The last day of 2004

So I decided to take a break from packing and write a quick blog. Mainly, because one, I'm sick of packing, and two, Kendrick has been on my case about not writing any more posts.

So Wednesday was my bachlorette party. It was a lot of fun to just hang out with the girls. The hotel room was big, perfect for the games we played and the pool was a lot of fun also! We didn't stay up as late as the guys but I bet we had a better time! :)

Now Josh and I are packing up his large apartment to move into our shoebox. Hopefully all of our stuff will fit into our apartment and storage area. Tomorrow is my bridal shower so I'm sure I'll be bringing home a lot of new things that need to fit into our apartment.

Well I guess that's all for now. Lunch time. Then back to the packing. Maybe we'll take a break to welcome in the New Year.

My last blog from CSS

This will be my last blog written from my desk in room 135 of Cedar Hall, The College of St. Scholastica. It is a sad day...

Tomorrow at noon I will be moving out and checking out with my RA. That is, if I finish my statistics final by then.

My room is starting to look pretty empty. I have my bedding, and computer. But my roomates crap sprawled across the floor makes up for my lack of crap. Which is why it's only starting to look empty.

There probably won't be too many blogs between now and Christmas. Its hard to get computer time at my house. When I go to Josh's lab or his house I will try to write something to let you all know I'm alive. (Although the only people that read this are family and hopefully they will realize I'm alive when I'm sitting across from them at the dinner table).

So this is all for now. The last blog from my desk at CSS.

Graduation

I've been looking forward to graduating from college since my first day at St. Scholastica. Not because I wanted to be done, but because it was such a big deal. Graduation always seemed so distant, one of those "life goals" teachers are always telling you to make in elementary school. Its always been a life goal of mine, but it snuck up on me faster than I thought it would.

I am sad to be leaving the small community of St.Scholastica. I am sad to leave my friends. I never thought I would be so sad to leave undergrad school. I never realized how much this school really meant to me. The past years were not the easiest years of my life with schoolwork and social situations. Often times the only thing that would get me through was the thought of graduation and receiving a degree. However, now that I have graduated, I want to stay here, where I am comfortable. How backwards is that.

Today was an overwhelming day. The ceremony itself was very nice. It was even nice to know that a fellow classmate worked extra hard to have our programs indicate who graduated with honors and highest honors. I was touched by the people who came to support me, including my mom and dad, sister, roomate, fiance, and future inlaws. It really meant a lot to have all of them here.

Now that I've graduated I don't really know what to do. Honestly I feel a little lost. I am also excited to venture out on a new path one that includes marriage, a family, and dental school. I am sad to know that I can never go back to these days of undergraduate school. To my years as a scared freshman or a confidant junior.

I want to thank everyone for their support and confidance in me. So many people helped me through bad tests, bad professors, and bad weeks. So thank you.


I did it!!

Some new material of my own

So after getting on Kendrick's back to write something new Emily starts ragging on me to write something new. But the problem is nothing happens here. I could tell you about everything that goes on in my love life. But there's nothing going on. He's in St. Louis Park, I'm in Duluth, remember??? And I don't give him the run around. Once we get married I'll probably have some good material. So you'll just have to hang on until then.

So lately I've been stressed about the wedding. Molly and Melinda's dresses were suppose to have a ship date of December 10 and be in by December 14. Well its December 16 and they're not in. So I'm a little stressed. They say they'll be in before Christmas and they better be, because after Christmas I will go psycho on those Picture Perfect Bridal people. Picture Perfect my butt, the girls aren't going to have anything to wear. And they still need to get alterations. Maria and Anna's dresses aren't done being altered yet. They've been getting altered for a long time. And when my mom called, no on answered. She probably when back to her native country for Christmas. We probably won't hear from her again.

Emily and Theresa, do you know the status on your dresses? Michelle Briggs, Alan's mom is altering them. I need to have my last bridesmaid Brittany pick her dress up and we will see if Alan's mom can alter it, and do the little bra thing to it also. But we can skip the lecture.

O, and my mom needs to get her dress altered too. I just hope everything gets figured out soon and done before February 5th.

Once the dress situation is figured out, then I will relax a little bit. Ok probably not, then I'll get hyped up on something else, food, alchohol, a snowstorm on the 5th.

kids say the darndest things

Two blogs in one day??? wow what that must be a record for me. But here I am, posting again, only 5 hours since my last post. But I don't have anything better to do as I wait for Josh to culture his cells.

So Josh and I just got done with NFP (natural family planning) Today we learned about ecological breastfeeding. If you do it correctly you can extend your infertilit for 2 years! Isn't that crazy? Now I don't necessarily want to space my kids 2 years a part, but the talk of spacing kids led Josh and I to a real discussion on how many kids we want, when we want to start, and how we might space them. We've talked about it before so it wasn't anything special of a conversation however towards the end of the conversation I was saying how I would love a little girl, and how Josh would love having a girl, cause then it could be a "daddy's girl" (like me) and he surprised me when he said that actually he really wants a boy. He said that seeing and playing with Caine at my house and Anthony (his brother) talking about his son Zach (Zack? how are you spelling it Heather?) really made him excited to have his own son. It was so cute.

Since I've known Josh he's always wanted a family, but it wasn't the first thing on his mind. He definetly wants to wait a couple of years to have kids once we get married, especially since we will both be in very demanding schooling situations, however its finally starting to become more of realistic thing to both of us!

I knew bringing Josh around my family a lot would help to adjust him to the craziness of kids. It was all in the plan. At first we would stay a few hours, then he spent the night. At first he would beg to leave each evening. He would always tell me I'm so glad we don't have kids, they are so much easier to deal with when you know you can get rid of them at the end of the day. We've slowly increased the amount of running time that he spends in my crazy house. He's spent entire weekends with my family and hasn't needed electroshock therapy, yet.... (electroshock therapy seems to be the new trend at my house)

Graduation etc.

