FREEDOM!!!!

Dear World,

I apologize for my absence and lack of consistent updating about my life. I have been INCREDIBLY busy. "Oh we are all busy!" you say ... Well, try this on for size:

1. Finals week of Junior year of college at Michigan State University. (Yes, that is correct. I have not blogged since finals week. I apologize.) Anyway, finals week was crazy as expected. I still do not understand who's "brilliant" idea it was to put all of those exams in one week. Whoever it was - RUDE! So that week was completely devoid of blogs for obvious reasons.

2. Begin summer. Now, you might think this means going to the beach, sleeping in, hanging out with friends, spending countless dollars on things you don't really need because your parents give you unlimited funds, sleeping in, tanning, staying out late, chasing butterflies, and all that other garbage that everyone else gets to do. Well, my first day home from school was spent working. At the peak of working I was working a solid 63-65 hours a week. This means I had time for work and work and then a little work on the side. Now, don't get me wrong. I was not forced to work these hours and I went kicking and screaming. I signed up for that work load because of the next part of this blog:

3. Wedding. Yep, you guessed it. I was in Josh Mackaluso's wedding! YAY! But seriously - I actually was. But the wedding I am actually referring to is my own. That consumed a ton of time, and I did hardly anything for it. Props to Christine Webb (my new wife :) ) for doing so much work for the wedding. I am super proud of her, and you should be too! Well - there isn't much more to say about that. We said "I do" and that is that. Bonded forever.

4. Honeymoon!! So, before I go ahead and tell you of all of the fun Christine and I had on our honeymoon ... Who came up with the word "honeymoon?" I mean really. How is that at all relevant to "Very big vacation immediately following a wedding." I just don't get it. Unless of course someone had the idea of taking his "honey" to the moon. This plan sucks for many reasons. Let me enlighten you with a couple:

Reason #1. Expensive much?? I understand you are supposed to splurge a little, but really? I don't know how much a rental space shuttle is but I can definitely say it is WAY too much.

Reason #2. How do you top that?! That's like going on Top Thrill Dragster in the first 30 minutes of being at Cedar Point. Everything after that is just lame.

Reason #3. What is there to do on the moon?! I don't need to explain this one.

Oh, right. The honeymoon (vacation after wedding) that we went on was to Jamaica! It was fantastic. We had awesome weather, went snorkeling everyday, had unlimited food. Couldn't have been better.

5. BIOCHEMISTRY 401. All I have to say about this class is, "Wow, I am so glad it is over." Seriously. That class was nuts. I was trying to work two jobs and learn glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, DNA replication, translation and transcription. Yea, it was a handful. The exams were all at KVCC which was crazy because these people flip out if anything happens that is not routine. I went in and said, "Hi, I am an MSU student here to take a proctored exam and they about shut the place down. It was a nightmare.



6. MOVE OUT / MOVE IN. We went from moving out of our apartment at Campus Court (Don't get me started on that place ....) and moving in with Christine's parents for a week, then moving everything again up to Lansing. Living out of boxes is not the way to go.


Now I finally have some time to write in my blog and school starts in 3 days....

Sorry to all of my readers (Jake and Christine) that I have not updated more. We will see what the school year has in store.