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4. First fall from work:
Now I don’t remember exactly the date this happened, but I think it was about 2 weeks ago. I was walking through the hall looking into resident’s rooms to see if anyone needed assistance, and as I am walking past one man’s room, I see him trying to get up by himself, using his end-table as a support. Well, the end-tables have wheels, so this thing flies away under his weight – and he tumbles into the corner faster than I can blink, but somehow pulls off a much more graceful landing than I thought was possible.

I ran over and found that he was not hurt (probably a bit sore, but nothing “serious”) and called the nurse. A fall is a BIG deal at work, I was glad I wasn’t in the room when it happened – the responsibility would weigh heavily and if there wasn’t a gait belt on him and I had been trying to help move him, I could have lost my job.

Anyway – it was exciting and scary. I’m very glad he turned out to be alright. He actually left the facility yesterday to go home. I’m very happy for him =)

5. Fishing Weekend:
2 weeks ago Jenn drove down and met Alex Blore and I at Alex’s house in Bellevue. We packed for a 3 day trip up to Tonasket to go fishing in Bonaparte park at Lost Lake with Alex’s boyfriend (and my very good friend and “house-mate” for next year). I ended up driving Jenn’s car for the whole trip, so I got a really good feel for it. For those who don’t know, it’s a burgundy 1996 Toyota Camry. Good car – tons of space for driver, passenger and backseat, with a huge trunk as well. We averaged 32mpg on the way over.

We got up to Andrew’s house around 11(?) and promptly went to bed. Early the next morning we got up, went to his parents grocery store and loaded up on goods for the next 3 days. We drove up to the cabin and… hmmm. I think we pretty much unloaded and then went fishing. Jenn got a bite or two and brought in a trout, the rest of us got nothing. But it is incredibly peaceful out on the lake.

Meals were as follows:
Breakfast – cereal and juice
Lunch – turkey sandwiches or butter and jam on english muffins and juice or milk
Dinner
· Petite steaks and ribs 1st night, Andrew and I ate the fish (girls don’t like this kind I guess…)
· Campfire dinners second night – hamburger, potatoes, carrots, cabbage and seasoning all wrapped up in foil and placed in the embers of the campfire for 15 minutes.

We went back out on the lake on Sunday and Monday as well, but Jenn was again the only one to get bites, and she brought 2 more fish up to the boat, but lost both of them. All in all she brought 4 fish up to the boat, got one in it, and lost three. Of the 3, I blame Andrew for losing the first, myself for the second, and the size/strength of the 3rd. Too bad…

All in all it was a great/relaxing/peaceful/memorable trip. I’d love to do it again. Maybe late in August? I got my freshwater license for the whole season… =)

6. Awesomeness from Garage Sales
Yeah, so one day there was this huge garage-sale-event in my neighborhood, where about 50 houses or so had garage sales. I ended up buying* from 2, and was tempted at 4 or so. The first one I stopped at, I picked up a huge George Foreman grill – the biggest sized one. I spent $25 on that, $10 on an 8-set pack of nice silverware and got a free soup mug and drawer-organizer for the silverware. That was pretty sweet. At another house I got a bread maker for $5. Still waiting to try that one out. Probably’ll get around to that sometime this upcoming week. At another house, I got a gas/briquette grill for free. It had plenty of use and needs plenty of cleaning, and a new igniter deal. Probably will cost me about $10 at Walmart to replace. It also came with a huge propane tank, which is nice because refilling is wayyyy cheaper than buying new. W00t!

7. Woot.com and Midnightbox.com and purchases made from both.
Actually, since making this list, I have to add a few sites to this list. Slickdeals.net is amazing as well, and goingtoday.com. From midnightbox.com, I purchased a monster cable 5.1 home theatre cable set for $20 including shipping and handling – it normally retails for $80 (not including shipping and handling). SWEET. From woot.com, I purchased a RCA 5.1 surround sound speaker set/5-Dvd player/receiver for $80 including S&H. Normally retails for closer to $200 including S&H. Pretty nice deal. I wouldn’t recommend RCA to anyone really, but the price was right for college =)
From slickdeals.net I found a deal for House M.D. Season 2 on DvD for $19 including S&H, normally retailing for $50. I also got a $100 lexmark photo printer for $8.00 after mail-in-rebates. And finally, from goingtoday.com I got a guitar strap for $4 including S&H. YAY!

I think this pretty much wraps up what I started a week ago or so… Anyway, more to come I’m sure. As for me, I need to eat my lunch in the remaining 8 minutes I have of my break =)