Hi everyone!
I have a job for the fall/spring semesters!!
I called 2Fix* (the IT dept. @ BVU) yesterday, and they said they'd contact me when the move in dates are!
(2Fix requires all new employees to move in at least week early for training)
*Some info about 2Fix:
Basically 2Fix is the dept. that repairs/maintains anything that uses electricity, whether its computers, phones, TVs, or projectors.
They offer around 15 hours a week (but are flexible to your schedule), and possibly even 40 hours during the summer with free rooms.
:D
That's all, its raining outside, have good weekend everybody! :)
Friday, July 10, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Happy Anniversary wishes
Happy Anniversary to Bret and Anne. I hope they had a wonderful day enjoying their anniversary. A toast to them!
Well the 4th of July is here and gone, Philomena has been up to camp at Schoenstatt, since last Sunday. We pick her up tomorrow night. Things are pretty quiet around here without her bouncing around. I missed her wit and smiles.
My next mpa class starts on Friday, the professor has assigned a lot of reading material for us to go over and discuss. It is about business ethics.
I am slowly getting the boundary water trip organized. We leave at the end of the month. That will be a lot of fun.
Matthew will be doing his Eagle project for Boy Scouts next week, He is constructing a bat house at the outdoor classroom at the Clear Creek School in Clear Lake.
Matthew registered for college last week.
Mary is at Camp Tanglefoot working.
Stephen is enjoying riding his bike around the circle and up to the stop sign. He does like to go fast.
I enjoyed seeing some of Marie's pictures from her DC trip that she posted.
I think it is really neat the Alicia picked a college in a location that does not have snow in the winter time and she gets to play soccer! Way to go Alicia!
It will not be long before we will have 3 out of the house. I am just hoping our water bill will reflect that reduction!
We have been fortunate on the weather enjoying some cool days and nights. The A/C has not been turned on for a couple of weeks.
I hope everybody has a good week, you are all in our thoughts and prayers.
Posted by Randy
Thursday, June 25, 2009
belated birthday salutations!
Another set of birthday salutations, except they are of the belated kind.
Happy belated birthday wishes to Melissa, I hope you had a nice birthday, your birthday kind of snuck up on me, I did not see it coming (notice a little short humor interjected there) :-)
Happy belated birthday wishes to Connie, Caroline's youngest sister, I believe they celebrated her birthday earlier than the scheduled brithday date.
I hope cake was eaten by all.
I have been looking through all of my records and for some reason I am having some difficulty trying to find their true ages for these birthday girls?
Now that June is almost behind me and my training is just about winding down I need to begin preparing for the boundary water's trip at the end of July! That will be fun since I missed the St Criox canoe trip this year.
We have the A/C on which makes the house nice. Daniel helped me clean the central air unit again this year. The outside coils and fins of the unit gets dirty and by cleaning them every year it lengthens the the life span of the compressor and A/C unit.
Stephen got his upper braces on today, he chose green for his color of his bands. He is slowly learning how to ride his bike.
that is all for now
Posted by Randy
Sunday, June 21, 2009
father's day blog
Happy Father's day to all the Dad's out there.
I had to work so that was my enjoyment for the day.
Sarah grilled brats for Supper, those were good
Right now Sarah is at Mason City playing in the municipal band, and Matthew, Daniel, Philomena and Mary are at a movie, so it is just myself, Caroline and Stephen at home.
I am enjoying the peace and quietness of the house, just the hummmmmm of the central A/C.
Another 2 days of training in Des Moines starting on Tuesday. After that things will get back to semi normal.
my presentation went well last Saturday for my MPA course, now I have to write up a report for my final project and that is one course in the bag! A group of 5 of us are collaborating on the final project. We will submit our reports and one person volunteered to collate them together.
Have a good week!
posted by Randy
Monday, June 15, 2009
June is half over!
Sarah has two interviews this week! Tuesday afternoon she has a general music and 5th grade band job interview with the Tripoli school district. Tripoli is SE of Charles City and NE of Waverly. Wednesday morning she has a 2nd-5th general music and 5th-12th grade instrumental music job interview in Bedford. Bedford is SW of Des Moines down by the Missouri border. Say a prayer for her.
