Year in Review 2011: Part 2

Note: This is a start of a four part series, the object being to give a quick review of my experiences in the year 2011. In this part I will cover the months of April, May, and June.

April

Easter was in April and as per our sort of tradition Casey and I dyed some Easter Eggs and tried to make our poison egg once again. (trying to get one as dark as possible with a pirate skull on it) Ben had come over to see Casey and Erin came over to see me, even if she doesn't like silly things like Easter Egg dying.





At work I had our Annual Dinner, as well as Chantel's wedding, it was difficult getting it all arranged but I got to see the wedding, the annual dinner, and the end of the reception with Erin looking stunning :)



towards the end of the Month Erin and I went to Brown county with her dogs, and had a wonderful day walking in the park.



On a sad note in April, my great Grandma Zeumer passed away at the age of 98.

May

In may I got to experience my first "dog birthday party" as we had to throw a celebration for Erin's dog Jude who turned three and became much more mature.... what kind of gifts did she get? well balls of course!





As always I spent a lot of this month hanging out with Erin.

I was also going to the gym a lot in may, trying to drop some of the pounds I had gained since starting my new job at the museum, seemed like I gained around 10 pounds this spring... and I had the added incentive of being part of a pedometer team at my Aunts school so I was trying to get as many steps in as possible.

Towards the end of the month we had a big storm hit Decatur County, we would be without electric for 3 days as power lines were ripped down all over the place. Many houses in Greensburg including the Museum had storm damage and needed there roofs replaced a process that is still going on. I was at Anytime fitness with Scott when the storm hit and you couldn't see the parking lot from inside the gym with how bad everything was blowing.

After the storm let up I picked up dinner for Erin's family and went to their house, where we spent the afternoon without electric before I went home late that night.







Actually before all of these storms I had went with my Dad, Grandpa, and Grandma down to Brookville to see the family graves for Memorial day.

June

June started out with my birthday! and Erin got me two great gifts... A laser disc player and a hippo bank! and Casey got me Muppet Treasure Island, so it was a great birthday!





At work I started what would become a long process (still not complete) of getting the roof at the museum replaced due to the storm damage. As well as working to put together an Apprisal show for the museum which was a big project!






Erin took me to see her friend Josie who works with baby tigers at a local petting zoo, which was cool because we got to pet a 4 day old baby tiger.





And in what is a summer tradition around here I spent some time helping my Dad bale hay on the farm.



In June Brock had hosted a party to watch the Aliens movies at his new place, which was fun hanging out with everyone...

And that takes us through 1/2 of 2011

Year in Review 2011 : Part 1

Note: This is a start of a four part series, the object being to give a quick review of my experiences in the year 2011. In this part I will cover the months of January, February, and March.

January - Checking out

I kicked of the New Years celebrating the holiday with Bruce, Joe, Chantel, and Brock at Joe and Chantel's... I'll say the night before had started out with 3 shots of Everclear and went downhill from there. I woke up that next morning and Joe's and made my way home still feeling under the weather.



I went to a couple snowy stoage auctions this month as well, still never bough anything, but enjoyed looking around at the possiblites... just have to take that big jump of risk..if I ever want to buy one. Check out my blog in January of this year for a full write up on Storage Auctions

For fun I played at least one weekend at Columbus some Heroclix with Bruce, Joe and Brock

The biggest news by far thought this month was me interviewing and getting the Executive Director position at the Historical Society! I had applied for it while I was at Check into Cash University last winter and on a friday in January got an interview. I was lucky that they moved the interview to the first thing in the morning and my co-worker opened the Check into Cash store for me that morning so I could interview and then rush off quickly to Indianapolis.

It was a couple weeks later that I would recieve a phone call from the President of the Society to offer me the job while I was driving home, it distracted me so much that I got off at the wrong exit and spent an extra 30 minutes driving around Indy calling my parents and friends. I knew it was going to be a very tough budget shift for me, but was exicited for the oppertunity.

