as a new chapter in the life of *MK* begins...

well obviously it's christmas break and with the lack of stats homework i have discovered new and exciting things!

1. i played wii sports...........(!) wow i sucked but it was ton's of fun, and boxing rules!
2. um i started expo-ing (see other post)
3. i purchased a pair of mocassins the other night at FF and they are actually pretty addicting
4. i went to the laundromat - i really like the smell there
5. i shoveled the driveway...many times

what is left to happen i do not know, but i'm sooooo ready! breaks kick ass!

Seasons greetings (in case you didn't receive one)

Season’s greetings: to all our family and friends. We hope that this year has treated you well thus far, and that the New Year will bring you new beginnings. It’s been a busy year for the Kummet family and as usual I will fill you in on what’s been new with us.

Bob spent the last year trying a new job by working as the maintenance manager at the Holiday Inn Express. He enjoyed working indoors and in the considerably warmer conditions, but ultimately decided to just finish out his year in May of 2006. He decided not to go back to NOR-SON and was offered a job with Steve Northway’s new company: Northway Construction. Things have been starting out good and as always, he has enough side projects to keep him busy if there is down time at home. He also plans to enjoy the winter with his hobby of snowmobileing.

Doris still has her job at Mills Fleet Farm in the clothing department and it keeps her especially busy during the winter season. She enjoyed our family trip to Mexico this last spring, and tries to find time to relax at home too. Recently I have been trying to teach her some e-mailing on the computer so that we can communicate easily next year. This has been an interesting, but useful challenge for her.

I (megan) have the most exciting year to come. I’m a senior this year and a lot of seniors would say they would rather be at college and can’t wait until graduation. Not me, that’s not the case. I have enjoyed this year more than ever and so much is left to plan that I’m just taking each day at a time. I am not in dance this year, which gives me more time to do other things. Like work, homework for AP classes, traveling and spending time with friends. I am looking forward to traveling to Costa Rica during Spring break and staying with a family there, along with the BHS Spanish department. Then shortly after returning the symphonic band will be leaving Easter Sunday for California. As far as college goes my top two choices would be Concordia (in Moorhead) and Saint Scholastica (in Duluth), and I intend to major in Psychology. Either place would work for me, and I’m sure the final decision will be satisfactory.

Well we are a small family, but looking at this it’s apparent that we certainly have enough to keep us busy. New changes are always waiting, and thus far I think our family has handled them well. We would like to wish for all our friends and family a year that they can remember in a good way, and the best they deserve. Happy Holiday’s!
The Kummet’s

oh my i almost forgot!!

the irony: when i WAS a kixter i never seemed to receive the e-mails, often important ones telling me when we were leaving for comp.'s ect. now that i am "alumni" (i quit) i DO get the e-mails. the last one almost made me die. it's an interactive e-mail of cindy clough dancing with the body of elf (will ferrel movie) with her head photoshoped into it so that it looks like her dancing. it would be mean to make a link so if you want to see it let me know! it's friggin "hilar"ious! happy holidays.

"okay well what's this one? huh?" "i wanna say TJ's"

well tonight i began a new chapter in my life at poncho and lefty's as not only a hostess, but an "expo". i will be using this term more frequently than before so i think it's important top inform the poeple what it actually is, and how my first night went.

since i'm 18 i should be able to waitress, but we don't really need waitresses right now, and amanda j would be promoted first since she has worked there about six months longer than me. makes sense. a step necessary to waitress is the need to know about all the food, and i'm talking everything! as a waitress your expected to bring out all the food to your tables, but on busier nights there are extra people in the kitchen to help get the food out of the way and into the dining room, if the waitress is busy, or whatever. or if for example the waitress has a table of 20 people she cannot obviously bring out all the food at once.

so training night number one was pretty good. i already knew all the table numbers, and what many of the cold line, as well as a few hot line items looked like. i learned how to request fajitas, the three main chimichangas, what's hot and what's not, difference in burritos and enchiladas where the "sauce thingy" is, where the dressing is, and how to roll silverware. it went pretty well and i brought out the first big tray (we're talking like a two foot long tray) and where does it go, but to senora wiger's table of family. Que barbaridad! i also now can reap the benifit of getting tips! which i haven't really had since the Ox.

