So close to the record high snow fall in Anchorage....

I wonder if when we beat the record it will stop? Hopefully?

This is how it looked all day yesterday... and apparently its going to look like that today!!

Hello Again...

Alright so I haven't blogged in awhile.. but in my defense last week was shit and I just couldn't do it!
Ive been trying my best to cope with the worst home sickness I have ever suffered from! All last week I just wanted to sob, I wanted to go home.. I miss everyone so much and talking to everyone made it worse! I couldn't talk about it or I would just cry!! Thursday night Jason and I went out to see the Northern Lights because it was a really good show going on and I just sat in the truck and cried.. haha great company I was!! I don't know why, I don't know why I felt so awful but let me tell you it was AWFUL!!

Honestly I'm sick of the snow, which was going to inevitably happen but I'm really really sick of it! I'm sick of getting up everyday to more and more snow.. I'm sick of not being able to walk anywhere because there is so much so and ice everywhere that you can't move around the snow or you are slipping and sliding on the ice.. Ive had it! Fuck this snow filled bullshit winter.. WE HAVE 12 FEET ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! Its obviously not helping that all you assholes at home are going on about your "spring like winter"... BITE ME! Obviously there is nothing I can do about it, but what I wouldn't give for some spring like weather, to not have to bundle up and still freeze every time I go outside! I miss flip flops.. or sock feet without slippers.. I miss real weather and not this bullshit cold!

So Friday night we planned to try the Northern Lights show again, but first we would go and meet all the guys at some bar and grill to play pool.. so Jason said we would have something small there but eat something small here first.. I had a quick sandwich and got ready, I felt exhausted and really didn't want to go but I figured we might as well! When we got to the pool hall it was by no means a grill.. haha apparently it once was but they just haven't changed the sign.. food available.. popcorn! So to make a long story short I only kind of remember leaving the bar.. I kind of remember singing in the back of the truck with Josh and Kris at the top of our lungs, although I have no idea what we were singing. I know I ate at the second bar.. but that's pretty much as far as my recollection goes.. I don't even remember drinking that much, I think its because I hadn't eaten.. whatever I felt better I bet! Until Saturday morning.. FUCK! I had to work and I was SOOOOO HUNG OVER!!! Jason thought it was hilarious because he didn't drink because he was driving.. he said that I was super shit faced and could barely stand.. although I can totally see Jason lying to me about the night to make it more amusing for himself. Saturday sucked! Having said that, Jason being wonderful like he can so often be brought me a wonderful lunch.. please see below my lovely meal of Starbucks Grande non-fat vanilla Chai Tea latte and Fred Meyers Chunky Chicken Tortilla soup!!

Needless to say we didn't do much on Saturday night, we stayed in and watched the movie The Secretariat with Diane Lane.. excellent movie! Then I went to bed because I was absolutely exhausted and just wanted the day to be over. Sunday we didn't do much.. I continued to cry on Sunday about being home sick.. this time at Walmart.. haha I know, I know.. We had a quiet afternoon at home and then I made a big dinner considering I really never cook anymore!

Monday at work was a joke.. I don't know what is going to happen with this job. Apparently there was an emergency call on Sunday and when Mike got to Creekside to see what was going on Tom was freaking out that I was suppose to be on call, blah blah blah.. well first of all no one has told me I'm suppose to be on call, no one has explained to me what constitutes an "emergency call".. I had absolutely no direction when I was instructed via a sticky note that I was suppose to be on call when they were both away when Tom had surgery! So as far as I'm concerned I'm not suppose to be on call on Sunday's until instructed. WELL.. apparently they see it differently! Apparently they think that I am going to be on call EVERY NIGHT including my day off and Sundays! I have to keep my house phone because I need to be on call and my cell phone is an out of state number so people cant call it apparently and if I want to go out somewhere I then I have to forward my house phone to my cell phone, which I'm not doing because we only have the house phone in the first place because our cell phones work off combined minutes. I absolutely ABSOLUTELY know that I was not told about being on call at night because I would have NEVER agreed to it on account that Jason usually works crazy hours and its not fair for him to have to be getting up in the middle of the night when he doesn't get much sleep anyways. Besides its bad enough that I have to be on call on Sundays!

