Today was my first day as a legit Site Supervisor! it went really well :) I think it was good for me to have the beginning of the week to mentally prepare and learn mudding and drywall more before actually having to teach anyone. We had 5 volunteers from the Church of the Brethren, including 2 women in their late 20s, 2 other women in their 70s, and a man in his 40s who has done construction his whole life and was awesome! He just went right in and fixed all of the hard tasks that we had been avoiding because we didn't know how to fix them haha. Anyways, they were all awesome and really friendly and easy going, so it made my first day excellent! I taught the 2 younger women how to put up drywall and they did such a great job! I was so proud of them, they finished the entire hallway themselves (with my direction, of course)! Which shocked me, because they had had no prior training with drywall and it probably would have taken me a lot longer to do, myself, even with training! I also got a Snickers ice cream bar at the Dollar General AND a Sno Ball after work :) woohoo! Oh man, now I really want more ice cream....as I told my volunteers today, ice cream is my favorite food group ;) haha
After work, we had 2 meetings and then came back home for "Martha Stewart's Workout" aka cleaning the house, each doing our chores, while jogging in place, and then every 5 minutes we would either do 30 jumping jacks, situps, or pushups...we got our chores done so soon that we had to go out for a run and then do more workout stuff outside because we have to workout for 45 minutes three times a week. It was awesome, I like cleaning anyway, but this made it even more fun, and we listened to my music while we cleaned :)
I forgot to mention this already, but the homeowners cat lives at the trailer we are working on and LOVES us! We don't know it's name, we think it might be Mama, but Joe re-named her Delicious, so that is what we and our volunteers called her today haha it was awesome...and she was so cute, she would come right up to people while they were cutting drywall and rub up against their legs so they would stop and pet her. Now, I have never really been a big fan of cats, or pets in general really, but lately I just want a kitten and/or puppy soooo bad that I am starting to even like other pets! Crazy.
1) kittens are the cutest things ever
ReplyDelete2) cats are cool
3) kittens leave fur everywhere
4) cats leave more fur everywhere
5) fur is a pain
6) fur messes with the vacuum
7) vacuums die young at the Hallowell house
8) remember???
love you honey!! xoxo ~mama