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finally there is news about roommates!! well, i don't actually have the news yet. the news is that the news is coming. that's an awful lot of news. the information was put in the mail today, so hopefully it will come tomorrow or saturday. that would be awesome because (you may have heard about this) monday is the 4th of july. no mail. (also no work :)

the reason that no work on the fourth of july (or the day after :) is good is that my grandparents are coming!! they live in south carolina. that is very far away from wisconsin. roughly sixteen hours by car. i know this because my family has driven it straight through more than once. they should arrive anytime this weekend. i'm very excited to see them :D

more exciting work news! (again with the news...) we now have two new goats. very LARGE goats! when they stand on their hind legs, they're taller than me. i didn't know a goat could get that big. none the less, they are. they have big curved horns too. also, one of the little piglets we got the other day is sick :( she is very warm and sleeps all day. she even threw up :( i hope she gets better very soon. its hard to watch her be sick because there's nothing i can do. good thing i'm going to be a nurse because then when i'm around sick people, i will be able to help them :)

so one very exciting thing i'm looking forward to in college is the fact that i'm actually studying things i want to study. in the past, we just took the classes that were required or that we were told to take. (i know there's still required classes in college but they're all centered around what i want to learn) that's the cool thing. i chose to learn about these things. i want to. i love chemistry and biology and cool stuff like that :) i'm taking chemistry this first semester. i'm pretty jazzed about this :)

the suspense is killing me!!

what suspense, you ask? well, i'll tell you. i am anxiously awaiting my roommate assignment. i've never lived with anyone outside of my family, so i'm a little nervous. i mean, i'm not that difficult to live with. i hope. the only thing is i'm not a very tidy person. i like my piles. they grow and shrink over time but i always know what is in them. that's a nice thing about having a really good memory. i see something somewhere. then when i go to look for it, even weeks or months later, i have a vague feeling of where it is. i go and look, and there it sits. it's easy for me to keep track of and easy to maintain. mostly because it requires roughly zero maintenance.

however, some people find this irritating. some people thing that i am messy and don't like the way it looks. i really hope that my roommate doesn't feel this way. or at least doesn't feel the need to try to "fix" my system or help me "organize".

i have received a bit of news though! according to my college's facebook page, my roommate info should be in my mailbox on july 5th or 6th. this means i have at least another week. sad face. :(

something interesting happened at work today!! we got new piglets! we had four pigs who were mostly black with pink stripes across their shoulders. but the new ones are completely white. not even pink. it's a little strange but they're so cute, it makes up for it :) one of them seems to constantly be in the middle of a panic attack. poor thing was laying down and kind of hiccupping. it was almost like little piggie hyperventilating. hopefully she's better tomorrow :)

i hear we'll be keeping the same calves all summer rather than sending them back to their farm in the middle of the summer. this means that they will get rather large. probably almost as large as regular cows. this is a little scary for me. cows are big. the reason for this is that the feed for calves is way cheaper than the milk formula. so we're going to give it a try. they're growing like weeds so i guess i'll see what happens.

so i would just like to quickly say, if you are a returning reader i would really love it if you would click the follow button :)

thoughts on packing

so i am in the process of composing a list of things to bring to college. it's a little more difficult than your average move. when one's family moves to another house, one simply brings everything that they own. there is nothing left behind. however, when packing for college there are plenty of things i will not need. there are also a rather large number of things that i will want/need that never even occurred to me. like nail polish. i love to paint my nails. it is one of those little things that just kind of makes me happy. but i didn't even think about putting it on the list. things like a garbage can and bringing my own coffee cups never even occurred to me. thankfully, my sister is about to be a junior in college, so she thought of all the things i hadn't. she thought of even more because her college is 7 hours away. she can't just jaunt back for a day to have lunch and pick up something she forgot.

it's a little strange to think about all the things i use in a day without even thinking about them.  a lamp. kleenex. a coffeemaker. all things that i use frequently. also all things that i will now have to provide for myself. they seem so insignificant when i have them, but if i didn't, i'm sure they would be significant indeed.

another funny thing about packing for college is trying to figure out exactly how i'm going to get everything on my list (which is truly massive) actually to my dorm room. i don't have much in the way of luggage so i think i'll need to go shopping for totes or something of that nature.

oh yeah, so i'm typing this on my new laptop that my lovely mother bought for me for college :D
i'm enjoying it immensely! now i can watch vlogbrothers videos from the comfort of the couch instead of the hard wooden chair that sits at the computer desk :) the reason this is a significant change for me is that since i have discovered vlogbrothers (a week or two ago) i have decided to go back and watch the archives. for a year they made videos every single weekday. that's alot of videos. that's not even including the other 3 years of videos. i'm enjoying it very much though :)

a fatherly day

ooh for the first time i am blogging from somewhere other than my home computer! no i didn't get a laptop yet. although i am using a laptop :) i happen to be at my grandparent's house making cookies for my dad. why you ask? well, because it's fathers day of course! and what a father's day it has been! it's a sunday, so we went to church. but we didn't go to church where we normally go. we drove to milwaukee to visit a church that i can go to while i'm in college. i really really enjoyed it :) then we went to this crazy resturaunt called organ pipers pizza. we ate a rather delicious hand made pizza while listening to an amazingly complex pipe organ. he played disney music. it was pretty cool :)

according to my college's facebook page, they're having the "roommate meeting" on wednesday. that means i should have my roommate information by friday! i'm very excited about this :D

note to my future roommate if she is reading this: i'm really excited to meet you! hopefully we can be friends, or at least put up with each other ;) and i hope you don't hate purple because it's my favorite color :)

anywho, the dorms there are really nice so i'll have 1-2 roommates and 2-3 suitemates whom i will share a bathroom with. i plan to spend the first couple of weeks of college figuring out who on my floor (or in my building) watch glee. i'm trying to find a purple coffeemaker. i could have sworn i saw one somewhere  online last fall, but now it is nowhere to be found. is there some sort of unwritten rule that coffeemakers can only be made in silver, black, white, and red? if you see one anywhere, would you mind commenting with the link? i would majorly appreciate it! :)

oh yeah! so the cookie making! well i thought for fathers day i should give him the one thing i'm really good at: baked goods :) so my sister and i are making hot chocolate cookies. this was actually made quite difficult because my grandparents do not have any form of electric mixer. turns out mixing by hand takes alot longer...