It gets better if you can believe it... So I was informed on Monday that they will be going away for a month in September.. which is fine with me in regards to working by myself everyday.. GRAND! But I will have to work my days off, and be on call every night and Sundays!! So on top of that.. they wont be paying me for working my days off while they are gone, when they get back they will decide when its convenient for them for me to take an extra day off during the week! NOT HAPPENING! Who are these people? Everything that they don't want questioned is told to me via sticky note when I come in or voicemail when I get in.. like last Friday! I get to work before her all the time, so I make a tea and take off my jacket sit down to listen to the messages and there is only one.. from her.. apparently she no longer works on Fridays!! MUST BE NICE TO GET A 3 DAY WEEKEND EVERY WEEKEND!! Unbelievable!!

Today was my day off, so I got up early so Barb and I could chat FINALLY!!! Although I swear we didn't cover half of what I wanted to talk to.. I need to start making sticky notes and just sending her an envelope full every month! I think I could do that with a lot of people actually!! Then Tammy picked me up and we went and picked up Imelda who is Javier's wife and we headed to Walmart which is always a productive trip and then to a tiny bakery to get Glen a birthday cake because his birthday is on Thursday and I picked up these awesome looking soft flaky reindeer sausage and cheese pastries for Jason for lunch tomorrow!

So then we picked up Mary... her husband Mike works construction on the job, I have met her once before. We went to the mall which didn't go very far and then decided to go to lunch. We went to Humpy's to have fish and chips which I was SO excited about that but unfortunately it did not settle well in my stomach AT ALL! I don't know if it was the grease or what but whatever it tasted AWESOME at the time.. haha Jason thought so too when he ate what I brought home tonight as an after dinner snack!

So that's pretty much it, I'm feeling better about missing home but it still sucks! I think its because I know I cant just go and its hard. The time difference makes it so much harder because I never get to talk to anyone and I feel like I'm so out of the loop on everyones lives.. its so hard! I'm sure I will survive. I'm hoping this week flies by and this weekend we are going to get me some hiking boots and then Jason and I are going to head down to the creek for a nice long walk (weather pending.. you can never make too many plans in advance here) and then next Tuesday is Tammy's last day before she leaves to go home until JULY so we are going for Mani Pedi's which I am so excited for!

I will try and blog again before Saturday and let you know if I still have a job or if I have politely told them to go fuck themselves and my job search has begun!



Forgot this...

I forgot to share this picture, I took it last night after we dropped off our tax stuff.. we went for a little drive because the sun was shining and thats pretty rare around here.. it was beautiful out!

Ugh...

Ok so I thought I would blog really quickly because Ive been slack and haven't done so in quite a few days and I said that I would make sure I made time to blog and I haven't.. besides I know that most of you I don't talk to on a individual basis all the time so this is the only way that you know whats going on.. but in all fairness you can all email me too.. this blog is so one sided.. you all know what is going on with me but I have no idea what is going on with any of you.

So whats been going on.. Monday work was crazy busy again which was fine because it goes by that much faster, I came home from work and Jason had made an AWESOME turkey pot pie.. as I say all the time Jason is a wonderful cook and turkey pot pie has to be my favourite thing he makes, so we went out and bought a rotisserie chicken (so I guess its actually chicken pot pie.. I lied) and after that we went to Target to pick up a few things, I swear it feels like we have to go there every other night.. clearly we aren't very proficient shoppers.. although really what I think it is, is that we don't decide what we are going to eat all week before we go shopping and if we do we decide we want other things and don't have all the stuff we need to make it.. haha hence the multiple shopping trips every week! But shopping with Jason is always a treat anyways. Check out the chicken pot pie and Jason in Target!

That is a picture of Jason trying to determine whether or not that chair and table set was practical for the deck and playing cribbage.. haha.. he needs to know these things!!

