Gonna Need My Angry Eyes

I don't get offended very often. Today I did and let me tell you...I don't like the feeling because it also brings out hurt and even more powerfully, Anger. That's right, I am downright pissed now. (I know this is something that mostly likely will happen again in my life and I need to learn to deal with it, nevertheless, some anger in one's life from time to time I think is a good thing. Just look at the movie Enchanted. She learns about anger and ends up having a great life. Ok back to our story.) Rick and I are on the activities committee. In planning activities we are trying to incorporate several things each time into them such as fellowshipping, emergency preparedness, and genealogy. This past Tuesday we were having a cookout and wanted to use it as a fellowshipping/missionary tool. We wanted all who live in our ward boundaries to know they were welcome and invited, no matter what faith. On Sunday I asked the chair guy if the flyers were ready to go and offered to make sure they got to all of the apartments in our ward, as I live in an apartment. He emailed back around 1:30 on Monday stating the name of who was going to be delivering them and that they were unsure of the policies concerning flyers. I emailed back within 10 minutes that anything is welcome here and there is even a clip by every door. At 10:00pm that night I had still not received a flyer. I again sent an email stating this. I finally received a response today...SATURDAY. I was told "Sorry I didn't get this in time" related to the flyers being allowed. Ok I have a major issue with this. The guy emailing me is my home teacher. He knows where I live. He knows my phone number. He could have called if he really had a question about the situation. I also received an email today with:

"We didn't get them to the apartments. We got all homes in the ward though." What the hell?!?!?! Do I not have a home??? I am furious! There is a reason that the attendance/activity from the people living in the apartments is so low. We are treated as if we are an after thought. There is no chance I would ever buy a house in this ward. There is a reason I can't wait to get out of this ward. 3 years of being treated like this is long enough for anyone and the sad thing, we will probably be here another year. Maybe I should just go inactive... ;-)

Seriously...do any of you see this as being as offensive as I do?

My Homes

Ever since I started really working on genealogy I have wanted to put together photos of all of the homes I have lived in. Today I was able to take photos of 3 of them.
The second home I lived in we moved into when I was about 18 months old or so. It is located on E street in the avenues. I could write volumes on living there. Especially since we lived there twice. Most of my memories come from the second time.
I had the bedroom in the front of the house on the second floor. I had wall paper that was red roses. My closet was really long and skinny and I used to play in it all the time. It had a scary basement. There was a cold storage under the porch and it wasn't finished at all. The garage has since been rebuilt...the one in the photo is not what was there when we lived there. It was a small one car garage. It looks like all sorts of other yard work has been done too. We did always have the porch swing but there used to be more oak trees in the front of the house in the parking strip. (The home was built in 1920 and they are currently asking $389,000 for it. Apparently the basement is now 80% finished but no interior photos are listed.)

We moved to this home when I was 5. My bedroom was the room all the way to the left. This home is located in Arlington Hills up by the cement U on the hillThe fence from the front door has only fairly recently been added. There used to be all sorts of boulders where we played Star Wars for hours and hours. I wonder if when they removed them they found all of our lost guns and other accessories. My mom's bedroom ran the entire length of the porch on the right. There is a waterfall in the center of the house too.
(This home was built in 1978 and the asking price is $1,200,000. There are interior photos on the listing but they have added walls and all sorts of things so it is not even the same house. I have tone of interior photos though from when we lived there.)

After here we moved back to the blue house...which was blue when we lived there...for a few more years. This photo is our view straight across the street. This alley lead to the home of our best friends, The Clawsons. You can see LDS Hospital in the background too. We spent LOTS of time playing there as well.

We moved into this last home when I was in 6th grade. We lived here for about 18 months. It is located on I Street. This home had a HUGE back yard. It was long and kinda skinny. It does have a basement and the back had been cut out so that the rooms in the basement on the back had windows. My bedroom was located on the main floor in the south east corner.
In doing family ancestry I have learned what a treasure it is to have photos of our homes. I recommend that anyone who can takes photos of their homes and labels them for future generations. Afterall, you never know when they house might change drastically or even be ripped down.

Moving?!?

Earlier today I had thought of something I really wanted to post and now I have no idea what it was! This afternoon we went driving around looking at houses. We went all the way out to Eagle Mountain. Can I just say that actual Eagle Mountain, not the Ranches but all the way out in the boondocks Eagle Mountain is a HOLE!! It was so depressing out there. The homes were so ugly. Most people didn't take care of the yards. There is no way we could ever live out there. The Ranches weren't so bad but we did find one area in Saratoga Springs that we really liked. Now the hard part... do we wait until we are further out of debt or do we buy now. I do know that I can't wait to get into a house. I really look forward to being in a place where I can make friends with my neighbors and really feel past of the group. As it is right now, I know I have friends but because of living in the apartments, I am "forgotten". Guess we shall just see what happens.
Yesterday was a great pool day. I was out for about 3 1/2 hours. I sure love pool days. Next weekend is the Lavender festival. Jimmy and Carrie are planning on going so we are trying to decide if we want to go or not. Rick is playing golf in the morning with his dad and brothers. We also have his "family reunion" on Sunday. I am excited for that!
I haven't worked on my ancestry stuff in weeks! I need to finish up a chart for this party though. I think I will go to that or watch Pride and Prejudice. I think I only have about 45 min left.