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feeling good today. it is my first full day at work by myself. really slow day...but that is ok. i'm having fun playing with some of my pictures. there is a thing on some other blogs i have come across that is a self-portrait for every day of the year. thought it might be fun. took these ones yesterday. so here is my first few portraits for this series.

so much to share!!!

wow. what a weekend.

friday night was great...just like i had hoped it would be. this is the only picture that i got. :P sorry. got so caught up in laughter! but we had a lot of fun.

then saturday morning i went in service and when i got home my husband had decided to shave his head again! woohoo! what a handsom man. i love how spontaneous he is. luv this guy!

saturday afternoon we watched the movie DAN IN REAL LIFE. one of the best! i laughed out loud (nothing new) cried (also nothing new). my suggestion: watch it!

on sunday we had the special talk...also given around the world. i was privileged to be able to help interpret it for the deaf ones in our hall. i have been doing a lot of interpreting at our meetings lately and getting more and more comfortable with it. jehovah has blessed our move i think...we feel wanted and needed in this new congregation.

....to our new home.


here in beautiful Soap Lake, Washington
this is our livingroom. lots of chairs...i know. but comfortable and livable. we were allowed to paint the walls here! yay! so now i have brown and green walls to match all my brown and green stuff. the view of the lake above is from these windows. "lake view property" ;)

this is my new wall of clocks! its funny how used to having them i had gotten...so that while they weren't up i missed them.

this is our kitchen and my perfect green canisters i searched for months for. finally found them at World Market in Spokane. love them!
of course we have word magnets on our fridge. we are always writing little notes and poems to each other.
the clock in this room is one i have had for awhile. the other day i took it apart and added green and brown polka-dot cardstock to it so it matched the house. have i said how much i love green and brown? :)
this shelf is in our dining room. its for all our magazines and stuff and my Nancy Drew book collection. and beside it is our wedding present from Kelly. its four pieces of canvas covered in scrapbooking paper and pictures of us. then one of the squares has a clock on it. does that girl know me or what?

well, that's all the pictures i had time to take this morning. the bedroom isn't quite finished and my scrapbook room/closet is just about organized. can't wait to get that started again. i miss scrapbooking. :(

one bad thing about our apartment is that the bathtub in plugged....really bad. you take a shower and by the time you're finished you could take a bath too. :P not good. we have tried so many different things. drain-o and the plunger and some natural enzyme thing from chris' mom. nothing has worked. so i called our manager yesterday and hopefully today when we get home it will be fixed.

tonight chris and i are going out. i have a surprise planned for him. there is a little comedy club in ephrata that is putting on a show and buffet tonight. chris loves that sort of thing. i told him to come pick me up from work tonight and to be dressed up. he has no idea. i'm so excited!

let you know how it goes and hopefully have pictures for you too!

balancing is a beautiful thing

have i mentioned that i like my job? :P

today has been such a crazy busy day. lots of people get paid today so we had lots of loans due. its going to be fun to get to know people in the community.

im working with one of the other ladies today. her name is Billye. she is great. she is very knowledgable because she has been doing this for as long as the store has been open. gladly she understands the concept of learning by doing and she is letting me do all the computer work and figure things out. i'm enjoying it.

i'm going to take some pictures of my new cute apartment and post them tomorrow so you can see it. i love it. we got to paint and decorate so it really feels like home.

i'm really starting to like it here....

Sunshine in Soap Lake....

spring has officially arrived....thank goodness after last week's crazy winter blizzard!

so the best news of all that i have to share is this:
i finally have internet access!!! (at work)

after a month of being unemployed i have finally found a job in my new little town. i am working at a place called INSTANT CASH. its a check cashing and payday loans place. i started last wednesday and so far i just love it. my boss's name is Kristin and she is awesome. she said that usually training takes a month...ive been here a week and she has already left me in charge of the store. :) i'm a fast learner and i enjoy this type of work. its good to be back working with money and people...but without the sales and politics of the banking industry.
so happy!

so this means i will be able to start posting on my blog again. yay!

I'M BACK!!