http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/ If music be the food of love...sing on, sing on! en-us sind0017@tc.umn.edu 2008-03-08T11:00:02-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/119221.html Well, as much as Lesley and I did not think we would be able to get another cat so soon after what happened with Luke, one cannot pass a perfect opportunity. And there she was, a cute, long-haired, shy cat... 119221@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/ News 2008-03-08T11:00:02-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/114533.html Today, Luke calls someone else his father. This has been a sad time for Lesley and I. We took our cat Luke Skywalker back to the Feline Rescue Shelter from which he was adopted. I wish we hadn't had to,... 114533@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/ 2008-02-23T09:01:43-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/114532.html A month and a half after graduation, countless applications (and only two interviews), I have been offered an amazing job. The position is being a junior scientist at the University of Minnesota. It is a full time position running a... 114532@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/ News 2008-01-21T08:51:40-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/102570.html Last weekend, Greg and I celebrated graduation with my family. My parents drove up with both sets of my grandparents for the weekend. They arrived on Saturday so we had a little party at our apartment. It was very nice... 102570@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/ 2007-12-14T11:35:08-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/100517.html You know that kitty I wrote about before (see entry in mid-November)...well we adopted him from the shelter and brought him home! We have named him Luke Skywalker! Well actually, I liked the name Luke for him but Greg insisted... 100517@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/ 2007-12-01T13:42:35-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/100513.html Today we actually had the opportunity to decorate our tree and the apartment! It was really fun to get our our little tree and put up all the ornaments. And we even have a fireplace to hang our little stockings!... 100513@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/ 2007-12-01T13:21:10-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/100509.html So we returned home from a visit home to celebrate Thanksgiving with our families and now are on the last stretch of school before we are college graduates! We headed back to Wisconsin on Wednesday night and enjoyed an nice... 100509@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/ 2007-11-28T13:06:13-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/100508.html Goodness it has been a while since I updated! Sorry about that but the semester has been crazy! We celebrated Becca and David's birthdays and Matt came to visit. Also, the hockey season started so we have been going to... 100508@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/ 2007-11-14T12:56:53-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/100505.html This past weekend we took the Megabus down to Milwaukee to attend Matt and Sarah Raciti's (friends of Greg's family) wedding and low and behold we came back with a car! Well, technically we knew about the car, but it... 100505@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/ 2007-09-13T12:51:20-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/100498.html So today we both are starting are last semester as undergrads at the U! We are both very excited to graduate in Decemeber although I have a lot of work to do between now and then! Unfortunately, I need to... 100498@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/ 2007-09-04T12:29:52-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/085292.html Lesley Lynn Schmidt got engaged to Gregory Michael Sindberg on August 11th, 2007. They have been dating for nearly two years and are looking forward to planning their wedding for the spring of 2009 (most likely).... 85292@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/ News 2007-08-19T16:24:51-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/085291.html While one could get a small taste of what our apartment looks like from the pictures that were posted of Grace, we wanted to take some nice pictures for everyone who wanted a tour. When you walk in the door,... 85291@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/ News 2007-08-19T15:46:29-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/084826.html Lesley and I moved into our new apartment the first week of August, and finally got to bring Grace home on August 4th. It has been a long time coming for Lesley, both because of how awful the Melrose ended... 84826@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/ Random Thoughts 2007-08-09T17:36:09-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/084822.html Como Park is located within a mile of our new apartment, and contains a lake, vast amounts of picnic grounds, as well as a zoo and conservatory. While most zoos charge over $10 per person for admittance, the Como Zoo... 84822@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/ Activities 2007-08-01T16:56:29-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/084821.html Summer is a great time to get together and eat, and that's just what we did. The annual Schmidt family reunion was in Madison at Karen and Mel's this year. I actually went home for two days before I joined... 84821@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sind0017/main/ Activities 2007-07-16T16:07:33-06:00