1. I leave for Anchorage in a week and a day! I shouldn't be so excited, but I get to go to Skagway and everyone here is super grumpy.
2. In Alaska it can't just be cold. It has to be cold plus have wind that will go straight through your clothes and turn your blood to ice as soon as you are exposed. It had better be at least a little warm in Utah when we get back :).
3. Sarah works nights, so I have this deal with her where she will text me if the lights are out good so I can go see them. It works out quite nicely, since I don't want to be up in the middle of the night looking for lights when I have to work at 6 unless I am actually going to see them.
4. Asking Jessie to pick out books for you to borrow can be a little dangerous. She started out with two, then as we were talking kept saying, "Oh this one's good too!" So I left with five books. Good thing I go through them fast :).
5. Miles and I are in the middle of a silent Check Inn war. I like to have the screen off centered on the computer screen so that you can see Check Inn, Direct Inn, and the weather all at the same time, but he likes it dead center. So we both change it every time we work, and I think we are both driving each other crazy.
6. From being at Jessie's house I am now addicted to the games Hand and Foot, and Dutch Blitz. We should definitely add those to our New Years list I think.
7. This is the land of rainbows. The sky is almost never perfectly clear, and you can usually count on at least two rainbows a week. And often they stretch across the entire sky, from mountains to mountains. It's quite impressive. And then the sunrises. All those clouds make them pretty spectacular, and in the rare event that there are no clouds the entire sky turns orange. It's pretty amazing.
8. The new way to say "I am going to give Ashley a ride home" is "I'm going to haul Ash," compliments of Keith. Jessie told him she was going to "drive Ash" and he made fun of her, saying at the mine they usually "haul ash" they don't drive it. Jessie thought that was cute, and so it stuck haha.
9. The problem with working in an uninsulated metal train car; whatever it is outside it's the same inside. So lately when it's been 20 degrees outside, even with the heat on full all night the office is 40 degrees when I come in the morning. It's freaking frigid :).
10. Sometimes girls are pathetic. We have this system that if someone has reservations but gets here late we will leave out their key in an envelope with their name on it taped to the office door. If the key is still there in the morning, we charge the card on file the cancellation fee. So these girls reserved two rooms, and then didn't ever come so we charged the fee. A couple of days later they called and said they came, but it was dark and they didn't want to get out of the car to get the keys. There were six of them. I think they could have managed, but that's just me. We refunded them, but we all couldn't quite believe that they would rather all sleep in their rented van then go 15 feet in the dark to get their room keys.
11. Speaking of sunrises, the one right now is amazing. The middle of the clouds are all purple while the edges are bright pink. And of course I don't have my camera.
12. It has been an adventure and I'm glad I came, but I am also happy to be going home soon.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Alaska #9
1. Northern lights are pretty much amazing! And I am going to pick up the tripod that I ordered so hopefully I will get some good pictures soon.
2. The drunken antics of my coworkers somehow resulted in the screen door on our kitchen getting bent into a v-shape. Ya, it's not very useful anymore. And James just barely put that in this summer. I will never understand why people feel the need to get drunk.
3. Between the drunken antics of said coworkers and Lucy watching TV across our thin wall until 2 or 3 every morning, it's getting rather difficult to sleep at night. Oh well, I just see the lights more :).
4. The latest group project at work has been repainting the train car that is our office. James is way too perfectionist. He started grinding off all of the rust and started basically from scratch. So after a month of working on it, he only had a week before he and Brigitta left, so in our spare time everyone except Lucy have been painting the train car. It's fun, except the wind has been blowing like crazy lately so you end up with paint blown all over you and have to hold on tight when you're on the ladder or else you get blown over. At least we are finally almost done.
5. Walking 2.2 miles to church sure does a number on flip flops. I am on my third pair since coming here, and I only wear them to church and to the shower.
6. Most of the foreigners can't say "Wi-Fi." They get the Wi part right but always say Fee. So it sounds like they're asking if there's "wifey" in the rooms :).
