Hello

No. We are not in our place yet. I've gotten to the point where I'm not going to talk about it. There's always something that has to be done and just when I say "all we're waiting on is...", something else has to be done. I would like to take this opportunity to thank our dear sweet land-lords over in the ground beef carpet house for allowing us this opportunity to live like squatters in a very nice condo.

A lot has happened. And at the same time not much has happened. Martin has been working like crazy. Putting in all kinds of ungodly hours during the week so he won't have to sacrifice so much coveted time on the weekend. I don't blame him though, I would do the same.

I'm loving summer. Summers up here honestly just last forever. The sun is only down for a few hours, and then the next day starts. Beautiful. We definitely pay for it with the winters. Right now, it's 9:53pm and I can still see bright orange in the sky from tonight's sunset.

Friends are still over right now and I am "tethering" my blackberry to my computer to get Internet. 10 bucks a month for not-too-slow service. About like DSL. And so, hopefully I'm back in the modern world. I even ordered my living room furniture today. I really do need to take a picture of us here sitting in black folding chairs. It's pretty funny; definitely completes the squatter look.

I'm trying to read as much as possible. When the sky isn't dark until 11pm, and you don't have a single curtain or blind on your windows (and there are a lot of windows in these condos), you have to do something. And I say, why not read? I've been working on a book Martin's mom gave us titled "What God wishes Christians knew about Christianity". Very interesting. There's ideas I've never really thought of before which for me is very refreshing because I sometimes feel like I've heard it all with Christianity. I also just picked up a book this weekend and I'm almost done with it. I'll wait until I'm done to discuss. Or likely, I'll just forget and never get to talk about it. But hopefully that won't happen.

So, Yeah. I think I'm back. Nice to be.