So this is just a moment where I can just get some frustrations out and have a slight moment of reprive now that I just had lunch at 3 pm. Officially, as of yesterday, the GARBC conference is now meeting on Faith Campus. There are many good things about this such as exposure to the school for perspective students, a chance make a great impression on the association, a more convenient distance for some, and the school getting really, and I mean really, fancied up for once.
It is this last one that makes me want to run home and bury my face in my pillow and take a nap to wake up and find all preparations already accomplished and the school shining! The entire campus will be used. It is now more like a hotel accomodation than ever as we are now supplying room spray, Kleenex boxes, hand soap, and even little mints on the linens.
I just came back from stripping Wal-Mart of their Equate hand soap stock and four scents of their Glade room sprays. It was actually kind of fun and I felt like I was on that Shopping Game Show. No prizes taped on any boxes though. I won't tell you how long it took to check out! So after about 129 items checked out and in the car trunk, I drove back. I rolled down the windows and imagined for a few seconds that I was laying on the grass at home in the sun. Maybe later.
Now I have the stuff still in the trunk and I am about to go take all the supplies to the residence halls to be distributed. I hope they feel quite homey next week when they visit. I will be on my way to Salt Lake City, UT on Friday so I will be great!! Seriously though, if you can, you should really attend part of the conference.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Narry a Sound but for the Floods
Okay so it has been just under a month that I have blogged. There has been much to say but so very little time. We don't live in Cedar Falls or Rapids, but Faith Baptist Bible College had their own state of emergency and we are still working on the results.
I came in on Friday morning about 10 days ago to find matting all laying around drying outside and fans ablowing on all the carpet in the maintenance shop. Apparently, with the floods, the drains backed up and that included sewage for our humble office. Gross!! There was even obvious evidence to dispose of. As of now, we still haven't shampooed the maintenance carpet. I just don't think about it and I wear shoes all the time.
People had been called at about 12:30 am on Friday and were up for all hours. Larry had accidentally left his phone in the truck and since he lives about 45 min away anyway, didn't know about this. My phone had been close to temporary death and had been left in the shop to charge. So Larry and I both were unaware and both got a full night's sleep, of which I am so very thankful. Everyone spent the entire day vacuuming out water and discovering new places and mopping and vacuuming up water and ripping up carpet and padding. We were totally drenched after ripping out 6 apartments that day. Total apartments and offices that had to be decarpeted was 16! We still await the decision to whether recarpet or whether to put in tile. Comeon', who wants to snuggle on their couch in the middle of a tiled living room or wake up out of deep slumber to be shocked to awakeness by a cold tile floor. We are going to have some grumpy people if they do tile and if the people will even come back.
We have about 13 displaced peoples. Two people just found somewhere else since all we have to offer are one bedrooms. Crazy!!! We are still working on them even to this week and people are living out of totes, but honestly, how many people are everywhere in IA. We didn't have it nearly as bad as others. It just takes on another aspect of worry and responsibility when you are on the landlord side of it. I have both perspectives as I live in a leaky apartment at Faith currently. We will most likely be here for at least another year too and since Faith apartments are so much cheaper for the space and location, we most likely will also not be moving unless some major leakage urges us out. Thank the Lord that we live upstairs though!
To those who are in the majorly damaged areas and who are pretty much homeless, we are praying for you and know that the Lord will provide for His children.
I came in on Friday morning about 10 days ago to find matting all laying around drying outside and fans ablowing on all the carpet in the maintenance shop. Apparently, with the floods, the drains backed up and that included sewage for our humble office. Gross!! There was even obvious evidence to dispose of. As of now, we still haven't shampooed the maintenance carpet. I just don't think about it and I wear shoes all the time.
People had been called at about 12:30 am on Friday and were up for all hours. Larry had accidentally left his phone in the truck and since he lives about 45 min away anyway, didn't know about this. My phone had been close to temporary death and had been left in the shop to charge. So Larry and I both were unaware and both got a full night's sleep, of which I am so very thankful. Everyone spent the entire day vacuuming out water and discovering new places and mopping and vacuuming up water and ripping up carpet and padding. We were totally drenched after ripping out 6 apartments that day. Total apartments and offices that had to be decarpeted was 16! We still await the decision to whether recarpet or whether to put in tile. Comeon', who wants to snuggle on their couch in the middle of a tiled living room or wake up out of deep slumber to be shocked to awakeness by a cold tile floor. We are going to have some grumpy people if they do tile and if the people will even come back.
We have about 13 displaced peoples. Two people just found somewhere else since all we have to offer are one bedrooms. Crazy!!! We are still working on them even to this week and people are living out of totes, but honestly, how many people are everywhere in IA. We didn't have it nearly as bad as others. It just takes on another aspect of worry and responsibility when you are on the landlord side of it. I have both perspectives as I live in a leaky apartment at Faith currently. We will most likely be here for at least another year too and since Faith apartments are so much cheaper for the space and location, we most likely will also not be moving unless some major leakage urges us out. Thank the Lord that we live upstairs though!
To those who are in the majorly damaged areas and who are pretty much homeless, we are praying for you and know that the Lord will provide for His children.
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