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I'm giving a little update to my last post about my new career change. As of October 17th I'll be working for GMAC mortgage here in St. Cloud. I'm really excited about the position and look forward to making peoples home ownership dream a reality.

This weekend I'm off to the cities for my step-brother Jono and his fiancée Sara's wedding. I'm really looking forward to seeing family and I'll get some pics and updates when I get back.

Well I've got a new job since I last posted. I'm working at US Bank in St. Cloud at their downtown location. It's going well so far, I wish I was making more $$ but that'll come with time. I'm really debating whether or not to move back to the Twin Cities from St. Cloud.

The main disc golf course just opened up here in town and I've been loving that, its really nice to get out and play again even though the weather has been horrible. Not too much else is new, just been hanging out with friends as much as I can, going to bonfires whenever possible and trying to fit in running here and there.

I'll be going to a Volkswagen car show this weekend down in Minneapolis, I kind of miss working on cars like I did back in high school. Once I get a good paying job and a house to store all my tools that are in storage I'll be able to get back into doing that again.

After having a visit with my Aunt from Seattle and her asking about me updating my space I figure it's time to throw some info up. Nothing too exciting has been going on with me lately. Still looking for that great opportunity and having had to turn down a couple that weren't exactly what I was looking for. So in the meantime I've decided to take up a part time position working at a Downtown Restaurant called the Mexican Village. I'm working as many hours as I can there right now but when I find a job I’ll cut that down and still try to make some extra cash serving a couple nights a week. So other than that nothing too new is going on with me. Oh, well I did run the Earth Day 5k race which went ok but did give me a lot of room for improvement for next year.

This Wednesday I was down at the U of M for a meeting with the Diabetes Institute. It was an informational meeting to get some general info on the non profit career field. Dawn Fish, the Director of Development, was the woman I met with and she was more than helpful. Hopefully all of these meetings that I've been going to will pay off soon. I'm getting anxious for a job.

I did receive a job offer to work for the Central Minnesota Boy Scout Council. Sounds worse than it is, I wouldn't be trekking into the woods with Boy Scouts, it would have been a legitimate office job but I would have had to live in Little Falls which for someone my age would be hard since there is literally no social life up there. So it was weird to have to turn down a job but something might come of it in the future and it was good to know that someone wanted to hire me.

Also on Wednesday I met some old high school friends at Bennigans in St. Louis Park. I literally haven't seen some of these people in four years. It was great to see what everyone was up to and catch up on the local gossip. Things like that really make you feel old when you hear about people getting married and buying houses, seems like it was yesterday we were immature high school kids. After four hours there it was time to head back up to St. Cloud, I was bushed and had to stop and get some food to stay awake. Side note, my new car is great on trips like that; I think I might have to take it on a road trip this summer.

Nothing else really new, trying to stay busy. I met with the Sales tax renewal committee which I'm a part of on Thursday. We're trying to get some legislation passed after the people of the St. Cloud area voted for an additional sales tax. It's really interesting working with the community leaders and former senators, who knows I might have to look into politics down the road but for now I just need a job.

I'm sure I'll update after St. Patty's Day since it sounds like that's going to be quite the night.

After finding out my old car was on its last leg I've been researching cars to see what was out there. I was finally set on getting a Volkswagen Jetta and after scouring the internet found one that I liked right here in St. Cloud. So I went in, did a little haggling and ended up buying a new car as a Valentine’s present to me:)  It’s a 2003 Jetta in silver with 35,000 miles on it. It’s so nice to have a car that has power windows and locks and some class. So now I have a new car checked off my to do list.

So my next most important task is to find a job. I’ve been checking out things and networking, I’ve done the whole Monster.com and Career Builder thing and haven’t had any really good leads but I had a really promising informational interview last week and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I’ll be able to get something out of the meeting. I’m also going to a job fair on Friday in Minneapolis so we’ll see how things go.

Last night I got the pleasure of being a part of a great event. My aunt, Carol Olson passed away from Diabetes about 10 years ago and so last night in her memory the Carol Olson Memorial Fund at the Diabetes Institute at the University of Minnesota was celebrated. The night consisted of some great speakers and doctors explaining what their doing at the institute. Of course I was lost in the explanation about the third powerpoint slide in but I think I got the core of what they're doing there and it's very amazing. My dad and Meredith along with some other members of the family jumpstarted the memorial and what an amazing thing it is. You can check it all out HERE. 

As always it's great to see relatives from far away. My aunt and uncle from Seattle were in town for the event and we were able to hang out for the night. During one of the powerpoint presentations there were these pictures of human pancreases in what looked like a deep fryer and my uncle of course had to point out that they looked just like the chicken on a stick we were eating. So I had to take a little break from eating after that. And it's always great to see my grandma, I have such a great time with her.  

One funny thing is that I had to rent a car to drive down there since mine is on its way out. So here I am driving this big Impala and as I'm getting into downtown I happen to notice that the radio is getting quieter as I'm slowing down. I guess that's a feature, pretty cool I might add, and so I played with that by flooring it and slowing down really fast. Word of advice: never buy a rental car!