funny moment of the night: i go to bring an el presidente (biggest thing on the menu) and fajita burrito to 107. the woman is surprised by the size and her husband mentions that there is a hobo outside they could give the food to. me: really!? him: no actuallu there isn't one outside, but i saw this one by the mall...and this one time when i was in rochester i saw this homeless guy...other side of the bridge another homeless guy....later....me: enjoy your meal! um that was odd, i'm not even their waitress. oh well.

what a weekend!!!

wow! i have just survived the busiest weekend yet this year. on friday i went to the boys b-ball game, then spent the night at AO's and watched talladega nights and went to bed around 1:30am. then when badge and i woke up there was already breakfast downstairs, including eggs, hashbrowns, and chocolate chip pancakes. mmmmm.

then kate and i got our nails done which was interesting, i ran around town a little ate lunch took a shower, and then angie came over to do my hair. she did such a good job it was amazing and she wouldn't even let me pay her. then i got dressed fast took some pictures (the rents went to their x-mas party). We met a few people at perkins. then we drove out to kim's house in nisswa and there was even more food! it was delicious and we had a really good time there especially the flash cards. then of course off to the ball. apparently low expectations is key. it was a good time overall though and i don't regret it. we left around 11:30 and drove the half mile over to manda's house and changed. i was pretty tired and had to work in about twelve hours so i decided not to go out to carolyn's and went to bed at 1 ish.

i pretty much got up and went to work on sunday and it was so boring i got home early, and also wasn't feeling too good so i took a nap for a while. then went over to AO's for a while about the synthesis project before she went to church, then back at home the party was just getting started. my mom was having her x-mas party for work at around 6 and i had to help get it going. she ordered 8 pizzas from three places and we had almost ten different desserts!! the spread was amazing and they were an raucous group. when AO stopped by we showed them how to play apples to apples, but i don't think they really got it. so they gave up shortly after and decided to go for mad gab. at that point we left to finally start working on our project at AO's around 9 pm. we worked straight through till about 11:30 and which point i was almost hysterical and everything was kinda hilarious! nonetheless we got it done, and just as i had dreamed nemi did not show up to class today so it hardly even mattered. dreams do come true.

"make one shaped like a fish!!"

so today i laughed so hard i couldn't believe that it was only tuesday, which is a good thing since this weekend is going to be my busiest yet, even though it is going to be a blast!

so far this year for 6th hour soc. we have had mrs nemi a few times already, which really makes me feel bad for amanda and luke who have her two hours in a row! ouch! even if she hasn't subbed (i don't know if that's a word?) for us she had us in her classroom/her class in ours. today during 5th hour lang (for manda) carlson comes in and tells nemi that she had a fish bone stuck in her throat and it doesn't seem to be coming loose.!?! so nemi subs again for her 6th hour. she arrives just as the bell rings (it's a long walk) and announces to our "mainstream" class that "mrs carlson had to go to the emergency room." well understandably we asked no questions and remained very calm. jk she goes on to tell everyone about the fish bone, and then relates it to the story of the time her daughter (who is having a baby this week! cant forget!) got a piece steak lodged in her throat and she went to the emergency room and they hooked it right out of her (this one came with a visual gesture).

a little later this girl comes in (obviously looking for carlson) and nemi tells her that she is in the emergency room with a fish bone in her throat. not that she needed to know...?

at the end of the hour we had some extra time so manda and i were using our imaginations to exaggerate mrs nemi's treatment of the situation. we talked about how when the girl came in nemi would tell her to make get better cards, and then one for her that che can give to the grandbaby, but not blue or pink, (cause she doesn't know) maybe some yellow or green so it's gender neutral. we went on in the back of the room impersonating what she would say, as she was sitting up front. we exaggerated her yelling at the student making the card cause she couldn't spell corroborate or some other big word, and to sign her name. then manda had the idea of the get well card we were dreaming of making that nemi would demand it in the shape of a fish, since it was a fish bone that she choked on!