Mary is at Camp Tanglefoot. The campers came today, before it was just the training part with all the other counselors. Mary is the Craft Director this year. She feels really old because one of the new junior counselors is someone Mary used to babysit. Mary was home yesterday for a day off and to do some laundry, but she forgot to take back her deodorant. Randy had to drop it off at camp for her.
Matthew made the front page of the Mason City Sunday Globe-Gazette yesterday. You can view the story at http://www.globegazette.com/frontpage_history/pdfs/2009_06_14.pdf . There is also a video online of Matthew and Daniel at http://www.globegazette.com/shared-content/search/index.php?search=go&l=20&s=recent&r=&d1=06/01/09&d2=06/15/09&q=how%20to%20fold%20a%20flag folding a flag. The multimedia box is on the near right side part way down the page, scroll down the video list until you come to "How to fold a United States Flag". It is right after "lawn mower maintenance".
Daniel and Matthew are both going canoeing on the St. Croix River this Thur.-Sat. with the Boy Scout troop. Randy doesn't get to go because he has a class. Daniel is still working at Fareway, loading groceries, often in the rain. Matthew still works there too and has been sleeping in since the new Assistant Manager isn't scheduling him for the 5:00 am shift unloading the truck.
Matthew received a couple of local scholarships he applied for: the Knights of Columbus gave him $250 and the Clear Lake Friends of the Library gave him $300. The library was a brand new scholarship and Matthew had to write an essay for it. Matthew will also receive a Conservation Officer Association scholarship for $500. All that money adds up and helps him pay for college! Mom is happy!
Philomena went to an aviation camp on Sat. at the Mason City Airport. There was a ground school for a couple of hours and then they got to go up in an airplane for a quick flight around Clear Lake. It so happened that Philomena got to ride in Msgr. Hemann's plane! She really enjoyed it and wasn't too scared about it. Philomena is also doing activities at the library this summer. Tomorrow they learn how to make balloon animals and Thur. is crafts and theatre class.
Stephen just got back from cub scout camp with Randy, but didn't get to go swimming because the camp pool was not working. It was too cold to swim anyway. Stephen is also doing activities at the library. He especially liked the program Dan Wardell from Iowa Public Television gave last week. I took a picture on my phone, but when I went to put it on the computer, it disappeared. I'll have to try to find it in cyberspace somewhere.
Randy is out-of-town quite a bit this month. I counted at least 11 nights in a motel. He is currently at his pursuit driving recertification class for a couple of days down in Ottumwa. He also has his other two classes, a certified public management class and masters of public administration class, several times this month. One meets at the Drake campus in Des Moines and the other class meets at Mary Greeley Hospital campus in Ames. (I probably got the class titles wrong.)
I am still doing my Hallmark and Perkins jobs. I just wish the weather would warm up a little so I could take the kids swimming.
Posted by Caroline
Mary is at Camp Tanglefoot. The campers came today, before it was just the training part with all the other counselors. Mary is the Craft Director this year. She feels really old because one of the new junior counselors is someone Mary used to babysit. Mary was home yesterday for a day off and to do some laundry, but she forgot to take back her deodorant. Randy had to drop it off at camp for her.
Matthew made the front page of the Mason City Sunday Globe-Gazette yesterday. You can view the story at http://www.globegazette.com/frontpage_history/pdfs/2009_06_14.pdf . There is also a video online of Matthew and Daniel at http://www.globegazette.com/shared-content/search/index.php?search=go&l=20&s=recent&r=&d1=06/01/09&d2=06/15/09&q=how%20to%20fold%20a%20flag folding a flag. The multimedia box is on the near right side part way down the page, scroll down the video list until you come to "How to fold a United States Flag". It is right after "lawn mower maintenance".
Daniel and Matthew are both going canoeing on the St. Croix River this Thur.-Sat. with the Boy Scout troop. Randy doesn't get to go because he has a class. Daniel is still working at Fareway, loading groceries, often in the rain. Matthew still works there too and has been sleeping in since the new Assistant Manager isn't scheduling him for the 5:00 am shift unloading the truck.
Matthew received a couple of local scholarships he applied for: the Knights of Columbus gave him $250 and the Clear Lake Friends of the Library gave him $300. The library was a brand new scholarship and Matthew had to write an essay for it. Matthew will also receive a Conservation Officer Association scholarship for $500. All that money adds up and helps him pay for college! Mom is happy!
