6 Months Into 2009.

Wow, so it's been literally almost a whole year since I last posted a blog. I reread my last post and decided that I still agree that 2008 as of then 2008 was turning out to be a great year.

This year has had it's ups and downs.

Last year in July I started working at Wal-Mart and I'm still there. It's not a great job at all; and I don't recommend working there if you can help it. I'm trying to get out of there as soon as I can. At the very least I'm trying to find my "happiest place" so that I can escape work while there.

In two days Shane and I will be celebrating our first anniversary! I can't believe it!

Last week on May 30th my Grandpa Poague passed away. It was so hard, and it still is. It actually seems to be getting harder as the days pass. Shane and I spent the whole week after the 30th in my hometown with my family. My Grandma was the strongest of all of us - I don't know how she does it sometimes. Grandpa was laid to rest in Holdrege, NE. He was 82 years old. I miss him very much. We all do.

In February my Dad's Grandmother passed away as well. I was not able to attend her funeral as it was in Illinois. I'm sad to say that I didn't know her as well as I would have liked. However, by the end she didn't remember very many people; her mind was very tired.

Dan and Sarena's little girl Brooke will turn one year old toward the end of this month. I really cannot believe that! She grew up way too fast because I wasn't able to see her very much during her first year.

In my last post I said that I had watched my little sister turn 16 and start driving. Well, this year she turned 17 (ah!) and a few weekends ago she drove me around on our shopping trip. Mom and Dad bought her a car this year too; a beautiful Impala - purple. She even let me drive it around town a little, ha.

In August of 2008 I got my newest tattoo. It's on my right shoulder - it says "You are my Sunshine." My Mom always used to sing that song to me when I was younger and I knew that it would be a great way to show my love for her - it's permanent, you know. I will also be getting tattoos for my Dad and my sister. My next tattoo, though, will be a cowboy hat with my Grandpa's initials inside it. (He always wore his cowboy hat, wouldn't leave home without it. He was laid to rest with it, too.)

Well, I think that might be all the updates I can think of for now. I will try to post more often - especially if something big happens. I know you're all impatient, ha.

Buh bye for now.

Six Months into 2008.

It's June and so much has happened this year already. I moved to North Platte, I turned 21, I watched my baby sister turn 16 and start driving. Shane's brother graduated from high school. My friend, Sarena, is days away from delivering a little girl, Brooke Allyn. We've had some close calls in our family, but everyone seems to be doing well now. The weather has been crazier than I ever remember: no snow, too much snow, rain, tornado after tornado - wonder how the rest of the summer is going to be.

This month the best thing so far in my life happened. On June 10th Shane and I got married. It was a small ceremony at the Kearney county courthouse in Minden. Just family was there. It went smoothly and it was very nice. My Dad organized a small reception across the street at the Minden Coffee House. There was cake and delicious punch. He got flowers and everything! My Aunt brought a doily that was crocheted by my Great Grandma Poague (I never got to meet her.) She had it her wedding and both Aunt Becky and Aunt Phylliss had it at their weddings. It meant a lot to have that there. After the reception Shane's family and mine went to Kearney and had dinner at Whiskey Creek. Then Shane and I headed home.

When 2008 first started I knew it was going to be a big year for my family. But I didn't realize that so many things were going to happen outside of my family as well! This year is turning out to be one of my favorites.

In October we're still having a reception so I hope everyone can make it then!

Shane and I are going to see The Incredible Hulk tonight; his brother Ben might come with. Tomorrow night I think we're going to go see The Happening.

I started refinishing a dresser that used to be Shane's. It was painted white a long time ago and the paint looked terrible! So I stripped the paint and Shane sanded it. Yesterday I stained the frame and it looks great. Now I just need to do the drawers. I bought new drawer-pulls for it too, I hope it looks like I imagined when it's done!

I Have No Good Title.

Hello all. (Or few.)

I'm still being very lazy when it comes to posting The Blogs (that would make a cool band name... And now! Put your hands together for...THE BLOGS!)

