We finally got moved into our new place. It is sooo nice. We decided against the new furniture from JC Penny and went with this really nice sectional from Cohens. It comes in on Friday so until then we have to sit on the floor. Our old furniture is in our basement, which we turned into the "hang out" area. We also got a new entertainment center which we are picking up Saturday. We have this big side yard where we are going to play baseball and kickball in and have cookouts. So far I really like living in Bettendorf.

As for school I just received something in the mail about the classes. I am really reconsidering the field of work I'm going into because I'm against some of the things in my anatomy class. Hopefully things will work out because this is only a temporary degree until I save enough money to go for what I really want...

The dinners have been going great, I'm lucky to have friends that love to eat. Dmitriy's cooking is wonderful, even though I don't think I've ate it the last two weeks. ha. Cutlets=gross.

Jaime's birthday was last weekend...We went out to her bonfire but had to leave because Tara and Heather got in a car accident and we had to go pick them up. I took Tara to the hospital and I spent my Saturday night there, I'm just glad they are both okay. The weekend before that we had our last party at our old place. It was pretty fun, no one got to trashed, I don't think.

Also last weekend my family came in town from Atlanta! I was so happy to see my cousin and his family. I never got to meet his daughter yet and she's seven. I hung out with them at my grandma's, played around with the kids in the backyard. They thought it was so cool to go out in the fields and pick the corn since they don't have it back home...so they picked it and ate it for breakfast. I wish they were around more often.

---peel off all those eyes and crawl into the dark,
you've poisoned all of your children to camouflage your scars
pray unto the splinters, pray unto your fear
pray your life was just a dream
the cut that never heals---