Monday, August 10, 2009

Life at 100 mph

Life at the Woodard's house is never quiet.

Let me recap what has happened since I got back from Alaska a little over a week ago.

I landed in Tampa international airport at 2:13 p.m. Friday, July 31st. Traffic was creeping along so it was 4:00 p.m. before I got to the Woodard's house. I took my stuff in and said "Hi" to everyone, then pretty much went straight to work jogging coupons. Unpacking and stuff like that had to wait until later that night. I finished working around 10 p.m. and got my clothes out that I was going to sleep in. Checked e-mail, and Facebook, then uploaded some pictures and went to bed. Having traveled all day, then working for several hours on top of that, meant that I was feeling very tired. Not to mention the fact that I only slept for 2 hours during the night before. Tired I was.

Saturday was pretty much filled with coupons. I filled out orders for almost 10 hours. Gaaaaaa… Mind numbing. But anyway.
I ate meals and caught up with friend on Facebook in my spare time.

Sunday wasn't much of a day of "rest." After church I worked another 6 ½ hours on filling orders and jogging. Before I was able to unpack from my Alaska trip, so that I could pack for camp, because I honestly hadn't had time to do it before. I was up till 2:45 a.m. working on coupons and getting things ready for camp.

Monday, we got up at 5:30 a.m. so that we could leave by 6. It was a long, 9 hours and 43 minutes later before we arrived at camp.

Camp was fun. I was working the week as a volunteer op-staff guy, so I got to wash lots of dishes, and do some yard work, and cleaning, and setting up, and tearing down. Fun stuff. It wasn't all work though, I did get to do fun things too. I got to climb the rock wall, I didn't make it to the top, but it was fun none the less. I played in some of the games, I unicycle around the rollerblading area, and I went tubing in the lake. I'll put pictures of facebook sometime, they'll be able to better show what I did.

Overall, it was a very good week, the messages were excellent, the work wasn't miserable, and the company was quite pleasant. I've been pretty much planning on working there next summer for a long time now, but I officially picked up an application while I was there, so that I may officially apply, so that I might be officially accepted. So, unless something drastic happens, that's where I'll be working next summer.

We got back from camp yesterday (Saturday) at around 7:15 p.m. then we went back out to eat and then got home about 8:00 p.m. I started work, sorting coupons and jogging until a quarter past midnight, after which I checked my e-mails that accumulated over the past week. Yey.



Started tomorrow, (Monday) I'm going to work over at the Coupon Clipper's office, filling orders and stuff. It'll be intense. Hopefully I'll be able to get everything done that I need to before Friday when I leave for college. :O

Life at Woodardsville never slows down, so you've got to learn to run faster, or go mad trying. ;)

Tim