Hmm

Well, i have no idea where i left off on my last blog but i know its been at least a week and probably longer than that knowing me. I havent been doing to much exciting lately, but i was actually home last weekend and im going to be home this weekend too! i know, its pretty much amazing since i havent been home for a weekend in almost 2 months. The people in my meeting were starting to wonder if i was still alive :) i assured them that i am indeed still alive and living with rick and that I would even be here next weekend! They were all quite shocked to say the least. What can i say, i like surprising people.
Trevor came to see me last weekend which was nice. we went on a date Friday after he got here. Went to a little hole in the wall mexican place that has totally awesome food and totally stuffed ourselves then we headed to the movies to watch the new 007 movie. I must say that i have seen better and i didnt really enjoy this one at all. can you believe that he used NO gadgets??!! I mean really, this is 007 we are talking about. He always has gadgets and gizmos that get him out of every scrape that he manages to get into. oh well thats just a part of life :P
Work has been sorta interesting in a odd way. Everyone has been taking Monday night/Tuesday off because our freezers are overflowing and we have to empty them out before we make any more of the freezer bread (certain varieties always go in the freezer and we make them on monday nights) so until further notice i no longer have my thursday nights off and to top all that off i have to work til 7:30 instead of 7... of course i wont be starting til 9pm but still, its the principle of the matter. Last night we ran into a bit of a delima when trying to get some trays pulled into the bakery. All the available trays were stacked 20 feet high. Yes i do actually mean 20. someone had the brilliant idea of using the fork lift to continue stacking the trays almost to the ceiling therefore conserving space (im giving them the benifit of the doubt on that theory, personally i think they really just like to watch us try to get them down) so in an effort involving no less than 6 people, a very tall ladder and 3 hand carts, we managed to get enough of them whittled down to a managable height. it was quite the accomplishment i must say. Other than me breaking the machine and maintenance not putting it back together right the rest of the night was rather un-eventful.
Im going to Grandma and Grandpa's for turkey day next week (with the added bonus of seeing Trevor) and Special Mtg is that sunday so i will get to go with them and that should be fun. Well thats all for this one.

Guns, Cars, Monkeys and Deer

Ok so i got to go up to the farm again this weekend (for like the 6th time or something) it was fun. rick came up after work on friday, he started out to have teresa with him but they stopped at steve and julies and teresa decided to stay there instead of goin up to the farm this time. i went to the farm right after i got off work friday morning so i got there about 1pm i believe. i promptly went to bed but after a couple hours of sleep i decided to wake up and go do some shooting with the guys (trevor and roy) i must say, my aim really stinks like really bad stinks. i was using the excuse taht i was left handed trying to shoot right handed but then they just told me to hold the gun the other way so now ive about determined that i just have bad aim. ok so thats all with the gun part of the title, on to the car part.
I took my own car up to the farm cause it was making a really funny noise any time i went over 70mph and seeings how the speed limit is 75 it was becoming a bit of a problem. Grampa and trevor took it out for a test drive and when they came back they said WOW, i was almost afraid to go any faster cause i thought it was going to fall apart. (it had a rather bad vibration if you pushed on the gas to hard) so after a long discussion between various male relatives they finally decided it was most likely the CV joints (constant velocity) i have no idea what they are but it has to do with the wheels in the front. sorta the axle or something. Grandpa didnt think that he would be able to get the parts in shelby and so was prepared to order them and lend me one of his cars to drive in the mean time. Monday morning he headed to town to look for parts and surprisingly found everything he was looking for. So while he was fixing my axle, he went ahead and fixed my right blinker and left brake light as well as pounding all the dents in my fender out and re-painting it for me. it looked pretty much amazing for the first time in almost 2 years.

While grandpa and trevor were out in the shop, i decided to make some monkey bread. (thats where the monkeys come in) it was a really easy recipie and ended up tasting really really good, i think everyone agreed that it was pretty much amazing.
Tuesday i just puttered around and ran some errands with trevor for roy as roy was in Helena running errands for lyle. i left for home/work about 3:45. i was goin good, and about 7:30 i was almost to work and guess what! yup you guessed it, thats where the deer came in. i hit a stinkin deer and totally ruined not only the fender that grandpa had just fixed but the same blinker that he fixed as well, i tell you, some days it just makes me want to spit or something. my car is still in driveable condition but man, i was really likin it lookin nice like it did. i think one of the worst parts about it is that it hadnt even looked nice for a full 24 hours before it happened.
Oh, but the main happiness for me this weekend, that might even cancle out the dumb deer (i havent decided yet) Trevor and I are officially dating now. ok that is all, time for sleep now,
Bye

Finally

Well election day is finally over so hopefully our mail box will no longer be stuffed full of "current resident" or "box holder 244" vote for ________ (fill in the blank). or all the annoying commercials on the radio-- Senator Obama supports blah blah blah. and promises to yada yada yada. Mcain will do whats right for out bleh bleh bleh. etc etc i think you get the point. now i get to listen to all the things that the new pres... who is it btw ive been trying not to pay attention- is going to be doing and how hes going to go about doing said things.
Ok so enough of the politics (politics meaning many blood sucking creatures)
So last weekend Brenda, Ivan and I went down to visit Sharon and her brood. We had a nice time. i got to meet some of Joe's family. he has a sister about stephanies age that i went horse riding with . that was a blast. its started raining part way on our ride so we turned back and ran cause it was fun and well, we out ran the rain. so we didnt get to wet and had a lotta fun at the same time. on the down side it had been about a year and a half since ive been on a horse so i was VERY sore when i gingerly slid off Whitie (he looked exactly like April and Rouge just a lot bigger) I ended up catchin a bit of a cold from little Lane. he was sure miserable but seemed to be getting better by sunday so thats all good. I had elk meat for the first time in my life and surprisingly, it was really good. i didnt know what it was at first so that helped a lot but it really tastes a lot like beef. its a little different but still really good specially if its done in the crockpot and has some gravy stuff on it. deer meat on the other hand is really not palatable (spelling?)
I tried to go to work monday night but ended up going home after about an hour cause i was just miserable, the first cold of the season will sure knock the wind outta ur sails. but after a meer 13 hours of sleep aided by NyQuil, i was feeling much better-- i could actually talk and swallow it was quite amazing. well its time for a shower and bed, so ciao