Okay so I really wanted to come home for the 4th but that isn't going to happen. Remember Blake Vogt, my friend from the mission? Well he called me about a week ago offering me a job down in Phoenix remodeling a motel. At Gold's Gym I was making $800 a month...with this job I would be making $800 a week. So I took it and I'm now down in Arizona. I got here today and its really hot; it got up to 105+ today and yesterday they said it was 112! I got 4 hours of work in today and I was sweating like crazy. The job is pretty sweet though, its a thousand times better than Gold's. But yeah that's why I won't be coming home, I have to work and I need the money and now I'm even farther from home.
I do have a girlfriend now too.Her name is Janna Burnham, Matt Burnham's sister. It is the family that I lived with for a little while but she wasn't living there at the time so its not as weird as it may seem like it should be. She's really cool and things are going pretty well, though this whole me moving to Arizona didn't go over so well...we'll have to see how things play out. But that's what is going on with me at this point...things are good and I miss everyone.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Happy Father's Day
Just thought I'd say a quick happy father's day to the dads I know. (Wouldn't be father's day without a new bottle of Old Spice cologne...no matter how many you have!)
Happy Father's day Dad, thanks for always supporting us in everything. I hope you have a great relaxing day and get to do everything you want (oh, wait...that wouldn't make today any different...ha ha), I love you.
Dan, thanks for being the father of my children. We're lucky to have you. I'd say I hope that you get everything you want today too, but I'm sorry, you can't stay home from church to watch soccer. We do love you though and think you're the best.
Jeff....well, it's kind of scary to me that you are a father and that another human beings life depends on your vigilance....but I guess your child has lasted almost 6 months, so you (probably Breein) must be doing something right. I hope that you don't have to deal with anything remotely related to chicken today (fried, grilled or otherwise).
Tom, Donald, Doug...thank goodness none of you are father's yet...well at least that we know of...better keep it that way for a while.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
3rd anniversary
That's right, as of June 24th I have been a North for 3 years. Thanks for letting me in guys. But this post isn't about that. It's about my present. My husband is a little ridiculous, well a lot actually. He got us a 7.1 surround sound system with a bluray player. That means 7 speaker, 4 of which are as tall as I am, and a sub the size of a mini fridge. To quote Jeff "we need to buy a house for our system". On top of it all, we live in an apartment! We can't even turn the dang thing on hardly. Our front room is about 1/2 the size it needs to be to fit everything. The one plus side to it is our neighbors below. For those of you who have visited during the day, you know what I am talking about. The mexican music, with the bass all the way up, playing from noon till 5 every day. Jeff once asked them in spanish, if they could turn their bass down. They looked at him like he was speakin German or something. All in all, it's fun but totally unnecessary and unrealistic for our current circumstances. Come on honey, why couldn't we have gotten a video camera or something?
The Creature and Birthday!
I thought I needed to tell everyone the good things in our life after Jeff's really miserable post.
Sophie is almost 5 months old already! She is talking, well more growling, smiling, laughing and trying really hard to crawl. Over-all a very good baby. She is also growing into her rolls a little, not quite so Buddha like anymore. My Grandma got us plane tickets to go see her in Utah the other week and Sophie loved it! Even my crazy southern Grandma's insane babytalk. I was really worried about taking her on the plane, but taking off put her to sleep. Jeff is also a very cute Dad.
My birthday was amazing and thanks for all the happy birthdays from everyone! Tom, you're a dork by the way. Mom-in-law, I hope yours was great too! We went to the coast and ate pie and got tan. We took amazing pictures on the beach, my favorite is posted, and saw orca whales, and I made Jeff try clams. I can't believe all the normal things he has never tried! Cod, shrimp, crab, fish and chips, artichokes, clams, and about 1000 other things! I guess I'm from Seattle but come on. You all did live on the coast for a while. It really was a perfect birthday though. And Jeff took me shopping for my present and we bought so many clothes it's ridiculous.
Lastly, I am so excited for the 4th of July! Jeff really needs a break, as you can all see, and we need to see everyone.
Oh, and my mom and I are really depressed about Pushing Daisies being over.
Posts from me...
Well the reason you never really hear anything from us is because there is really nothing worth talking about going on -- at least not in my life. (I'm sure Breein will have plenty to say about The Creature, as Tom has so lovingly called her).
My life pretty much consists of the nonstop monotony that is fast food. I work with a handful of jack asses and pretty much do it for 50 to 60 hours a week. Loads of fun. All I have to say is that I better be rich with time to spend some day, hopefully sooner than later. If not, I'll be royally screwed and hopefully one of you will be successful enough to support my family and me. That pretty much rules out Donald, and probably Tom unless he learns to shoot better. Maybe the practice with the magpies will help... I'm rooting for Doug and his arm.
