I'm excited to finally have a week where I can write about something! Two Saturdays ago I worked Fishfest -- a Christian music festival -- at Alpine Valley. It was my first show managing VIP, which was awesome. I have a sweet walkie-talkie and we have the least ugly of the new uniforms. Life there is good. The show, on the other hand, could have been better. The sponsoring organization pre-purchased a bunch of cases of soda, and our only purpose was distrobution. Tips sucked and the kids were all hyped up on Mountain Dew...lots of Mountain Dew, cuz it was free. After the show Elise, Matt, and I decided to head over to the Troy Center street dance. Just like last year it was a high school reunion. It was good to see people, but it's still a bit odd how no one seems to ever get out of the area.
Monday I had my first day at Mercury. Everyone here has been really nice, which is especially great when you're meeting a bunch of new people. Unfortunately my job of designing web pages on a computer all day was complicated in the beginning of the week by the MIA status of my computer. I did a lot of reading up on different programming stuff I'd never seen before. I learned a lot, but it's always hard to say you "know" something when you've only read about it and never tried it.
I finally got my computer around lunchtime on Wednesday. Ironically I had been given my first web page assignment on Tuesday. For the assignment I designed a web page on someone else's computer. When I came in Wednesday morning I no longer had access to that computer, and I rewrote the same page on someone else's computer. Wouldn't ya know, my computer arrived shortly after I finished it the second time. The upside: it was really easy to write the third time around. I wonder why... ;-)
By Thursday I had my very own web page posted. Talk about feeling accomplished! I'd love to show it (even though it's ridiculously uninteresting), but since it's on the Intranet it's username- and password-protected. I'm assuming Mercury would frown upon sharing my username and password with all of you. Sorry. Task complete, Friday involved more research, did the beginning of the week. I've been experimenting with some of the new code I've read about, and some of it's pretty sweet. Hopefully at some point I'll post something I can link on one of these updates.
This weekend Fond du Lac put on en event called Walleye Weekend. It's a big fair in one of the parks on Lake Winnebago centered around a walleye fishing tournament that takes place that weekend. It was a big deal at Mercury since they were a sponsoring the $1,000,000 hole-in-one contest. We really wanted to see the strongman competition -- which was over by the time we figured out where it was -- and Spongebob -- whose bodyguard was this crazy lady who hated anyone who wasn't 7 years old or younger. Later that evening a bunch of the co-ops got together and some of Danny's friends came up. When they got in we decided to go to KFC. I ordered a 2-pc leg and thigh meal. Just chicken, not difficult. The girl tells us (after 15 minutes) that they're out of extra-tasty-crispy and asks if original recipe is okay. Sure. 5 minutes later she comes back and says they're out of original too and asks if chicken strips are okay. Sooo, you're Kentucky Fried CHICKEN and you're out of chicken? Awesome. Overall, Walleye Weekend was kind of a let-down.
In other news, I've become strangely domestic. I'm a master of Tuna Helper, which I consider to be a step above Hamburger Helper since tuna is less common. Despite being warned against it (thanks for the confidence Kate...), we made BBQ ribs last week. Surprisingly enough we don't eat the same dinners every day, and in general we are pretty good about not over-making and ending up with excessive leftovers. (In our case this is a good thing because we have very few containers for leftovers, and fridge space seems deceptively large despite the relatively small amount we can store.)
Aside from the fridge, the apartment has been great so far. Little by little we are settling in. Just last week we picked up a bookshelf from Danny's aunt that she had sitting in storage. That allowed us to organize one pile of stuff that was on the floor. We're still in need of a few apartment things, but the fact that I still have yet to receive my first paycheck makes us hesitant to shop for anything we don't actually quot;need.quot;
Visitors are always welcome! We have plenty of sleeping space for guests. Just let one of us know if you'll be in the Fond du Lac area. Have a great week; remember, only 4 more days until the weekend. :-)
<3 Rebecca~
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