(A towel at target, sounded fitting)
I have definitely let this blog go to the wayside. I kind of lost the urge to keep writing it after my grandfather passed away. While I was trying to figure out how to get home for the funeral I didn't really want to have to worry about posting on here, but now I have decided to try to come back to it. I keep finding myself thinking of what I could put on here still...so I think I'll give it a go and try to come back.
But first I feel like I should attempt some sort of a catch up post for the couple of weeks I didn't write anything about.
I suppose I can start with the funeral. I managed to get some train tickets to go home for the weekend. If I had done more research before hand I could have taken a few more days off from work to spend with my family but the few days I had were nice.
The funeral went really well. The pastor did a great job with the service. Everyone I talked to seemed to agree that he did a great job. He wasn't the type that was trying to use that experience to convert people but more to help people remember and celebrate how wonderful our Grandfather was. He made connections to my Grandfather's hard working attitude and how much he cared for other people to how Jesus was a hard working carpenter and really cared for people. Also, my grandfather was really into building things with wood. So he also connected to the carpenter thing too. It was a well done funeral.
However my train rides were a bit more interesting. The ride home was fine, only a few hours late, but that is to be expected from winter train travel. The ride back to MN was a bit more interesting. How so, you say? Well it all started with an automated phone call from amtrak saying there was a service disruption with my train. So we called amtrak to ask what was up and found out a freight train had derailed somewhere and I had to wait for a bus to come pick me up and take me to Minot, ND where I would take the train from there.
They were not able to tell me when the bus was going to come for me exactly so my family and I sat at the depot watching cars drive by until we finally saw a bus...which soon passed us by. Apparently they forgot to mention that they would have multiple buses and not necessarily the first would stop for me. So after a few hours of waiting and seeing two more buses pass by, a fourth one finally showed up and picked me up.
My bus had apparently waited for the bus after mine because it was having mechanical issues, so it that was why it was much later than the rest. Luckily I some how found myself with two seats to myself and was able to sleep off an on during the trip. I was on the pick up and drop off bus and not a straight through one though. I'm actually glad I was because then I didn't have to wait so long at the train station in minot, wondering why we weren't moving.
In the end I got on my train and arrived roughly 7 hours later than I should have. I got a 40 dollar voucher out of it though. So I can take a train again but for 40 dollars less, woo? lol
Now that I have been back I spent the next few weeks getting back into the swing of things. I think the amount of days I have missed kind of put me off starting back up, but I miss doing this so I decided to catch myself up.
I'm almost done with the show I'm working on. We have one more weekend left after this one. It was a fun run but I have already planned to try to clean up my living space after the show is over. It'll be nice to have a break from the show, but I hope I keep getting work at places. I'll need to start applying to places again. I haven't done that in awhile either. Gotta get my "poop in a group", or whatever it is they say.
Oh and just yesterday I raided a closing blockbuster for some movies. Can't really pass up four dollar movies can you? I also bought my first ever LBD (Little black dress) the other day. It was on clearance but it is super cute. I wore it yesterday for my double show day.
I just keep remembering random things that have happened so this post just keeps getting longer and longer! I had issues with my power windows not working in the back passenger side of my car. So I went to get those fixed and lo and behold they find the issue in my brakes they should have found when I took it in over a month ago. I was not too pleased to add 850 more dollars to my already stupid car bills. My car better not break anymore or Ima have to kick it or something.
I think that is all that has happened to me since I stopped posting. I'm sure there is other things but I can't think of anything. I'm going to attempt to keep up with this again. Wish me luck. : )
