Asamblea

¡Que bueno fue la asamblea! Wow I just love how blunt the information is getting. That is what I need! Its so nice when you don't have to rake your brain for ways to apply the information because they are so blunt they just come right out and say it. I appreciate it so much! So I am officialmente sleep deprived. It is time for me to learn to catch up on my sleep. I bought some awesome slippers the other day. I really appreciate a good pair of slippers. So different than the old days. When it's nice and cold outside and you come in from the frigid weather and you slip your frozen feet into a pair of nice fuzzy slippers. Ahh what could be better. Then you cozy up and read a book. Lol. What has become of me!!!,!,l,!,!,

Well just a quick post and now I am gonna go read some more Tina Fey book and then hit the hay.
Ava

Las noticias acerca de la vida de abril.

Well what is new in the life of Avril? Not too much.

Things I like:

how just moving one little piece of furniture from one room to another can completely make over the entire house, that truly brightens up my life. My little crummy bench with pillows doesn't even match my living room but it's brings a smile to my face.

My delicious glass of wine I have every monday when I come home from work and watch.... The bachelor, yes I admit, it's one of the best parts of my week.

I now have a study that actually texts me... And will tell me when she needs to cancel. That really makes me happy.

Things I don't like:

that I'm horribly addicted to the bachelor and don't care.

That I always feel like I have no clothes, yet there's always soo much laundry to do.

Stupid box elder bugs and how they have survived through the winter and get in our house. Annnngry.


Tomorrow I think I am gonna do pilates. I need to get back in the habit of stretching type work outs. Too many squats recently, more stretching. Is it sad that I go to bed thinking about what I'm going to order from star bucks tomorrow out in service.... :)

I watched the Grammys on Sunday, just me and Samson. And apparently there was a lot of upset about arcade fire winning album of the year. Lol well I mean come on clearly it should have gone to lady gaga or the bieber. Haha just kidding. So funny how people get. Travis naturally was sad he missed the usher performance. " just can't get enough, just can't get enough, when I'm with you...." well that enough.

My cat is so cute. How could any animal be loved more than I love Samson, I dont know. He sure is special. The nice thing about winter is that he isn't bring mice, moles, chipmunks and every other cute living creature to our door dead.

We are having a lovely thaw in the weather right now. It was almost 50 degrees today which is a lovely change from the negative 30 it reached last week. I was practically out in a bathing suit. My blood sure is thickening.

Well I'm going to try to read some of this new watchtower and do my bible reading and then hit the hay.

Por ahora les digo adiós, pero les prometo que quiero seguir escribiendo por medio de este "blog".

Blizzzzzzard

Well what an interesting day. I knew something was up when Travis let me sleep till 8:00 without so much as a hey avril gonna be late get up. Turns out theres more snow than we thought. Slippery black ice filled road. An estimated like 3 feet of snow. I'm sad I'm confined to only doing letter writing but excited to see this giant dumping of snow. It's already a winter wonderland after last nights snow. This past weekend in the middle of continually sick as I have been for a month!! Travis decided it was time iwentoutside and got some fresh air, which I did not think was a good idea. I was very content sitting there doing my puzzle by myself. Yet he insisted I had tried the moping around way of healing and clearly it hadn't worked. So he borrowed his parents snow shoes and we strapped up. I felt really dump at first but it is kinda cool. They are very light so you don't feel like youhaveto put forth a lot more effort to lift your feet. You do sink into the snow but not all the way it catches you sort of and you are a little on top of the snow. Well I felt fine at first I can handle this very flat terain, however trekking up the hill....while still feeling that my bronchial function was severely compromised I thought I was gonna DIE!!!! Well I don't know if I spoke one word the whole way up there, I was focused of pushing air in and out of my lungs. Got to the top fell on bench, couldnt move. An experience to say the least. It did feel good to feel the little bit of the sun on my face that was left at 4:00. Got home..... Woo downhill I love you.....and made myself a big cup of tea.....started to watch movie called nine months, stopped because it's stupid.... Couldn't remember why i thought it was funny.....and watched an incredibly boring pro bowl, wow AFC you got nothing! hopefully that's a fore gleam into this superbowl. I think this has single handedly boosted the wisconsin economy, just in sales of hats and sports mags alone. Well I'll be cheering hard for the packers. Maybe after this I'll actually have to get a better packers shirt,

Well I guess work might be cancelled tomorrow, we never close so that means that this blizzard means business.

Well I should get back to my letter writing. Maybe later I'll attempt to drive the 5 minutes to a coffee shop and get a good cup of coffee. Bueno hasta luego mis amigas y mi familia, o qualquiera persona que lo lea. Me imagino no no hay nadie, pero quien sabe.

