Presto Change-o Car-o

This is Kristen's car after Grandpa backed into it; and today, after painting it yesterday (and fixing it for a month or so)... not completly the same but hey it looks better than it did. I'd say it's not bad for my first time doing auto body work and learning from seeing others and the internet. I spent many hours on it and now know why the auto body shops charge so much for things like this.

Well...

Well, Alex doesn't have mono. He just has some kind of virus, and has been feeling miserable, but it's just starting to get better. The doctor just called and told Alex that he probably has the Adenovirus. When Alex told me, I said, "The 'I dunno virus'?" It sounded like it!!! Funny!!
As for anything else going on.....nothing has been happening. We apply for everything we qualify for, create profiles, fill out applications online and off, go to SOS, Kelly, LDS Employment, etc, call people, e-mail people, check the job board at the student center.....and hear nothing. Ever.
On Saturday someone in our ward paid Alex to come and help paint an apartment (they are the managers of the complex next to ours) and tomorrow I get to help the wife clean a house. So far they are the only ones that have been interested in us.
It gets a little discouraging when we see nothing from our efforts. The worst is when someone will advertise at the student center that they need help with their two kids while she recovers from a broken arm. She needs help, I offer help, a week later she is still advertising for wanting help. Either she really doesn't want me, or she really doesn't need help, or something. Seems like if you had a broken arm, you'd at least respond to anyone offering help. Duh!
Anyways, right now, to pass the time, Alex is pulling off all of our baseboards, scraping off all the nasty glue, puttying and painting the wall again....and probably not putting the baseboards back on. We can glue them back on when we leave if they have a fit about it. They are so nasty, though,...the brown plasticy rubber junk. :)
That's about the fun of our life right now. Oh yeah, my friend from high school is going to bring us dinner tonight!! That's fun. We've been having some fun dinner/game nights with people. We've never had a Sunday alone, yet!
Hope everyone else is doing well!!
Kristen

Moo (long story)

I (Alex) have had a sore throat since Sunday night and it has been just horrible. We have thought it was strep but strep tests came back negative. It's really weird. The health dudes say it's probably just a virus (or it could be mono he said, but I doubt that). Whatever the case, they told me I just have to live in pain.

I had some guys come give me a blessing last night for my throat. One of the guys was from the same apt. complex and he commented that we really made our apt. look good! We were hoping that someone would say that and they did! He thought we made it look really nice with our curtains etc.

That reminds me... mom T... we did get the curtains hooked back on where they were falling off. They weren't missing the hooks at all.

This morning I decided it was time to get the nasty caked on grime off of the kitchen cabinet pulls/handles. They were so nasty... they looked black when we first moved in and we found out they are really copper in color. I scrubbed them good with 409, then cooked them in tomato puree for a little while to restore the copper look and wow they look a lot better. After I got them cleaner than they were... they may never come clean, we decided to go to Lowes and buy new ones that matched and looked a lot better than those dinosaur aged ones, and they were 97 cents! Maybe we'll take a picture of them to show but yes they are way nice (not to mention modern [they are silver wire pulls - if you know what those look like]).

In Progress! -- Progressed?

Hey this is the new site for Alex Christensen and Kristen Christensen! Their sites were formerly www.alexchristensen.blogspot.com and www.kristenchristensen.blogspot.com . Ooh and if you're in Mozilla Firefox and maybe others you can see that I finally got the 'favicon' (the icon in the address bar) to work! Wahoo, it's really exciting! Oh yeah... I don't think anyone has ever told me what they think of the family blog collage (For the Steve and Lori Thornbrue family).

Our New Appartment

So here's our new apartment! We made it look a lot better than it was and hey for $365 a month with the gas (heat) paid it's a deal... not to mention how close we are to campus... across the street!









9 Feb 2009

Yay!

So, it turns out that my car was not a total loss. The insurance sent us a check for $2,091.17. For some reason Alex and I keep getting money, but we never really do anything. I'm not complaining by any means, but I'm just saying it's kinda crazy!! Now we just want to find jobs so we can keep adding to our savings instead of start taking away from it!
Oh, for those of you who want to see pictures of our apartment, look at Alex's blog. I swear, someday we will get a blog together. And post things together as well!!! Hmmm. Soon!!
Love you all!
Kristen