picture dump time!
Iowa City
Dima resting next to me at An & L's apartment
L pre-haircut in January. Very tired looking.
L and An at IHOP the day before they moved out of the apartment they were living in with Riely (sp?) into a house.
The SuperTarget in Omaha
Executive (ETL) Amanda and me in the break room, she is still kinda new but a really nice boss!
Ashely the cashier and me by the time clock
Molly the office/HR-ish lady, official title is "clerical", back by the time clock
Awesome Kay who works the service desk like me as well as the photo lab. A totally cool dork who loves poking fun at herself.
Kay and Travis. Travis was giving Molly a break from office/phone answering work. He's a cool douche. Was nice to work with but lazy and when I friend-ed him on fb he later de-friend-ed me without me knowing til later. Douche who can't tell me he doesn't really like me. :/
GSTL, Guest Service Team Leader, Diana eating lunch in the break room. She's very nice but doesn't know what she's doing GSTL-ing. She used to work only in the clothing area and now she's the person whom all the cashiers and service desk people call when they don't know what to do. Most all of the time she knows less than we do. :/ Very nice about it all thou
The break room.
The check lanes at my Super target in Omaha. Isn't it HUGE? There are 26 lanes there and at my new store we've got like 18 very short and in two rows, of which we only use like 3 or 4 throughout the entire day.
The Omaha's Starbucks and produce section.
The service desk where I used to work, hidden behind the check lanes.
A rainbow outside our window in Omaha after we had tornado sirens go off while I was still at work. No tornados just high winds and power outages.
At Corby's New Place in Omaha
Happy Corby after playing with the cats
Scamp and Maverick hanging out looking for food from the humans
Maverick focused but tired. :)
Caleb picking up poor maverick who doesn't want to be held.
See the squirmy kitty?
Their entry way has HUGE ceilings!
Living room where we play with the kitties til we pass out!
Michigan Living
some of these are when I was up here in xmas and some are from vacation so... ignore the mess.
Off of the garage is the laundry room slash bathroom and coat closet area. A mud room I think it's called.
Lexi hid in there the first time we let her out but since the tragic experience of falling under the washing machine into the drawer via the back of it she's not gone in that room voluntarily.
The door to the deck/patio/back yard is just in front of the door from the garage.
My maternal grandmother hanging out on the deck while everyone else goes to look at dad's garden.
Mom hanging out with grandma by the deck.
The deck and back of house.
Dad's even got a tower to put up one of these days for his ham radio equipment in the basement.
People looking at dad's garden
Grandpa (who just turned 80 on this vacation trip) looking at the garden
Dad and Sharon posing by the garden
The garden that has been fenced in to keep away the deer and other animals who have eaten most of the peppers but not all of the tomatoes
The bird feeder that I got dad for xmas was put to good use already
Mom and Sharon and their eating faces. We ate outside a couple of the times because it was so nice. Though the sun has been heating everything up these last few weeks.
Grandma and Grandpa and their eating faces.
Grandpa pulling out his camera for me to play with. Present time for him was eminent.
Dad wearing his hat from brother. Has MU on it but it's for Marquette University not the University of Michigan :-P
said brother.
Back inside. The entry to the kitchen from the hallway of the garage, back yard, & mudroom.
The kitchen.
Kitchen toward the dining area.
dining area to the office and living room
office
living room and what we did most of the vacation other than eating.
Living room with entertainment center that I'd thought we were going to leave since it is huge and matched the fireplace so well.
Calvin seems to like sleeping in Lexi's bed better than his own.
His is on the right.
we then moved thinking that he liked the view he got out the window/door.
Sissy at least used Calvin's bed.
I seem to not have any pictures of the upstairs. I'll get some later after I have painted my room maybe. We just bought the paint tonight!
The Outdoors of Michigan
We visited the beach/lake Michigan on a day that they weren't very busy.
gorgeous sandy beach, no?
people playing on the beach.
Mom at the beach.
Dad at the beach
brother at beach
walking with dad on beach
right on the edge of the water looking out
We drove to another spot where we could look out at the sunset on the pier
lots of boats coming in and only a few going out. Grand Haven is notorious for the red light house pictured here. It's in all the local art around here.
lots of sailboats here too
the end of the pier
they also fish off the pier here!
The fourth of July fireworks
and that's it for now folks. I've got to get to bed so I can work at starbucks at 7:30 tomorrow. I hate mornings!