I'm just Evan from the block

If only Evan lived here, he could say that for real...

At the request of some angry anonymous readers (yes, Mollie, it was mom) I am posting pictures of our new furniture, and the neighborhood.



We took pictures of us eating a real dinner at our new table. Chicken alfredo and mashed potatoes.


The front of the building - this faces east.


A zoomed in picture of the door to the apartments.



Same view, different angle. Our building on College Ave. This side of the building faces east.

The view down College Avenue to the north - the main crossroad up there is Main Street.

The view down College Avenue to the south, towards campus.


The building at the end there is the Spori Building, the building directly to the east of the Snow where I have all of my music classes.


The southern side of the building - looking west down the street Florence's is on towards La Jolla.


Same view, more direct, looking west. Our building is on the right side of the picture. The building at the end of the street is the dentist, it's just to the right of the theaters and right in front of La Jolla.


Our windows are the 2nd and 3rd from the left. We're on the second floor overlooking the street that Florence's is on - the pictures just before this.

Anyways, that's about it. It's a kind of confusing post.

The [Original] Wedding Day!

Today Chad & I drove up to the temple to see what our original wedding day would've been like. We were hoping for a ton of other brides, or really bad weather, or something to convince us that June 18th was clearly the better choice. (Besides that getting married earlier meant we could move to Rexburg earlier and look for work earlier... and we had more time before school started to do receptions/prepare for school, etc.)

So we drove up to the temple - not a single bride outside. Except me, of course. :o)
It is really windy today though, so that wouldn't have been that great. We took a video of the flag outside the temple to show you just how windy it is.


Plus, the field across from the temple is brown right now, with lovely haystacks scattered across it. So the "I love technology" picture just wouldn't have been the same.

So we went to a talent show on campus last night, being bored and having nothing better to do. It was only $2 a piece. Anyways, we went mostly to make fun of the "talent", assuming that there really couldn't be anything too great on campus during the seven week break. It was apparently a large group from freshman academy and that's about it.

Anyways, I kid you not, the last three acts were announced as:
So-and-so singing Killing Me Softly a capella,
So-and-so signing [as in, sign language] Only Hope [apparently from A Walk to Remember],
followed by the grand finale, the "Nerd Dance".

It was pretty stellar.

Today we went for a walk. We needed to do laundry and had to find a place to give us quarters for our cash. As we rounded the corner by Florence's chocolates, we came upon a crime scene. [See video.]

Today we went and fed the ducks at the park behind the fairgrounds. We were going to stop at the Madison County fair that's being hosted at the Rexburg fairgrounds, but it looked pretty lame, and we had been there on Thursday night, and yes, it was lame.

But we ate our last two hot dogs in mac & cheese instead of on buns so we had some old, getting hard, hot dog buns. So we decided to go find some ducks and feed them. It all started out with about 9 ducks sitting on the side of the pond.


We walked up to them and started feeding them, and then the whole pond was alerted and came flocking.




And then they got a little close for comfort.

Anyways, it was totally worth the old hot dog buns.

Well, I have good news!

Today we got an e-mail saying I had to fill out yet another form for my FAFSA. Being not very happy about this, I printed it out and drove it up to the financial aid office. Apparently there was something else wrong with my FAFSA so the guy at the desk told me to wait and we'd meet with one of the advisers. She fixed whatever was wrong with it, and then casually told us that it still looked good and we would be full pell grant eligible. Meaning we get the maximum amount they give out, which she also mentioned, has gone up a couple of times in the last year or two. So we get $2300 a semester!!! We were obviously very happy about this, and are currently counting our blessings.

It is now day 3 of living in our apartment. It's looking not quite so cramped, but there is still a bunch of stuff we have to go through and a bunch of stuff still in storage - my electric toothbrush among them. I'm sad about that - I thought we would've found that in one of the boxes already, but to no avail. I brush my teeth like a sucker.

Anyways, since you last saw our apartment, we have added a computer/tv desk - Chad has a small flat screen tv, so we're conserving space by combining an entertainment center with a desk. It's working pretty well so far.



We can't wait to have a couch! It will make the place feel so much more like an apartment. But it's good we don't because it gives us time and space to organize our junk before it gets here.

Yes, so, desk, and kitchen table. We were excited about this. We finally have a table! And it's the perfect size and one of the chairs doubles as our computer desk chair. It's a small round table with collapsible leaves on either side so we can put those down for more space, which is pretty much perfect. We bought it at KMart and put it together ourselves. As we were doing that and Chad was getting more and more frustrated with the chairs and trying to get them put together, (yelling at the furniture), I asked him if he felt like a husband. He said he did.