Philomena went to an aviation camp on Sat. at the Mason City Airport. There was a ground school for a couple of hours and then they got to go up in an airplane for a quick flight around Clear Lake. It so happened that Philomena got to ride in Msgr. Hemann's plane! She really enjoyed it and wasn't too scared about it. Philomena is also doing activities at the library this summer. Tomorrow they learn how to make balloon animals and Thur. is crafts and theatre class.
Stephen just got back from cub scout camp with Randy, but didn't get to go swimming because the camp pool was not working. It was too cold to swim anyway. Stephen is also doing activities at the library. He especially liked the program Dan Wardell from Iowa Public Television gave last week. I took a picture on my phone, but when I went to put it on the computer, it disappeared. I'll have to try to find it in cyberspace somewhere.
Randy is out-of-town quite a bit this month. I counted at least 11 nights in a motel. He is currently at his pursuit driving recertification class for a couple of days down in Ottumwa. He also has his other two classes, a certified public management class and masters of public administration class, several times this month. One meets at the Drake campus in Des Moines and the other class meets at Mary Greeley Hospital campus in Ames. (I probably got the class titles wrong.)
I am still doing my Hallmark and Perkins jobs. I just wish the weather would warm up a little so I could take the kids swimming.
Posted by Caroline
Sunday, June 14, 2009
sneaking a last birthday wish in before the day is over
I had to sneak in a last Happy Birthday wish to Megan, whose birthday is today.
Happy Birthday Megan, I hope you had a real fun day and had lots of candles to blow out!
Cub Scout camp went well it only rained on Friday, Saturday and Sunday were great with cool nights for sleeping and no mosquito problems
Best quote at camp from an 8 year old from our group. "Dad, I don't want to wear the poncho. A poncho is just a dress with a hood on it"
For some reason wearing a poncho is not cool even after pointing out all the other people wearing ponchos. We even saw an Iowa Hawkeye poncho!
Happy Birthday Megan!
Have a good week
Posted by Randy S.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
finally a new post to read!
Well it has been a while since the last note that Daniel posted. It has been extremely busy here.
Sarah is sending out resumes daily. A superintendent of schools from New Mexico was in Perkins last night and Caroline talked to him. He goes up to Minnesota to hire school teachers for down there. He likes the work ethic up here so that is why he comes all this way to hire. He gave Caroline his business card. We are trying to convince Sarah to at least consider the possibility.
Mary is at camp working.
My first MPA class is keeping me busy. I am writing a 6 page report and a 15 minute PowerPoint presentation on a chapter of the book we are assigned. Then our final project is a 20 page report. all I can say thank goodness for Google. The 5 minutes of Googling my subject matter has reaped more than enough material. back when I was going through college it would have took me weeks to go through the literature cite catalogs to search for the articles and then try to find them. Boy it is amazing how quickly things change. The kids today should at least experience for one day what we had to go through so they appreciate technology.
We have a summer working who does not comprehend using a typewriter and white out.
Stephen and I are off to cub scout camp tomorrow, we will be through Sunday. It will be fun.
everybody have a good weekend
posted by Randy
Sarah is sending out resumes daily. A superintendent of schools from New Mexico was in Perkins last night and Caroline talked to him. He goes up to Minnesota to hire school teachers for down there. He likes the work ethic up here so that is why he comes all this way to hire. He gave Caroline his business card. We are trying to convince Sarah to at least consider the possibility.
Mary is at camp working.
My first MPA class is keeping me busy. I am writing a 6 page report and a 15 minute PowerPoint presentation on a chapter of the book we are assigned. Then our final project is a 20 page report. all I can say thank goodness for Google. The 5 minutes of Googling my subject matter has reaped more than enough material. back when I was going through college it would have took me weeks to go through the literature cite catalogs to search for the articles and then try to find them. Boy it is amazing how quickly things change. The kids today should at least experience for one day what we had to go through so they appreciate technology.
We have a summer working who does not comprehend using a typewriter and white out.
Stephen and I are off to cub scout camp tomorrow, we will be through Sunday. It will be fun.
everybody have a good weekend
posted by Randy
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