Finally!!

Hell week has officially ended as of 8:35 am this morning when I handed in our keys to the old apartment. You have no idea how much of a huge relief it truly is. I spent all week cleaning, packing moving and even painting. Yesterday I spent 11 hours over there finishing up the final coats of paint and doing the final wipe down of everything and I mean everything. All the window screens and window tracks had to be scrubbed, all light fixtures had to be taken down and cleaned, and even every spot on the wall either needed to be painted or erased. It was horrible. I have never had such a miserable week in my life. Even worse than finals. I mean it was a huge apartment of over 1900 square feet with 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and there was only 2.5 of us there to clean. I mean .5 of a person because Lisa either was at work, hanging out with friends or ditched and went to Fresno for the week leaving Elise and I to do most of the work. And the other two roomates are in Brazil and Florida. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. It may take me a while to get over all this frustration.

On a lighter note I love my new management and apartment. It is an older complex built in the 50's but it definitely has its quirks and flaws like the fact that the air conditioning is a wall unit and only seems to cool down Lisa's bedroo

m, and there is no circulation in the kitchen. But apart from that it is nice and small and cute with white cabinets, gas range stove and new carpets. I also really like the management

. They are so sweet, and even called me to inform me that all my repairs had been done and fixed and wanted to know if there was anything else they could do. Plus the amenities are amazing. Free cable, internet, wi-fi around the beautiful almost lap size pool, game room fitted with air hockey and a billiard table, internet cafe with wi-fi and coffee, free faxing, printing, 24 hour fitness room (which is awesome) and even a concierge service!

I will be sure to post pictures of the new place soon once all the boxes and stuff have been neatly placed into theer proper location. But for now here is a picture of some of the complex.

Hell Week

The time has finally arrived.

Monday I received the keys to my new apartment. I spent all day moving my massive amount of stuff over to the new place. I even blew out my knee and have been gimping around all week.

Tuesday I drove all over Sacramento area hunting down paint because it has to be custom color from Sherwin-Williams. Then come to find out that my apartment complex had bought out all the paint in the area and in order to obtain some I would have to order it and it wouldn't come in till today. Plus it would cost me a small fortune of $30 a gallon and we would need at least 3 to paint all the walls.

Wednesday I tried moving the remaining stuff and try to clean but Elise's stuff was strewn about the entire apartment and was only able to prime the walls of my room.

Then yesterday I spent 10 hours cleaning, painting the place by myself until Lisa came back. I even had to fix my vacuum cleaner. One of the belts had broke and needed to be replaced and one of Elise's clothes pins had jammed the hose and caused a huge clog that I had to remove and ended up cutting my finger on it. Good thing I had my Tetanus booster recently because it is 50% fatal. Unfortunately we still have lots more to detail clean and all the walls to paint.

It will be all over soon and I will then be able to enjoy all the luxurious amenities of the new apartment and get back to a daily routine.

Came and Gone

So this past weekend I went down to So Cal to hang out for the weekend. Originally my only plans had been to spend quality time with my Dad. Instead I had more fun then I would have ever imagined.

Friday- Went to Disney Land with my Aunt, Uncle and Cousins. We stayed all day till closing at midnight. We also had dinner with my Grandparents who live in Orange.

Saturday- Breakfast with the family. Settlers with Bryson and his roommates, and I dominated the first game. Then good old thrift store shopping for a sweet get up. Dinner with Kristiana and Felisha. It was crazy as usual.

Sunday- Quality time with Dad. We went out to breakfast, our weekend morning tradition. Then Felisha joined us to Redlands to see the plane my dad and uncle have been rebuilding over the last two years. Then consumed way too much beer. First we went to lunch and my dad insisted on ordering a pitcher of Hanger 49 Orange Wheat. Which is really good, its like a Blue Moon with oranges. Then after seeing the plane we went to the brewery across the street from the airport and my dad bought us the sampler. Which is about 6 4oz glasses of each of the beers they brew. Then to top it all off we went back home and played War Craft 3. I have to say I have to coolest dad ever.

http://www.hangar24brewery.com/currentofferings.htm

Now that I have come back to Davis there has been lots of drama with roommates. Different situation predictable outcomes.

6 more days till I move out.

Ahhhh So much to do just a little freaked out.

