Summer is nearly over! I'm having trouble believing it, but the days keep going by and I start school on the 23rd of this month. My day spent on campus was very productive. I am now a pre-nursing major and I'll apply for the nursing program this winter. My classes from when I was working towards pharmacy school transferred really well into this track, so I'm nearly done. This year I'll just need Anatomy & Physiology I and II with their labs, Psychology 100, Anthropology 100, and three nursing classes. I was really trying to create a class schedule that will allow me to continue working, and I think I've managed it! I'm taking a nutrition class online, psychology on Thursday night, Anthropology and Anatomy (hopefully!) during the day on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Anatomy's lab on Friday morning from 8:30-11. Right now they are only offering one class section of Anatomy with 100 seats, and it's completely full! But I've emailed the professor and she said I'll be at the top of the waiting list. I really, REALLY need to get in, so I've been checking the website every day to see if any seats have opened up. No luck yet, but I feel like I'll have a good chance here soon. I'll keep everyone updated!
This week.... Sydney's parents came to bring Tucker back home and they brought us a couch! Luckily Matt and Brian were here to help us carry it, because it is seriously heavy. Syd's step dad Tony pulled their Suburban into our front yard and we tried to lift the couch over the railing of the stairs, but it was too big so we had to drop it back down to them. Then Lucie thought to get Brian to pull his truck in our yard instead, and lift the couch from the back of the truck bed. It was a sight to see- me, Matt, and Brian in the back of the truck, hoisting up a couch to Lucie, Tony, Sydney, and her little brother Chris, who were all standing on the front porch. There was lots of grunting, and even more laughing :) Once they got it onto the porch we realized there was NO WAY it was ever going to fit through our front door. Ever. But Tony was dead set on leaving the couch here, so we have new porch furniture! :D
It is so very comfy! It takes up every bit of our porch space, but we couldn't wish for any better reading spot :) And with our roof over hanging the house by at least two feet, I really doubt the couch will get soaked. It will definitely get damp though... good thing it was free!
Also, this week I got a box from grandma in the mail! She sent lots of kitchen supplies, chocolate cupcake mix (yum!!), and a bunch of other nice little things. We were excited to have a new game to play- Yahtzee!
Lucie, Sydney, and Brian. Lucie won :P
You can't tell, but Lucie is sitting on our new piece of living room furniture- the bench that used to be on our front porch! It's great to have because so many people can sit on it and it takes up hardly any room. (and it was free? hahaha. That has become my new favorite reason to like furniture!)
Other news... not much. Sydney and I have been working every day. Lucie has been getting very bored of being home alone. Oh! Lucie has an interview for the paid internship of her dreams for TOMORROW! She is so excited and she is definitely going to get the job :) Think good thoughts for her! She needs this.
Lucie made us a chore chart so we can keep a better handle on house responsibilities. After finding maggots in the corner where we keep our trash can (ew... :( :( :( that was not fun) it was decided that we need to take out our compost can and trash much more often than we had been. This way, we initial boxes when we've taken care of a chore. So far so good :)
Also, we decided to start individually spending $50 a week in groceries that we need/everyone likes. This way we don't have to coordinate grocery shopping where we all three go together. It's better this way because we shop at more than one grocery store- we have Island Naturals for organic health foods, the regular grocery store for cheese and less expensive produce, and Cost-U-Less (a wholesale place like Sams Club!) for buying cereal, rice, shrimp, frozen veggies, etc in bulk. This week we tried it out for the first time and our kitchen is stocked!! We'll try it this way for a few weeks, and if we find that it's too much food we'll spend less. But it's nice to have more options when you look into the fridge, that's for sure :)
Did I mention our fridge is tiny??
That's about it for now. I'm still really enjoying work. I've really gotten into the swing of things, and they trust me enough to run the front that they've left me alone at the store with just one designer quite a few times now. Time goes by so quickly at work! Between answering the phone (completely my job), dealing with customers (also my job) and doing side work (which there is plenty of!) I stay busy all day long. Today my side work was making tuberose leis :) I only got two done! That's how busy I stay. I didn't even take lunch, I ate it on my walk home :P
Now I'm searching the web for a good waterproof book bag.. I'm going to be riding a bike to and from school and work pretty soon, once I find a used bike at a good price here in town, and Hilo is the rainiest city in the United States. Really. Winter is the wet season and Sydney says there will be weeks where it never stops raining and the sun never shows its face. I bought a really nice rain jacket before I came, so I just need a good book bag. I'd like to find another pair or two of shoes that are both water proof and bike-safe, but that can wait. I don't have enough money to shop for things that aren't an absolute necessity right now.
Interesting fact: it doesn't lightning here!! Matt and I went swimming in the ocean right outside of Hilo on Sunday and a storm started coming across the ocean, and he asked if there was a chance of lightning hitting us. Turns out, thunderstorms just don't happen here! I tried to research why online but I didn't come up with much. My guess is that there aren't many cold and warm fronts mixing out here in the Pacific, but who knows!
Love you all-