I'm told that someday, if I'm lucky, I will have an opportunity to move from this POS store in McMinnville to an even crappier one in Tucson where I can relive the events of the last two years all over again as a general store manager, all while telling myself it will pay off someday. But then again I've always been the biggest pesimist in our family, so maybe it's not all that bad; maybe.
My life pretty much consists of the nonstop monotony that is fast food. I work with a handful of jack asses and pretty much do it for 50 to 60 hours a week. Loads of fun. All I have to say is that I better be rich with time to spend some day, hopefully sooner than later. If not, I'll be royally screwed and hopefully one of you will be successful enough to support my family and me. That pretty much rules out Donald, and probably Tom unless he learns to shoot better. Maybe the practice with the magpies will help... I'm rooting for Doug and his arm.
I'm told that someday, if I'm lucky, I will have an opportunity to move from this POS store in McMinnville to an even crappier one in Tucson where I can relive the events of the last two years all over again as a general store manager, all while telling myself it will pay off someday. But then again I've always been the biggest pesimist in our family, so maybe it's not all that bad; maybe.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Fire Fighting
well I'm pretty sure it's not dying... I pretty much check it every other day to see if anyone is attacking me, but to clarify on the fire thing i just now got the call saying that I have a job officially which I'm pretty excited about one because I already invested in $400+ boots that I would not be able to send back and because I think that it will be a lot of fun.
Dying???? Hope not!!
I don't think that this blog's dying...I just think that it's gone into hibernation for a little while. I haven't written anything recently because since your mom always calls all you guys and tell you what's going on, I figured that it was pointless to write it down. Guess I should have given some updates...so in spite of the fact that Laurie has mentioned some stuff, I'll give it a shot.
Doug HAS done very well in baseball this year. He was named first team Skyline Conference as a pitcher, and did extremely well the last 4 games of the season. I think for the year he had 8 wins and 3 losses...not too bad for a sophomore. Of course the other 8 kids on the field had little if any to do with the wins...Doug did it all himself. His American Legion has gotten off to a good start also...he pitched in his first Falcon game last night, and did pretty well. He came in in relief in the top of the 5th inning, and only gave up two hits. He struck out 4 batters, walked 2, and didn't bean anyone. He gave up a run on a double, but the kid that scored reached on an error so Doug shouldn't have been given an earned run. As far as his grades go, like Laurie mentioned he got a 4.0, so if he keeps it up for a couple more years should be able to go to just about any college he chooses (I think he's leaning towards OIT so he can play baseball for Tacchini).
Stephanie came home from Boise the middle of May, but has spent all but about 2 hours in her room playing on her computer. She made a trip to Boise last weekend and came back all gung ho to start swimming, so hopefully her pool time will increase so she won't feel like an idiot when she goes back to BSU in August. How about it, Steph? Are you gonna start serious practices?
Donald had his endurance test for the ODF at Miller's Island today. He had to cover 3 miles in 45 minutes while wearing a 46 pound vest, and managed to tear the course up and finish in just over 41 minutes. Way to go Donald! I guess he's managed to suck up enough to the people that hired him that he's being assigned the task of riding around on an engine with Brad Smith looking for stuff to spray water on...sounds pretty cake to me!
Tom is hurt. Sounds like he has a job killing magpies for the Burnhams at $10 a pop, which might help him decide what direction his career should go. If he manages to make some money sniping stuff, who knows where it could take him...Border Patrol? CIA? Blackwater? The skies the limit if you're a good shot...
Don't have any updates on Jeff. How about it Jeff? What's up? Did you put in for any hunts?
Because Laurie has her own blog, and posts more than anyone on this one, there's not much to write about with her family. She and her kids unexpectedly showed up in Klamath for your mom's birthday, which was a really nice surprise.
As far as your mom and I are concerned, there's nothing to write about. We missed out on Olive Garden last night because we had to pick up sleeves for Doug, so the birthday dinner consisted of a hamburger and a couple of hot dogs at the game. I've put in for my share of hunts again, but don't expect to draw anything. I do plan on going to Idaho for 2 weeks in September, but that's a long way off so not worth writing about yet. I'm still hurt, so haven't written anything on my other blog either. All we seem to do is go to games, work, and church.