other funny moments included when she thought she heard the guys say a "dirty word' even though they were reading the geography poster and the word beach was heard as something else. then she was asking amy about her mom knowing wether she had twins, how she knew, ect. seemingly fishing for the idea of having twin grandbabies. she is so obsessed.
i laughed and then i cried. love it. megan

karma is not alway's good

so i ran a few errands this afternoon, and now i officially have three dollars and some change. that might not even be enough for a half price meal at ponchos. oh well. the bank isn't open anyway. one of my stops was wall mart and seeing as i'm not a big shopper in general, seeing me in wall mart on a saturday is a stretch to begin with. the place is huge and yet it was amazingly full! last saturday i was there also, not shopping necessarily, but ringing the bells for the salvation army. if you remember it was like a blistering 0 degrees with probaly a below zero windchill, and i stood outside and froze like i have never done in my life. people shopping and donating both thought we were mentally insane to stand out there, and i was likely to agree.
today however has been some of the warmest weather that we have seen in weeks, and the THREE people ringing bells today looked quite comfy and cozy if you will. this saturday would have been great, But no! proven case and fact that my luck is worse than yours, so enjoy it!

is it sad that i don't care?

so today it was announced that there are no christmas ball tickets left. zero. nada. zip. i was sad, but for like a minute then i was kinda over it. i've never gone anyway and with this year's abundance of sophomores it is unlikely that i would know half the people there. instead being the optomist i am i figure i will celebrate this day equally, but preferrably while wearing jeans and not a skintight, formal ,sparkly dress in ten below weather.

thus far the amanda's and i have all consented to doing something together, and making things about as informal as they can be. we too intend to party the night away, and are looking for more people to join us. casino's are ruled out b/c amanda a is 17, but this has potential for a pretty outrageous and exclusive senior party that i cannot even predict. although i do forsee us all going to applebees at some insanely late hour and laughing non-stop. with 1,000 less bhs students invading the town on a saturday night and all of us requesting the night off of work the possibilites are endless. stay warm: megan

tetris in a resturant!!!

well i can't believe it happened AGAIN! the crazyness of sunday's at poncho and lefty's has returned to seek revenge on me. black friday was pretty hellish since people were up and about before usual and hurried to ponchos to find hot fajitas and cold beer before hitting up some more stores. sunday was more like deja vu of last year.

erica and i have always referenced "that one sunday" as a day in history. there was a basketball tournament and the groups flowed in like no other. today i was more prepared and less surprised. we usually have 5 waitresses and one wasn't coming so we thought we would be fine; i mean it was a sunday! brooke told me we had a reservation for 18 at 1:00 and i used every free table in the back to make it. half an hour later a lady comes in and says we have 18, did you call?, no, (oh shit) how long until your all here? about 5 min...can we put up a sign? me: oooooooookkkay.

amazingly we fit in this other 18 who did not have a little sign , but one big ass sign! which they left outside the door for all the customers to see. heather erickson set a new record for diving. Mo their watiress comes to the table to get her order: "what can i get you?"......"this is heather she just set a new record for diving!!!"......"okay - what can i get you?". then they brought the sign inside and put it by the table just in case we were confused.

after the first 18 the next group had 11 which later became 15 and had to be skattered in the back. then after they were sat (no frickin way) a 13 comes. oh seriously where the hell are we supposed to put you?! can't you have fewer friends? and yet we are amazing so we make it happen. then the second 18 shows up and i'm ready to call it a day! maximum capacity meant nothing to us. just another one of those sunday's.

