Qwest is run by Nazi's!

On Monday the Nazi's at Qwest installed a new program on their employee's phones. Kelly's didn't get installed right and he spent most of Monday and Tuesday with tech support trying to get it fixed, which bombed his availability percentage. On Wednesday his boss told him he had to have it back up to 90% by Friday or he would be fired. On Thursday morning his boss told him that he could either quit or be fired on Friday and she would block unemployment. So now we have no insurance.

Luckily, Deyette and Duren came to the rescue. Kelly starts Monday working construction with Duren. We didn't take a pay cut, but still don't have insurance. I'm going to try to get insurance through the University on Monday, but I don't know if it will cover Kelly too, and it will only last until December when I graduate.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Sunday at Snowbasin

We spent Sunday up at Snowbasin to celebrate a bunch of birthdays: my Grandma Sonia, Aunt Natalie, Uncle Mark, Uncle Tom, and my Dad. There was Celtic music thing going on that was very cool. One of the players had a beautiful wooden flute that made me want to pick up mine and start practicing again.

We had four generations there from my grandma, Mom, Ryan, to Addie. She's such a sweet baby!

Meg said Addie had an upset tummy, but she hardly fussed at all and let us play "pass the baby" all afternoon.

We took a ride up to the top of the mountain on the gondola with my Aunt and Uncle. Kelly's really excited to start the ski season. We have high hopes of going to Snowbasin a few times and Beaver Mountain a lot. Any skiers or snowboarders that want to go, let us know and we'll make a day of it!

Kelly and I had a beautiful drive down. Anyone who's close enough to Sardine Canyon, take a drive this week, it's gorgeous!

I definately got a workout at work today. We were fertilizing an acre or two of turf, so I got to stand in the back of the workman (it's like a golf cart with a dump bed) and lift 50 lb bags of fertilizer from my feet to chest hieght and then pour them into the spreader, all while moving. Only took about an hour and we went though about 15 bags of 19-3-19. Whew!

I Need Weeds!

I was asked to be more diligent in my blogging, so here's update from the past 2 weeks:

I HATE GETTING UP EARLY!!

There it is. That pretty much sums up mine and Kelly's lives.

One thing I did learn from just today was this:

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I have Uncle Tom's fingers now.

Anyway, school's being going well. I have to collect and press 50 different weeds by Oct.12. I have 30 drying right now, but I'm starting to stretch for the last 20. Let me know if you have any cool weeds. Send me a picture so I can see if it's one I already have too.

I had a Genetics exam today. I did pretty well on it, which gives me hope for getting a good grade out of that class. I'm going to topdress the green next week. It's a pretty interesting process if you've never see it done before, and if you're not the one doing it. I'll take some pictures so you all can share in my joy. That's all I've got right now. My life is pretty boring, just sleep, school, work, school again, work again, homework, dinner, not enough sleep, and then it starts over. We've got a busy weekend ahead of us, so hopefully we'll have something new to share.

Just for Ryan and Meg

Addison Linda Spiers

Kelly and I spent Sunday afternoon and Monday evening with my parents, Meg, Ryan, and baby Addie. She is the sweetest thing EVER! Meg let me feed her and burp her. I never knew that you have to smack them that hard to get the bubbles out. I always thought it was a gentle pat. She is absolutely beautiful, even when she goes cross-eyed from trying to focus. :) Ryan is so cute with her; he'd come over to me while I was feeding her and help me to hold her at a better angle, and showed me how to hold her to get a good burp out of her. She does this darling little head butt thing to your shoulder when she's hungry. I love my niece and hope I get to see a lot more of her as she gets bigger and easier (sort of) to travel with.

I hate being sick

I've been feeling icky for a few days and stayed home from work yesterday in an attempt to sleep it off, but of course didn't ever get a chance to sleep because I ended up running errands. Last night I crashed around 10 while Kelly watched TV, and didn't actually get up until about 3pm this afternoon. I feel a little better, but am still stuffed up. I don't recommend sleeping for that long all at once. My whole body hurt when I woke up, whether is was from being sick or sleeping that long, I don't know. I did manage to put both my arms to sleep somewhere in the process. That was wierd. We found these shower tablets at Walmart during cold season last year that work really well to clear out you sinuses, they're called "shower soothers." I'm gonna go lay back down now.