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!

A Mind of Their Own.

Cars. What do they think? That I'm made of money and can fix every problem they throw at me? No, I can't! So stop breaking!!

Let It Snow!

I woke up this morning to find a beautiful snow falling to the ground. It was one of those snows that you want to capture on film, but it's almost impossible. There was about an inch on the ground and it's still falling. I'm glad it's not a dangerous or icy snow.

Christmas is coming and I'm getting more and more excited. I'm giving Sarena her Christmas present today when I go pick her up for her appointment. I hope she likes it.

To all: A happy snow day!

Christmas Music!

I love it!

I'm having a weird day. It was going alright but then we had to watch Boys Don't Cry for my film class and well...we'll just say that that movie doesn't really make anyone happy.

The semester is winding down at a pretty steady pace. Only eight more days of classes. Fifteen days total until I should be done with finals. I'm pretty excited!

And then...it's Christmas!!

A Word.

Work was slow tonight but it's the kind of work day I needed. Just a slow day to talk to the other cashiers and just walk around and stuff. It was nice.

Looking forward to going to Wilcox tomorrow. And I'm looking forward to watching Heroes!

I've really been missing Shane lately. The weather is getting colder and all I want to do is come home from work and curl up with Shane and watch a movie and then go to sleep. That is all I want and I have to wait a few more weeks!

To all: a good night and a wonderful Monday!

What's That? Hot Pockets?

Jim Gaffigan is funny.

I decided that Shane should be an actor or a comedian. Well, actually...when I first met him I thought he should be one of the two 'cause he was very entertaining in class. But maybe that was just me because I thought he was cute.

Anyway, last night he and I were on the phone and he was doing some Jim Gaffigan jokes and some Demetri Martin jokes, then he did some of his own and made up some weird story to tell me. It was supposed to rhyme...and yeah...it was pretty hilarious. I really emotionally connected to the joke...

Apparently it snowed last night. The only reason I think this is because there is snow on the ground and covering the vehicles in the parking lot. Otherwise I would not have known it had snowed. Strange.

I have to go "dig" my car out later today - sometime after lunch. I have to go to work this afternoon and well, I don't feel like walking there; although, it would probably be easier.

Speaking of lunch...I have no idea what I'm going to eat. I don't want to go to Chartwells again, that stinks. Looks like I'm microwaving soup! My favorite!

Funny Stuff.

Well, it happened again.

I must be the problem.

The End.

Sure A Disappointment.

So we were supposed to get a pretty bad freezing rain storm last night and it was supposed to continue on all day today. We barely have any ice outside! I don't get it! I mean, sure, if you're driving like a crazy person anyway there's a chance you might hit thicker ice and crash. But there's not enough to hurt yourself on if you're driving safely...like you should be anyway.

It's not like I really wanted a huge storm or anything, but...uhg, last night was sooo busy at work because people thought we were going to get an ice storm like we did in Dec/January this year so they were stocking up for the storm. So far as I can tell, they made my night busy for no reason.

I mean sure it could get worse this afternoon or evening...but the radar shows most of the storm is past us and we might not get hit again! I don't know...

Well I have dedicated myself to doing my papers today and I can't lie...so I'm off to do homework on a Saturday morning at 9:10...that's depressing.

To all: A wonderful Saturday! Hopefully the weatherman didn't lie to you!

Nasty Weather & Hockey!

I was planning on going to Wilcox tomorrow to take some stuff there and to just hang out. But we're supposed to get freezing rain all day tomorrow so it looks like I'll be stuck in Kearney. That's okay - I'm going to force myself to start and finish at least two of my final papers! I know I can do it!

My Canucks played last night - against the Blue Jackets. I checked the score this morning. They won - two to zero. That was exciting. Then I checked the NHL standings. The Canucks are ranked 2nd in the western conference! And 5th in the League! We're doing great this year and I'm hoping we actually have a chance at the Cup this year!

To All: A wonderful Hockey season!

Two Weeks Notice.

It's a movie and the title of this blog. Teehee...

Yesterday at work I put in my two weeks notice and I almost cried. I don't want to quit working there. I love working there! I promised Joyce I would come back and visit though.

Soon after I finish this blog I have to start working on my final film paper. I'm doing it on Christian Bale - it'll be easy to stick to the project hehe. Yeah, he's a pretty good looking guy. I'm going to be watching The Machinist this morning. I'm going to be writing about his performance in that movie compared to his performances in The Prestige, Rescue Dawn, Batman, American Psycho, and possibly Reign of Fire.

I should probably get to that. Have a great Thursday!

Oh Boy.

I don't know how I feel today...yet. I have so much stuff on my mind, which right now is a good thing. I'm trying to get everything figured out for this end of this semester. All my final papers and exams and packing moving. I know what I'm doing for my final paper for film class and I'm very excited about it but it's going to take a lot of time and work and I'm a little nervous that I'm not going to make myself do it.

I work tonight and Friday night. And I'm going to Wilcox on Saturday to take stuff there because I don't need it here anymore.

Next Thursday I'm taking Sarena to one of her baby-appointments. Dan has to work that morning so she asked if I could go with her to hold her hand. I was thrilled to be asked and gratefully accepted. I'm glad I get to be there for her.

It seems like after Thanksgiving break everything rushes at you until you fall over. There's only three weeks from tomorrow until the last day of finals week. I can't believe it's going so fast! I don't know if I'll be able to keep up!

I hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday and a great rest of the week!

Baby Blankets.

The blanket I'm crocheting for Dan and Sarena's baby is coming along very nicely. It's soft and cute and everything you look for in a baby blanket.

They think the due date is July 1st. So we still have awhile, but it'll come fast.

I had a weird dream last night. Something about dorm rooms, chumming with professors, and a ghost or something. I have no idea.

Tomorrow I'm putting in my notice for my last day at work. I'm going to be sad to say I have to quit. But I'm going to be more sad on my actual last day. I really do like working there, it's such a great environment and the people are nice. I'll definitely be coming down just to visit work every now and again.

After this week of classes there is only one more "real" week of classes, then Dead week, the finals week starts on the 17th. I can't believe it's almost here! November has gone so fast.

Back.

I'm going back to Kearney today. Back to the good ol' dorm room. Yeah, something like that.

Shane came down last night. It was good to see him again. After this weekend I won't be seeing him untik the weekend before Christmas when we have our little Christmas together. When I get there we're going to go buy decorations for the little tree and then open presents. I think we're going to have a nice sipper together too. I'm looking forward to it.

I had such a good week and weekend being home with my family over Thanksgiving break. This really is close to the last time I will be staying here in Wilcox. I'll be moving in a little over a month. It's a little weird to think about. But a good the-show-must-go-on feeling. If you can understand that. Ha.

To all: a good week and happy Christmas-present shopping!

So Proud.

I'm a little late getting this posted. It is an article from the Kearney Hub by Carol Meyers. I am very proud to say that my mom is the greatest.

Please read My Mom: The Star.

Yup, that's my mama!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! How was the turkey?