The “barn yard” was finally together again!! By this of course I mean that Shira came to visit me this past thrus!!! Her and her new man Dave said that me and Sam should them a great time, so you all should want to come and see this crazy city of mine. She got her Thrus afternoon, (and she only got lost once the whole way here!!! I am so proud!!). We then went to a Mexican Tapas restaurant in downtown Chicago. Taspas is a style of restaurant where everybody orders lil dishes and then passes them around. So we had 6 people so it worked out really nicely… and of course we also went through 5 or so pitchers of sangreia (aka wine with fruit)..We then went to a dance club for a lil while…and me and Shira scared my new friends I think…but i mean they had a stage!! we had to take advantage of that!! On Friday Shira and Dave did some sight seeing stuff and then they left for St. Louis…she was supposed to hit vegas on Monday (the 11th)….Dave is really sweet so hopefully some of you guys will get to meet him too…and Shira introduced me to a new drink…Smirnoff Twist…Green Apple…its like SKYY Blue…only better…
well that’s the only exciting news I have….classes are alright…had a really hard quiz yesterday and my first final is next monday…so that stinks..Sam is doing well..He practically moves in here every weekend…oh it was so worth the wait!!!…well anywho…hope everyone is doing well….miss you all tons!!

Halllooooooo out there! So as Jen said I had a little adventure with her and Frances in the city last week. We had yummy food and ice cream and went on the Toys R Us Carousel in Times Square. We rode in the Monopoly car. I was unfortunate enough not to catch Frances in the act of any sort of misadventures, so I wasn’t able to laugh as much as I usually do when she is around, but she did bump into a few people and that was funny. HEEHEE. I picked up Luis at the airport and had to fess up to leaving his plant in my car during a very hot day and wilting it. Ah me.
We went to his godbrother’s wedding on Saturday, which was interesting because it taught me things that I do and do not want to do for my wedding. Poofy is not my day at the beach. But I did tear up at the wedding and embarassed, laughed off about 10 people who asked when me and Luis were getting married or saying that I was next, or one lady who made Luis at a loss for words for about the only time in his life by pointing at me and asking, “what is your wife’s name?” I swear I saw his eyes bulge for a moment. The reception was fun, but they played 50’s and 60’s all night instead of sexy Spanish dances that I had hoped. Ah well, at least I wasn’t at home watching TV!! Miss you all, Thank you Jen and Frances for being such wonderful hosts and hanging out with little old me! CONGRATULATIONS DAWN!

Hi everybody. I miss you all so much. I am just writing quick to update you all on what i’ve been doing. Caitlin came down to Long Island and then we went into Manhattan to visit Frances. We had a lot of fun :). Thank you Frances for being our host.

I had my interview, finally, on thursday. I don’t know how it went. I was nervous and I thought i could have done better, but i have a second interview…or will have one when they call me to give me a date. That probably won’t be for another two weeks because the man that has to interview me will be on vacation next week. I ended up leaving my pocket book in the interview room and as we were walking out the woman was like “do you have everything” and i said “no, i forgot my pocketbook” and went in and got it. I felt really stupid.

Also, i don’t know who i’ve told and who i haven’t, but tom and I set up Tom’s friend Frank with a girl that i work, Danielle. They seem to be getting along well so far. I’m excited because i’ve never done that before and my first try was successful. I hope it works out. They’re both very good people.

Well, i think that might be all the big news for now. I hope everyone is doing well. Congratulations to Nathan, Holly, Aunt Dawn, and the rest of the family. I will talk to you all soon. I miiisssssss yoooooooouuuuuuuuuu guuuuuuuuuuyyyyyysssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I passed my boards!! I didn’t waste four years of my life, and I’m a real nurse now…wahooie!!!!!!!! 😀

It worked Caitlin! I finally got to see the CD and it was wonderful, I loved it! It made me miss you guys so much, and I cried quite a bit, but I love knowing I’ll have it to watch any time! Thank you so much! Hello to everyone else, and I hope you are all doing well! Love, Dawnie 🙂

I finally figured out how to work this thing!! Yippee!!!!!!! And yes, I realize I’m probably the last one, but I did it, so shut up!! 😛 This was such a good idea Shira, I love it! I can’t believe you leave so soon…I hope you have a safe and exciting trip!! Jen, that sucks about your interview! Good luck whenever they reschedule! Caitlin K., I just emailed you right before I figured out how to work this, so you can pretty much ignore all of my questions! I’m glad to hear you are furnished and back to driving dorky science boys crazy 🙂 Caitlin L. Good luck with the job hunt! And you don’t have to beg anyone, they would be lucky to have you and if they don’t realize that they’re dumb. Laura, I’m glad you’re enjoying your break! I hope your knees are doing better. Jess, I hope you are having a great summer! Are you still working at the photography place? Do you get to take pictures of cute little kiddies? Nicole, I hope you’re still alive and kicking out there! I’d love to hear from you! So to end this long and rambling message, I took the test this morning and I will let you all know as soon as I hear, and I will also let you know when Holly has the baby! I love you all, and miss you so much! Dawn 🙂