i love Chicago.

i hate Afghanistan.

i miss Bart. (a lot.)

it's fucking hot outside.

the rest, for now, is just details.

well, i'm all moved into my new place in Aurora. i love it! i found a great apartment that i know i will love as long as i'm here :) my parents came to move me last weekend and it actually went pretty smoothly. we got everything out of my EL apartment in a couple hours, made it to Aurora in about 4.5 hours, unloaded everything in about an hour or 2, and then we were done. i can't believe we got that all done in one day just the three of us...we should start our own family moving company, because we are pros!!! the next day we did an assload of shopping. a freaking assload. went to IKEA and i got all new furniture, like everything. new desk, tv stand, dresser, dresser mirror, bookcase. went to this great resale shop in downtown Aurora and got the most awesome couch ever! it's beautiful :) then Mom and i went to like target and meijer and bed, bath, and beyond to get some other shit like decorations and cleaning products and stuff like that. i also got a new bed set and bathroom set that are soooooo pretty! we spent 13 hours on saturday assembling furniture. i can't believe we got that all done either! it was a little bit of a hassle, but now it's done. and everything looks wonderful!!!! i have a whole white theme going on. check out my picture page for photos of the progression. now it's done except for hanging some pictures on the wall, which i will probably take my time with to make sure they are where i want them. i don't want too many mistake holes in the walls! so after my parents left, i continued to organize and settle and whatnot. i've been shopping and stuff the past 3 days to get other little things that i want or need. like i got this amazing bed canopy that makes my bed look like it should be in cinderella's castle!! i love it! and i got some frames and just some other crap. i also went grocery shopping and got VEGETABLES for the first time in probably a year!!!! that is so exciting!!!! i love vegetables :) and it's even more exciting because i can grill them on my little grill outside!! how cool!!! i really am a big girl now :) hahaha...

so now i sit and wait for another week and a half until i start work at Centex on June 5. i'm excited. i am definitely enjoying my little vacation, but i'm very excited to start my career!!!! i'm nervous and scared and anxious and so many other things all at once. but i know that everything will be alright when i do start and i'll be just fine :) they'll teach me everything i need to know, so i shouldn't worry.

at least my waiting time has been happy because of Bart!!! what a surprise right? you people all knew it was coming...i got to talk to him online and on the phone for like 5 days in a row last week!!!! it was possibly the most amazing 5 days ever in the past 3 months. it even rivaled graduation weekend :) and then yesterday i got 3 letters from him!!!! and boy were they awesome letters. this man is incredible. i really am the luckiest girl in the whole world to have him. sometimes i can't even believe that he loves me! what we have is amazing :) there's so much to look forward to! so anyway, little taste of why i like his letters so much. the sarcastic humor gets me rollin laughing: "we just pulled a tick off the puppy that was the size of a marble, yummy." hahahahaa so matter of fact like marble sized ticks on puppies are normal...*sigh* and this is why i love my soldier :)

hmmmm. so today's agenda is pretty clear. how boring. i don't really have anymore shopping to do. i might return some stuff to meijer, drop off some clothes at goodwill, and check at linens & things for brown pillowcases and a brown dust ruffle. seriously now, what makes it so tough to find brown freakin pillowcases? i've checked at like 3 different places to no avail. oh well, internet shopping is easier anyway. but other than that, i have a feeling today will be a real vacation day of sitting on my arse on the couch in front of the tv. sweeeeeeet :) too bad all the rest of you have to work today!

i'm getting so spoiled this week!!!! jeez i thought one phone call was good, but shit 4 is just...i have no words!!! it's almost like normal life again talkin to my baby so much!! i'm going to have to say i like him where he is, even if he's bored and has nothing to do. plus he's much safer. i'll definitely sacrifice some sleep to be able to talk to him everyday online. after all, i don't do ANYTHING now, so i can nap during the day :)

i packed up my car today to take some stuff to my new apartment tomorrow. it's pretty stuffed and i still have to add the tv and dvd player and my bedding. and stuff to wear for 3 days. hmmm, it's really going to be full!! it's pretty amazing what you can fit in the pipscort if he's all packed up right! now all that's left is like 6 boxes, bed, desk, shoes, clothes, and a few other things that will probably amount to another 4 boxes or so. sooooo glad to be out of here in exactly a week!!!

