Thursday, September 27, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
I've been working for one of the local casinos for five days now. I work on the 2nd floor in the offices. Which means I don't have to wear a uniform. This is a sign of status... not wearing a uniform. When I "lower" myself to go to the break room down stairs where all the uniformed people take their breaks, I get funny looks. On an elevator ride up to the second floor a "uniformed" woman looked at my cup of ice & water and asked "don't they have drinking fountains up where you work?" As if to imply that I was slumming it with the "uniformies."
I'm getting my photography business up and running. Turns out Wendover doesn't have an official wedding photographer. So that should bring in some good money once a year.
Thurm's classroom has a piano in it so I've been playing a little bit. I really like it-- I don't know why I hated practicing so much when I was younger. Oh, probably because my four brother were yelling at me to stop because they were trying to watch TV.
Thurm & I discovered "Netflix" so we are looking forward to getting two movies a month in our PO Box. We recieved our first one today!!! "The Office" Season 3, disk 1.
I'm getting my photography business up and running. Turns out Wendover doesn't have an official wedding photographer. So that should bring in some good money once a year.
Thurm's classroom has a piano in it so I've been playing a little bit. I really like it-- I don't know why I hated practicing so much when I was younger. Oh, probably because my four brother were yelling at me to stop because they were trying to watch TV.
Thurm & I discovered "Netflix" so we are looking forward to getting two movies a month in our PO Box. We recieved our first one today!!! "The Office" Season 3, disk 1.
Family Pictures
Jim & Julia's Family
Anthony's Family
Ryan & Marci's Family
Grandma & Grandpa with all their grandkids
The Amazing Race: Bear Lake 2007
Amazing Race Teams
Elise, the creator and hostess of the Amazing Race:Bear Lake. Elise learned though it was her game and her rules, every J has to have a say in how the game was played.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
I've been reading the 1st of a three part series of books called "The Kingdom and the Crown." Which is basically the "Work and the Glory" set in Jesus' time. So basically its LDS fiction and pretty predictable. However, it's having the desired effect on me. I started reading it because my mom highly recommended it and I needed something to read. The story line is fine, but its the history that has gotten me so excited. I'm finally understanding the difference between the Sadducee's and the Pharisees. The time line of the new testament and how it fits into history is finally making sense. The dynamic between the Roman empire and Israel is making sense. How all of this history effects today and the wars going on in Israel is making sense. How Mormonism and Judaism are so similar and why that is! I've thought that before and of course since Jesus was a Jew, that makes sense, but its all becoming so clear. I took a Old Testament class a few years ago and I had the same reaction---excitement. I just couldn't learn enough, fast enough. Its exciting gaining knowledge and truth.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
I HAVE INTERNET! I'm apart of civilization again! I really don't know how I lived without internet back before 1995. I remember getting hotmail and I had one person to email. These last two weeks there has been at least a few times a day that I wanted to google or email something.
So Thurm & I have been adjusting to our new life. Thurm has been adjusting to teaching. I think once he gets into a groove, he'll be a fantastic teacher. He has the class disciplining almost down--one class still gives him a little trouble. He still doesn't have text books, so he's been making up his lesson plans everyday, which is really time consuming. But overall, I think he has found his niche.
I have learned that there isn't a job in town that will pay me what I want. So I am settling for either substitute teaching or working for the casino in the credit department. Both pay about the same. The pro of subbing is I pick and choose my schedule. The con of subbing is that it is subbing. I don't know if I have the patients. We'll see---
Wendover is, as our new friend Carlos, from Mexico City, calls it, a ghost town. But there are lots of books I want to read : )
Below is a post I wrote last week when I thought I'd have internet.
Wendover Day 3:
I have been in Wendover for three days. I was gone over the weekend to Pocatello so those don’t count. I’ve been a homemaker for three days and feel guilty that I need to find a job soon. I’ve cleaned the house, unpacked but still have a full day left to do, did some laundry, went to the electric company, internet company, and to the post-office to get a PO Box.
Everyone keeps telling me I should just stay at home and let Thurm bring home the bacon (Thurm is saying this too). I can’t help but feel very guilty about this. Yesterday I took a nap. Its one thing to be a mother… I feel strongly that a mother should take care of her kids. But I’m just at home all by myself wondering how to pass the time. No internet, no TV. Might as well make money while I’m in this town.
I went to an enrichment night in my new branch last night. One woman I met confirmed that small towns & the Mormon church attract the crazies. But everyone was very nice. Pretty much everyone’s story was that they “ended up” in Wendover and have just stayed. Yes, WE ended up in Wendover, but I am too pro-active to just let us “end up” staying here. We do have a choice in the matter. Overall, I left with a feeling of being depressed by these women’s lives. I’m sure I’ve got the wrong attitude.
We watched Seinfeld last night and Elaine reminded me of Adena. (Adena you are very Elaine-like) Which made Nels appear in one of my dreams. Which made me think about Taiwan today. Thurm & I have been discussing his great new teacher schedule, and how we will have summers off to do as we please. We’ve decided that this coming summer we are going to try and go to Asia for 2 months and teach again. It will be the dream I hold to in the next 9 months of Wendover : )
So Thurm & I have been adjusting to our new life. Thurm has been adjusting to teaching. I think once he gets into a groove, he'll be a fantastic teacher. He has the class disciplining almost down--one class still gives him a little trouble. He still doesn't have text books, so he's been making up his lesson plans everyday, which is really time consuming. But overall, I think he has found his niche.
I have learned that there isn't a job in town that will pay me what I want. So I am settling for either substitute teaching or working for the casino in the credit department. Both pay about the same. The pro of subbing is I pick and choose my schedule. The con of subbing is that it is subbing. I don't know if I have the patients. We'll see---
Wendover is, as our new friend Carlos, from Mexico City, calls it, a ghost town. But there are lots of books I want to read : )
Below is a post I wrote last week when I thought I'd have internet.
Wendover Day 3:
I have been in Wendover for three days. I was gone over the weekend to Pocatello so those don’t count. I’ve been a homemaker for three days and feel guilty that I need to find a job soon. I’ve cleaned the house, unpacked but still have a full day left to do, did some laundry, went to the electric company, internet company, and to the post-office to get a PO Box.
Everyone keeps telling me I should just stay at home and let Thurm bring home the bacon (Thurm is saying this too). I can’t help but feel very guilty about this. Yesterday I took a nap. Its one thing to be a mother… I feel strongly that a mother should take care of her kids. But I’m just at home all by myself wondering how to pass the time. No internet, no TV. Might as well make money while I’m in this town.
I went to an enrichment night in my new branch last night. One woman I met confirmed that small towns & the Mormon church attract the crazies. But everyone was very nice. Pretty much everyone’s story was that they “ended up” in Wendover and have just stayed. Yes, WE ended up in Wendover, but I am too pro-active to just let us “end up” staying here. We do have a choice in the matter. Overall, I left with a feeling of being depressed by these women’s lives. I’m sure I’ve got the wrong attitude.
We watched Seinfeld last night and Elaine reminded me of Adena. (Adena you are very Elaine-like) Which made Nels appear in one of my dreams. Which made me think about Taiwan today. Thurm & I have been discussing his great new teacher schedule, and how we will have summers off to do as we please. We’ve decided that this coming summer we are going to try and go to Asia for 2 months and teach again. It will be the dream I hold to in the next 9 months of Wendover : )
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