wait, what month is it?

so i was pretty thoroughly convinced that it was summer. it's june, it was like 90 degrees outside for a bit there, and i'm not in school. i'm beginning to have my doubts though, as the high for today is 63. ah wisconsin :(

i had a pretty good week at work but i'm glad it's the weekend. i actually saw some of my friends this week too! we met up for laser tag (which due to the small number of people (5) it was kind of lame) then we went to a cafe and played an epic game of scrabble. after that we still didn't want to go home even though it was already like 8:30 so we went to a park and played on the playground. while we were there some guy pulled up to the parking lot, got out of his car, and just stood there maybe 100 yds away, watching us. it was very creepy. there was a merry go round though :D those are my favorite! i now have like 5 mosquito bites on my toes but it was worth it :)

i don't believe i mentioned this at all but i went to see pirates of the caribbean 4 a couple weeks ago :) this is a significant event for me because i LOVE pirates of the caribbean :D i own the first three (and fully plan on buying the fourth). something that happened in the movie was particularly funny for my sister (who i went to see it with) and i. if you've seen the movie you know there's a mermaid named serena (if you haven't no big deal it's not really a spoiler or anything). what's really hilarious is my sister's name is serena. the first time they say her name in the movie it's all dramatic and stuff but as soon as he said it we just busted up laughing. but then we couldn't stop giggling because the mermaid even looks a bit like my sister. the people behind us were like shut up it wasn't that funny. but it was to us :)

tonight i am going to my first timber rattler game in 15 years. (baseball if you don't know who they are) my lovely friend hannah's family had an extra ticket :) the last time i went was when my brother won some contest so he got to help announce a game. he was in 5th grade so i was 3 at the time. the only thing i remember really clearly is nearly getting run over by someone dressed in this huge piggly wiggly pig costume. this is ironic because i love pigs and i collect them so my parents were all like look! look at the pig! but i was standing on the stairs and he was walking backwards and nearly knocked me down. this is not the reason i haven't been back in so long, just a coincidence.

so i have discovered something awesome. i know it doesn't really count as discovery if other people already knew about it. and it is possible that i'm the last person to find out about this because it seems like everyone i know already knew. so anyway, the awesomeness i discovered is called charlieissocoollike. he is hilarious (and british :) and i am enjoying his videos very much so you should check it out :)

wow this is getting rather long. ok one more thing. several of my friends have been urging me to watch something called Dr. Horrible's sing along blog. so i finally did. if you haven't seen it but are planning to, you should stop right here. i mean it because i'm about to talk about how it ends. ok here goes: worst ending ever! it was like they ran out of time to write it so they were like let's just kill her off and be done with this. merg :P however i did hear there's a sequel coming so that should be interesting :)

like bumper cars, but not...

so i haven't posted in a bit because i have been either working or too exhausted as my job requires more energy than i'm used to. this is because my job is full time and it's outside. i am the caretaker of the animals at the children's farm in one of the county parks in my city. even though it's tiring, i love it!!

my day usually starts by opening the farm. i feed all the animals, get water for outside, then let them out. once they're all out, i clean out their pens. that sounds like a really terrible job but it's actually not. my lack of sense of smell is very handy at that particular time. when i'm done with barn chores if people are there i go around to the different pens, bringing the animals to the fence so they can pet them.

right now we have two calves (a holstein and a line back); a donkey (full grown) named freida; 4 quickly growing piglets (they gain about 2 pounds a day); 2 lambs; one mama goat and three baby goats (the most adorable thing ever). the goats are a big hit because i can pick them up and bring them over so people can pet them. they make this really adorable bleating sound that is kind of like a baby crying.everyone loves that :)

when i'm done at the farm, usually i spend the rest of the day mowing. it's a rather large park and needs to be maintained. have you ever gone to a park and seen how it's mostly just grass that looks nice and is mowed to perfection? yeah, it doesn't get that way by itself. i know it was only my first week but i am really terrible at driving a john deere mower. if i don't push the pedal down hard enough the whole mower deck starts to bounce and then it freaks me out so i just have to stop completely. it's kind of embarrassing. i'm so high up that if it's hilly i sometimes feel like i'm falling off a cliff. there is another kind of mower which i very much prefer. i believe it's called a zero turn mower. it doesn't have a traditional steering wheel. instead it has 2 levers that control speed and direction. yeah that sounds kind of silly so here's a picture -->
that's not the actual mower we have, just an example i found on google images.

i enjoy mowing even when i don't have my ipod. it's very relaxed. they just tell me what areas to mow and let me loose. i also just kind of enjoy driving this kind of mower :) it reminds me of bumper cars as a kid. (the ones we used to go to had the same kind of controls.) i'm definitely NOT trying to hit things with this mower. i'm trying very hard to avoid hitting things.

so yeah that's my job. there's always a lunch somewhere in there too. it's  a little strange because the majority of my coworkers are college guys, the youngest of which is like 2 years older than me. so they don't really talk to me. there's only one other girl but she's nice :)

i think this is going to be an excellent summer. i actually prefer going to work to lazing around at home all summer. plus, i'm making an excellent wage :D