Technology BITES!
Well its 5pm on our first sunday here in Tanana. I am currently sitting at Dale and Cynthia's computer because out of no where our laptop quit allowing us to access the internet (NOTE TO UNCLE TOM: we just woke up and turned the computer on the night after our last blog entry and it has not allowed us to connect to the internet, but at the same time it says we are connected wirelessly with an excelent connection).
ANYWAY enough with all the frusterations of city life, we are in the middle of no where right? so today we woke up at 10am (its our day off)... its funny because our room doesnt have windows (its pitch black all the time with the lights off) and i remember waking up at 7:30 and telling myself i had another 30 min to sleep, at 10 i look at my watch thinking its 8:30 at the latest... Boy was i wrong. Well we got up and got showered, then sat on the bed debating on whether or not we wanted to figure out church today or rest (honestly we didnt know if by that time we had missed service anyway). only to hear the church bell ringing. We jumped up and went to church to see all of the other 4 attendants today (a little different than ALC). we got to talk to mary s. about our direction with the children after the service. She was really excited, she and her husband paul have been praying for people to come and help with the children for years.
we then came home and turned our pig sty into a work of art (you would be proud john). After using some alone time to our advantage ;) which ended up being a TOTAL god thing because with the hustle and craze of trying to understand this job we have not been allowing much "alone" time. Building our relationship seems to have taken a dangerous back burner to the store and we have both been doing our own part to bring it back to the front burner.
After we "cleaned our room" we went for a nice ride on the quads up to a creek everyone gets water from... The rusty pipe it flows from at the side of the road might turn many away but we are "ruffin" it and went for it filling all our water bottles up.
Today has been a very relaxing day, we have realized that it is AMAZING to do nothing when you have something to do the rest of the time.... What i mean by that is we have a job to keep us busy during the week and when we hit the weekend its nice to just relax like we got to do for the 3 weeks after we got married.
for kimberlys sake i will make it known that I, Andrew Long wrote this blog :)
You can pray for me and kimberly for a couple things: direction with the children and an age group to work with, our relationship which would include communication, patience and that other stuff, i have noticed i am grumpy all the time and it seems alot of the time i never want to talk... why? im not sure but i know its hurting me and kimberly, these last couple days we have been able to talk and go for walks but until then we were very distant. So just pray for us. We know this can be a LONG winter if we dont work on "us".
(we are still working in pictures... im trying to figure out how to get them off the camera... it seems the laptop doesnt see it as just like another hard drive like the other computers ive used and i cannot access the contents at all)
posted by Andrew & Kimberly's exellent adventure @ 6:02 PM
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Hey Kids,
If we want to e-mail you what is your e-mail address? On a different tack...I would be interested in more 'scoop' on the church up there. Maybe they have needs that ALC can help with. The church building is next door to the store isn't it?
kimberly put our email addresses on another blog... but ill give them to you here too.
im: stang_COBRA_R@juno.com
and kimberly is: unknown733@aol.com
emails would be great because as it stands i dont personally have hardly anyones email.
the church is struggling... with the cost of desiel up so high they can really only afford to run the church on sunday (to heat it) so right now we are limited to sunday to use the church (the only day they would have the heat on)... thats not terrible and we can work with that but even that is pushing their budget.
right now there is ALOT of out of town construction going on running sewer and water lines to all the locals and because of the construction locals have first dibs on the jobs (instead of shipping a bunch of guys already in the union) because of the abundance of jobs EVERYONE is working like 7/10s or something like that (i originally heard 7/12s) and with everyone working there is nobody to go to church so... by december all the construction is supposed to quit for the winter and we will see what attendance is like (i love you dad!!!)
Thanks for letting us in on your adventure both the good and the bad. Joel and I are praying for you two. Being newly weds also we are still figuring out how to balance our time so that we don't feel far from one another or far from the Lord. I find that the second often effects the first. Being married is so awesome though - I'm so glad you both have this next 9 months together. The trials, victories, and hard work will grow you together. Lots of love. PS - Kim I want to hear of any moose you see or eat =)
Also we had quads in Africa and I miss the long rides - sometimes a quad ride was the perfect thing to get away and rest just taking in God's creation.
hey jenni and joel! its good to hear from you. yeah for newlyweds! andy and i are doing very well now. its been a struggle adjusting because we share the house with soooo many people right now we dont have any "us" time but its really been getting better and being on the exact same schedule helps. our fav time is walks or quad rides they really are great together. no moose spotting yet....usually have to get out of the village to see em. we have ate some moose tho - we missed the big moose curry night though, which i heard was amazing. i think tonight is a moose roast and it smells delicious! thanks everyone for praying!
hey boo boo girl and andy !! hmmm...i need a nickname for you andy-kim has always been boo boo girl or kim bo do -what do yer folks call you ? well anyway mom got yer stuff shipped out today-yesterday was columbus day so postal workers were all off to do gun maintenance or whatever they do when not at work plotting to shoot the place up ---it was 22 bucks and .....it'll only take 2 weeks to get there-aye carumba i thought i was joking about the dog sled thing-it they are using dogs they must be veeery slow-dachsunds most likely---hey missy said she e-mailed ya-she got a intern job teaching kindergardners i think--she is totally stoked and i of course am as usual overly proud-just think of the possibilitys of a morse shaping and molding the little minds of tomorrow...heh heh..with the proper structure i figure she could take over the world...but i digress...more ramblings of the truly insane--i drove yer truck for the first time tonight to get gas for the lawnmower--i found a half eaten sun faded package of skittles you left to melt on the dash...dibs!!! mmmmmmmmm warm skittles mmmmm please dont tell me andrew found them on the floor of some public restroom and just forgot to throw them out-they were delish!!! Mom has taken like three loads of stuff to the goodwill-we gave away yer litle desk-hope thats ok-we got yer stuff all packed away and the house is looking kinda empty-no i havent acheived the total operating room sterile look in yer room yet but.....the week aint over! i touched up the paint on the walls to fix all the pin holes...i thought mom set the record for makin a wall look like it was the subject of an all out assault by the "fully automatic ak 47 pin gun" but you had quite a few-(i guess i gotta accept some responsibility since i was the one to teach you to hang all the airplanes up)---i really miss you guys - im not joking here--maybe when you get home we will hang up some airplanes for old times sake----been back at work 2 days and am already counting down the days till next vacation--well enough jibber jabber im gettin kinda choked up so better go-be sure and e-mail -keep praying for all and all will be praying for you, all my love, dad.
hey ---ps--when i e-mail ya mom is usually right here with me-but i was supposed to send her love also and i um well kinda blew it so mom sends her love too!!!!
Hry Andy and Kim! Whats up?!?!?! I miss you guys soooo much! Andy, you would be so proud of me!!! I fixed the reverse lights on my car all by myself! Actually, there were just no bulbs in the sockets... Easy schmeasy! I hope all is going well, it sounds like it for the most part (stop being mad andy!) ;) I am praying for you guys, and am totally enjoying this blogging thing! I have been reading it everyday! i hope you guys don't poop out on us with this blog thing, because it is sooo good to hear how your doing, what your doing, and what's going on up in Alaska Land! Love ya lots!
Love, Anna
um, if you really want your sisters to read about your awesome adventures then you can chill with the ALONE TIME stuff:-) haha.
I love you guys and am glad to hear that you are keeping busy and relaxing at the same time (that relaxing thing sounds delightful...I might need to explain that concept to me sometime!). Was Tom able to help you with the laptop?
LOVE YOU GUYS!
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