Next up was just to call Check into Cash and put in my two weeks notice, which I did and was excitied for the next month to begin my new job.


February - A new face

Well I didn't get to go to work on my first day because of an Ice Storm, we lost electricity for a couple days and Casey's friend Tess got snowed in with us. The generator died over the first night so Dad and I went to town and bought a new one. Tess, Casey, Dad and I played board games (Masterpiece) by candle light and overall had a decent time. We blocked off part of the house and Mom brough in a kerosine heater to cook soup on in the dinning room. It only took about two days for everything to melt off.










After talking on facebook post back and forth every so often I met up with Erin on Feb. 18th to see the movie the Eagle.  It was an intersting experience, we met for the movie and she only let me buy her a drink (large mountain dew without ice of course) and we went to the movie. I liked her right off the bat but didn't think she was that into me. After the movie was over we left and both went home our seperate ways, I had wanted to ask her to dinner but was a chicken I guess, lol so we text back and forth a few times that night and it wasn't until a few days later when I was playing heroclix with Brock and Joe in Columbus that she started texting me again. She had found a cattle skull in the woods and we joked about the skull caps the guys in the Eagle had worn.

That next week we went and had dinner at El Reparo and were at the resturant for around 3 hours when they were getting ready to close. Then we sat in my car and drove around the county, throwing broken limbs off the road (it was raining), only to come back and sit in the El Reparo parking lot some more.... It was almost 4 o'clock when we called it a night and she went home.

I also joined Anytime Fitness this month to start working out at their Gym, I went in with Scott and signed up, every one in awhile I still meet up with him and work out there.

March - Hanging out

I went to Dave and Busters with Bruce, Megan, Joe, Chantel, Casey, Brock, Cassie for Chantel's Birthday party, it was fun I had never been to Dave and Busters before. After we got back to Shelbyville Erin met up with us at Joe and Chantel's and we played some games.



Erin and I started seeing each other a lot, and played a lot of video games, Wii bowling is something Erin turned out to be a professional in. We also played a lot of N64; Mario Cart, Smash Brothers, Mario Party, Pokemon Stadium

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~This Blog is part of a series for November, adapted from the series Erin is currently running over on her blog. For this month in honor of Thanksgiving I will release a blog every other day about something/one/idea I am Thankful for. I've broken the criteria down into a guideline of sorts that I will follow, the month will contain 5 People - 5 Things - 5 Ideas . The order that I post things in has no particular significance or ranking behind it.~


Erin
People 5

Well if you follow my blog you know I got behind on finishing this series, but this is one that is certainly past due. In this past year Erin has become a major part of my life, as I've discovered how much I could care for someone else, and everything about them.

When I say that I mean I care about her, her pets, her things, her family. Its strange I never knew it would be like that with someone else.

I guess I have known Erin for a long time... apparently we went to Day-Care together... but it wasn't until last winter that we started talking, with facebook messages at first and then on Feb. 18th she talked me into going to see a movie with her. It was an awkward first date that I failed with flying colors as I let her go home that night right after the movie without making any moves at all... However I would get a chance to redeem myself the next week when we went to El Reparo and sat their for 3 hours until the resturant closed and then proceeded to spend almost 6 more hours just hanging out in my car.

Since then we have had a lot of good times and I look for many more to come.

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~This Blog is part of a series for November, adapted from the series Erin is currently running over on her blog. For this month in honor of Thanksgiving I will release a blog every other day about something/one/idea I am Thankful for. I've broken the criteria down into a guideline of sorts that I will follow, the month will contain 5 People - 5 Things - 5 Ideas . The order that I post things in has no particular significance or ranking behind it.~

Hippo Bank
Things 5

Had a hard time deciding on my last "Thing", as most of what I have is easily replaced well make that replaceable if I had the money. So I'm going with the Hippo Bank Erin gave me for my birthday. It is the first birthday gift I got from her and its pretty cool as well. It's an old late 1940's wind up piggy bank that shoots the coins into a hippo's mouth.