To be honest Monday was a SUPER SHITTY DAY though.. I got some pretty bad news in the morning (no fear, everyone is fine, its only bad news to me) and then Jason called me Monday night before picking me up from work to tell me that the IRS shit still wasn't solved and we could still potentially owe a lot of money.. FUCK! So when we got home I had to sign my pay checks and put the account number on them because I have to mail them to Bank of America.. if you don't know the deal on that they don't have either of our banks here and the company I work for wont do direct deposit so we either were going to have to open a new account (and I didn't want to have 3 bank accounts) or cash them in and have all kinds of cash laying around.. also not what I wanted to do. Anyways so we got home and I went to sit at the table and I smashed my knee off the chair and I instantly cried and screamed "I HATE THIS FUCKING DAY!!!!" haha.. and I stormed into the bathroom, ran the tub and laid in there and sobbed until I ran out of tears! I'm such a bawl ass!!

So Tuesday was my day off and Tammy and I had planned to go to lunch and not much more because I had to pick Jason up from work just after 3pm because we had an appointment at 4pm to get our taxes done! So I woke up to an email from Jason that a pipe foreman had fallen 25 feet the previous night and was on life support, they had basically closed site to all the craft and the guys were all in their trailers while they were investigating. Sadly the gentleman passed away last night. I guess he was that high up and didn't have his harness tied off.. really sad. Also Jason had had the time to get hold of the IRS and things are actually fine and we don't owe anything.. THANK GOD! So I went to lunch with Tammy and Jason ended up getting sent home so I came home.. for really no reason because Jason slept on the couch all afternoon but whatever. So we took the stuff to the accountant and hopefully we will get it back in 2 weeks or so.

Today was ridiculously boring.. I was on my own at work and NOTHING happened all day, no one called, no one came in the whole day was dead!! All I did all afternoon was listen to music and play on the computer.. haha nice life right? But I'm still miserable from the shit that went on Monday! Honestly I'm sick of winter too.. that's really not helping, it snows every god damn day, every morning you wake up to 4 more inches of snow!!

Anyways I just finished working on Mike's resume.. he really wants to get out of this job and move to Texas to be with his brother who is sick so I said I would help him out. I'm going to go for a hot bath and get some sleep tonight hopefully, I didn't sleep great last night and I had a surprise visit from Papa this morning ;) I know you are all thinking.. huh? its a long story.. but I would know that laugh anywhere... Kind of makes me feel better to know that when things aren't good I'm never alone!

Alright I hope you all enjoyed hump day! I promise to blog by the weekend!

Cheers!

Tomorrow is Monday? Really?

This weekend CANT possibly be over! Honestly after this last week I'm wishing more than anything that this was a long weekend.. although having said that I have already been informed that the only long weekends I will get or day off rather is the 4th of July, Christmas day and New Years day.. Stellar!

So I was all on my own this week at work and it was absolutely ridiculous busy.. it was the beginning of the month so all the rents were due and people are calling to tell me why their rents are going to be late, etc.. plus move ins and move outs.. etc! It was just a super busy week and it snowed every god damn day.. Saturday we got a TON of snow.. Ive pretty much had it with the snow. Here is why... this is our walk way and the driveway at work.. ridiculous.. look at all the snow on the roofs!

 Not to mention Ive been on call 24/7 all week and go figure every night I have gotten an emergency call.. unbelievable! So last night I said screw it, they don't pay me to stay home.. so we picked up Josh and met Zach at the Firetap Ale House for dinner and beers! Usually the pizza is awesome but last night it sucked, but the beer was good and that's what I really went there for! So Josh and I drank beers and convinced Jason and Zach to go to Eddies.. some dive bar close to Josh's place, they have a band there on Friday and Saturday nights.. so we had a hell of a time getting there with all the fucking snow and by the time we got there I had to pee so bad but was scared to venture to the bathroom.. in the end I didn't have a choice.. I went to the washroom and none of the doors locked so some girl said she would hold the door for me.. haha ok? Then on the way out I was looking for the guys and some guy says "I would marry you"... haha! This place was a joke! Anyways we continued to drink beers.. mostly Josh and I because Zach looked uncomfortable and wanted to leave and Jason was driving.. so we sat around talking about how much Josh misses Tanya, which I'm not going to lie was super cute! - Tanya I'm giving Josh a ton of brownie points and so should you.. he said he has wanted to go see this band for awhile but didn't think it was appropriate to go to the bar by himself without you.. all night he talked about how hard it is here without you.. it was super cute! So we eventually went downstairs to check out the band and I met George Strait.... haha well not really but he looked IDENTICAL to him.. I guess I sat in his friends seat which is what started him talking to me.. Jason and Josh were standing on the other side of me. Then we stopped talking and I was talking to the guys and then he tapped on my knee and I turned around and he asked "do you think your boyfriend would mind if we danced?".. haha I told him I didn't know but I wasn't very good at two steppin'.. anyways Jason wasn't for it at all so he eventually got up and moved. So we stayed for awhile longer, I was watching the band and all the sudden Jason and Josh bust out singing at the top of their lungs Dierks Bentley.. haha!

