A long overdue update

So I've been ultra busy this week - sorry for not updating sooner.

Last weekend (after my last post) I started my new job at Grand River Cellars. I worked 22 hours over Friday and Saturday and pretty decent tips. It's a great place to work, and I really love the environment and my co-workers. I don't think I could have asked for a better weekend job.

After work on Saturday evening, I went over to my friend Draque's and hung out there with some people from Case Western. Watched re-runs of old shows that used to be on Nickelodeon. It seems they have a special channel devoted to games and sports - amusingly called Nickelodeon GaS. I wonder where the hosts of those shows are today? What fun. We had a blast making snide (surely not me or my crowd I hear you say) commentary. Richard Simmons was on one episode of Figure it Out - it seems the host, Summer Sanders, is an Olympic gold medalist swimmer, and has a daughter named Skye (my sister's name) - and his only reason for being there was to get "slimed." Honestly - the "secret slime action" was "Sweats to the Oldies." Who else do you know that does that?

Earlier this past week Danielle came out to Cleveland and helped me look at apartments in the Cleveland Heights/Shaker area. I've got it narrowed down to a few of them. It all depends on whether or not I'll have Hannah as a roommate. In that case we'll have a 2-bedroom flat, otherwise I'm just going to get something with 1-bedroom for myself. I'm hoping to move as of October 1, but may push that back to November 1 depending on how things work out. I'm really excited about moving up to that area of Cleveland. It's amazingly nice, and near to my friends who are out in this part of Ohio.

Thursday I drove out to my grandparents' house and then up "North" with my grandpa to the cabin he and my grandma own near Big Rapids. We've been going up there for as long as I can remember as a family, though in the past 5-6 years have not - because of this the place is in need of some repairs, and I went with him to help him start replacing the roof. We didn't get much done, but got started at least, and it was better yet to be able to spend some time with him. I'm looking forward to when everything is ready with the place, then as Joey (the nephew) gets older we can take him up there, and perhaps someday my grandparents will give in to my pestering and let me have some of my friends up for a long weekend!

An aunt and uncle have their own cabin two lots over - the center lot was owned by an older couple, Morris and Iown, who both passed away a number of years ago, their cabin was purchased by cousins and has since been taken down and the lot is still empty. It's one of those pre-made homes, and is very nice. They replaced their old cabin a few years ago with the newer one, and now that both of them are retired they spend quite a bit of time there. Lindsay, Danielle, and I went up last year and stayed with them over Labor Day weekend I think. We had a great time.

Speaking of Labor Day, that's coming up next weekend I believe. That means it'll be a short week for my first week of work at CTPartners - I start tomorrow morning. I am incredibly excited and can't wait to go. It's kind of like going to the first day of school when you were a kid. I'm really looking forward to having a job that I can enjoy - presumably, since as of right now I've not had any experience doing whatever it is I'll be doing, though I'm sure it'll be better than recruiting nurses!

That about covers things for the time being. I'll make an entry tomorrow to detail my first day as a Search Desk Administrator! ^^