We've had a very busy couple of weeks. Of course, I'm at food service and the students are back in full force. I come home exhausted and not feeling like blogging, so forgive me the time between blogs, and the lack of them lately.
We've had some visitors and a flood. Jason and I are both trying to get used to our new schedules, and obviously it's taken us quite some time. Hopefully my next post will be sooner and have some pictures to go with it.
For now, Jason,Zara and I are doing all right...mostly tired.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Happy Birthday!
I know that there is less than an hour left, but I wanted to wish Jason a very happy birthday! You're the most wonderful man I have ever fallen in love with and I pray for you to have many more happy birthdays!
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Flooding
Just to let everyone know, Jason, Zara and I are fine. Ames was flooded again this year with the majority of the creeks/rivers cresting over the flood of 1993 numbers. It took me almost a half hour to get to work (normally it takes about 7 minutes) and over two hours to get home. Of course part of that was backtracking and traffic. I was not at work for very long. The food service I work at is across the street from the Iowa State Center. They put the flood gates up yesterday, and the water was at the top of them this morning. I'm not sure if I'll have to work tomorrow, but we are also under a water boil warning. It's going to be pretty hard to wash dishes with no gas, electricity (both being turned off today on campus) and no water.
Jason did have to go to work, regardless of the fact that CyRide is also without power. Apparently they were able to get buses out to run some of the routes. They moved to Fredrickson Court (used to be Pammel Court), but the building they were using closed, so they moved to city hall since they could get to it at that point.
Our sump pump has been working overtime. We have a little water in our basement, but not on the finished side. I'm trying to boil enough water to get us through until tomorrow. The website said it could be up to 24 hours. Just in time for Jordan to visit! We convinced her to wait one more day to visit. I wouldn't even know where to begin to tell her how to get here. Most of the Ames exits are closed, and if they aren't, you can't get very far. Hence the two hour drive home. It's not supposed to rain tonight, so hopefully things will dry out some and the water will start going down.
We hope and pray everyone else is safe and dry! (Sorry, no pictures this time! Too tired to take them. I work early everyday and haven't been sleeping well with the torrential rain we've been having!)
Jason did have to go to work, regardless of the fact that CyRide is also without power. Apparently they were able to get buses out to run some of the routes. They moved to Fredrickson Court (used to be Pammel Court), but the building they were using closed, so they moved to city hall since they could get to it at that point.
Our sump pump has been working overtime. We have a little water in our basement, but not on the finished side. I'm trying to boil enough water to get us through until tomorrow. The website said it could be up to 24 hours. Just in time for Jordan to visit! We convinced her to wait one more day to visit. I wouldn't even know where to begin to tell her how to get here. Most of the Ames exits are closed, and if they aren't, you can't get very far. Hence the two hour drive home. It's not supposed to rain tonight, so hopefully things will dry out some and the water will start going down.
We hope and pray everyone else is safe and dry! (Sorry, no pictures this time! Too tired to take them. I work early everyday and haven't been sleeping well with the torrential rain we've been having!)
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Visitors
I made it through my first week at food service. It wasn't so bad, except it was really hot, and I ate way too much food! It's so hard to say "no" to some of it. Like Snickers cake. Who can say "no" to that? The people are good to work with, and the students who worked this week were excellent.
As a "reward", Jamie, Ben, Jasper and Mason came up to visit us today. Jason took us on a bus ride, then we had lunch at the Mongolian Buffet. Jasper, Mason and I played Chutes and Ladders, which Jamie won. Then we spent some time at the new Aquatic Center. It was pretty crowded, but there weren't too many long lines. The boys had a great time, and the adults were even able to go down a couple of the water slides. They left for Des Moines again after we got back so they could get ready for the ICubs game. I think Zara was happy the boys left. She's not used to all of that energy!
As a "reward", Jamie, Ben, Jasper and Mason came up to visit us today. Jason took us on a bus ride, then we had lunch at the Mongolian Buffet. Jasper, Mason and I played Chutes and Ladders, which Jamie won. Then we spent some time at the new Aquatic Center. It was pretty crowded, but there weren't too many long lines. The boys had a great time, and the adults were even able to go down a couple of the water slides. They left for Des Moines again after we got back so they could get ready for the ICubs game. I think Zara was happy the boys left. She's not used to all of that energy!
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