Outside the snowing is pinging on the windows, and Nome is in a blizzard warning. I would be lying if I said I didn't want to have a snow day tomorrow! We had a lazy weekend, nothing that HAD to be done which in my opinion is the best kind of weekend. Saturday morning we went to a small craft fair. Andrew bought some coffee from the Ski team that was selling Nanook Joe for a fundraiser. Saturday night I went to a Christmas party out at our friend Erika's house (the one with the honey bucket). It was a really fun night decorating cookies, eating lots of food, and doing a white elephant Christmas exchange. Apparently in Nome white elephant means nice gifts (which I knew before hand thankfully). I brought some caramel corn, caramels, and English toffee that I made. I got a really pretty piece of pottery one of the other girls made. Someone else got a onsie for a baby that said "Future Nanook" that she had no use for so she gave it to me.
We have a 4 day week this week, and leave on the 9:39 pm flight on Thursday. We travel to Anchorage, leave Anchorage at 1 am, get to Portland, OR at 5 am, and leave Portland to Minneapolis at 6:37 am. Hopefully we will arrive in MN at noon on Friday. We have started to pile stuff into a corner, getting it ready to pack up. Hopefully the week will go quickly as we are both quite excited to be coming home. We both are looking forward to seeing everyone and I am looking forward to being in a place with more food choices. Nome is somewhat limited as far as gluten free foods.
Some of you have been asking how I have been feeling lately: thank you! I am feeling better lately. I haven't thrown up since Thanksgiving which is wonderful. I have a doctor's appointment in Plymouth for a week from this Monday. We are hoping that the doctor says that everything is AOK with the baby.
Safe driving to those in the storm areas. I have heard from a couple people that it is pretty nasty down there.
See you all in a week or so!
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Busy Busy Busy!
Most weeks Erin and I sit around and say, "Did anything happen this week that we can write about?" Well, this week there has been quite a bit to write about.
There were 9 volleyball teams in town this week for the regional tournament. Because there were so many teams some of them had to be housed in classrooms. Because I have a such a large classroom the Barrow team slept in my room. They kept the room clean and their stuff didn't disrupt my classes. But the fact that games were going on all day on Thursday and Friday meant that the kids were whining, "We want to go to the volleyball games, we want to go to the volleyball games." Sadly Nome came in 4th and are not going to State :(
On Thursday our refrigerator, which was supposed to be new last year, started over heating. Little did we know this was the beginning of a very loooooong weekend. The Assistant Superintendent put in a work request and personally told the maintenance guys to give us a clean, working refrigerator. On Friday afternoon we came home to a covered in MOLD! It was disgusting. Needless to say the Assistant Superintendent was piiiiiissed. He did however go above and beyond by spending about 2 hours helping me clean the fridge. I spent another hour taking off the doors to the refrigerator and the freezer, and putting them back on so they opened the right way for our kitchen. The temp. of the "new" fridge keeps going up and down drastically but it seems to be leveling off. AND, the problems just keep on coming, when they turned the cold water off so they could un-attach the ice maker from the old fridge they didn't turn it back on and broke the lever to a point where we can't get it to turn on either....sigh. It's been a long weekend.
Ending on an uplifting note, we took some time today to put up our Christmas decorations. It looks very warm and cozy in our Nome apartment. It smells amazing too, Erin and I made caramels and toffee Saturday night, they're pretty damn good if I do say so myself.
11 more days and counting till we come home to see everybody! We can't wait. It's 1 degree here and the sun is only up for about 4 hours, but it's home.
There were 9 volleyball teams in town this week for the regional tournament. Because there were so many teams some of them had to be housed in classrooms. Because I have a such a large classroom the Barrow team slept in my room. They kept the room clean and their stuff didn't disrupt my classes. But the fact that games were going on all day on Thursday and Friday meant that the kids were whining, "We want to go to the volleyball games, we want to go to the volleyball games." Sadly Nome came in 4th and are not going to State :(
On Thursday our refrigerator, which was supposed to be new last year, started over heating. Little did we know this was the beginning of a very loooooong weekend. The Assistant Superintendent put in a work request and personally told the maintenance guys to give us a clean, working refrigerator. On Friday afternoon we came home to a covered in MOLD! It was disgusting. Needless to say the Assistant Superintendent was piiiiiissed. He did however go above and beyond by spending about 2 hours helping me clean the fridge. I spent another hour taking off the doors to the refrigerator and the freezer, and putting them back on so they opened the right way for our kitchen. The temp. of the "new" fridge keeps going up and down drastically but it seems to be leveling off. AND, the problems just keep on coming, when they turned the cold water off so they could un-attach the ice maker from the old fridge they didn't turn it back on and broke the lever to a point where we can't get it to turn on either....sigh. It's been a long weekend.
Ending on an uplifting note, we took some time today to put up our Christmas decorations. It looks very warm and cozy in our Nome apartment. It smells amazing too, Erin and I made caramels and toffee Saturday night, they're pretty damn good if I do say so myself.
11 more days and counting till we come home to see everybody! We can't wait. It's 1 degree here and the sun is only up for about 4 hours, but it's home.
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