Last Day in Brookings for 8 weeks!

The time has come to go back to the better half of the state (at least better looking) to start my summer internship with AcV2. I will be hopefully leaving tomorrow as long as the weather allows me and start on Tuesday. I am so excited and still a little sad to leave Brookings and Paul/the farm (though TV, internet, and someone to talk to everyday will be nice). I will be jumping in on a project that is already going on, like literally meeting with them that day to convince them that our idea is bomb...I am rather good at that even if I have no idea what I am talking about, lets be honest. I received the contract last night and am super excited to see it and not the bogus one I wrote this past semester. I hope that these 8 weeks go quick and I learn a lot. I will continue to update this with new experiences and how much I love my life as an interior designer. So as I wash the last of my clothes, pack up my professional attire, and hang up the flannels (just shed a tear) here are a few pictures of the new crib. 

New Crib

I have finally moved all my things out of The Blues (thank goodness!) no more moldy windows, one floor, no central air or heating! We are now living the high life in the new crib! Right now though there is no internet or cable so it gets rather dull and will be until I move to Rapid City for the internship. I will post photos of the new crib as soon as I am finished putting my things up. Paul is at the farm for the summer and a few days up here working so I see him a little bit but not enough to keep me off the bored list. He was up yesterday to work and after work I cooked the first meal in the new apartment. It was also our official one year together and so I figured I would cook and we could go to a movie. It was really nice to spend time with him and not be running or busy. For sure a deep breathe for just moving and coming back from New York City. Our last year has been well spent I believe. Obviously we all have our ups and downs but he has stuck through them with me. I am happy to say he thinks I am a good apple and a very sweet one at that. :) I plan to work on my 15-20ish page paper today since I am sitting at his house with internet and then finish cleaning up my new home and tomorrow head to the farm and spend the day there. My parents should be here by the time I get finished at the farm so it will make the day go quicker for sure! I will see them tomorrow night and then Saturday morning and then they will head up to Minneapolis to see my brother, I wish I could go but I need to finish my paper that is due on Monday. They will then come back down and spend a day with me and head back and by that time it will be time to pack my clothes up and head to Rapid City for my 280 hours of internship at AcV2!!! Whoot, I am very excited to go but will sure have a piece of me missing.

Done and over!

Back from NYC and couldn't be happier! Let's recap what happened while my internet at the crappy hotel was down. Friday we went to Material Connextion and looked at materials that our professors want us to write a paper about to maybe persuade SDSU/the library to purchase as a resource for us. Yes, it was pretty sweet and would be great to use to order materials but lets be honest....SDSU could give two craps less about the interior design program but we will try. After that we made our way to Frank Lloyd Wright's museum/building the Guggenheim. It was pretty sweet to check out one of his sweet buildings but the exhibit was was lame. Crushed cars to me I cannot connect with to make art or at least taking money from people to look at when I could go behind the farm and see all the smushed scrap metal and it look relatively the same at the low price of nothing...Any who Saturday we packed up that morning (finally slept in) and got picked up at 12:30, handed in our sketch books to be graded on the plane, and left JFK at 3:40 we were all more than a little excited to get home. Half of the group was hungover or just plain ready to get home (aka:me) We had an hourish lay over in Minneapolis and enough time to grab some food, go potty, and relax a little before our 31 minute flight to Sioux Falls. Arriving in Sioux Falls I was greeted by the smiling face of my boyfriend who I could not have been more ecstatic to see! We then went to dinner and I was starving as I don't eat on trips and that day was rather long. The next day I woke up at about 6:45am put my clothes on and grabbed some mothers day flowers for Pauls mom and hauled my way out to the farm with the windows down, country music up, and my boots on! Not to mention I pretty much balled the whole way because I was sooooo happy to be back and not around rude people, busy streets, no grass, no sun, and on a schedule. Not to mention see the whole Prunty family! I cleaned myself up and went out and talked with the pigs. The whole day we worked ground and talked the whole time about everything you could think of. I could have not asked for a better first day back. You really do not realize what you need to appreciate until it is gone. I cannot say enough that I really feel like this is where I belong and that I will not be a big city girl for life like everyone expected. It is so funny how life happens and things can change you for the better and the experiences you get are lifelong impacting. I will spend the next two week here in Brookings moving to the new apartment, spending an official 1 whole year with my love Paul E. Pants, seeing my parents and doing what is left of my travel study homework then back to Rapid City for my internship. Here are the last photos from the trip. See ya never NYC. 

