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Wow… Let me tell you about this weekend.

First off- TO 20 YEAR OLD BRUNETTE MAN IN THE RED SHIRT, THANKS FOR BRIGHTENING MY SATURDAY.

I just started my new job at Vanity at Mall of the Bluffs. I was nervous, I was late, and when I asked my fiance what he thought of my new outfit he looked away. “Klyn, Ill love you no matter what you look like,” is code for “You look horrible. Yes, absolutely horrible. You really should just burn that.” Too polite to say that to my face, I went to work in my new outfit.

Just when I thought that this first long shift would absolutely be the worst experience of my weekend, these 3 college girls came in with this guy in a red shirt. When they were buying their merchandise, he looked at his phone and said, “Um… shoot there’s something wrong with my phone. No really! There’s a problem.”

Being polite but not caring, I ask, “Uh…too bad, what’s wrong with it?” He smiles.

“Your number isn’t in it!” Awww. I flashed my just over 2 carat diamond and tell him I am flattered.

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Sunday. Sunday.

Occassionally, I like to take long walks with Czar and the fiance. We occassionally like to walk to the park, and I love to get the freshest air I can while he inhales a massive cigar. Yay for second hand park smoke.

Today however, as he is inhaling and I am enjoying the breeze and Czar is “wetting” every post, stump, and tree- we decided to over- extend ourselves to the community. “Hi there.” (To a group of kids). “Hello Ma’am” (to the woman on the swing). Most said something along the lines of hello back to us along with a “Look at the puppy!”

Then we get to this bench. “Hello Sir.” We say to this old man just sitting absent mindedly on the bench. No response other than a blank stare. “How is your day?” We are really trying now to respect our elders. We walk away from the mute old guy feeling like he is absolutely the rudest man we have ever met. At this point, we are both ticked off at him so we scoff and walk on. Jerks.

We walk up and down the railroad tracks and upon leaving the park, see a firetruck drive though. “What a silly town, seriously, the fire fighters just hang out in parks all day with nothing better to do.” We have a good laugh, and Czar wets another tree.

We go to Hy-Vee four hours later, and we notice a type-o on name brand Kool-Aid. 10/.10 Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we then bought 112 packets of Kool-Aid, valued at 1 penny each. Free drinks at our place!

Upon the check-out, the hourly wage employee rings up one packet at a time. Out of boredom he then says, “Hey here what happened at the park today?”

“Uh…what one?”

“Oh the one over there” and points and describes where we just came from.

“No…what happened?” Kool-Aid packet 71 was just scanned.

“Some old guy died on a park bench and this couple didn’t even do anything.”

No wonder he didn’t say “Hi” back to us.
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I can NOT wait for school to start tomorrow.

Hey Reivers!

1st thing… Check out a little about me link. I don’t want to feel like total web strangers.
Then let me know who you are.

So, about a month into the term and might I just say, “Wow!” This is my first semester at Iowa Western Community College. Prior to that I was doing sales and marketing in the “real world.” (Yeah… mom and dad were totally right. The real world isn’t just a tv show. But there are definate scenes one has to see.)

It was fun and all, but I realized I wanted to pursue a career in education (teach secondary school or college.) That brought me here! TA DAH! So I am a freshman beginning out my college experience at IWCC. And truth be told, I like it! I’m also one of those insanely positive people.

I am taking 15 credits, and my schedule is pretty great! I am out every day by 12:50! How cool is that? I am in 2 psych courses, a math one, a comp class, and foundations of education. My teachers are actually nice and intelligent. (And I’m not saying that because they are probably reading the blog.)

They don’t just give me the answers (sorry for those of you that prefer the brainless style of education) but they help me figure out how to find them. Already I have had at least one test in every class. And the one that I basically did horrible on, the 6 extra credit essays gave me a chance to turn that ugly score around!

One day, I saw a post to be a Reiver blogger and basically write my opinions about the campus. Seems pretty interesting. I highly encourage you all who might feel a little lost in the hustle of back to school to find what you are good at. Even if it isn’t cool or something you have never done. I never figured I would use my xanga skills to blog for you all to read! Let alone enjoy it and meet some fun people! So if you are one of those awkward or shy individuals who prefer to stay that way rather than get out- so be it…but you aren’t going to have as great of a school year as if you admit what your good at and pursue it!

Next post is going to be on some annoying characteristics of students. Then I am going to give you all some pointers on how after 2 years of no education, I am managing to pull straight A’s thus far. And although it isn’t a piece of cake- it’s also not rocket science. So for those of you wishing you could do better- YOU CAN! And for those of you who are also fellow nerds, give me your own tips!

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