Prayer Request

Whitefish or not?

I know that wouldn't even be a question for some, however, it is for me. I love Great Falls, the church, my friends, my job, and the life I have here. I am also in love with Whitefish and my new friends there. Some opportunities have opened up and the families there keep asking when I'm going to move. It is in my heart but I need your prayers to make sure it is the right move and not just me wanting to. It's kind of scary for me to make that choice. To think I came to Montana without a doubt in my mind and no second guessing, that was so much bigger; leaving my family for the first time, being on my own, moving 860 miles away from everything I knew. I think the part that really scares me with this possible move is I now have my career that I love and I'm tenured, I didn't have that before.

Shower Solutions

Since most of you are taller than me this may not seem like such a big deal, however, I know there are a few of you out there that will understand where this is coming from. While in Whitefish I realized that showers are not made universal, they are either for tall people or short people. The reason this came to mind was because the Dustin family members are all tall. While showering in Cameron's shower I am about 2-2 1/2 feet from the shower head. Okay so where's the problem? The water spreads out so far by the time it reaches me that it hits the top of my head and the top of my legs but misses all the in-between. So I decided to come up with some solutions to my problem. I have listed them below, I hope you can get a laugh from them or just agree that I am a little crazy for thinking of these while showering.

1. Have 2 showers, 1 for the tall person and 1 for the short person (I realize this may not be feasible so I have included more solutions)

2. Have shorter hair so that it is easier to get all of the shampoo and conditioner out with the little bit of water that actually hits the head

3. Marry somebody closer to my height (this one is up to God so we will have to wait and see how much of a solution it really is)

4. A shower step stool (for safety reasons I wouldn't suggest this one, although, I do have to use one when cleaning my own shower, it's either that or 3 inch heels and you all know how I feel about those)

5. A shower head that has 2 sets of water holes. 1 circle on the outside and another on the inside to hit the middle of me

6. A telescoping shower head (this would be interesting to see)

7. A handheld shower head (an advantage is you can move it all over the place, a disadvantage - everything has to be done with one hand)

8. Fill in the blank with your suggestions _________________________________

Wonderful Weekend

So this week we had teacher's conferences, that means the whole state of Montana had Thursday and Friday off...yeah, long weekend. Well, you guessed it, I chose to come to Whitefish for a relaxing weekend of rain, nope, not snow, rain. It is so fun to listen to it fall and very soothing because it reminds me of Oregon.

I came down Wednesday afternoon and will be staying until Sunday. As always it has already been quite eventful. I went to church with the Dustins Wednesday evening and then we returned to their house so they could open their birthday gifts. Betty left Thursday for Kansas to spend her sister's birthday with her sisters, Cameron and John went to work so I had the whole house to myself. I got to watch several doe in the yard, do my tae bo workout, check the computer, and just relax reading my book.

In the afternoon I went to town to have lunch with Barb, ended up clear in Kalispell where we ate at an old newstand shop, very well renovated but with the same old atmosphere. It was excellent food and a chocolate milkshake. After that we ventured into a store that sells local arts and crafts. It was fun to see all of the ideas, maybe even a few I could do myself. Then came the real fun, we went to a furniture store that was selling out. Barb was looking for a sofa and a recliner that didn't look like a recliner. After sitting on a bunch of couches we found one that had a sofa and a chace lounge. I loved the lounge and she loved the sofa, so for fun I demonstrated all the ways you could use the lounge, there were 4 different ways and the most fun was just falling back like you do on a day where you are completely exhausted. We decided this was a must on the list of possibilities. We continued our search and came to a couch where little, short, ol' me had to litterally jump to get on to it, it was tall, we decided it wasn't a must for the list, our list for that store was complete so we moved to the next store. This store only had one that was a possibility but we decided it really didn't need to be on the list. So on our way back to Barb's house we pretty much talked ourselves, well, at least Barb (she is the one buying, it not me), into the lounge and sofa from the first store. Now came convincing her husband, which turned out not to be the challenge we thought. He told her if that would make her happy she could go get it...yeah!

I skedaddled home and arrived just after Cameron, he made a quick microwave dinner and then joined me for a movie downstairs. We watched Animal with Ving Rhames. It had a wonderful message but I must say I wouldn't call it the best movie I have ever seen or even a movie I would watch again. By 8:30 I was in bed reading and asleep shortly after 9. The problem being I was awake around 4 and couldn't get back to sleep.

HPFS

So what do these letters have in common with each other? They are all pizza toppings. I started my new part time job last night working at Stageline Pizza. It was fun, I learned how to make the pizzas and thankfully didn't have to run the ovens. So what do the letters mean...H is ham, P is pepperoni, F is fruit (a.k.a. pineapple), and S is sausage. There are a more but I won't bore you with the details.

I am looking foward to this job. It is a very relaxed setting where I get to wear a t-shirt, jeans, and tennies. No uniform! The best part, I have to wear my hair in a pony tail. I have no problem with that since it tends to be my normal hair do. Also, my boss is a parent of two of my kids so she completely understands the need for a flexible schedule.

Looking for tips

Okay, so I need some advice or tips on something that is near and dear to my heart...consideration for notifying people if you aren't going to make it to something you said you would do. It drives me nuts how many people don't let you know that they aren't going to make it. Most of my friends know that this is a great big (I stress big) pet peeve of mine, and yet many of them still do it. How do I truely get the message across?