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Yesterday I pulled a note taped to our front door off. It said something like this: "This note is to inform you that Friday, January 30th, the heat will be turned off for most of the day. Sorry for any inconvenience this may be." Inconvenience? I think having no heat in the middle of winter is a little more than inconvenient... It's a good thing we came prepared from our old house, with an electric heater. As long as they keep our electricity on, we should be able to heat and cook food in the microwave.

Sometimes I think it would be nice to stay in Utah for awhile and raise a family here. Other times, I seriously question myself and wonder if it could be the worst thing in the world. When do I start having these episodes of doubt and fear? When I look outside and know that I am actively loosing 5-10 years off of my life. Seeing as we sit down in a valley, surrounded by mountains on every side, it seems the air does not know how to escape our cities. When we go for a stretch of time with no storms, the air just gets darker and darker and darker. We are in the middle of this right now. Some people define it as an 'inversion' because they say the wind blows the opposite direction than normal so it picks up all the dust. Some news people are just calling it fog. I happen to know a few things about fog: fog is NOT brown, and fog does NOT smell bad. Both of these characteristics are here with our inverted, polluted air. We live extremely close to the base of the mountains, yet...

Ok, so I know I already wrote a post for today, but what can I say, today is just a day full of things to tell! So Jarom's parents will be staying with us for a couple of days here shortly. We have no bed for them to sleep on, so we were looking online today to price out air mattresses, to see if it was worth it to purchase one of those, or just give them our sleeping bags and tell them to get comfy on the floor. As we were finishing up our looking, we came across this: And this is what we got. For FREE. It is now in our living room. And best of all, it has a hide-away bed in it, for people to sleep on! So now we don't have to pay money for an air mattress, because we acquired a FREE couch AND bed. Thank goodness for craigslist.

This morning my hubby and I were enjoying a relaxing Saturday by watching whatever was on TV. We happened to be watching TBS. A movie called Phenomenon with John Travolta was on. We had just reached the climax, with about 10 minutes of the movie left. Travolta was just breathing his dying breath when all of a sudden, it switched to a commercial. Then it switched back, before the commercial was over, like a flash that wasn't supposed to have happened. Only now, there was something different about the movie, everyone was talking in Spanish! Unfortunately I do not know Spanish, and neither does Jarom. So we missed the dialog for the rest of the movie, still feeling caught up in that vital moment that was jerked away. I didn't even know something like that was possible. Even the next program that came on was in Spanish. We turned the TV off. But don't worry, it is now fixed and back in English.

So I realized that I never did mention anything on here about my current job position. I interviewed for two different full-time positions here at Independent Study, and got turned down for both of them. I am now still working here as an extended student type. What this means is that as of January first, I have 910 hours to find myself a new job. If I don't get one by then, I will be jobless. But don't worry, my boss's made it up to me by picking me to be the "Supervisor of the Month" for this month. Oh goody. I currently have an interview tomorrow for the Fairfield Inn by Marriott. It's a Front Desk Manager position. If I don't say anything else about it, that probably means I didn't get it. Sorry if this seems like a depressing post, I didn't mean it to be. Maybe it's because I'm sick and can't breathe, yet still am at work.

My friend Lisaface found these pictures for me on Google Sight Seeing. This is real, it's on a closed highway in Seattle, someone really loves GINA!

While visiting my family for the holidays, I had a long conversation with my grandmother who lives with my parents. As a brief background, she is getting old. Fast. She is losing her hearing, vision, and mind. She tends to spend the majority of her days in her room. The only time she leaves is when she eats and poops. During my visit with her, I said the following: "Grandma, you know you can come out to the living room whenever you like, it's good to have you there." Something more or less like that. The next day my mom confronts me and says "GINA! Grandma is SO excited that you invited her to come stay with you in UTAH!" WHAT? No. I did nothing of the sort. I cannot house her. I have no bed for her, no food for her, no time, no no no. Not that I don't care about her, but no. I wouldn't be able to have her live with me for any period of time. All I can do now is hope she realizes she's too ill to leave her cozy little home right where she is.

I've figured out the secret to having a great holiday season. Have THREE Christmas's! That's what we did. After spending Christmas day stuck in snowy Provo, we did make it to Washington for the week of New Years. Our first night there we had 2nd Christmas. Here are some highlights. We cut up chocolate. We cut up Butterfingers. We rolled out chocolates. We licked our fingers. We played in puddles of Chocolate. And we sorted and distributed the chocolates. Then we played ping pong. And darts. And now I am tired of finding pictures. So no more. We got back in town Saturday night and then had third Christmas on Sunday with Jarom's side. Maybe I'll post some more pictures later.