I have been so busy with classes and the wedding that didn't realize I was graduating in ONE week. Just yesterday it hit me, and let me tell you, I freaked out. (you can get verification from Josh or anyone that was home yesterday evening). Not only do I have wedding stuff to do up the wazoo, but I have to finish my classes so that I can walk on Saturday. I have one final paper to write, and four finals. Three which are on Friday,the first day of finals at 8, 10, and 12. Yup, back to back. And may I mention that classes go until Thursday so that doesn't leave much time for final studying, who made this schedule anyways??

The worst thing about St. Scholastica is that I graduate on Saturday and still have a final to take on Monday! How backwards is that? I even asked my professor if I could take it early and she said no. CSS has a strict policy on taking finals early, otherwise everyone would take them early and get out of town. I don't see the harm in this, especially for a senior who graduates before finals are done.

I also have to pack my entire room and move back home, and for all of you who have helped to move me, there's a lot of crap to move. I hate moving. I have to move home for a month and then move again to my new apartment, if we get in. As of right now we are still on the waiting list. My plan is that we will get to move in to our new apartment on the 1st of January. For all the lucky ladies out there, that is the day of my bridal shower, which means the boys are free to move all of our crap to our new place. Unfortunately my dad is out of order, so Matt, I think you'll have to step in to take his place.

So I have to know, how does everybody have time to read blogs and respond to others? My mom does it very late at night, but what about the rest of you? I barely have enough time to eat dinner each day! I mean look at what time I'm posting, 7:40am on a Saturday. That's sick. What's even sicker, is that I've been up since 6:30 doing my laundry and playing with Caine. On a Saturday.

I think my laundry is done. Which means its time to wake Josh up and tell him everything he has to do today.

So I don't think anyone reads Josh's blog except for me. So someone please read his.

jandersland.blogspot.com

2 months and counting

So the wedding is less than two months away. And there is still so much to do. Well I guess there isn't so much to do but so much to pay for still. Its unbelieveable how much weddings cost these days. I know our wedding is big, but that doesn't matter because that only affects the food costs and I'm not even talking about food when I say that weddings cost a lot of money. Our wedding isn't going to be elaborate, we're not spending tons of money on wedding favors, my dress was pretty cheap, we're hardly having any flowers,so what is costing so much? I would really like to know that.

This past weekend my friends threw me a surprise bridal shower. I honestly had no idea until just a few days before when someone accidentally blabbed about it because she thought it was a couple of weeks ago and she emailed to say she was sorry she couldn't come. But even then it didn't really click. So anyway, the shower was great. I was very touched that my friends put all of the effort into the planning and it was so neat to have everyone there. Everyone there made me a scrapbook page with pictures of me and Josh or of me and that person that I can add to my scrapbook.

So now I have all of this great stuff for our house, that I can't really use now, but soon I will. Our new aparmtment is so small though, I don't know where we're going to put all of our gifts. We didn't register for too much stuff, because we knew we wouldn't have room for it. I don't think we'll have room in our kitchen for an extra set of dish cloths and towels!!

Now the countdown really begins. Graduation, then Christmas. New Years, a bridal shower, and my birthday. Another shower, our last NFP class, and then the wedding. There is so much to do between now and the wedding. Making payments, trying to finish school, putting the finishing touches on everything for the wedding. Time is gonna fly!

Dr.Gina Andersland D.D.S.

Well it's official. I am accepted to dental school. I'm excited but it still seems so far away. Maybe when I get my official letter, by certified mail, it will seem more real. I still have to get married first and become an Andersland before I can become Dr. Andersland.

And then I get those letters after my name, that is cool. D.D.S. It just makes me sound powerful. And the meaning is even better. Doctor of dental surgery. Thats right, surgery. Hehehehe. (evil laugh)

If I hear one more time that dentists have the highest suicide rate I think I'll shoot myself.
Seriously, every person I tell that I'm going to be a dentist tells me that fact. Do they want me to commit suicide? Then why are they telling me that? Seriously though, being a dentist is stressful. Not only do you run your own business but you have to look in people's mouths all day. And like 95% of your patients absolutely despise you.

No one hates that garbage man. People even get excited on garbage day because they come and haul away your crap. I think I'll change my career.

existance

I said I would never get a blogspot. When I got a blogspot I said I would never be philosophical. My brother Matt (mbnovak.blogspot.com) is the philosophical one of the family and I feel way inferior when I even attempt to be philosophical. However, I am going to be philosophical for one blog.

I am writing as gina andersland. However, gina andersland does not exist yet. Therefore do these blogs exist?

I have come to realize that the only thing that makes a philosopher a philosopher is the fact that they end all paragraphs with unanswered questions. So now that I ended my paragraphs with quesitons do I feel like a philospher?

invites invites invites

Well I am staying true to my previous blog and writing about the wedding plans. This past week Josh and I wrote out invitations. What a job! If you ever get married go straight to your grandparents for addresses. Or better yet, don't be the first one in your family to get married and use your older sibling's guest list. Josh's brother got married a few years ago, but his family likes to move, so his list was not very up to date. However, it was much more up to date than my family. For example, we have invited my cousing Jodi to at least three graduation parties in the last four years and not one of the invites has gone to her current address, but have we updated our list? Nope, we keep sending it to the wrong address, and well surprise surprise we get it back with a nice red stamp that reads "return to sender."

Joined the bandwagon

I never have anything to write about but everyone else in my family has a blog spot so I felt I needed one. Don't expect anything spectacular. It'll probably be all about the wedding since that is all that's going on in my life.