Yesterday at work Natalie decided that we needed to leave Nauvoo together once our shift ended at 3:30. So... we headed all the way to Keokuk. I was introduced to the "mall". Wow. What a mall. After RTC, Bell Square and University Mall... Keokuk was like the Bear Creek Shopping Center. However, there was a nail place and Natalie said she had never gotten a pedicure-so in we went! It was a most excellent time, and she wants to go again before we go back to school. Then we met up with some of her friends for Taco Thursday, which was about halfway decent. Then Nat and I met up with Shannon and Julie (both from work) to watch the ballroom dancers. It was my third time going, but none of the others had been yet. It was kind of fun going out with them all, but I won't be in a hurry to do it again.
I should've been working on my primary lesson, or at least looking at it.
Also, I'm excited for everyone to get here! Only a few days til we nearly double the population of Nauvoo!
6.19.2009
6.15.2009
One of Those Days...
Today I had one of THOSE days. Most you won't relate exactly... but I had one of those days where I just missed my residents. I was on Facebook and saw pictures from Allysa's wedding. I saw pictures from when Emily got engaged a few weeks ago. I saw pictures of some of the others. I was going through my scrapbooking pile and found the note that Elora left me when she moved out, the one that made me cry and cry during checkouts. Whitney made a comment on my blog. Sierra invited me to join a group. One of my Courtney's showed up in my newsfeed 4 times.
Not very many of my girls read my blog, actually... Whitney is the only one that I know of. But if there are any others who happen to be reading... I MISS YOU!
I miss unlocking your apartment/bedroom doors for you when you are locked out. I miss hall meetings. I miss visiting your apartments. I miss watching The Office with you. I miss the treats that 102 gave me during cleaning checks. I miss walking past you on campus and seeing which of you would actually say hi to me. I miss sitting in the lobby, watching you all come home and figuring out how everybody was doing. I miss stalking the mailman with some of you. I miss you coming in and talking with me in my room. I miss going to your apartments at midnight and staying til who knows when in the morning. I miss helping you guys with your problems. I miss hearing when you got a letter from your missionary, especially the girl with the missionary in the Texas, Houston East mission. I miss hearing stories of your missionaries and telling you stories of all of my friends on missions.
I don't miss waking up to unlock the building. I don't miss checking all 12 stairwells of backdoors in our associate trihall and our trihall. I don't miss filling out incident reports. I don't miss doing your cleaning checks.
Not very many of my girls read my blog, actually... Whitney is the only one that I know of. But if there are any others who happen to be reading... I MISS YOU!
I miss unlocking your apartment/bedroom doors for you when you are locked out. I miss hall meetings. I miss visiting your apartments. I miss watching The Office with you. I miss the treats that 102 gave me during cleaning checks. I miss walking past you on campus and seeing which of you would actually say hi to me. I miss sitting in the lobby, watching you all come home and figuring out how everybody was doing. I miss stalking the mailman with some of you. I miss you coming in and talking with me in my room. I miss going to your apartments at midnight and staying til who knows when in the morning. I miss helping you guys with your problems. I miss hearing when you got a letter from your missionary, especially the girl with the missionary in the Texas, Houston East mission. I miss hearing stories of your missionaries and telling you stories of all of my friends on missions.
I don't miss waking up to unlock the building. I don't miss checking all 12 stairwells of backdoors in our associate trihall and our trihall. I don't miss filling out incident reports. I don't miss doing your cleaning checks.
6.14.2009
Chiggers.
I. HATE. CHIGGERS.
My foot itches, a lot. I have three chigger bites and they are driving me nuts. Wikipedia and Uncle Randy don't match up exactly on what to do with my chigger bites, but that's okay. I'll do what Uncle Randy said, even though Wiki says that it's too late for that to be the most helpful. Stupid chiggers.
See if I ever go for the cute shoes over the practical shoes ever again (at least while I'm in Nauvoo).
On a side note, the BYU Ballroom Dance Company was amazing, and even though I got chigger bites as I watched them, they were FABULOUS. And attractive. AND it was one of the best Friday nights I've had here! I watched the dancers with my new friend Kim. She's here for the summer as an intern with NRI (I don't know what that means though) and she goes to BYU-I. She's hilarious and so is her sister, Kaycee. We met up with some of Kim's friends from work, Lara, Tammy and Michelle, and a girl from institute named Becca. Afterwards we went to Lara's house to watch Phantom of the Opera, and it was amazing! It was great partially because we all are just here for the summer (well, besides Becca)so everybody else around me was in the same boat as me. Nobody was talking about people that they went to high school with, which was an amazing switch from work where everybody knows all the same people except me. YAY!