Pie A'lamode no more!

wed. night was a blast, but thursday proved to be more difficult. we headed to sauk rapids in good time and shortly after eating i was feeling pretty good and reminiscing by watching rugrats to TV with my cousin shannon (my age) and Hailey (8). a few hours later, i hadmy glorious defeat in hide and seek and questions about this new game "animals" where we're all animals and there is a zookeeper after us as we try and escape that will cut of our heads if we are caught. hmmm kids really have become more violent. later it seemed as though the food wasn't settling with me right. once i figured out it was that time of the month i was worried. turns out we had to hit up another thanksgiving party in royalton, and by then i was so fatigued i was falling asleep and fast. when i got there i was please to see leather couches and crashed while watching "who wants to be a millionare". then i started salivating a lot. awww crap! well there goes the thanksgiving dinner. then i crashed on the couch again for and hour and a half until we left.
My point is be thankful for your own thanksgiving dinners and glad you were not me. and if they offer pie and you are not hungry DON'T take it.

have ya ever just felt like drinking?

yeah or driving really fast, hitting a punching bag, picking up karate for a day, kicking the shit out of something, hitting a computer printer with a baseball bat until it's unrecognizable, lighting something on fire just to watch it burn, getting revenge, throwing a pie in someones face, yelling i told you so, giving someone the evil stare and knowing they felt it, tipping over a piece of furniture, yelling, running, sleeping for days, punching someone in the face .

this could be an e-mail except i refuse to mention god-im just too angry.

what's left? i gotta let some of this go soon or im going to seriously get an ulcer. just as a warning to my peers if i let go completly you may see that megan that your really confused about. aka me as a senior that just doesn't care anymore. only time wil tell. frustration is a bitch. count your blessings.

la fiesta de blogs! according to TIME magazine

TIME magazine shows the following numbers:

4,000: the number of bligs in the "blogging élite", which have at least 500 other blogs linking to them

unfortunatly this blog does not have links, but who would have thought we were elite to begin with?

100,000: the number of new blogs created each day according to blog tracker Technorati, which estimates 1.3 million posts are added daily

i thought the least i could so was contribute to that one.

keep those blogs alive my friends! that is all.

where is the luck? and what the fuck?!!!

so wednesday's are ruined forever! today qualley's grand ma dies, there was a fight in the lunchroom and i got a fucking parking ticket! not a parking ticket....a fucking parking ticket!

WHY? "restricted parking?" this is worse than the time i got kicked off the bus. yes it happened and mainly because of pure luck and right place at the right time situations. i had nothing to really do with either. i think there was a sign that said no parking during school or something, which was not there three hours ago. nonetheless there is no school going on there and 3:30 is after school hours. the right place was washington and the time part was wierd. i had parked in the exact same spot the last two times we were at washington including today! why now? well $25 and more swearwords than this blog can sustain. %$#@*!% police!

"what fhe thuck?" "its 5:30 in the morning?" the story of the poncho's slumber party

so what a friday. once that bell rang after the last hour of class i spent watching 7th heaven (snooze). from there i was like a rocket quite literally. friday i did some of the most "reckless" driving i have done in a long time. from the senior lot i attempted to drive to northway const. offices. friday's are not the best time to sell (cupon books) but it's usually the only day i have time. I manages to sell three and sped off for home cause i was at the stoplight by FF and it was already 3:40 (i had to work at 4!) my road rage escalated until i was finally moving. i ran into the house and grabbed all my sleepover stuff, shoes and of course my shirt, dashed back to the car and i was off. i ran into work at about 3:57 with three minutes to change my shoes shirt and clock in. phew! that was a close one man! then work turned out to be not too exciting and i was done by 8 ish heading home with my dinner.
then i went to heathers to lead her to jess g's house the slumber party location. first we went to applebee's (who would have thought!) well jess's roomate works there and after we went back to her place and watched the movie stick it, which was when amanda got the drunken phone call from two of our co-workers, sang to brittany spears at 2 in the morning and learned that sam is a closet freak of brittany spears! while we still had the adrenniline in us we began the dance party, which gave rise to the side ponytails and also the many photos. then we played apples to apples and i've never. by this time it was probably like 3-4 in the morning and we all laughed at the idea that heather would be at dance in 4 hours! and i know we wont forget those pictures that we all took of sam and christine when they fell asleep. hey that's what you get! we gave up around 5:30 am and woke up around 10 ish. unfourtunatly at this time i have a pretty bad cold and needed the extra sleep anyway. at least i don't work this weekend then, and a slumber party with very little slumber, who would have thought!

