New Developments

Wow! I cannot believe I have been able to write this much. I have been trying to write everyday. I can’t usually get my connection to keep on my computer to post but at least I am writing! I forgot how much I enjoyed writing! Today was Valentines Day. Can I tell you how much it did not feel like Valentines Day? No flowers, no candy, no afternoon party in the classrooms, nothing!! It is fine with me—I was the girl in high school who always hoped someone would have a secret crush on her and would get a singing valentine. It never happened! Ha! The things we look for when we are young!! I made the cook gave me a hug today. I don’t think people really hug here either. I feel like I am in some weird movie where I am the only one who needs a hug!! In wake of the holiday I recently found out one of my best friends is engaged!! This means I will be home in August, September or October!! Yea!! I have been thinking about planning a trip home and now I am glad I didn’t! Wow August seems so far away but we are already half way through February!!

So, I have had these guys working in my house for over almost a week now. I was lucky because I missed four days of work while I was on my last mini-vacate. Well, they are still working and just when you think they are almost done BOOM something else happens, for example, the hole in the middle of my floor. It goes all the way across my living room in the middle of the room. It is for the pipes for the toilet. In the mean time the outhouse and I became really great friends again this morning. I think that outhouse knows more about me then anyone in the world does! We spend a lot of time together. I almost feel like God is trying to make me love it. Or at least get over my attachment to flushing toilets. I don’t think there are too many things in the world I hate. I hate tomatoes and I hate outhouses. I had a very large infestation of ants last night too! Yeah…who wants to come and visit me now? Ha! It really reminds me of the movie Under the Tuscan Sun. Woman moves to new creepy place…well her place was beautiful…my place is creepy…not really…anyways…house needs to be fixed up…woman wants to do most of it on her own…but she has to hire some men to help…the organization hired my men…and they are creepy!! I try to be up and dressed by 7:15 so I am not running around in my robe when they get here. Yesterday I was brushing my teeth in the wilderness and went to spit and I didn’t do a very good job of it so I had all kinds of toothpaste going down my chin (and I wonder why I don’t get singing valentines) and I was walking back to my room and they had just got here and I just smile and laugh to myself. I will be happy when they are gone and I have that part of my house back and brand new restroom! It’s going to be so clean. I am going to make my mother proud!!

Just for the record since it is a holiday here are the top ten things I miss:
- My mom and my dad- then my family and friends…blah blah blah that’s a giving!
- Running water all of the time
- Having power all of the time
- Milk, cheese, yogurt, and ice cream
- Screens on doors and windows to protect from bugs
- The internet
- Colorado Eagle Hockey Games
- The Rio Margaritas
- My Saturday and Sunday Starbucks
- My church


More fun and stories later!! Love you all!! Happy Valentines day!!