but at this point, i don't even care. i just care that i can talk to my soldier all the time for a few days. it's sooooooooo amazing!!! just like him :) things are good. i am lucky. how i got so lucky, i will never ever know, but i'm not going to question it!!! i'm just going to look forward to all the even greater things that are coming up soon :)

i'm going to go buy chips for my salsa now. only like 7 more hours till i get to talk to Bart again. YAYYYY!!! and now i can have snacks :)

well, graduation is all over and it was SUPER!!!! what a GREAT weekend filled with fun, family, and friends!! the ceremonies were really awesome and i am so glad that i attended all the functions that i could. i will remember that stuff forever. anyone who doesn't walk will soon regret it, and if not soon, definitely 15 years from now. i just had such a great time immersing myself in everything Michigan State this past weekend. i'm really going to miss this place!! but i will come back as the proudest alumna that ever attended this great university!! Spartan for life baby, i bleeeeeeeeeeed green and white!!!!

and as is typical with me, i love change and new and different frontiers, so i have already been to aurora and back and found my new home!! i'll be living at fox valley villages in aurora. it's an insanely awesome complex and the apartment is just so perfect!!! it was a little on the high side, but i am such a Polish saver, i'll be able to work with my budget just fine. i fell in love with it anyway, so there was just no way i could pass it up and take anything else. plus it did end up to be the best deal out of everything i think. it's a very cute apartment, lots of storage space and closets, a really great kitchen, washer/dryer in unit, a nice big patio, great clubhouse with a state of the art gym, cyber cafe, and business center. and it's close to everything and will be easy to commute to and from. i'm very happy with my decision. it's the second time i haven't settled for something less, the first being Bart :) anyway, i'm VERY excited to move in!!! i pick up my keys monday the 15th and i'll be completely moved in there and out of here by the 21st. can't wait!!! i even already set up my internet, phone, and electric :) i'm so on top of things!!! it's going to be great. i hope that people will come visit. EVERYONE, and i do mean everyone, is certainly welcome. all you have to do is give me a call or shoot me an im and we'll set it up :) then we can go out on the CHITOWN!!! which will be awesome, of course.

the only bad thing about my little trip was that i locked my keys in my car and had to pay $75 for about 30 seconds worth of work to get it open. i guess that's the price i pay for being a total idiot. so that was shitty. and thennnnnn on my way home, literally 20 minutes from east lansing, a GIANT rock hit my windshield and cracked it. now, my only problem with this is that i have driven 85000 miles over the past 7 years and never had a cracked windshield. i have only locked my keys in my car one other time. in all those years, these things haven't happened and in a span of 24 hours they both happened. lucky me!!!! i have such awesome streaks of super duper luck like that!!! so now i have to get the windshield replaced right away before i drive to chicago again and it'll probably be like a million dollars. ugh. just what i need right now!! how frustrating. i guess all the positiveness of the past week or so had to stop somewhere and life had to give me a little reality check. thanks, life, i totally appreciate it!

but actually, it was all combined with a lot of happiness anyway. i graduated, got a great apartment, start a great job in a few weeks, AND Bart called on my way home yesterday :D BEST thing EVER of the whole week!!!!! i didn't think i was going to hear from him for another week or so, so it was an awesome surprise. this man is nothing short of amazing, and he is one thing that i am always lucky to have and my luck has never run out with him yet. and the funny thing is, no matter what other crazy shit happens to me, i know the luck never will run out with him. even half a world away, he manages to know when i'm missing him the most and the phone rings. somebody try to tell me we aren't meant to be. i dare ya!! anyway, he's good, which is always nice to hear. and it's good to know he's getting all my letters and packages too. he's probably the most spoiled soldier over there the way i send stuff. the best part of that is that he can't yell at me for spending so much money on him because he can't stop me!!! MWAHAHAHAHA!!! love it! :) anyway, i miss him terribly, but being able to talk to him pretty frequently helps. and his letters make me overjoyed!! it was a double whammy yesterday because i got a call and a little Lauzon, Bart letter in the mail :) perfect! if this keeps up, the rest of the year will fly by. and shit, we only have to wait another 4 months or so for leave, so that's even better!! deployment sure does suck, but it's what's waiting when he gets home that makes it all worthwhile.

well. this has certainly turned into a long entry. i'm sure everyone who reads this was just so excited to hear my little updates. by the way, who left the last comment on my April 27 entry? thanks so much, it made me smile, but i'd like to know who wrote it!! i'm pretty freakin stoked that i got so many comments on my last couple entries, so keep it up, friends!! :)

i'm off to work out, shower, and hang with the oville crew for the last time in a long time. i'm really going to miss everyone. especially Bill. i'm not really sure what i'm going to do without him actually. it's going to be pretty tough getting used to not being able to just walk over and see him or have him knock on my door and then we just talk for hours...i don't like this already!!! :( and jeez, he's going to have a hard time surviving without young Brewer! i guess that just means that road trips will be in order :)

peace out, homies.

holy crap i'm an alumna.

i don't think there is anything else to say!