this just in.......!

i just bought the dane cook CD! im talking like 25 tracks plus a bonus and a DVD with like three or four appearances on it. my life is complete. that is all. (at least for me)

"the buffalo is the largest of the ass mammals"

i started off my MEA with a visit to concordia (in moorhead). i met with my roomate whittney who lived in park region, and impressed my mom with her dorm. we talked a little about school and such and she too had actually considered a major in psychology, but ended up choosing art. she showed me her psych textbook and hinted that the professor (dr. olson) was "good looking" or in her words "hot". this would later be confirmed. that night we actually went to a jazz band concert and i heard some familiar songs like night train, benny goodman, and saint thomas. they were really good and had a lot of improv (?) solos which were realy cool, especially this one drum solo that was like ten minutes long. he was amazing! then we went back to the dorm and the roomates worked on their papers and i relaxed a while. that night was pretty interesting when some friends came by. the title was a quote from on of sarah's textbooks (she studies in equine science), and whitney's roomate form little falls just kept making fun of it. we shared funny stories and talked about the guys they knew and as things got more interesting they mentioned "oh megan will have some stories to tell when she gets home" this is true.

the next day i had breakfast, and my mom met with me as josh led us on a tour especially to all the dorms. josh (a senior) by the way was also pretty good looking, just in case you wanted to know. i went to a freshman english class and then to a psychology one and after met the famously new dr olson, he was nice.
NDSU the next day-after i was highly discouraged. we got lost just trying to leave it sucked and it was cold! at least after three hours of walking we evened it out with three of driving. then AO and i went to b-dubs and even though our waitress didn't show up the food was great! after dinner there i met my family with aunt, uncle, and cousin at blask bear. haley really wanted me to go swimming with her at the suites so being the great cousin i am i did and came home exhausted.

after that day my mom and i did some shopping and errands the next morning and then i soon had to go to work. after my oh so long two hour shift i met AO and badge at the movie store and we decided on my house for the movie. at my house though it was tori, AO and i. we enjoyed the movie sweet 16 which should not be rated PG and had come jones soda.

yesterday i worked for a whoping three hours and then amanda and i made the journey to little falls- "the city of lights". to erin's house. there we watched erin and megHan cook for a few hours and had a lot of good laughs. then we had a very fancy dinner in the dining room and set off to visit moliters haunted acres. we began with a hay ride where people would jump out of little hiding spots and onto the hay ride pacing back and forth staring us down. ther were even TWO guys with chainsaws! they weren't real but they would saw at the benches and you could feel the vibration of the chain. they even had a scene that portrayed the ring! then after the hayride we went into the mine shafte and then like 5 other houses and by the end our arms were sore and our throats! we went back to erins with jsut enough time to watch tristen and isolde a heartbreaking tale that as friends we were able to make fun of constantly.

wow i love MEA! hope everyone else had a great time too!

wacky wednesday!

so to clarify some things. you may or most likley did not see me running through the halls today. (probably cause i was soo fast!) i did this for a reason seeing as while running it was impossible to be late for anything. i came to school well equipped with tennis shoes and some red bull to keep me going. i was supposed to do something that breaks an unspoken rule (norm), and see what people whould say to me good or bad. in all honesty it was actually kind of fun! weaving through people was at times dificult, but i covered a lot of distance in short times.

other than my own actions i observed some other non-sociology project related "norm violations". my sixth hour is sociology, the room that generally overlooks the exit to the senior lot. i often use the window to watch people play football or wave at us while carlson is talking. today was unilke any others. first of all i was severly distracted by the huge snow storm! not kidding it was swirling around in tornado-like circles. then i guess i should have seen what was coming next. the sixth hour senior guys muscled up enough courage to be stupid together! and without their knowing my entertainment. they all took off their shirts while the snowstorm was at full capacity, and ran around the senior lot. why you ask, because it was wacky wednesday! boy i can't wait to see what's in store for friday the thirteenth!

