I cannot help but feel anxious. I do not like surprises, those who know me--know I often have to read the end of the book just to make sure all the characters are okay. I mean...I had to fast-forward through the movie, "UP", because I got so nervous.

But today I got all philosophical while I was straightening my hair...(get ready for some corny metaphors..I do some awesome thinking when I am straightening my hair)

I finally just told myself to stop wanting to 'look ahead to the end of the book', I can't look ahead to the ending because it is unwritten (thank you Natasha Bedingfield). Having the 'book' be unwritten isn't scary--it's exciting because I still have some say in how it will BE written. You with me??!

Okay enough of that...I could go on forever....but will stop because I am supposed to be writing earlier mentioned manual.