Sunday, July 12, 2009

Since graduation...

So my last post was about the four years since I returned from South Africa. This post is dedicated to the two and half months since my graduation (all of which I have lived completely out of one suitcase). Some of the stuff I have already reported about so this is the newer stuff.

I have paid the change-ticket fee four times for my Delta flights (one of which was an international fee) not to mention forfeiting two other flights that were not Delta flights. If I could do things over, I would have tried to avoid those fees since I could have flown a couple of times between California and Utah with that money or bought a new jacket or a new computer...But avoiding an arranged marriage in South Africa is priceless.

I have visited four different wards: Huffman Ward (Anchorage), Brockett Ward (Decatur), Quailbluff Ward (Logan), and Canyon Road Ward (Salt Lake City). Unfortunately, none of these wards are my designated ward. My BYU ward still thinks that I attend that ward--I receive weekly emails and texts about FHE and other activities. Maybe I will move my records--probably I will do that once I unpack my suitcase.

In Alaska, I have gone to the shooting range (shot a .40 and .45 glock and a M4 fully automatic), gone kayaking at 9:00 pm in sunlight, washed kayaks, washed cars, gone fishing (with no success), visited Build-a-Bear (the lady helping us reminded me of the girl from Napoleon Dynamite), visited Color Me Mine (to paint the cheapest thing there), watched the fourth of July parade in Anchorage, gone to the Imaginarium, visited the Forest Fair in Girdwood (more like an Art and Wine festival with plenty of hippies), driven to Seward three times and visited the Alaska Sealife center, driven to Whittier and had fresh Halibut for the first time, went camping twice, attended girl's camp as a leader/transporter/gear hauler, saw the sunshine on the longest day of the year (June 20th at 12:00 am), painted walls inside the house, changed poop and pee filled diapers, loaded the dishwasher, watched Whale Wars, watched the Proposal and Land of Lost in the theaters, and watched Wow Wow Wubbzy more times than I will admit.

I have liked all of these activities a lot, but each one is made that much better since I drive a F150 Super Crew Lariat Truck. That truck is a beast and hauls ass. I feel like I am large and in charge when I drive that truck around town. I think that I have converted to being a truck fan...

2 comments:

Katie C Kirkham said...

YOUR BEST POST BY FAR! I laughed the whole time.

P.S. Now that you are truck man we can be real friends. Miss you guys!

Paga and Baga said...

You are such a funny person! I laughed out loud. So what are you going to do when you have to return to the real world and dresser drawers??? Paul in a truck in Alaska? Who'd a thought! ha ha ha, did you grow a beard? LOL