My cat is better than your cat

this is true, i may even go as far to say that my cat is better than your dog and certainly your fish, rabbit, hamdter, tutrle, ect. My cat can fetch! like no other i will have you know! last night i found Mittens ever elusive "purple ball", yep that would be the one she plays fetch with. once she see's me pick up the ball she makes her questioning meow. translation: are you really gonna throw that or are you just messin with me? then i throw it and she answers: oh yes! you did god bless you! well something like that. seconds later she brings it up the stairs and makes the bragging meow. she can't resist it, and has even been known to jump through the railing below just to land on top of it. she may not be friendly to strangers, but she can fetch.

to add to my new bragging right of "my cat can fetch" i have my newest jelous item. ta da da dA! the SIDEKICK! the little one! OMG! not mine (the jealous part) my dads! eww. i love it though. so far i've added myself as a contact, taken funny pics (the screen is HUGE), played solitare, made a word document, called myself, and i can really see a good future for the two of us. we'll get along well as long as i can find that pointer pen thingy. it's beautiful technology, more beautiful than a big screen, maybe not a theatre, but a hell of a lot better than getting hit in the head with a brick. i guess you could say that im pretty optomistic.

three toilets, two toilets, ONE toilet

so friday i HAD to be at the football game, at least we won. when i got home my mom told me she bought me a little dresser for college.....? i think that ther're finally letting this CLC idea go.

on saturday almost all day felt like sunday for some reason. in the morning my mom and i met valerie and her three kids at kiwanis park to finish my outdoor pics. overall it was an enjoyable experience, with three kids under the age of twelve assisting me in taking my pictures there was never a dull moment. if i had a "fake" smile cameron would come over and "do his thing" aka belch really loudly! i think the first time it scared the crap out of my mom, she toatally didn't see it coming. then julia would help me with my hair and thought of a pose for me to do on the bridge too. i think the kids actually had a good time just being at the park. then we took a few and my house and called it a day, for pic's that is. awile later we headed to the lovely city of elmdale, don't worry you probably have never heard of it. my moms side is from royalton so elmdale is close (they have a community center we've used before). it was my aunt and uncles 25th anniv, and they were well equipped with cozies/huggies/holders for our beverages that had the following printed on them: to have and to hold and to keep your beer cold dennis and janice 25th anniversary. then as we left with our souvineers they guarenteed us that we could take them to any party we wanted, and claim it was just yesterday.

today i was supposed to babysit at saint francis, but only stayed to help out at sunday school for awhile, cause no one stayed later. so we left earlier and heather and i just talked by our cars for awhile about how we both had grad pics the day before. then i had to work at 12:30 with this girl who has worked there for like 2 months and i had never worked with. bad part of work: i got chlorine on my favorite shirt cause this comet bottel was broken and leaked in the carrier, so i cleaned it up and my shirt has pink marks. good part: i had an open check on my screen and we couldn't get rid of it so jess rang up an ice cream then voided it. she forgot to tell the cooks so they made me ice cream..."well you might as well eat it" yessss! after work my other aunt and uncle came over to pick up a toilet. yes a toilet. you would know if you've been to my house. we used to have three toilets in our garage (one for each of us-it was from one of the houses my dad worked on), but one was put in the groomers shed, and the other was for my aunt and uncle. now we are down to one. so much for that idea of planting flowers in them and putting them at the end of the driveway. it's just silly with only one!

speaking of....

so you (you know who you are) raised a good point. with the majority of our bloggers (yeah like the three of you) i really don't know what you all plan to do with your lives. as an attempt at blog bonding share with the blog what your want to be, study, do and/or experience. (PG please) the blogosphere is that place, i promise we will accept you!

so that familiar question of where do i see myslef in 5 years, the one from dawsons creek: well, alive, healthy, happy, with good and meaningful relationships with old and new friends and most importantly the family. by then i should be about done with college and back out in the real world doing something i love. something that i can look forward to and find my own way to help others, to make a difference in someones life, and if im really sucessful more than a few. who knows exactly where this future lies, but i wont want to miss a minute of it.

and now it's your turn.