rain rain...

SERIOUSLY RAIN! GET OUT OF MY FACE! It honestly has rained all but two days for the past two weeks, and the forecast calls for more rain until Friday! Disgusting... doesn't mother nature know this is my favorite time to golf?! I've only played one round all year... cut me some slack! But with the rain came a new discovery this past week... Apparently the weather seal along my car decided it no longer wants to be efficient at preventing water from entering my vehicle. I ran in to Meijer's the other day and came out to notice a waterfall happening right in the middle of my roof. Along the car ride home, I discovered more leaking happening along the door! I should look at it on the bright side though... I have my own mobile swimming pool!


Last week Target offered a free health screening to all of it's team members. I signed up for my slot, only because I heard there was free food attached to the deal. The process took about 10 minutes, and all they needed to do was prick your finger and get some blood. They put your blood on this little tray and inserted into this machine and it would calculate all kinds of different interesting numbers. When my results came out, I was expecting to just be average... middle of the pack type stuff. I don't really eat super healthy... not too many fruits and hardly any vegetables, so when my numbers came out I was pretty shocked. She said my numbers were phenomenal for my age, and that if I just maintained my eating habits that I would be healthy for a long time. Kind of funny, since my diet often consists of mom's cookies and junk food... but I'll take it!

Last Saturday and friend from work and I went to the zoo on opening day. It was the first nice day in a few weeks, and not a more perfect day to open the zoo for the year. The place was packed, and it took quit a while to even get in to the park. Once we did, we made our way around the park. It's been probably a good 4 years since the last time I have been to the zoo, so there was a lot of new and exciting things I haven't seen before. The African exhibit has expanded big time. They added this cool sky lift ride where you get to go above the entire African area and see all the fun animals. (You can see the chords that support the ride behind the lion in the picture) They don't take you over any scary animals like the lions or tigers, but it's still really neat. A lot of the animals weren't out yet, since it still was pretty "chilly" out. The giraffe's were probably the coolest, and for the low price of a dollar you could feed them lettuce. They have this fun little platform that you stand on, and the giraffes will just come right up to it and take it out of your hand. It's so crazy to see some of these animals so close!

I really should probably appreciate the zoo a little more than I did. Apparently we have one of the top children's zoo in the nation! Who knew?

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So... how are you guys? Good? Ahem... yeah, this is a little awkward. Yeah yeah yeah... SHUT UP! I know I sucked it up with that whole "GET FIT!!! ARGH!!!!!" blog, but oh well. I'm still avoiding soda and fast food, so that's a bonus! Right?! Well, I'll keep telling myself that... So I decided to transform this into a traditional "blog" instead of a themed blog that I've had in the past. Weird, right? How interesting can a 21-year-old life be? I know I'm not married or have any kids like the stander blogger blogs about, but we'll see how this turns out. If there aren't any posts for weeks, just assume that absolutely nothing has happened... :)

Last weekend we had the chance to go up to Columbus to spend the weekend celebrating Owen's first birthday. Let me tell you, I put together the best looking cracker tray I've EVER seen! Catering companies have actually already been in contact with me to come to weddings and graduation parties to put together cracker trays. It's a tough life I live, I tell ya... But the kid is so stinking cute! I seriously want to eat him up every time I see him! The weekend was too short though, and it seemed like we left just as fast as we came. Thanks to Marnie though for being such a good host! It is so much fun being so close to family and to have the chance to see them so often. I'm pretty sure it's your turn to come see us now Goates' family! We've been there the past two times, now it's your turn to come see us!

Yesterday I figured I would use my manly ways and be a handyman around the house. As some of you may know, the bathroom fan in the main bathroom has seen better days, and recently sounded like a Boeing 747 taking off any time you turned it on. I headed off to Lowe's having no idea what I was doing, but I pretending like I knew what I was shopping for. Who knew that bathroom fans came in so many shapes and sizes? I just picked up a pretty decent looking one off the shelf and figured it was going to just slide in... hah! My fan was the wrong size, so I took it back and Eric picked one up from Menards. The installation process was a PAIN! We had to go from the top, which required climbing in the attic above the craft room and laying on 2x4's while hammering out the old one. The nails they used to secure it were all mangled so just pulling them out wasn't an option. After about 3 hours of rough manliness, we managed to get the new one up there. There's still some "work" to be done, but at least we have a bathroom fan!

You better step ya game up mom! I'm going to be writing about all this stuff that you planned on blogging about!