Updates on Sara's life

Sara Groves was amazing. Ryan and I ended up buying ALL of her c.d's. We said that we can spend a little bit because Ryan got a job. And more spending occured at Target's "global bazzar" thing that they are having...awesome, awesome imported stuff. So yeah...Ryan got a job. He is long-term subbing in math in Columbia Heights, MN. He is taking over classes who haven't had a "real" teacher since early December, so it's been a bit rough. One class has close to 40 kids. So take that many kids plus the fact they are used to slacking for two months. That puts Ryan in a bad place, but he is handling it wonderfully. Teacher's have even commented that he is probably in the worst place a teacher could be in and that he is handling it very well. Yeah Ryan! So back to Sara Groves. There were a couple songs that completely touched me. Lately I haven't been in the best place with God. Since leaving school, my routine of spending time with God has been out the window. I work on Sunday so there is no church, there is no Bible study here, no fellowship...excuses, excuses. Anyway, I completely felt that God was singing to me through Sara and saying exactly what I needed to hear at that time. It brought me to tears. Things seem to be looking up, but I still need a lot of prayer.

Ryan, Greg and I went outside after that last big snowfall a couple weeks ago and built snow tunnels. I hadn't done that for years. Man, I'm out of shape. How did I do that for hours and hours when I was little? I even went through the tunnels, which is a huge fear of mine. It was a beautiful night. It was so quite and peaceful. I could've sat out there forever. I remember when I was little and we lived on Calumet Street. I would be playing outside and just lay in the snow at night and look up at the sky. That night had that same feeling.

The other day at work the vets were there doing exams on three dolphins. I had Ayla for a 45 min. session. For those that don't know, a normal session is about 15 minutes. This was the same amount of fish for 45 minutes. I can't do any behaviors with her except walk her around, do rub downs (have her swim past me as I rub along her body...that sounded to sensual), and play with toys with her. Ayla is one that can get bored easy so it was a challenge. I believe I suceeded. She only left me twice, but came right back and it was right at the end. Go me! This is also funny. The supervisor asked me if I ever saw blubber measurements at Brookfield. I had so she asked me to teach one of the trainers how to do it because the vets were coming in a few days to do it. So I had to teach a trainer how to do it. Then when the vet was in yesterday he didn't know where to do it so I had to teach him too. Funny stuff.

Ryan, myself, and our friend, Chad, went to a comedy club two weeks ago in downtown Minneapolis. We saw a guy who does the dodge ram commercials and he says "that thing gotta hemi?" Anyway, he was really funny. I never saw a stand up comedian before.