Alrighty, So it's been a while since I've blogged. I had finals, and graduation and moving and all sorts of stuff, and I'm not settled into my new house and feeling good. In all honesty I totally had time in the past... I just forgot or didn't make updating my blog a top priority. But I'm here today, so everyone can relax and celebrate again.
In big news I graduated about a week and a half ago. I don't have any cool pictures on my computer or anything so you'll just have to take my word for it. Anyway, so now I'm just chillin here in Provo waiting until fall semester to start my Masters... I guess that's not technically true. So at work you get paid more if you're a graduate student, so I actually got readmitted for the Spring semester and signed up for some thesis credits. So I guess I'm technically already in grad school right now! How crazy is that? What a fast transition.
In other news I finally moved out of Miller. We moved across the street into a house. It's so sweet here. It's crazy nicer than living in any apartment I've been around, and for sure at the price. While it's admittedly more then Miller and other cheap student housing, it's also considerably higher quality and so much more space. There're only 3 of us living here, and we've got the entire top floor of the house. Here are some pictures.
In our front room we currently have 3 couches. It was convenient last Sunday as we all took Sunday naps on a different couch. We have a projector set up in our front room again too. The couch on the right belongs to the people who used to live here and is currently up for sale. So we may lose it at some time, but I'm not sure we'll mind.
This room is our "tile" room, cause we dont have any other name for it. Currently it's purpose is for Jarom's art stuff, my computer, and being wide open to remind us how big our house is. We're thinking about pulling a table in here as a kind of dinning room when we want to have people over. We've thrown talk around about making a felt top board to place on the table so it doubles as a game table too. Could be fun. I'll have to keep you updated as to what we do in here.
This is our kitchen. It's basically a kitchen. The cabinets are a little small, but it holds what we need. If there's one thing I've noticed about this house compared to apartments is that this house is not made to store tons of crap like college apartments are.
Anyway, the most exciting part about the kitchen is the:
TOASTER OVEN
I love this thing. We don't have a toaster, we have this instead. And I love it even more. I think toaster ovens are pretty much one of the greatest things made for kitchens. I use it at least once a day. Why not toast your sandwich and melt the cheese onto the bread when it's as easy as placing it in and turning a knob? Yeah, I love toaster ovens.
Lastly we come to our room. We took the blades of the ceiling fan cause they're a little uncomfortably close to where I sleep. We got 2 book shelves and 2 dressers of KSL classified for $90 total. Pretty great deal. One of the book shelves was out in the front room, and you can only see one dresser in this picture. I like our room. It feels much more like a normal bedroom than do the rooms I've lived in in apartments.
Anyway, that's the brief tour of the house. I've got a couple other cool things to report on, but I didnt want to make this post too big, and I need to have something to keep people coming back after my dry spell.
In running news the training is going well, I don't think I've posted up my new running schedule in a while, but as a summery I've been putting in weeks in the low 30's (meaning ~30 miles per week). I've already run a 16 miler. This week is a recovery week, so I don't have any long runs or anything, but next week I go 18 on Saturday, pretty crazy. Today for my run I drove up to the canyon. It takes longer to run up there, but I figured since it was my birthday it was all good. I ran up to Bridal Veil Falls, then back to my car. It was great being up in the canyon, it's definitely my favorite part of a long run to get to be up in the canyon.
Anywhoot, I think that's all for this post. I'll talk to y'all again in a few days! Have a great one.