It keeps telling me that blogger is having a scheduled outage soon, so I'm going to stop the post there, but look forward to another post from me sometime soon.
My foot itches, a lot. I have three chigger bites and they are driving me nuts. Wikipedia and Uncle Randy don't match up exactly on what to do with my chigger bites, but that's okay. I'll do what Uncle Randy said, even though Wiki says that it's too late for that to be the most helpful. Stupid chiggers.
See if I ever go for the cute shoes over the practical shoes ever again (at least while I'm in Nauvoo).
On a side note, the BYU Ballroom Dance Company was amazing, and even though I got chigger bites as I watched them, they were FABULOUS. And attractive. AND it was one of the best Friday nights I've had here! I watched the dancers with my new friend Kim. She's here for the summer as an intern with NRI (I don't know what that means though) and she goes to BYU-I. She's hilarious and so is her sister, Kaycee. We met up with some of Kim's friends from work, Lara, Tammy and Michelle, and a girl from institute named Becca. Afterwards we went to Lara's house to watch Phantom of the Opera, and it was amazing! It was great partially because we all are just here for the summer (well, besides Becca)so everybody else around me was in the same boat as me. Nobody was talking about people that they went to high school with, which was an amazing switch from work where everybody knows all the same people except me. YAY!
It keeps telling me that blogger is having a scheduled outage soon, so I'm going to stop the post there, but look forward to another post from me sometime soon.
6.07.2009
Primary
As a Primary Teacher (yes, I have a calling now, and that is what I do) it made me really upset today to watch the mother of the most obnoxious kid in my class hand him candy during Sacrament Meeting. He's already crazy enough, and then you send him off to my class so soon after eating a candy bar? Seriously? I hope you have fun sitting in our class with us next week, because we're done dealing with your son. Happy Sunday!
On a happier note, I love primary! The class that I co-teach (CTR 7) has 4 boys in it. They are, for the most part, incredibly adorable! They have a lot of energy, they don't know any of the songs in primary (or at least they won't sing them... maybe they do know them?), and they rarely can get through even 5 minutes of a lesson. Today the Primary President let me know that my job for the summer was to help this class, and that we needed to take turns teaching. For the past two weeks I have been attending this primary class, being the enforcer of a little bit of reverence. Next week I get to teach the lesson. We will not be acting out Laman and Lemuel tying up Nephi (something I have seen in the last two weeks) and we will not be drawing pictures of gumball machines that shoot gumballs up to outerspace (another thing I have seen in the last two weeks). What will we do? I'm not sure. But... they might be able to go home and tell their parents a little bit about the lesson. Perhaps an incentive to be good during lessons would help. I do work at The Adventure Zone... maybe a little class party there could help the boys learn a little reverence? Hopefully when I call the other teacher tonight and let her know that we're co-teachers and that I'm not just helping randomly she'll take the news well. :)
Oh my dear, sweet, siblings. Which of your kids are in the CTR 7 class? They'll get to come to my primary class on a day that I'll be the teacher when they're here for the family reunion! Woohoo!
On a happier note, I love primary! The class that I co-teach (CTR 7) has 4 boys in it. They are, for the most part, incredibly adorable! They have a lot of energy, they don't know any of the songs in primary (or at least they won't sing them... maybe they do know them?), and they rarely can get through even 5 minutes of a lesson. Today the Primary President let me know that my job for the summer was to help this class, and that we needed to take turns teaching. For the past two weeks I have been attending this primary class, being the enforcer of a little bit of reverence. Next week I get to teach the lesson. We will not be acting out Laman and Lemuel tying up Nephi (something I have seen in the last two weeks) and we will not be drawing pictures of gumball machines that shoot gumballs up to outerspace (another thing I have seen in the last two weeks). What will we do? I'm not sure. But... they might be able to go home and tell their parents a little bit about the lesson. Perhaps an incentive to be good during lessons would help. I do work at The Adventure Zone... maybe a little class party there could help the boys learn a little reverence? Hopefully when I call the other teacher tonight and let her know that we're co-teachers and that I'm not just helping randomly she'll take the news well. :)
Oh my dear, sweet, siblings. Which of your kids are in the CTR 7 class? They'll get to come to my primary class on a day that I'll be the teacher when they're here for the family reunion! Woohoo!
6.02.2009
Kind of Cool...
The case of Propel that I bought today is good until my birthday. I saw the date on the top and got excited. When I turn 21, this Propel will no longer be good. CRAZY!
That's all.
That's all.
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