goings on...

I haven't been a very good blogger lately, but here is an update on things I have done in the past few weeks:

#1 best thing to happen in the past few weeks is that my bff Brenna is finally home!  I am so excited that she is here, but a little sad that she is so itching to leave again.  The day she got home Gretchen, Heidi and I made her lunch and some welcome home signs.  It is weird that she has been gone for a year, but it doesn't really feel that way.  Then I went to dinner at her house for two different nights of a "family" open house...it was fun to hang with the P's.  I talked to Bren's sister Brie about her new truffle/card company Blue Calla Kreations - Check her out.  Here is a pic of Brie, Brenna and I at Brenna's welcome home party, which was also super fun!  Oh how I missed my brenny.

Beyond Bren being home I have been working on a few volunteer jobs.  I have been doing a few things for the Alliance for Sustainability to help get ready for the Sustainable Communities Conference coming up on March 12 and 13th.  When I say doing a few things I mean making a lot of phone calls.  I wasn't the best volunteer since if someone didn't answer I called it good and crossed them off my list.  I just hate making calls!  The second set of people I called wasn't so bad, I pumped out 50 calls in 2 hours or so.  Next weekend I will be helping at the conference which is more my style...hands on.

Even though I swore to everyone I would never volunteer for anything again I have already signed up with another group called Great River Greening.  I will be supervising groups of 5-15 people working to remove invasive species and plant natives along the Mississippi River.  I think this will be a little better for me, but we will see.  I have a training on April 10th.

I am also volunteer assistant coaching for the High School Track team this year.  We had a coaches meeting on Friday and it was really fun to catch up with a few old friends and I am really excited to start the season.

On that note...I really need a job!  A paying job.  I keep finding volunteer things I want to help with, but I force myself to forget about them since I am running out of cash real quick.  I have a list of jobs to apply for this week and I WILL have a job by the end of the week.  In this case when I say job I mean anything that pays me.  I am still waiting to hear back from two career jobs, so here is hoping.

Whew, this is a long post.  To speed things up....

I have started reading Eat, Pray, Love.  I have worked out consistently for the last 5 days.  I have a new goal to read one issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine every day until my stack is gone. I have beat Jake in 19 in 21 games of Foosball.  I am still awesome.