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!