really really

I just love him, I really really do.

pdf files

Jake and I worked on my resume and new killer cover letter late Sunday night.

I e-mailed my pdf files early Monday morning.

I got a call Tuesday to set up a time to interview next week.

Sometimes things move quickly!

made together

It has been in the works for quite some time but last week I made the announcement to my co-workers that Jake and I are moving to Minnesota in December. I was the most nervous to tell the students that I work so closely with, I thought I wouldn't cry but I did. They really have been like my family...they had some questions but mostly they asked, What are you going to do without us Anne? Which I love them for saying that.

We have also decided to buy a loft in downtown St. Paul!!!

Currently I am new job obsessed and loft obsessed...I spend hours looking and searching for both.

I sometimes get a little freaked out a little stressed out but most of all I am extremely excited!

I am ready for the change and the adventure but most importantly this next step is the first really big decision Jake and I made together.
WE are ready for the change!

move to turn

You know when you haven't been to the gym in awhile and you just want to look like you fit in?

Jake and I both get onto an eliptical machine and start pushing every button.

How does this thing work? How do you turn this thing on?

Being the proactive, take initiative guy that he is Jake asks the personal trainer/help desk girl.

She tells us that you have to MOVE to turn the machine on.

OH.

save on sim

As I turn to the Global Connection kiosk girl and ask, What is the diagnosis? I already know the answer.

It was dead.

I felt naked, out of touch, and lost.

I looked down at my hand and just held it for awhile.

She asked, Did you save on SIM?

I closed my eyes and said, No.


They were all gone...every telephone number of every hometown friend, every co-worker friend, every college friend and every other person I knew.

I didn't save those numbers on my SIM card, I saved them on my phone. And now my phone is dead.

Why? Why didn't I save on SIM?

Now I have to back track and comb through my files for phone numbers I never even memorized because all I had to do is hit: Amanda or Paige or Katie or Meghan or Home.



Dear friends and family: Please send me your numbers!
I miss you already.

the weekend

These photos from my weekend are in an order all their own.

My friends visit this past weekend meant the world to me.

I didn't want them to go and was secretly fighting back the tears while saying good-bye.

To sum it up we indulged in hours of lounging by my pool, meals at my favorite cafe in Ames, and hours of Sex and the City!

Just another typical weekend in Ames Iowa!

great state

My dear dear friends are braving I35 and heading south, south of the border. Fields of opportunities await them in the great state of Iowa.

main street

That is me, buying a cookie at Wheatsfield Grocery on Main Street in downtown Ames.

Paige and Amanda who are both visiting me this weekend will most likely visit this grocery store.

Just wanted to share that with everyone.

just another

Just another Master's graduation...except it was Jake this time!

summer day

Just hanging out at my Grandma's in Mpls on a hot summer day wearing my favorite red panda skirt and killer blue swimsuit and a hat to keep the sun off my face. Peter's bleach blond hair, little stripped tee and flipped up white hat.

We look cute.


Do you see the butterfly bandaid on his forehead?

On the record player was a song with the line, "there goes my pour meatball" Peter is running around the dining room smacks his head on the corner of the table there was blood my Grandma freaked out but no worries we put the butterfly bandaid on and took this photo.

didn't walk

Over two years ago I graduated and officially became a Master! But I didn't walk in my ceremony.

One could say that I lacked some closure for the whole graudate school, teaching assisantship, wrote more papers in two years than I probably will for the rest of my life experience...

I cannot say that I lack closure anymore because two weeks ago Jake surprised me with a ceremony all to myself!

As I rounded the corner all I could see was my family and friends! I was shocked!


We all gathered in the backyard! There was ceremony with music and a speech and a list of the graduates...just me, of course!


I was officially hooded!


I even had a graduation cake!


The official graduation photos were taken, it was like I hadn't even skipped my ceremony.





I have to say that it was so worth skipping my ceremony to have such an absolutely wonderful surprise two years later!