Just Ranting

If I had had a better sense of humor, there would be pictures following some of this ranting, but for obvious reasons a sense of humor alluded me for this particular incident. Okay here it is... We had just gotten into our house, the second day to be exact, and I couldn't get the dryer to work. Thankfully there was a clothes line outside. Well, the kids and I had just gotten back from the park and Kaila was complaining about sand everywhere on her. So I started the bath for her and assumed that she would turn it off. I went outside and started hanging up clothes. It took me about 10-15 minutes to hang up all of the clothes. When I went into the house I was shocked to find that the floor was covered in water up to my ankles, EVERYWHERE!! I ran into the bathroom and Kaila was just sitting there enjoying herself. I just lost it, I felt like that was the straw that broke the camels back, I officially hated California. It was such a big mess that I had Kaila and Isaac run next door to get help. It just so happens that our neighbors are the maintance guys. I was so stressed out by all of the water and everything of ours was still in boxes, and in comes these guys that take one look at the mess and start smiling. Are you KIDDING me? I felt a little less bad at letting them help me clean up the mess, if they thought it was so funny then by all means, join in the fun by cleaning up. So now it's been a week and I can laugh about it. I just hope Sam and Jen are taking care of our house better than we've managed to take care of this one. I have to say that we did get the water picked up quickly and a dehumidifier set up that absorbed all of the water we couldn't see, so at the end of all of it, nothing was damaged. The next thing that made me want to be home; Ben and I went to the church twice to figure out where it was and to find someone to ask what time our church would start. We finally found some missionaries that told us that church was at 9:00. So on Sunday Ben and I show up at 9. We were actually 10 minutes early! I was really proud of ourselves. We have to drive to this church and made it early, at home we have to cross the street and are generally late, or just barely on time. Hm, I don't get why, but anyway...we get there and sit through all of sacrament. The sacrament room was filled with children. I was thinking, "wow, this will be great for the kids." Then at the end of sacrament we find out that we're in the wrong ward. WHAT?!! I am so out of my comfort zone here. I know no one and here I have just sat through sacrament meeting where I don't see a familiar face anywhere and we were in the wrong meeting!! So that just frustrated me. We're gonna have to do it again next Sunday. I had hoped by next Sunday to have at least one friend, no such luck. Then, as I've already written about, we had to re due our entire bathroom before we left, and I come here to a bathroom that was filled with mold. Then we get our house and it's got an old kitchen and hard wood floors. All the work we put into our house and I get the before version of it. Ironic ha? I think once I've got all of the boxes unpacked and everything in it's place and pictures on the wall, maybe it will be more bearable. Right now I'm just so home sick. I have no friends here, and I don't know my way around anywhere. I have the worst sense of direction of anyone I know, so I don't even dare try exploring. I got lost once when we first moved into our house back home. Kaila and I went for a walk and ended up so lost that I had to say a prayer and go knock on someones door who actually ended up taking us back home. Pathetic, I know but that's my sense of direction for you. I have countless other stories too. I'm also not use to such aggressive drivers and so little customer service. It's just hard right now. I'm so lonely and discouraged right now. Ben on the other hand seems to be having a good time. He loves to explore and see new places. He's really sweet too, he's really trying to make me feel at home here by working really hard to get things put away and pictures hung up. He's started school already, and I know it's stressful. He's one of the oldest ones in the class, (he's only 28). He's also one of the few students who has a family. I guess most of the students there are right out of highschool or bootcamp and so it's just them. So he's got his work cut out for him. He has to be dad and husband as well as student, while the young guys get to just be students. I have confidence in him though. I know he can do it. He's a smart guy. I hope to hear from some of you soon, and hope that all is well with all of you.