In 11 days I will be getting the keys to my new apartment. I am very excited to move to a nice new location. As I was packing to go to Riverside for the weekend. I started looking around and realizing I haven't even come close to start packing. There are so many large and small items that need to be stored, trashed, donated and moved. I have this feeling that I am going to forget so many things and what I plan on taking at the most two days to move will take me all week. Then I won't be able to sleep because there are so many things that have to be cleaned and painted. I am starting to feel a little overwhelmed. Not to mention all the little things that have to be done such as: change of address cards for not only me but Chelsea and Renee that need to be sent in, setting up PG&E and Comcast in the new apartment. Then there is the whole furniture and kitchen ware situation ...we have none. This month is going to cost me a small fortune and my bank account is running on empty.

Man oh man somehow I am going to get through. I just might be a little crazy and on the edge until then.

Idiot!!!

I am such a complete air head sometimes. I have no idea what was going through my brain yesterday afternoon. Maybe I was in a rush to leave. Anyways. I spent three hours yesterday doing this reaction and the last and final step was to place the e.coli I had just created on an agar plate and then put it in the incubator. Today when I went to get the plates from the incubator they were no where to be found. Ding Ding Ding. I never put them in the incubator!! Ahh to my idiotic frustration I found them on the bench top where I had left them yesterday. Now I have to redo the entire reaction and make more agar plates and hope not to have another mess in the microwave.

Stupid,stupid stupid.

Explosion!!

Today at work I had to make agar plates. For those of you who do not know what agar is, it is a gelatin like substance that is placed inside plastic petri dishes used to grow bacteria. In order to make these plates bottles of agar (gelatin stuff) has to be melted and poured. The process is a lot trickier than just microwaving it. You have to set the power level really low so it does not burn and explode. While in the process of melting I was working on another experiment and left the microwave unattended. I came back to find the entire contents of my bottle oozing all over the microwave.

It exploded and made a huge mess. I had to spend the next 10 minutes cleaning up the smelly oozing agar from the inside of the microwave.

Needless to say, I learned my lesson. Never, ever walk away from the microwave when melting agar.

The Case of the Missing Ladder

One summer morning I awoke from my slumber to banging noises outside my window. I didn't hear anyone come into my apartment so I fell back asleep. On the way out the door to work I noticed that Renee's Grandfathers ladder was missing. That noise I heard was someone stealing the ladder. In hopes that it was her Grandfather who had come to pick it up I did not think otherwise. A week or so had gone by and still I had not been able to get a hold of Renee. Then when I finally did she did not remember asking her grandpa to come pick it up. In rage I alerted Elise and we decided to go ask Management. After consulting with the management we got a hold of maintenance and it seemed that they had mistaken the ladder for one of their own. They had indeed removed it from our patio that morning. The ladder was returned.

Case Closed

14 days left and counting at FC #31

Sanity

Dum De Dum...

Top 10 Things that keep me sane..

1)Horseback ridding

2)Running

3) Long Drives

4) Nature

5)Friends

6) Music

7) Reading

8)Sleep

9)Fellowship

10)Chocholate

Man without these I would be misserable.

This weekend I went down to my Ohma's. Then drove down to Fresno to have lunch with my Parents because they moved my sis back into the dorm. Then I got to visit with my 89 year old Great Grandma. She is so funny and adorable. Then this morning I rode Majestic. I have been able to ride him a lot lately we are starting to get in the grove of communication these days. Also the more treats I feed him, the better he seems to be. Silly horse.

Half Dome

It has been a long time since I have updated my blog. The past week has been so busy. I spent last weekend in San Jose with my aunt and Grandma Pat. Then Wednesday and Thursday I hung out with my friend Bryson. Finished it all off with a midnight hike up to the top of Half Dome Mountain in Yosemite to watch the sun rise.

OK this hike was quite the challenge about 10 of us decide it was a brilliant idea to hike up the mountain at 11 pm Saturday to watch the sunrise. It was awesome. All of us sleep deprived

scoundrels made the 8.4 mile over 4,800 foot elevation gain to reach the top of this great beast. We finally made it

to the top around 4:30 am

and were able to see this breath taking view as we freeze our asses off at the top. The coolest part of the trail was climbing up the cables to get to the top in the dark. Then we spent about an hour or so hanging out at the top and finally made our descent.

The best part about the whole experience was how accomplishing

it felt to have made it all the way up. On the way down we passed so many people heading up to half dome and couldn't believe we had made it to the top, let alone left at night and didn't sleep to be able to see the sunrise. Once we got to the bottom of the trail we see all the families and old people and they were dying just getting to vernal falls which is only about a mile and a half or so up the trail. Yep we certainly kicked ass.