Last Day

Today is my last day, YAY!

Plastic Monkey

Well. Tomorrow is my last day here at BG. I'm very ready to leave which makes it hard for me to be sitting at this desk surfing the web all day. I've checked myspace, facebook, and tons of blogs about 20 times each already today. Yet, I continue to be bored and continue to not make progress on anything and continue to get paid. It's weird how it all works out. How does anything get done?

Here's the picture of the day:

My Girls

Here's my girls!

Gardening

I've really appreciated my mother and her gardening until this last weekend.
I paid a handy man to take out 3,000 lbs of river rock from my flower beds. He did that a couple of weeks ago and this weekend I finally got around to making the leftover mud pit look semi decent. Westlake had 40% off all of their plants, so my mother and I went last Friday and bought $70 worth of plants. Sunday morning my mom came over for 3 hours and helped me plant them. It got too hot so she went on home after we planted them all. Last night after work, I decided I wanted to work in my garden rather than work out at the gym. I planted a few more plants, spread mulch around, and cleaned up a bit. I'm slowly getting satisfied with the way it's looking. It's still bare in some spots and one garden is still a mud pit but it'll eventually look good. I'm going shopping for more plants at lunch today. It's really weird but I have the bug for gardening. I'm turning into my mother.

Ball Chair

I want this:
















But if I could choose a color, it would be purple :)

Song of the Day I

My third year in college I always posted a Song of the Day on my profile for AIM. Since I'm having a hard time thinking of things to blog about, I'm bringing back the Song of the Day...

Life Ain't Always Beautiful
by Gary Allan

Life ain't always beautiful
Sometimes it's just plain hard
Life can knock you down, it can break your heart

Life ain't always beautiful
You think you're on your way
And it's just a dead end road at the end of the day

But the struggle makes you stronger
And the changes make you wise
And happiness has it's own way of takin' it sweet time

No, life aint always beautiful
Tears will fall sometimes
Life aint always beautiful
But it's a beautiful ride

Life aint always beautiful
Some days I miss your smile
I get tired of walkin' all these lonely miles

And I wish for just one minute
I could see your pretty face
Guess I can dream, but life dont work that way

But the struggles makes me stronger
And the changes make me wise
And happiness has it's own way of takin' its sweet time

No, life aint always beautiful
But I know I'll be fine
Hey, life aint always beautiful
But its a beautiful ride
What a beautiful ride.

For Jackie:

It seems as though Jackie has been a little (maybe a lot) stressed lately. This one's for her:

Mojo.

I love MOJITOS!

Purple People Mover

Here's what I've been working on this past week. It's a People Rapid Transit System for KSU. This is a free standing station that will sit in 8 various places around campus. The renderings are a little archaic since I had never done a 3d Model in AutoCad or used the rendering program AccuRender. I wanted to the building to be white but that didn't exactly happen. A lot of the design of the station was governed by our structural gurus who overcalculate everything.

BIG NEWS

The Friday before Memorial Day weekend I sent in my resume to a firm in KC, MO and 10 minutes later, I had an interview set up for that Tuesday after Memorial Day. All of that weekend, when most sane people were laying out at the pool, I was stuck indoors making a portfolio. I got it done and it didn't look too bad for having only worked on it for 3 days.

My interview lasted 2 1/2 hours which surprised me becuase I thought it had only been 1 hour. It went great. I was so pumped about that firm. I think they liked me and I liked them.

On Wednesday, they offered me the job! I will now work at Hoefer Wysocki Architects (HWA) located in Kansas City, MO on the Plaza. They just won Best Small Business in KC. Their projects include commercial, government, and healthcare. It's a great employment package so I'm excited to work there. My package included the salary I asked for and health insurance for just $20!!! They have a lot of employee get togethers, so hopefully I'll make friends. This is a great opportunity for me to be working in KC. I'll be closer to the stadium so I won't have to take off of work to get to practice on time. I don't know when I'm goign to start since I have not given my 2 weeks notice yet at BG.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with my house yet. I haven't figured any of that out. I'll be commuting for a while but hopefully I can find some renters so I can get an apartment in KC. I'm not going to sell my house because I may want to come back to Lawrence after the Chiefs stuff is over.

I just thought I would let everyone know my big news :)

Go Chiefs!

You are one of the first to see my photos...

http://www.kcchiefs.com/cheerleader/alicia/1

They are not linked to the website yet but I have the address. The new 2006 poster will be presented sometme soon on the website. I'm gettin' pumped. You know, now that I think about it, I bet they'll show us this weekend at our retreat! I'm getting exicited now. I'll repost when it gets loaded to the site.

Yeah, so this weekend we have retreat/camp all weekend! We don't know where we are going but we've got clues. Here's what we know... we meet at 6:30 at the stadium tonight. They take us to a campsite somewhere. And the only other thing we know is that we get to swim, we don't know if it's in a pool or a lake and we don't know where we are staying...Kinda scary!!! To end the weekend on Sunday we are going to the salon to get our hair done. This is going to be a long weekend.



BIG BIG news next week...

bLOom

I told you I would put pictures of the Orchid Jess gave me a year ago, so here you go. It finally finished blooming!






























I bought my secretary an orchid about a month ago and have yet to give it to her. It's too pretty to give away but I will eventually. I need to write her a thank you letter first that I have been procrastinating on writing. Her name is Tami and she's like a mom to me. She's helped me through a lot here at work and in my private life. During my Chiefs tryouts, she was the one to help me fill out my application and to tell me what looks good and what doesn't. She just likes to be involved. So this is my thank you gift to her. Since my orchid was one of my favorite gifts of all time, I decided to get her one too...














The other night I was messing around taking pictures of random things in my house. Jordan was working on his computer in my living room so I snapped his picture. I know this photo is really dark and I should taken it into photoshop to work on the levels but I like it really dark...it's supposed to be that way. I like how you can barely see his face and how you know he's working on a laptop but not being able to really see the laptop.












Big news to come...check back soon...