Reach Out and Touch Someone!

Have you ever noticed the lack of actual human interaction we have these days? I am very grateful for email, text messaging, facebook, and the like because they help me stay in contact with all of the people that I care about that are not where ever I am. Obviously we cannot be together because we all have our own lives but can I please get a face to face conversation over here Please?
The other day I was working and spent the entire day in the same room without going outside. I had lots of contact with people via email to my family and posts to my family website, text messages from Corey and Craig, and a phone call or two but I did not actually converse with anyone all day! So when I go home all I did was talk my roommates' heads off because there were in the same room as me and I could see their expressions or lack there of and I could actually interact with them. It was wonderful!!!

So to all of you who are far away, including Corey, I love you and wish that I could be with you face to face. Technology is nice and all and I am very grateful that I can have some contact with Corey even though he is 200 miles away, Craig I know that you have me beat but I'm sure that you understand, on a daily basis but oh what I wouldn't give to go to lunch with an actual person instead of my cell phone. Please, where ever you are Reach out and touch someone.

To bolt or not to bolt?

So today, while I had nothing to do, I went out and started to hand drill my new project route down at derkies. It took me roughly an hour to drill one hole. Mostly due to the arm pump of swinging a hammer non-stop and the constant texts a couple people kept sending me. All together it was quite a pleasant experience. Then absent mindedly I tightened the bolt too tight causing it to "gauld". The nut successfully adhered itself to the bolt. I attempted to back off the nut, and in the process spun the bolt in the hole. So, now the bolt is stuck in the rock, useless! It will have to be chopped! All that time and it got me no where. I have gained a great respect for all of the "old school" route setters. Now I am faced with the option of having a friend come in to punch holes for me or finish what I have started the hard way. Hand drilling, though hard, was an interesting intimate experience with the rock and my surroundings.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

We went to Declo to my grandfather's house for Thanksgiving this year. Jentri was able to meet my mother's side of the family. We all had a great time stuffing our faces and playing random games. You must understand, we stuff 30-40 people into a 1500 square foot house with about 200 pounds of food! Or so it seems. It is interesting how we as a society forget the meaning of Thanksgiving. It started out as a feast celebrating our Thankfulness. Now it has evolved into an all out stuffathon resulting in shopping all nighters. I am amazed at the people who are willing every year to sit around all night just hoping to get a great deal on a pair of shoes or the alike. But of course I cannot speak too loud. I have been known to camp out side of REI waiting of a garage sale. I regress. My grandfather is getting on the old side and we all see this holiday season as his last. It is a sad thing to watch the people you love so much fall apart. I also feel badly for Jentri, I have roughly 300 extended family members that she has met thus far, and more yet to go! Yeah, I'm a little close to all of my extended family. Some may think it is crazy, but I love it! I only get my girl for one more day, then I have to send her back to Rexburg to her other life. I will surely miss her, but this is the way it is supposed to be.

pre-thanksgiving

I have forgotten how wonderful it is to have my beautiful girl around. I enjoy her company every day and it all just seems to be right, like it is all meant to be this way. Although I only get her for a week, she will be moving home in 3 more weeks once semester is over. Currently I am out of a job. My father is back to fighting with the county building inspectors and has a 6 month delay put on his house. Oh, the joys of our helpful government! So, the holiday season approaches leaving me without a job or the aspect of money, the solitary thing needed to survive in this world. I am currently attempting to sell my woodwork to help out. Also attempting to get a job working on the Twin Falls Temple. If you all have any helpful hints, they would be much appreciated. Prayers of any sort would be great as well.

Welcome

Hello everyone. We decided to set up this Blog so that we could keep you all updated on our adventures. It will probably be slow starting out but we'll try to keep up.
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