Speaking of church, testimony meeting the day before yesterday has to rank right up with the one a couple of years ago when that crazy old bat started praying for the fire fighters in the middle of her "testimony." Brent Asay was conducting, so he had the opportunity of sharing his testimony. It was really interesting...he babbled about nothing for about 30 minutes, didn't really mention any gospel principles, but DID manage to take a couple of shots at the government. It did a really good job of setting the tone for the meeting. Of course Asay was followed by another member renowned for giving documentaries...Sister Gritz. By the time she was 5 minutes into her "testimony" I was somewhere in the Frank Church Wilderness, skinning out a massive muley.
I guess it's about time to quit. I think this novel will take more than one page. I'll try to be more diligent with posting on this blog in the future...I don't want to see it die.
Doug HAS done very well in baseball this year. He was named first team Skyline Conference as a pitcher, and did extremely well the last 4 games of the season. I think for the year he had 8 wins and 3 losses...not too bad for a sophomore. Of course the other 8 kids on the field had little if any to do with the wins...Doug did it all himself. His American Legion has gotten off to a good start also...he pitched in his first Falcon game last night, and did pretty well. He came in in relief in the top of the 5th inning, and only gave up two hits. He struck out 4 batters, walked 2, and didn't bean anyone. He gave up a run on a double, but the kid that scored reached on an error so Doug shouldn't have been given an earned run. As far as his grades go, like Laurie mentioned he got a 4.0, so if he keeps it up for a couple more years should be able to go to just about any college he chooses (I think he's leaning towards OIT so he can play baseball for Tacchini).
Stephanie came home from Boise the middle of May, but has spent all but about 2 hours in her room playing on her computer. She made a trip to Boise last weekend and came back all gung ho to start swimming, so hopefully her pool time will increase so she won't feel like an idiot when she goes back to BSU in August. How about it, Steph? Are you gonna start serious practices?
Donald had his endurance test for the ODF at Miller's Island today. He had to cover 3 miles in 45 minutes while wearing a 46 pound vest, and managed to tear the course up and finish in just over 41 minutes. Way to go Donald! I guess he's managed to suck up enough to the people that hired him that he's being assigned the task of riding around on an engine with Brad Smith looking for stuff to spray water on...sounds pretty cake to me!
Tom is hurt. Sounds like he has a job killing magpies for the Burnhams at $10 a pop, which might help him decide what direction his career should go. If he manages to make some money sniping stuff, who knows where it could take him...Border Patrol? CIA? Blackwater? The skies the limit if you're a good shot...
Don't have any updates on Jeff. How about it Jeff? What's up? Did you put in for any hunts?
Because Laurie has her own blog, and posts more than anyone on this one, there's not much to write about with her family. She and her kids unexpectedly showed up in Klamath for your mom's birthday, which was a really nice surprise.
As far as your mom and I are concerned, there's nothing to write about. We missed out on Olive Garden last night because we had to pick up sleeves for Doug, so the birthday dinner consisted of a hamburger and a couple of hot dogs at the game. I've put in for my share of hunts again, but don't expect to draw anything. I do plan on going to Idaho for 2 weeks in September, but that's a long way off so not worth writing about yet. I'm still hurt, so haven't written anything on my other blog either. All we seem to do is go to games, work, and church.
Speaking of church, testimony meeting the day before yesterday has to rank right up with the one a couple of years ago when that crazy old bat started praying for the fire fighters in the middle of her "testimony." Brent Asay was conducting, so he had the opportunity of sharing his testimony. It was really interesting...he babbled about nothing for about 30 minutes, didn't really mention any gospel principles, but DID manage to take a couple of shots at the government. It did a really good job of setting the tone for the meeting. Of course Asay was followed by another member renowned for giving documentaries...Sister Gritz. By the time she was 5 minutes into her "testimony" I was somewhere in the Frank Church Wilderness, skinning out a massive muley.
I guess it's about time to quit. I think this novel will take more than one page. I'll try to be more diligent with posting on this blog in the future...I don't want to see it die.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Happy Birthday
I'm putting off going to bed, so I thought I'd just say it one more time....Happy Birthday Mom! I hope that you got to go to dinner and had a great day.
Also, happy birthday to Breein... I hope that you had a super great day and that your loser of a husband (ha ha just kidding Jeff) did something extra specially nice for you.
On a side note, this blog seems to be dying. Things to post about are, hmmmm, Doug playing for Falcons and getting straight A's, Donald getting a job fighting fires, Tom and his hurt knee, Stephanie finishing up her first year of college and being back home for the summer, Jeff and all his trips to Vegas...Leona walking (oh yeah, that's me...Leona is pretty much walking now...yippee) Anyway, don't let it die, please......
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