Indiana!!

This past weekend we went to Indiana. Jesse was attending another trade show and we had friends there, the Robbins!

It was my first real time getting to see Chicago... or I should say the Chicago skyline. I looked real hard for Oprah, but never saw her. : )

The further away we got from Wisconsin the less snow and the warmer it got. By the time we reached the Robbins they hardly had any snow!! It was kind of exciting to walk outside and not have to walk in snow and slush!

By Sunday it was 50 degrees out!!!!! So nice!! I loved it! Got me real ready for spring/summer.

I got to play with Brandon & Natalie's little girl while I was there. She is just precious! She was just starting to crawl... actually I think she knows how she just cheats and goes back to her army crawl. She also started pulling herself up and standing next to things.

Thank you so much Robbins for letting us stay with you for the weekend! I had so much fun! Can't wait to see you again in April!

We got back to Wisconsin on Monday and we have more snow then when we left!! Ugh.

When I talk to my co-workers in Oregon they are telling me that the trees are just starting to bud. WHAT!? I haven't seen grass since November.

Mamma Mia!

I went to a play/musical [Mamma Mia!] this weekend with my Aunt Jeannie and her friends here in Appelton. I only have 5 words for you...

YOU GOT TO SEE IT!!!!

It was so good and super funny! It is about this 20 year old girl who is getting married and she doesn't know who her father is. She reads her Mom's diary and narrows it down to 3 guys that could possibly be her Dad... she invites all 3 to her wedding without the Mom knowing!! That is all I can say. You'll have to see it for yourself!! It is a traveling performance so it may be coming to a city near you.

I found the website and here are few pictures from the show. (What is a blog w/o pictures?)

Graphic Artist

When I was in high school trying to decide what I wanted to go to college for my Mom told me to go to school to be a graphic artist or computer programmer. Who are you kidding!? I can't do that! Instead I went to school to be a Paralegal. To me that was a much better title. Well here I am neither a paralegal or a graphic artist... instead I am in accounting. Complete opposites, if you ask me!

I do enjoy my job and being in accounting, but sometimes I just need to break away and look at images instead of numbers.

Jesse is going to another trade show for his business in a few weeks and needed new business cards. I did a couple of them for him to pick from and he picked this one.

Then I decided that I work for this company too... I need one. Just for fun. So, I made a very girly-pink one. Isn't it cute?! Poor Jesse, he didn't know this company was so girly until he brought me on to work for him! : ) He also ordered baseball hats for himself and a few buddies... he got me a pink one! : )

Um. Jesse just came back from the sauna and I was showing off the card I made and he is now jealous and wants a re-do on his. : ) So here is the MAN version.

The bummer part is this afternoon I just printed up his cards with the first style that he picked... looks like I'll printing up some more for him tomorrow.

Locked Out

Last night we had a little run in with being locked out of... our bedroom! I was making supper and it involved bacon and I didn't want our bedroom to absorb the smell so I shut our door thinking nothing of it. After supper I then tried to get in to our room and couldn't. Um. Jesse. I'm locked out of the bedroom.

Upon closer inspection of the door knob... it wasn't just one of those where you can stick a paperclip inside to pop the lock. It actually took a real key! Then we started to notice that the rest of our doors did not have locks. Why did our bedroom door have such a sophisticated lock? A past resident must have changed the knob on this door and forgot to leave the key.

After trying all the keys we owned and a few paper clips we still could not get in. I started to get the giggles because everything is in that room. I pictured us having to sleep in the living room because our air mattress is in the spare room but the thing to blow up the mattress was in our bedroom. All of our clothes! I pictured Jesse having to go to work the next day with the clothes he had on... grubby jeans and a white t-shirt. He also wouldn't be able to brush his teeth because we have a bathroom inside our room... and well all that stuff was locked inside! I realize it wouldn't be as funny if it was me who had to go to work the next day and wouldn't be able to brush my teeth or do my hair...

I started to google "how to pick a lock". I found a very good video but I needed special lock picks!! Who has those just lying around?!

We contemplated just busting off the knob... it only has to be about $15 to get a new one, right?! Sure enough. I looked up door knobs on the Sears website. A new knob has to be cheaper then a locksmith.

We finally broke down and called our emergency maintenance number (it was after hours). He agreed with us that the people who lived here before us must have changed the knob because that is not their standard door knob. He suggested using a credit card and sliding it between the door jam. It worked!!!! Thank you Maintenance Man!! The joys of living in an apartment... a Maintence Man! : )