My first post.

Hey everybody. This is Erik and its my first post. Lets start out with what's been going on. Things have been busy. Since school has started I've been working every weekday and going to classes every weekday as well. Two evenings of night classes also fill my time. Needless to say, those two things along with family time with Melissa and Elizabeth don't leave me a lot of time to get homework done. This past week I dropped my Wednesday shifts and I've already noticed how much I've been able to get done. The past week we had to take Elizabeth in to the clinic due to a fever. After half a morning of sitting around we found out she just had a bad cold and bad it is. The only good thing about taking her to the clinic is seeing how big she's actually getting. On Monday she weighed 18 pounds! Huge baby. Not really, but my little girl's getting big.

Work is something that actually brought a lot of enjoyment. Since late October I've been working for Fastenal company. Its a industrial fastener and supply company. The company started in Winona and has locations all over North America. About a month ago I was given two sales routes. One day a week I drive to Red Lake and another day I drive around the Bemidji area. So far its been slow. I've made a handful of sales but that seems to be how it goes. People want to see that I'll be there when they need to order something. The best thing about the job is that there's opportunity to relocate and move up. Its a great fall back if finding a job within my major doesn't happen.

Other things that have been going on is the wedding planning. Holy cow! If I can buy a home theatre in a box, why can't I buy a wedding in a box? It would make things so much easier. I had no idea that you could have so many decisions about so much stuff. What color do you want? Do you want a band or a DJ? Chicken of fish? AHHHH! If it weren't for my lovely bride to be, I could not do this. Acutally I suppose I wouldn't be doing this at all. There are some cool things we've got planned so that's exciting.

This weekend was pretty fun. We're actually in Baxter this weekend. Today we saw off Melissa's parents as they left for a trip to Cancun. We also celebrated our Valentine's Day early. Melissa got a sitter and we went out to dinner at Ivan's on the Bay. Dinner was awesome! I had crab legs and Melissa had steak. Then we went to see National Treasure (Book of Secrets.) That was fun. Anyways, its late and I'm tired, so good night.