Our Dishes Taking a Stroll, Sally Needing to be Washed, and Dark Northern Lights

Sally had a playdate with one of my co-worker's dogs. They ran everywhere and slobbered on everything. Sally needed a bath afterward.


We stayed up till midnight last night standing in the driveway looking up into the sky at green wavy lights. Northern lights are pretty cool. We were not able to get a picture. Evidently our camera is not hightech enough because they came out black. It was our first time seeing the northern lights.

Our dishes decided to take a little stroll through our kitchen. It happened because our dishwasher is still not bolted to the floor and so when I rolled out the bottom drawer I forgot to push it back in when I rolled out the top and the bottom decided to roll away.

2 Really Exciting Things in my Life!!!!!

I found out Monday that I will be a long term sub for a teacher that is going on maternity leave. I will be paid teacher SALARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is so good to have a full time teaching job lined up even if it is only for 3 months.
ALSO, something else happened that I have wanted and waited for for a little over a year. You see, when James and I moved up to Alaska, we were not able to see our house before we moved here and the company pays rent so I wasn't too concerned. Well, the very day I got here, I saw the kitchen and was not very happy because of the size, amount of storage space (we keep a lot of our kitchen things in the garage, not just food storage.) Well, there also wasn't a dishwasher. I came up with the brilliant plan to buy a portable dishwasher and put it where the fridge was and move the fridge across the kitchen. Well, we checked with our landlord and he said that if we bought a regular dishwasher, he would install it and put an extra cupboard in. We bought a dishwasher about 6 weeks ago. It had been sitting in the kitchen in a box till yesterday, when Jim had the day off and went and bugged our landlord to come install it. It is still not 100% put in. As you can see it needs a counter top and also needs to be bolted to the floor. But IT RUNS!!!!!! I am ecstatic.