Today Jason and I took a drive to Girdwood, the whole drive is on the coast, we went to Alyeska ski resort and all up around Turnagain Arm.. the drive was awesome, I took a ton of pictures that I will send out after this hopefully. The drive was great though and then we came home and Jason cleaned the truck while I did laundry and made dinner.

Here are some pictures to hold you over until I send the other ones.. This is of the Portage Glacier.. its pretty amazing!

I'm actually pretty exhausted.. I don't want to go to work at all tomorrow!! This being on call 24/7 is bullshit..

On a good note we got an EXCELLENT post card in the mail yesterday.. Bob.. you shit! I will admit that postcard was pretty epic.. but with all the snow we've been getting the humor was more elevated than usual. Check it out.. pretty clever I would say..

That's pretty much it here, I would write more but I'm in a bad mood and I just want to go for a bath and go to bed. I'm hoping tomorrow night I will be able to pick up my wedding ring.. I sent it in AGAIN to be fixed after they fucked it up so bad when they had it in North Carolina to clean it and I talked to the manager at the store that sent it away on Friday night and she said she got the list of things that had been done to it and it was EXTENSIVE and quite costly (to them, because they did the damage in the first place and I have a lifetime warranty on it) but she didn't think I would get it back until Monday, so hopefully that is the case and it better be a lot better then it was or I'm going to lose it. I have a major complaint in with Kay Jewellers themselves and I'm told they are investigating but I don't have a lot of faith in that. I'll kee you posted as to what happens there.

Ok Im going to put the pictures up in the morning instead of tonight! But I will do it in the morning I promise!

I hope everyone had a good weekend and has a great Monday!!

ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS!

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/400-inches-snow-makes-valdez-winter-hotspot

Deep Freeze?

Well its fucking cold here.. period! My fingers literally freeze on the 5 minute walk to work every morning.. its absolutely ridiculous! I don't know what I dislike more.. the mountains of snow that just keep coming or the absolute freezing cold! It seems like every morning I wake up and there is either more snow or the door is frozen shut! I'm not complaining too much though.. on the north slope its -85F and in Valdez they have like 50 feet of snow.. so I suppose to can always be worse!

So this week I have been on my own at work and its going really well basically. I'm not overly impressed that I went into a note yesterday that said that I would have to be on call at night and of course when I'm on call at night Ive been getting calls! Jason is furious about it and I don't blame him.. I knew that there was a chance I would have to be on call on Sundays and what could I really say about it but I cant be on call all night every night... I don't get paid enough for that and I really don't think its fair. I was really left with a lot of things this week to take care of that she could have very easily taken care of before she left, or to be honest she could have been here to help with. I was told that I could contact her anytime to ask questions and when Ive tried he answers the phone and wont let me talk to her! He's super ignorant too.. if he can answer the phone that I'm sure he can do ok on his own and she could come back to work. She called yesterday just to ask me to put on the ice maker at the model and she would pick up some ice today for this ice machine Tom is using on his arm and so Ive been making ice and putting it in a bag for her and she never showed. Whatever.

So that's really it for us.. I'm tired this week, Ive been sleeping like shit. Today was crazy busy and I don't suspect tomorrow will be much better on account that its the beginning of the month and rent is due. Hopefully this weekend we will get a chance to go for a drive or something but we are suppose to get a bunch of snow again and going outside of Anchorage it just gets worse.

I promise to have something more interesting next blog.. this one sucks but I felt bad for not writing for a couple nights.

I hope everyone is having a great week! You know you can all feel free to email me and let me know how things are going with you too!!