Where Did all the Snow Go?!

Well I just got home from my first night back at work. It went really well, it's amazing how well I was able to transition from days back to nights. I'm just meant to be a night person I guess. I think it was harder for me to transition back to days on my days off. I would stay up late and get up late, I feel kinda like I wasted my week off in some ways, I was just kinda tired for most of the week. I'm praying that God will supernaturally help me not be tired when I'm home for Christmas, I do not want to waste that time being tired!

So I didn't tell you guys about how much fun I had on Tuesday. I went to lunch with my friend Nikki and afterwards we went to a "book sale" at the Catholic Church, but the books sale was over and now all the books were free! Isn't that great! So I just got to go through and pick out a whole box full of books. I got mostly children's books in preparation for all the wonderful children I'm looking forward to having in my life! :) What a wonderful day that was.
Then that night Charly (my friend who is originally from Bethel, and first brought me to Bethel) and her new husband arrived in Bethel! I was so excited to see them, they are my neighbors upstairs. We actually switched beds yesterday because they only had a full size bed and I had a queen. So it just made sense. :) It will be so great to have them here and to partner with them in serving the community and helping at the church!

Oh and I ate at a wonderful resturaunt the other day that I'm super excited about. It's called VIP and it's Korean food. It's so wonderful, it reminds me so much of a Seattle resturaunt. If I just don't think about that fact that I'm wearing boots instead of flats I can pretend that I'm in Seattle. It's just so clean in there and the food is so fresh. They have great sushi and noodle dishes. It's pretty pricey but I'm in love so it's worth it. If you guys ever come visit I'll take you there.

Oh and I've also discovered two other comforts in this past week. One is that there is a spa here in Bethel called Tranquility. They do facials, manicures and waxing and a whole bunch of other things. I'm super excited about it. I'm planning on making an apt. for my week off, Charly and I both want to go. The second wonderful thing I've learned about is this farm in Seattle that you can order produce from. It's called full circle farms and you pay $53 for a box every other week or however often you choose and then they send you whatever produce is in season. So you get a variety of things but it's all organic and from what I heard it's super good and fresh. Charly and I plan to share a box between our households, isn't that great idea! I think it's gonna work out really nice. It might sound expensive, I don't know, but it's better then the prices at AC (the grocery store here).
Another wonderful thing i learned is that they are gonna open one of the lakes up here for ice skating! Isn't that wonderful?! I've always wanted to go ice skating out doors, like on a lake! I'm pretty sure it's gonna be the best day of my life when I get to do it. Hopefully next week. I'm really looking forward to going snowmachining (the pastor's sons are eager to take me), sledding and ice fishing! This is all contingent on the whether getting cold again though! It's crazy all the snow has pretty much melted! It's been so warm here! It's rediculas! It still feels cold though because the winds have been crazy strong. Like at least 60mph. I thought I was gonna get blown over walking to work.
I'm really missing the snow because now it's just all muddy and wet. Not really liking that so much. Oh but it has proved a point. My hair is straight here because it's so dry, not because my hair just changed. Because now that it's been warmer and wetter, it's curlier. Once it gets dry and snowy again though, it will be back to being straight. Weird huh. So for the next two years or so I'm just gonna have straight hair, how weird. Oh well I guess in the summer it will be curly, it was when I was here before. So funny.

My apt smells really good now. It was smelling kinda funny, like old stale wood or something. I was really sad about this, because I'm so sensitive to smells and they are so important to me. It's always been one of my worst fears to have a stinky house and not know it. Well I'd cleaned and I had little candles and I had fabreeze and I tried to air it out but it still wasn't really working. I was beginning to give up. But then Tiffany came to the rescue, she just said enough was enought and took charge. It was like midnight but she drove me to her house got me this huge banana nut candle, took me to the quick stop bought me a deodorizer and some other housewarming gifts and then we created a cross breeze in the house and lit the candle and now it smells so wonderful! I'm just so pleased when I walk in my door now!

I'm super excited to recieve the early Christmas gift from my parents (a new camera!) because then I can take a video of my apt and post it on here. It will probably be one of the best videos you guys have ever seen. I can just feel that it's gonna be good. :)

Alright well I guess I'll talk to all you cats later. I have to go take a shower and get to bed!
I'm tired so I might have left some good stuff out, I feel like I have, but I'll just have update you again later after I get some sleep. :)

Only 6 more days and I'm off... :)