Last night Jono and I went to an Angels game! We were invited by my bosses, Sandy and Bruce, and we were so excited to go. I managed to leave class a little early and rush home to meet Jono at our apartment who was able to get off work on time and we threw on some warm clothes and left for the stadium. It now takes us 10 minutes to get to Angel Stadium and we love it! This was Jono's second game of the season and my first game, and oh how it feels good to be back! We ate hot dogs, sipped hot chocolate and cheered the Angels on. We were sitting about 19 rows back on the first base side, the perfect area for foul balls. There were about 5 foul balls hit in our area and Jono wanted to catch one but they were always landed about 5 feet away from us. Definitely kept us on our toes! We had so much fun and ended up leaving a little early because of the cold and it was getting a little late. The Angels beat Detriot 6-5, go Angels! Thanks Sandy and Bruce for the fun night!
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Sorry for the lack of blogging. Jono and I do not have internet in our apartment as of yet, but we are working to get that fixed. Got to have internet if I can't have cable! We are almost done unpacking, we just have the "not important" stuff that you can't decide whether to throw away or shove in the back of the closet. So far the apartment looks good. It's always a challenge to rearrange things to a new setting when you move. It's nice to be in a two-bedroom and have a little more space. Right now our extra bedroom is serving as our (mostly mine) office for doing all the work and storing all the "not important" items mentioned above. Here are some things we have learned/experience at our apartment:
I started school and am now in my 4th week of spring quarter. I have 3 midterms this week with 2 more to follow in the upcoming weeks. Time flies on the quarter schedule and I love it. Although because quarters last only 10 weeks long I often find myself in the last 2-3 weeks of the quarter scrambling to get all of my papers and assignments done, like some of my previous posts talk about. My classes are going well so far. There are some I like and some I don't like. But the good news is after this quarter I'll only have 6 more classes until I graduate! I am trying not to let myself slack and get "senioritis" but I am finding that will be more challenging that I expect it to be. I am so ready to be done with school. Four years of college is more than enough for me.
Well that's all for the update for now. We'll keep you posted with our life events!
- Every night we can hear Disneyland's fireworks at 9:30 pm sharp. The first couple nights we lived here I was by myself because Jono was working in San Diego (see below) and when I heard them I got scared. I finally induced the loud bangs outside were fireworks, and probably from Disneyland. We can also hear Angel Stadium's Big Bang Friday fireworks as well. I haven't been able to see them from our windows but Jono and I are planning a date on our roof to see if we can spot them. We saw some Disneyland fireworks yesterday while driving home on the freeway close to our apartment, so we know they are out there!
- It gets VERY windy in Orange. Especially at night. Our windows are very thin and you can hear everything that goes on outside and when it gets windy it wakes us up at night. One night I thought the wind was actually thunder. From where we lay in our bedroom we can look out the window and see one single palm tree that is about 100 ft tall. We can tell if it's windy or not by how far the palm tree is swaying.
- Speaking of thin windows, last night we were woken up by two cats that were hissing and growling (more like high pitched screams) at each other from outside. And we are on the 2nd floor! They continued to banter all night long and woke us up a couple times throughout the night. Ya, thanks.
- Parking is very scarce around these parts. We get the one assigned managers parking spot next to our building but have to hunt down a spot for the other car. Usually whoever gets home first gets this lovely assignment to find a parking spot. This isn't a problem for Jono, the parallel parking king (I swear he can park into any size spot). However, I am not a parallel parking driver. I will park half a mile down the street just so I can comfortably fit into a spot.
- We get lots of visitors knocking on our door on Saturdays. Within three hours there were 3 knocks on our door from people trying to give us religion pamphlets or to buy movie ticket packages. Saturday night while Jono and I were eating dinner at our table we hard a faint knock on the door. I couldn't tell if it came from our door or our next door neighbors (our doors are right next to each other). When I looked at the door I saw two eyes staring at us through our mail slot and I squealed a little. (This is another feature of our apartment that makes me nervous. Anyone from the outside can open our mail slot and look inside. And this experience confirmed my nervous feelings.) A little boy was at our door and asked "If that boy could come play." We told him he didn't live here anymore and he said ok and left. Kind of cute, but kind of creepy at the same time.
I started school and am now in my 4th week of spring quarter. I have 3 midterms this week with 2 more to follow in the upcoming weeks. Time flies on the quarter schedule and I love it. Although because quarters last only 10 weeks long I often find myself in the last 2-3 weeks of the quarter scrambling to get all of my papers and assignments done, like some of my previous posts talk about. My classes are going well so far. There are some I like and some I don't like. But the good news is after this quarter I'll only have 6 more classes until I graduate! I am trying not to let myself slack and get "senioritis" but I am finding that will be more challenging that I expect it to be. I am so ready to be done with school. Four years of college is more than enough for me.
Well that's all for the update for now. We'll keep you posted with our life events!
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