Family visit

I had such a nice time in Florida with my family. It's amazing that it had been a year yet it still feel so completely normal to be bumming around with them. Working out competively with the little sis Ali, having her be grouchy if you interrupt her sleep. Ah I love it. However a new little edition was that sophie now wolves to play super Mario smash brother and is actually pretty good at it.
Mom is still as amazing of a chef as ever! I miss and love you all my lovely sisters, and my mom I just love hearing
My 50 somethiong mother speak in Hindi. :) well I am really exhausted right now. And we are having trav's parents kver for their anniversary so I am gonna take a little nap before I have to start cooking. Creo que vow a cocinar alguna tip a de comida mexicana

Laaaazy day... We Meet Again

So time I believe is currently 1:00 P.M. I'm sitting in my living room. Doing nothing. It has been soooooo long since I did nothing. I stayed up really late last night... It had been forever since I did that as well. Lauren and I stayed up till 4 am watching videos on youtube of talented cats. Very fulfilling, yet as always when I do things such as that on rare occasions I completely regret it the next morning. I decided yesterday at volleyball that I wasn't going out in service today. It had been so long since I just woke up and kinda poked around the house, watched some DAYTIME TV. Not Soaps of course lol just some America's Next Top Model marathons. I'm glad to say I'm 24 hours ahead in my time. So where as I will still be out and caring for my Rvs I am able to somewhat take it a little easier in service the next couple of months.

My Boss informed me the other day that verbatim ... "We're in the market for another Jehovah's Witness." "Well" somewhat flattered I say "May I ask why?" "Well were sick of asking you to work full time and you never doing it, so we will settle for a second you, someone who has other obligations but who will be happy with just part time, hey why doesn't Alice move up here and work for us. Oh and by the way don't find us anyone who isn't skinny or pretty, we won't hire them" Well fabulous so now I am on my hunt to find a skinny hot perhaps pioneer sister who needs to as skin tough as nails, but also be very personable and good with older people, and quick witted and fast to handle how hectic the job can get. Hmm piece of CAKE! :) Well it finally dawned on the the other day after weeks of thinking of who.... My friend Brittany, Matt's girlfriend. So I'm going through my checklist... she's a very sweet girl, would be great with older people, and possible crazy people who only wanna talk about the bunnies and try to force popcicles on you. She's gorgeous, only wants to work part time. OK well now I am on a mission to convince her that THIS IS THE JOB FOR HER. Well we'll see how it goes... if anything might win her over I think it might be that they get you Starbucks almost every day. Come on Brittany... save me because I am the only person right now to cover people when they can't work and I am OVER WORKED!!!!!! :) We'll see how it goes. Anywho... I read Violette's post the other day on how nice it is to just hang out with the fam and it broke my heart because I miss everyone so much! Can you all move HERE..... PLEASEEEEEEEEE. I miss my mom so much. I can't wait to visit!!! Love you all.

:(

Ok I am still sitting here and I just watched a new story about a young female dolphin that was covered in oil, and they tried to save her and she died. That was the saddest thing I have ever seen :(

Message from Coffee Shop.

I'm sitting here in Milwaukee Street Traders. A little coffee shop here in the heart of Downtown Delafield. Waiting for Lauren to meet up with me so that we can go out in service. I've been attempting to do some letter writing. But I've been so swept up in spending all my money on concert tickets. And listening to the new Stars album. Why is people watching so fascinating. Maybe because I just sit in my own little head and think that everyone functions as I do but when you people watch you realize what different strange creatures are out there. :)

It's definitely summer here right now. It's been so humid here that I feel like I'm in Florida.

Oh btw... the couple who were gonna have us over for dinner cancelled on us and so I didn't have to make that Tiramasu. But I still plan on it. I do believe I have conquered making the perfect Margarita. I attempted those last night... only to find that I only had like 4 ice cubes! (who did that!?!?) And so first I whined at Travis to please sneak into his Grandparents house to get me some ice... which he did...and then brought me back...and additional 4 ice cubes. Lol!! So I had to sneak and there and get some ice... I could hear her walking around upstairs... I tried to be as quiet as I could. But I stubbed my toe on some dumb wall. Got my ice and ran back home. And Made the best margarita I have ever had... especially since I had only had 1 before in my life. But it was delightful. I don't know if anyone else watches the Bachelorette (besides Alice) but I hope Roberto wins.

I had a couple of crummy weeks in service , I did my best it was just so unproductive. :( So I was keeping my head high knowing that at some point I was GOING to find my return visits again. And low and behold I found like 5 on Tuesday. It was so amazing. I love that feeling you get when you know that your return visits know your name and don't think you're a freak but just really look at you almost as a nice neighbor and really are in turn with what your talking about. And you feel like you can start imagining them as a fantastic Bible study. It's amazing how busy people are though... So it was a great day.

Alright well I'm gonna go try to buy this Stars CD from Itune. Adios!

Hola Hola Hola

It's amazing how fast one can go from being a total vegetable on the beach reading a book and eating cookies to back in the mode of life, Working, Service, Working, Service.

WHY OH WHY does February only have 28 days. I know there's probably a very fantastic reason which I just don't care enough to find out... but probably not the bext time to jet out for 12 days. The service time this month is suffering.


I wish I could say it was my artistic side starving needing to be fufilled that impulsed my return to blogging. But it was Julie and Julia.

Day 1: I am going to attempt to make Tiramasu. Travis and I were invited over to the house of a couple in our hall. I want to make a delicious dessert. I'll let you know what the feedback is.

Samson has this obsession with sneaking behind my computer and then with a swift attack he chews on the corner of the screen.

Ok well I shall go shower and go to bed now. Early morning service and then work in the afternoon tomorrow. Adios