Day 4

Alright, so my blisters have had enough! Thank goodness there were no rushing tours today with our tour guide because it would have not ended well. Today we got to start a little later and with just our professor we went to a doughnut place then walked to the Brooklyn Bridge while taking some photos of the Frank  Gehry Beekman Tower, it was rather interesting but thinking of the architects, designers, and builders you felt bad for making such a thing. After that I receommened to go to St. Paul Chapel where a lot of emergency workers and people came during 9/11 to sleep, pray, eat, and just relax during that time. When my mother went it was way different and still had pews now it has turned more into a museum but still very cool. The pew that was left was so scuffed up and distressed from all the workers coming to sleep on them and smacking boots and gear on the edges. The place gave you goosebumps and was kind of an emotional place with all the displayed pieces. After we left we made our way down to Ground Zero. We stopped at the little pre tour/ gift shop space and I bought some things and looked at everything and then made our way to the memorial pools and where the new towers are going up. One tower is almost complete and is so cool. I remember the photos my mom brought home when she went in 2002ish and it was complete changed and you would have never known. It is so crazy to think that kids that are that age I was when it happened have no recollection of it even happening. The pools that are there now are pretty interesting, apparently the hole that is there that the water drops into you cannot see the bottom anywhere you stand so it is just a black hole and the water disappearing into it. It represents so much. After that we made our way to SoHo to start our assignment of comparing retail spaces. It didn't go so well as we got rejected by Hugo Boss and everyone kind of thought we were weird haha. I would rather not do homework. One day left of NYC and I couldn't be more excited. People here are either really fast paced or really slow, not to mention sassy and rude. I miss my midwest people. We will be going to Materials Connecxtion and the Guggenheim. I feel like there is so much to do here but not enough time. Maybe I will come back sometime and see it all and not with school.
Here are some photos from today.
Pig in the City probably will not happen as people already look like we are crazy and don't want to attract anymore attention and like I said way to fast paced around here.

Day 2 & 3

So last night we went to a Broadway show so we got home late so I did not post. My feet have blisters and my legs are sore. I haven't seen the sun, grass, or had phone service in my room since we've been here. I love my home and the farm. Maybe coming here with my family and not school would be more eventful and I would go to things I really want to see. Anyway, yesterday we started our day at Saks Fifth Avenue which was really fun comparing Saks I have already been to. It was very cool and so full of life on different levels of the floor and gave off so many different vibes. After our tour at Saks we went to RMC which is a supplier of sweater and knits for Anthropology. These offices are pretty small and everyone wears such casual clothes, no one wears any business attire so we really look out of place. We left there went to lunch at S'Mac which was a gourmet macorni and cheese and they made it in a cast iron skillet and served it in just that. Was really cool. Surprisingly the food has been rather cheap we have gone which I am happy about as I am such a penny pincher hence why I have no purchased any souvenir, shoes, clothes and so on.....yet. Afterward we went to Yabu Pushlberg, a design firm which was a nice change of pace for the interior design students. They do a lot of hospitality and even did Graves 601 in Minneapolis which I have stayed in. Afterward was Inguiardo Studios which is a costume shop that does costumes for Broadway, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Victoria Secret and so on. We got to see a lot of pieces in the sketchy place. I would have went nuts in the place it was full of so much stuff. We came back relaxed and left for Chicago the Broadway show which was pretty good. 

 So today we got up sore as can be and left to go to Calvin Klein, it was very sleek and white. After ward we made our way to ABC Carpet and Home which was soooo cool. They had a lot of furnishings and all types. I could spend all day and a lot of money there...if I had a real home. We then went to Herman Miller, one of my favorite tours so far. They were really informative and let us test all the chairs. Forget Steelcase office furniture I love Herman Miller. We then left had a quick lunch and people watched afterward we went to our last scheduled tour of the week...thank goodness! It was at Maraham which is textiles and such was quick and nice to see organized materials for once unlike our materials room. After it was over we came back to the room and I took a nap and here we are now. Laura and I plan to go do a little shopping so she can get some tennis shoes because we are so over dress shoes. Hopefull I don't buy much because I only have 4 pounds left for my bag to be underweight. I am so ready to come back and see my boyfriend, the farm and my parents coming. This is for sure a place to visit and not one to live.