Update

I know I haven't been blogging very consistently this summer. This past week, life definitely got in the way.
It was my last week at the lab for the summer. I start back at food service on Monday. It was a very frustrating week for me. The person who bumped me had their proficiency test and didn't pass. And kept making mistakes all week that I pretty much had to fix. It was extremely frustrating to be fixing mistakes of someone who has had almost six times the length of training you had. (I had two and a half weeks, they have had three months.) And they still have my job, the lab is still trying to show that this person needs to be let go. And this person keeps saying how many days I had left to work and how much the lab would miss me. Needless to say, I was very heartbroken about leaving, and upset by the comments this person kept saying to me.

I came home and cried, and Jason made me feel better. He has really been wonderful through this whole thing. He makes me laugh and puts up with all of moods. (They've been a little on the depressed side for the last few weeks.) I am still applying for jobs outside of Iowa State. The problem being that everyone seems to be looking for a job, and it's extremely difficult to get an interview. I keep praying that everything will work out, and I know they will.

For now, I will go and wash dishes at food service. I like the people I work with, it's not what I want to be doing. My food service supervisor is very supportive in me finding a different job. She understands that I do not want to make food service my career, especially since that isn't what I went to school for.

Happy Birthday!

I just wanted to wish Dad a very happy, late birthday! He and Mom went on a trip to kayak on Sunday and they got back today. He said they had a good time, and I'm glad he got to spend his birthday doing something he enjoys!

Busy Day

Apparently, there was a huge storm that when through Ames last night. The reason Jason and I knew was that there were branches all over our yard when we went outside this morning. This is our driveway. Believe it or not, it actually looks worse now than in the picture. I weeded the side and there were weeds everywhere. This is the view of our front yard, or at least a good part of it. We had some branches by the sidewalk as well. We're pretty sure no one was hurt and that there were no branches in the street. This is the first part of our backyard. I had to pull some branches from the raspberries and I had to get on the roof and take the ones off up there too. We took three truckloads of branches over to the debris dump. We could probably have taken one more truckload of lots of little sticks, but we got to the point where we were just too tired. It took us most of the afternoon. However, Jason thinks the rest of the debris in the driveway will wash away with the next rain.

Minnesota

This weekend we went with some friends to our friend Pat's parent's cabin in Minnesota. We had a wonderful time! The weather was absolutely perfect and we couldn't have ordered better weather. It was a long drive up there, but completely worth it. We've already asked for a weekend to go next July! As you can see, the view from the cabin was beautiful. Jason and I walked to the end of the dock one night and looked at all the stars. There were so many that we could see! It's definitely a sight we miss living in Ames.
We went boating and drove the jet ski. I went tubing and swam in the lake a lot. Jason and I tried canoeing, but it didn't end well. We had a bonfire and roasted s'mores and were able to sit back and relax.

Happy Fourth!

Happy Fourth of July! It's rainy and muggy and we've not really done anything but hang around the house. I did go into work for a couple of hours, but it wasn't anything strenuous. Mom and Dad did come down for a few days to help with our sewer lines. We're extremely grateful they did that! Now all we have to do is finish cleaning up the mess. I've already gone through one mop trying to get all the gunk off the basement floor. Of course, some of that was already there so I can't completely blame the guys.

No word on different positions at the lab. I have been applying at other labs, but I haven't heard back from them yet. Everything will work out, so we're not worrying about it. The people at food service were really nice, so it won't be so bad!