7. We had a staff pizza party before James and Brigitta left on one of the slower nights in the office. Miles helpfully informed me that the drinks there were alcoholic, so I didn't have any. But everyone else did. It was an interesting night. Sheri gets super giggly when she's tipsy, and I've never seen her like that before. Miles would say something, and she would laugh for a couple of minutes, then say "You know you're kind of funny." By the end everyone was laughing for no reason or super grumpy, also for no reason.
8. Quote of the week. We were explaining to the Bulgarians about Labor Day, and Kiki was very confused. She said, "I thought labor was when . . . Phewsh!" Said while motioning downward from her hips :).
9. I no longer get Sundays off. Miles is always lucky enough to be there when Sheri is making the schedule and he has been asking them off lately. I don't get it. I am the only one that goes to church, and all he does in lay around in the kitchen/living room hung over. He can do that any day. And Lucy refuses to work mornings, so I'm out of luck :(.
10. I am addicted to the Gourmet popcorn place down in the Canyon. It is run by this super cute couple, and I get a local discount. I am going to miss that place. They have amazing chocolate covered popcorn, but they also have the best plain caramel popcorn I've ever had.
11. The clouds here are pretty spectacular. When it's partly cloudy the clouds hang so low and are so fluffy that they look fake. Also, sometimes there is a smooth layer of clouds across the entire sky, and it just looks like the sky is white instead of there being clouds. I would still be okay if the sun showed itself more often, but at least the clouds aren't boring :).
12. Apparently fall is the season for Martens. They are running all over the place, and are super cute.
2. The drunken antics of my coworkers somehow resulted in the screen door on our kitchen getting bent into a v-shape. Ya, it's not very useful anymore. And James just barely put that in this summer. I will never understand why people feel the need to get drunk.
3. Between the drunken antics of said coworkers and Lucy watching TV across our thin wall until 2 or 3 every morning, it's getting rather difficult to sleep at night. Oh well, I just see the lights more :).
4. The latest group project at work has been repainting the train car that is our office. James is way too perfectionist. He started grinding off all of the rust and started basically from scratch. So after a month of working on it, he only had a week before he and Brigitta left, so in our spare time everyone except Lucy have been painting the train car. It's fun, except the wind has been blowing like crazy lately so you end up with paint blown all over you and have to hold on tight when you're on the ladder or else you get blown over. At least we are finally almost done.
5. Walking 2.2 miles to church sure does a number on flip flops. I am on my third pair since coming here, and I only wear them to church and to the shower.
6. Most of the foreigners can't say "Wi-Fi." They get the Wi part right but always say Fee. So it sounds like they're asking if there's "wifey" in the rooms :).
7. We had a staff pizza party before James and Brigitta left on one of the slower nights in the office. Miles helpfully informed me that the drinks there were alcoholic, so I didn't have any. But everyone else did. It was an interesting night. Sheri gets super giggly when she's tipsy, and I've never seen her like that before. Miles would say something, and she would laugh for a couple of minutes, then say "You know you're kind of funny." By the end everyone was laughing for no reason or super grumpy, also for no reason.
8. Quote of the week. We were explaining to the Bulgarians about Labor Day, and Kiki was very confused. She said, "I thought labor was when . . . Phewsh!" Said while motioning downward from her hips :).
9. I no longer get Sundays off. Miles is always lucky enough to be there when Sheri is making the schedule and he has been asking them off lately. I don't get it. I am the only one that goes to church, and all he does in lay around in the kitchen/living room hung over. He can do that any day. And Lucy refuses to work mornings, so I'm out of luck :(.
10. I am addicted to the Gourmet popcorn place down in the Canyon. It is run by this super cute couple, and I get a local discount. I am going to miss that place. They have amazing chocolate covered popcorn, but they also have the best plain caramel popcorn I've ever had.
11. The clouds here are pretty spectacular. When it's partly cloudy the clouds hang so low and are so fluffy that they look fake. Also, sometimes there is a smooth layer of clouds across the entire sky, and it just looks like the sky is white instead of there being clouds. I would still be okay if the sun showed itself more often, but at least the clouds aren't boring :).
12. Apparently fall is the season for Martens. They are running all over the place, and are super cute.
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