I really haven't been that busy, just lazy. I've recently gone through a huge nesting period. I rearranged the whole house, which didn't take long considering the size of our house. :) The babies, Rowdy and Betty, are now in the computer/storage room in the basement. We now have a table on which we eat our foods (I even bought placemats!) I bought a new bookshelf for the living/dining room. Our old bookshelf now holds our movies and the new bookshelf is rightfully a bookshelf. I'm thinking about taking pictures of the house - the inside - and posting them on here so you can see where I live. It's small so don't laugh. :)

This weekend was very fun. Shane's brother, Ben, (the middle brother in that family) came and spent the weekend with us. He needed help making a short film for his Spanish II class so of course Shane and I helped. We made a silent film about cheating at a game of poker. It stars Ben and Shane. I directed and filmed. And I also found the music to play during the film. It turned out to be great and we're all very proud of it! I put it on YouTube and my MySpace profile. I'll put the link for it at the end of this blog. I hope you'll enjoy it!

I had an interview at ShopKo on Friday for the apparel department. I think the interview went very well, but she (the manager) still had other interviews to give this week, so I should know soon enough if I got the job or not. I really hope I get the job, it'd be nice to work in apparel again, since I know what I'm doing after working forever at WalMart. Ha.

It's almost May. This year has started fast and it's almost half over.

We still don't know exactly what we're doing about the wedding.

Shane's birthday is coming up - May 1st. I'm really excited to give him his present! I think I'm more excited about it now than he will be when he opens it, but we'll see. He'll be pretty darned surprised, for sure.

Anyway, here is the link to YouTube for the film. (Although it is a silent film, it is still best watched with the volume on...for the music.) Let me know what you think about it!

Pelicula Silencioso

In Reply to Shannon's Comment.

We're tired of renting. We figured if we're going to be paying over three hundred dollars a month to live somewhere we might as well be paying off a house. Right?

We're going to be in this area for a long time anyway because of Shane's job and Sutherland is a really nice little town.

A New House?

There's this house for sale in Sutherland. I like it, Shane likes it, and we want it.

That's really all I have to say about it. We went to go see it today and it's really cute inside. It has a huge fenced-in back yard and already has a garden in it...yay! The front yard is surrounded by a chain-link fence which would be taken out and replaced with a better fence if we got the house. There's no basement so that kind of sucks, but one of the three bedrooms will work for storage, if needed.

The kitchen is very nice. So much bigger than ours now.

The best part about it is that there's a water softener!! Yes! :D

Well, It's About Time, Kaylee!

That's what you're all thinking, right?

Things are...things? I'm living in North Platte with Shane. Trying to plan a wedding but there are a few "things" we must hurdle first. I might bring that up later.

I need to get a job. I applied at Shopko the other day. Haven't heard from them yet. There's a cute used book store a few blocks away that I would like to spend time in, working...but I doubt they're looking for help. I'll have to ask next time I'm in. There really aren't many places other than fast food places to work here in North Platte. Ha, I guess I'll have to get a job with the railroad...riiiight.

Shane and I got a new baby this last week. A white four-month old ferret. He was the runt of the group but man, is he playful? We named him Rowdy - because that's exactly what he is.

So far, 2008 has been a happy year. We'll see how it goes from there...

Better go to bed or something.

Goodnight!

Three Hundred Eighty-Three Dollars Later...

I got my car back last night. It's good to have her back, but I'm just worried something else is going to go wrong.

This is Dead Week. And that's exactly how I feel. I have all my papers done and ready to turn in next week. As a result I've been completely lazy. Television, computer, naps...that's all I've done this week! Of course, I'm still going to my classes, but we don't do anything.

Tomorrow night the Advanced Poetry class I'm in is meeting at a bar here in Kearney to read some of our original poetry. I haven't decided what I'm going to read yet, but I'm just excited that tomorrow is our last day of poetry! Yay! Now I'll never be expected to write another poem!

I hope school and life is going well for everybody and good luck with Finals!