Hippos are my favorite animal, it was my first gift from Erin, I like money, and I have a feeling it would not be easy to replace... thats why it makes my list of 5 things I'm thankful for.

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~This Blog is part of a series for November, adapted from the series Erin is currently running over on her blog. For this month in honor of Thanksgiving I will release a blog every other day about something/one/idea I am Thankful for. I've broken the criteria down into a guideline of sorts that I will follow, the month will contain 5 People - 5 Things - 5 Ideas . The order that I post things in has no particular significance or ranking behind it.~

Childhood
Idea 5


I've always thought that I had a great Childhood growing up here out in the country in Indiana. Sure sometimes we were a little isolated but my parents always made sure Case and I were involved in things, 4-H, youth soccer, youth basketball were all major parts of growing up at our house.

We also had a bunch of pets, one advanagte of being on a farm and my family was always supportive of that. Rabbits, Dogs, Cats, Hamsters, Guinea Pig, Pig, Goats, Chickens we had them all at some point in time.

I guess I always think of growing up and Childhood around the winter holidays because we have always had such a great time then. I'm glad my family hasn't ever had any major rifts and we have stuck together and I hope to do the same once I have a family of my own.

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~This Blog is part of a series for November, adapted from the series Erin is currently running over on her blog. For this month in honor of Thanksgiving I will release a blog every other day about something/one/idea I am Thankful for. I've broken the criteria down into a guideline of sorts that I will follow, the month will contain 5 People - 5 Things - 5 Ideas . The order that I post things in has no particular significance or ranking behind it.~

Grandparents
People - 4


 
So my limit of 5 people gets kind of tight I noticed when I was trying to come up with todays post, so I'm going to cheat a bit and include 3 people in this one post. My 3 grandparents that I have been lucky enough to know.
 
Grandma and Grandpa are my Dads parents and they live just across the road from me and always have been great. Casey and I are their only grand kids so its safe to say we have been spoiled somewhat, especially around Christmas time when as a little kid Christmas at the farm was as big as it was at home. We call their house the farm as Dad and Grandpa have always been farmers and Grandpa's house is where all of the equipment has been stored.
 
I remember them taking me to see my Aunt's basketball teams play, and how we would keep scorecards in the stands to discuss the preformances at the end of the night on the way home. They are where I got my love of basketball from.
 
My Grammy is my Mom's mom... she is a very nice and caring grandma. We call her Grammy because her last name is also White (insert jokes) and it was confusing to Casey and I when we were little. I remember staying the night at her house on weekends when we were little a lot.

My #1 memory of her was when I was having a horrible allergic reation at her house on the 4th of July of the year before I went into 5th grade.... My face was all swelled up, I couldn't see out of one eye and was struggling to breath, she burst into the emergency room lobby yelling "This is an Emergency, get this kid to a Doctor"

Overall I have great grandparents

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~This Blog is part of a series for November, adapted from the series Erin is currently running over on her blog. For this month in honor of Thanksgiving I will release a blog every other day about something/one/idea I am Thankful for. I've broken the criteria down into a guideline of sorts that I will follow, the month will contain 5 People - 5 Things - 5 Ideas . The order that I post things in has no particular significance or ranking behind it.~


Camera
Things - 4

By Camera I guess I mean the one I have now, but also all of the pictures I have... which count as things as well I suppose. Working at a museum I see a lot of older photographes on a daily basis and enjoy seeing how they capture memories of the past.

Just looking at photographs can bring back a flood of memories, as well as the emotions that they carry with them. Even if you weren't involved in the photo they can tell you so much and give such an insight at just a glance.

I enjoy taking pictures, and while I've never had a great camera I still take pictures all the time anyway.


My personal photo collection only really dates back to around 2004, but I have found some old family photos that I plan to scan into my computer to keep a record of as well.

I also have two videos of family vactions 2007 and 2010 that I enjoy having and am hoping to take a film of Erin and I driving to South Carolina today!

Some random pictures I've taken at various times