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

Ok so work was definatly rather interesting last night. First off we were short handed cause one of the girls sister in law is in the hospital so she wasnt at work and it was Tom's day off so that left 2 1/2 people to do all the work. i say 1/2 because Heidi is still in training and cant do everything yet leaving us rather short on people. I got to work at 8:30 as usual and got everything ready to go, the machine set up, bags pulled from boxes, lots of trays everywhere, the whole works. There was only one slight glitch in all of this... we had no bread. Apparently like 5 outta 8 ovens werent working and the thing that makes the bread rise wasnt working either so hardly any of the bread was even even in the oven much less on the cooling rack on its way to us. After it gets on the rack it takes 45-50 minutes to get to us. This being the case we didnt even get our first run of bread until a little after 10pm, over an hour and a half after we got there. then joy of joys, we got our first run of bread. it took about 10 minutes (maybe) to run this through the machine and then guess what, yup. there was another gap in the line. this one about half an hour long. thats basically how the first few hours of the night went. stop and go all the time. rather annoying if you ask me. On the plus side i feel that i am much a genious at the moment because i got that stupid double bagger (we use it for costco and sams bread) to actually work like it is supposed to. and that is pretty much a first for that so i was feeling rather proud of my self. For more of the evils of work when we got to the Big Sky White bread it was all WAY to soft and wouldnt go into the bags cause every time any presure was put on it it just smushed all over the place. so instead of getting almost 1000 loaves of that to sell, we got 640. not very good odds if you ask me. After that bread was done we had no empty trash cans so i did the logical thing and went to empty them although the way i did it was apparently cause for astonishment, congratulations and laughing. odd how the three of those go together. All i did was get a pallet mover and stick a pallet on it and load the bags of bread on. i figered that since they have to go on a pallet anyways i might as well just do it now and not worry about it later. i must say it worked rather well even though ppl were laughing at me as i did it. i say work smarter not harder and boy did it work good :D about half way through the night the de-panner stopped working. thats the doo hickey that pulls the bread from the pans and drops it on the conveyor belt that brings it to me. so they had to start pullin all the bread from the pans by hand and that takes almost half of forever. basically 2 people have to stand on different ladders and then the bread is handed up and they have to dump it on the line making sure that it is all going the right way and is right side up. so thats where they were when i left and boy was i glad to leave!
now it is time for a shower and bed so ciao for now.

Another weekend

So another weekend has come and gone. this one was rather nice in my opinion. i headed up to steve and julies with Teresa after she finished her class. upon arrival at the S&J's we had some pretty good lasagna even though sis didnt use any noodles at all! Kirk got me a couple of rather large books to read and so of course i had to sit down and read them right then and there. or at least one of them and i finished it in about 5 hours (619 pages) it was quite a good book and i will have to be reading it again before to long. She also made some amazing torte with the raspberry sauce and oooh it was AMAZING. i love that stuff i must say. just thinking about it makes me want more. saturday we headed up to the farm (we being teresa and i cause emily had a test til 1) got to the grandparents just in time for lunch so of course we sat down and helped ourselves. after cleaning that up we decided to go out shooting this being trevor, teresa and i. Grandpa and jamin took my car down to the shop and put on my studs and put in my new speakers for me. we attempted to shoot trap for about half an hour before giving up because it was way to windy to be able to hit the things at all. i discovered that i shoot much better if i do it left handed, surprise surprise. so after giving up on the trap shooting we just set up some of the clays on a drum and shot at them with a .22 rifle and trevors .45. it was fun and i got good at hitting the target. i also discovered that i shot a whole lot better left handed for some odd reason :P im heading up to the farm in 2 weeks again this time with rick and teresa and i managed to get sunday night off so we can stay later than 3pm which will be rather nice in my opinion. thats all for now folks

