Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Couple T'ings
Well, Yah, my pop has started to teach! Mostly if you REALLY want to acess the Forrester Gazette ANY Time, then Go to the NEW site "www.forrestergazette.com"
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Here it is!!!!
I am not sure I will be able to post such a long message here. I see it goofed before. I promise to try to keep these messages shorter in the future.
Luke, it was great talking to you and receiving advice and encouragement in my job application process. Ditto, Jake. Good to hear from you as you lay in bed with Jackson and told us of the perils of the job-layoff day at Target. Very sad. The people with jobs now are quite lucky, I'd say. Also good to know, Wendy, that, as Jake said, you two are trying to cope with a good sense of humor through these tough times at work and in business. Beth, was also good talking with you and catching up on all the Stewart Western Springers. Forrest, sorry about your cold. Hope it is all better now! Justin, we heard about the fabulous, fitting words your teacher wrote about you. Jackson, are you using your snowshoes lately? How is little Bjorn? We would love to know what he is doing and saying now. So excited for you, Ben, that you are beginning your professorship gig tomorrow!
Hope you all are enjoying your weekend. I am enjoying mine. Friday night after another good Peace Vigil, Daddio and I danced the night away to two bands, the local opener, The Holiday Friends , and Finn Riggins , who used to be from here but now live in Hailey, Idaho. The event was the Friends of the Clearwater Benefit party at the 1912 Center. (we stayed from 8 to 10:30). It was full of young people (including the great high schoolers), people in the 21-40 age group, and then those older than that. The energy was high and it was very fun music to bounce around to!
Then, last night the Chinese family, Yeng Chen (the dad, your age), Hui Fang (also 33), and their daughter, Yue, invited us over to their one-bedroom apartment for a fabulous, lovingly-prepared Chinese meal of "common" foods they eat both in mainland China, where they are from, and that she prepares for their meals here. They've lived here just three months. He's a post-doc researcher in chemistry and they will be here about 2 years. They walked to our church about 3 weeks ago to "experience the culture." Very wise of them. Many people have befriended them, and the worship services and the interactions, both at church and outside of church, are helping them improve their English. One other thing we did last Monday night was go out to a great, newly-owned and managed Chinese restaurant, operated by a youngish ethnic-Chinese man, who left Vietnam as an orphaned 17-year old about the same year the Pham family did. So, I guess he's about mid-40's now. Anyway, we were part of a wonderful group of about 10 or 12 people celebrating the Chinese New Year. It included our dear friends, neighbors, and fellow church member, Walter Hesford (English prof who also comes to our poetry nights and he and Elinor had lived in China for one year). We invited the Chinese family to that, too. What a rich life we are leading!
I think I might ask Hui Fang if we might exchange English/Chinese lessons for a while. Remember when I tried to learn Chinese back in Xenia??!!
Yesterday and the day before I washed and waxed our whole living/dining room wood floors. They look wonderful! Today, the same for kitchen. And we will try to create a party postcard invitation to send to about 25 people for a Mardi Gras party here at our house (hoping we get about 15 or so). This was Dean's idea. He wants to make jambalya from Jen's recipe. He has made it before. We will also make Nan's fas nachts. Hope you all can, too. I will post the recipe here on our blogspot.
I will hear whether or not I got the job in the Admissions Office at the Law School by Wednesday afternoon, I'm thinking. I think I will not get it. I interviewed quite poorly. Made mistakes. Ugh. Now I feel embarrassed. Shades of Sarah P. ? ? ? ? Oh well, the only real damage will be to my pride. I will still be happy to work at George and Becky's Mom and Pop Hillcrest Motel. I've gotten them to reduce my hours to only 14 (that's over Mon., Tues., and Wed.) and bump my pay up to a respectable amount. So, I'd continue to happily work there and count my blessings and also look more intensely for tutoring students.
That's all for now, folks. Love, Mom/Gret/MaMa
Luke, it was great talking to you and receiving advice and encouragement in my job application process. Ditto, Jake. Good to hear from you as you lay in bed with Jackson and told us of the perils of the job-layoff day at Target. Very sad. The people with jobs now are quite lucky, I'd say. Also good to know, Wendy, that, as Jake said, you two are trying to cope with a good sense of humor through these tough times at work and in business. Beth, was also good talking with you and catching up on all the Stewart Western Springers. Forrest, sorry about your cold. Hope it is all better now! Justin, we heard about the fabulous, fitting words your teacher wrote about you. Jackson, are you using your snowshoes lately? How is little Bjorn? We would love to know what he is doing and saying now. So excited for you, Ben, that you are beginning your professorship gig tomorrow!
Hope you all are enjoying your weekend. I am enjoying mine. Friday night after another good Peace Vigil, Daddio and I danced the night away to two bands, the local opener, The Holiday Friends , and Finn Riggins , who used to be from here but now live in Hailey, Idaho. The event was the Friends of the Clearwater Benefit party at the 1912 Center. (we stayed from 8 to 10:30). It was full of young people (including the great high schoolers), people in the 21-40 age group, and then those older than that. The energy was high and it was very fun music to bounce around to!
Then, last night the Chinese family, Yeng Chen (the dad, your age), Hui Fang (also 33), and their daughter, Yue, invited us over to their one-bedroom apartment for a fabulous, lovingly-prepared Chinese meal of "common" foods they eat both in mainland China, where they are from, and that she prepares for their meals here. They've lived here just three months. He's a post-doc researcher in chemistry and they will be here about 2 years. They walked to our church about 3 weeks ago to "experience the culture." Very wise of them. Many people have befriended them, and the worship services and the interactions, both at church and outside of church, are helping them improve their English. One other thing we did last Monday night was go out to a great, newly-owned and managed Chinese restaurant, operated by a youngish ethnic-Chinese man, who left Vietnam as an orphaned 17-year old about the same year the Pham family did. So, I guess he's about mid-40's now. Anyway, we were part of a wonderful group of about 10 or 12 people celebrating the Chinese New Year. It included our dear friends, neighbors, and fellow church member, Walter Hesford (English prof who also comes to our poetry nights and he and Elinor had lived in China for one year). We invited the Chinese family to that, too. What a rich life we are leading!
I think I might ask Hui Fang if we might exchange English/Chinese lessons for a while. Remember when I tried to learn Chinese back in Xenia??!!
Yesterday and the day before I washed and waxed our whole living/dining room wood floors. They look wonderful! Today, the same for kitchen. And we will try to create a party postcard invitation to send to about 25 people for a Mardi Gras party here at our house (hoping we get about 15 or so). This was Dean's idea. He wants to make jambalya from Jen's recipe. He has made it before. We will also make Nan's fas nachts. Hope you all can, too. I will post the recipe here on our blogspot.
I will hear whether or not I got the job in the Admissions Office at the Law School by Wednesday afternoon, I'm thinking. I think I will not get it. I interviewed quite poorly. Made mistakes. Ugh. Now I feel embarrassed. Shades of Sarah P. ? ? ? ? Oh well, the only real damage will be to my pride. I will still be happy to work at George and Becky's Mom and Pop Hillcrest Motel. I've gotten them to reduce my hours to only 14 (that's over Mon., Tues., and Wed.) and bump my pay up to a respectable amount. So, I'd continue to happily work there and count my blessings and also look more intensely for tutoring students.
That's all for now, folks. Love, Mom/Gret/MaMa
Feb. 1 Weekend Update
Tomorrow is Ben's first day of teaching at LSTC. How do we add that to the calendar on the right of this blogspot? Pretty darn cool event!!!! Worth celebrating!
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