the waiting game

its been almost a month and am still waiting for my tax return check to come it seems like its taking forever but its only been about 3 weeks

remember

remember the old white van how it was so big and bulky and when george would drive and not stop until the last minute in traffic and it would always scare the living daylights out of whoever was in the front seat at the time? well thats how becky drives her moms bigger more bulkier van and it scares me even more but i have to laugh because it reminds me of our old van in a way

spring time

now that its spring time we are in cleaning mode the rez goes and gets these big dumpsters and keeps them for a few weeks and anyone can take what garbage or whatever to them so its like the ultimate spring cleaning surprisingly they get emptied everyday thats how much stuff people have to get rid of every spring time i think its crazy

why

why do kids have a constant non stop chatter that never goes away it doesnt bother me but i cant get any reading done

they go in 3s

so i keep getting told here on the rez that as soon as a loved one passes away 2 more will follow because they go in 3s ive taken it upon myself to say that these past 2 months are the worst 2 ever first gma locke then gma irene and now monique im aware that they are happier and in a better place now but it takes its toll on a person to grieve that much...

im getting bigger

so today is the day of gramma irenes funeral and i had to go buy some new clothes so im getting dressed and put my pants on which i thought and could have sworn that i wore a 36x34 size pants but apparently i dont and last i checked was a few months ago...im getting fat :(

She made it out peacefully

holding on

well shes still holding on but by a very thin piece of string i have been at the house with the rest of the family since last night people are starting to bring food and we have a constant fire going outside so everyone can come and go or just stick around if the choose to hospice came and said she could go from anywhere to an hour or a few days from now but we think shes trying to hold on so that she can see one of her granddaughters who is flying in to come and see her its so hard because she was like a grandma here for me even though i have my own so its kinda rough having lost one to lose another....

strange

i feel as though im suffering from deja vu gram irene is looking a lot like gram locke but fading way faster she doesnt know who people are and is in the state of just sleeping thats about it im hoping she goes a peacefully as gram locke

dont know what happened

just when i think things are going good for me i end up being horribly drastically WRONG ill always be wrong

two down

2 books down 13 more to go...there is a lot of info in 1st and 2nd nephi A LOT some of it is a little overwhelming only because i dont fully understand the teachings of isaiah but im getting excited for the things to come that i remember

canoe journey is coming fast

so this years canoe journey will be in neah bay which we will be attend and participating in every saturday we have canoe practice to condition ourselves for the long pull ( pulling is what we call paddling because you are literally pulling the canoe through the water ) it should be fun when i know when all the tribes are converging to this rez before we leave to port townsend ill let everyone know just in case maybe you will want to see what its like its really neat

Front screen at longhouse see from road

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Back screen on longhouse

Went to the beach today for a walk

new found time

now that i dont have that game to play i suddenly found that i have all this time in the world and its driving me nuts so im going to give carving a shot i have a few things in mind that id like to try maybe it will become a great hobby

what a surprise!

i told becky that i was going to go back to church and she said that she had a dress that she could wear...i hate to assume but does anyone think that maybe this means she is willing to learn or am i just hoping and shes just doing it because its something that she feels i want her to do

i guess

i guess having lots of family is better but nobody really is near me where i can take a short 10 -15 min drive instead its a kinda sorta long 50 min trip or in cori and siri's case 15 hrs maybe more from my drive I'm just exhausted of being stuck around a 14 and 10 yr old that refuses on doing anything by that i mean they would rather lay around watch TV or play wii all day regardless of the weather is like or what outside oppertunities are presented to them

why

so i play this game that i was very good at and some random person decided to hack into my account and took everything that i worked so very hard to get why must people do this im never going to play it again

:(

i need friends because i dont have any

redo

so ive decided to go back to church and do the things i need to do to get back to the temple

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Was going through things and found these

another 2 weeks hopefully

so i been unemployed for quite some time now and just got word that in two weeks we will be back on the job although i dont know how long we will stay seeing that the construction field is at an all time low on this side of the water

the powwow

so another success of the 25th annual stan purser memorial powwow i worked from about 930am to midnight from the prep to the clean up and am still totally exhausted i picked up a whole new sense of leadership as the purser clan had to attend to their mother who is more or less like grandma locke well at the point where she was i prepared the fires for both the clam and salmon bake they had to go for about 3 hours then cooked the salmon and others put the oysters clam and crab together i helped crack the seafood shell open to serve the masses and at about 730 pm took over the overall powwow with the help of beckys sister to make sure that it went smoothly until about 1030pm i was so busy that i completely lost track of time and unfortunately wasnt able to make it to grandma lockes memorial but it will always be there and ill be able to visit anytime