So our new table - We bought a table cloth for it to bring some color into our otherwise brown apartment.


We bought hangers and organized our closet and Chad put together the bookshelf mom got us from Grandma's.


We bought some bathmats and a vinyl shower curtain to hang on the inside of the nice shower curtain one of Chad's relatives bought for us for my bridal shower.


And we have added a few decorations of our own, and the place looks a lot better already.



We also made a trip down to Pocatello on Tuesday and retrieved our mattress from my cousin Bryan who is generously hanging on to it. We got pretty much everything except for the big pieces of furniture, like the entertainment center, the couch, the box spring, and my bike.
Still a lot of work to do!

Yesterday we also went down to the bookstore and looked up the prices of my books. If FAFSA comes through and gets us any money, I would gladly just buy them there, then sell them back at the end of the semester and have cash in my pocket. But since we're not sure about that yet, I ordered them from half.com. One of my used books at the bookstore would have been $107. I found it online for $48. But I found that the bookstore does not make it easy to purchase your books somewhere else. On the little book listings they hang on the shelves, the include an ISBN right there - so you think, oh great! I just have to write that down and I'll be on my way. But, what you wouldn't realize is that that is just the bookstore's new ISBN. So you look on the back cover of the book - and they've plastered their own sticker with price and their own ISBN on it right over the original ISBN. So you have to look at the publisher's page to get the real ISBN in order to have any success whatsoever. Which I did. I also took pictures of the covers of each book to make sure I was buying the right one online. I felt like an undercover cop. Luckily it is still really dead on campus so nobody bothered me or tried to be helpful in a non-too-helpful way. So that ended up costing $350-something. For like, 7 books. That's crazy! Stupid college textbooks. My professor last year was telling us that one of our books (a very small book, at that) was like... $5.00 for a long time. But when they found out colleges were using it as a textbook, the price shot up to $71.00. So we paid $71.00 for a 30 page book, about the size of the DMV's driving manual which they give you FREE.

Chad has been applying to a bunch of different places, including the local school district. He told them what kind of position he was looking for and they said they'd "be in touch". So hopefully that'll work out, but for now, we keep looking.

Yesterday Chad's brother Christian drove down from West Yellowstone where he's working and brought a friend with him and they signed the papers and sold the blue car. Yes, the very same blue car that broke down right underneath me in February 2007. IT'S SOLD!!! We couldn't be happier.

That's about it for today. We continue organizing and unpacking, and job-hunting today. I don't want to go back to school!!

Hello dear readers!
I am writing to you from our little apartment in Rexburg. And by little, I mean closet. It is very small, but we are happy to have our own place. We left Orem about 1:00, drove all the way here, got here at about 5:00, and then moved in very shortly after that. Chad called a couple of his old roommates, and they came over and brought reinforcements and helped us move. We were happy about that. Mostly I was happy about that because it meant I didn't have to go up and down the huge flight of stairs up to our apartment more than once or twice. That was nice. We treated them to ice cream after. We took some pictures for posterity's sake. I feel kind of like we live in a city only because we're in a building overlooking a "city" street, with our entrance at street-level.

We have pretty successfully organized most of our things - interestingly enough, we have our largest storage area in the bathroom. Not really sure what we're going to do with that space.

The bedroom is about big enough for a bed and that's it. The "living room" is about big enough for the couch we got from grandma's and that's it.

Tomorrow we go to the storage unit and retrieve the things we need here - hangers, garbage can, shampoo, etc.

Some pictures.


The view when you walk in the front door. The doorway to the right leads to the bedroom.


Chad enjoying our wireless internet.



The view from the bedroom doorway. There is a fridge and a stove directly to the left of this picture.


The kitchen. The white line you see along the left edge of the picture is the fridge. There's a stove right next to that.


Our brand new microwave - we bought it at Wal-Mart tonight.



The view from the bedroom doorway.




The view towards the bathroom. (The closet)



The tub - this is what you see when you walk in the bathroom -- off to your right,



... the other half of the fairly large bathroom.



The shelves behind the bathroom door. Have yet to be organized.
Yes, those are our dishes.

And that's our little apartment. It will feel more home-y (and no doubt more cramped) once we get our few furniture pieces in here. And we're going to buy a "kitchen" table tomorrow.

Currently we are deciding whether or not we want to go out and watch the Perseid's Meteor Shower tonight. That's all from Rexburg. Tonight we sleep on the floor!