Procastination

So another year has passed... for me at least. i can no longer blame my hyperness/oddness on being a teenager. yes ladies and gents i am now in the 20's bracket of life. cant say as anything seems very different although my hearing might be leaving since i didnt hear my phone ring twice yesterday even though it was right next to me. do they say that hearing is the first thing to go when you get old or is it sight... oh well so far i have done well, nothing for my b-day. i worked tuesday night/wed morning and then i slept upon waking up i went back to work. I think i had one of the best days of work i have had there yet. we seem to have a really good crew going right now... at least if a certain memeber isnt there to stir things up. we got through 31 runs of bread (tuesday night it took us all night to do 21) and let me tell you thats a whole lotta bread if you ask me. the funny thing was that i didnt really make a mess at all when i was running the maching but as soon as one of the supervisors took over suddenly there was a whole lotta bread all over the floor and in piles on top of the machine cause they couldnt seem to get it in the bag. i think i ran the maching for 7 of the 10 hours i was there and the supervisors were "running" it the 0ther 3. i must say i was rather proud of my self for the awesome job i did running that contraption.
So, back to what i was originally going to post. I am in the process of cleaning my room which for some reason usually ends up making a bigger mess before there is any progress to speak of. i really dont know why that is. any ideas? i currently have my clothes in 3 piles, clean, used to be whites and everything else. odd sounding piles you might say but not if you happened to see the condition of my work clothing. Im heading to the farm tomorrow with Teresa- a girl from my field that knows kirstyn. it should be a fun trip up there go shoot some more pigeons and watch sis try to hit them (i hear this time her clothes and shoes will actually match... maybe it will help with her aim :) ) well all that being said, i should probably go find some quarters so i can do my laundry. does anyone have some i can have? ciao

Brenda, Lance and Ivan

Well i just got home from spending a wonderful weekend with Brenda and Lance over in Billings. Its about a 3 hour drive so its not to bad. On friday Brenda and i decided to go to the rodeo that was in town and took Ivan along. (lance isnt big on the rodeo thing) about half way through, Ivan decided that he was done and started fussing so brenda called lance and had him come pick up the squirt. on the way home from the rodeo we had to run by albertsons to pick up some foodstuffs and while we were there decided that we really needed to get the makings for brownie sunday's (brownie mix, ice cream, hot fudge and bananas) when we got home we waited for ivan to fall asleep after his bath and proceded to make the aforementioned brownie sunday's. i should really say that we attempted to make because brenda has one of those fancy stoves that has a ton of buttons on it so in the process of setting the timer, wouldnt you know it, i shut off the oven completly. this wasnt realized til about 11:30 pm when the timer went off so back in the oven it went for another 38 minutes. by the time it was done brenda and i were both drooping ( i hadnt slept in about 30 hrs) we set them on the counter to cool and plopped on the couch to talk and well, we both fell asleep. i woke up at 6am and brenda woke up around 5. we went back to bed :) not a whole lot went on saturday, ran a couple errands and finally had our brownie sunday's. around 9pm aunt jewel called asking if they could spend the night. they had been down in WY lookin at a college for Kevin and they were passing through on their way home so we go to talk with them for a while. Brenda and lance are moving to Chester! i guess lance lost his job and got transfered to Chester so the house is up for sale and needs to stay nice and clean so we did some cleaning up b4 we went to mtg today. we all pretty much left straight after mtg as brenda and lance are heading to chester to hopefully find a place to live as that tends to be helpful. well that is all for my weekend. and i think im goin to go take a nap b4 i have to go back to work.

I was going to blog...

But i decided to go to sleep instead.

Snow

Ok, so you remember in the previous post that i hated snow. well as if to emphasize my point rick knocked on my door and when i said whats up he walked in and threw snowballs at me and yes it was plural. he said that he was careful to miss my computer that was on my lap and that was why it hit the wall and fell down my shirt instead. i hate being cold not to mention wet. so he got my bed wet along with the floor, and me. i went and literally kicked his butt :P then he wouldnt even go and get me ice cream and when i went to get some he followed me outside and threw MORE at me!! how cruel is that i ask you. I told him that if he kept throwing snow at me i was going to go into his room next time Julia calls (with ear plugs and a plastic bag if i needed to chumba) and constantly bug him and if that didnt work, i will go dump snow on the seat of his pickup and see how he likes that! ok thats all again.