Yo Ho The Trailer's Life for Me

Eric and I are learning lots about living in a trailer, especially in AZ

1) If it's an old trailer, getting into the shower that has cracks in the bottom may cause flooding in the next room on the floor. Secretly, this is a blessing because then you HAVE to take showers at the house which has hot water to last the shaving legs process.

2) The "black water tank" is what holds the poo....if a foul smell begins to emerge, don't panic! This is rather normal in most trailers. Just watch 2 hours of youtube videos to learn how to empty your black water tank. When you have done all the right things to empty the tank and then you don't see anything coming out of the already nasty, brownish pipe....panic!

3) Although this is AZ and there are scorpions that roam around at night, not everything that tickles your leg calls for panic. But this does call for obsessive checking of your shoes before you put them on, your clothes, and your sheets before you get into bed. You should also consider wearing your hair in a pony tail because this can also cause lots of distress when your hair tickles your neck and lots of laughter from your husband.

4) Again, if you are living in an older trailer, and you happen to have broken windows boarded up with plywood right above your bed, you may want to just sleep on the opposite side of the bed.

5) No matter how much you spray that "fresh berry" glade spray that is "rich with luscious berries and pomegranate" that is suppose to "bring a sophisticated sweetness to your favorite room" or trailer, the musty smell of wet carpet and dogs will not go away. But it will hide it for 30 mins.

6) And last but not least, remember this is actually rather fun and that maybe yo ho the trailer's life might be just for me ;)

Virtual Drinking

This morning has led to lots of stress in the Dennis Trailer. Not because of anything Eric or myself have done, but just to mere circumstances. On my drive home I was trying to remind myself of all the blessings Eric and I have and that everything will work out just fine. But I had the radio on and this song came on about drinking the  night away. As you know, we don't drink. And I was reminded of this video clip from our new favorite show, The Big Bang Theory: Although we are NOT having relationship issues, I find Sheldon's way of coping rather funny.

Showers

So most everyone knows that Eric and I are now living in Gilbert, Arizona (the little Zion, as it is called here). And I must say, this is a really big adventure for us. I went to Mozambique back in 2007 with a non-profit called Care For Life. I haven't done much with them since, except for their monthly newsletters. But it is a great organization, and I needed an internship to graduate. My major is public health and what CFL is doing and accomplishing, seemed to fit perfectly with public health. So voila! Now we are here. Linda Harper was my team leader when I went to MOZ and she now happens to be the president of CFL. So she and her family are kindly letting us stay in one of their camping trailers on their property while we are here for the next 3 months....yes a camp trailer. A very old camp trailer. They are only going to charge us a tiny amount to help with the utilities. It's fantastic. Linda was so worried what we would think or how we would feel living in a tiny trailer. But we just look at it as an adventure. It is much smaller then our tiny apartment back in Rexburg. The oven, stove-top, and heat are all run by propane. So lets just say that showers have not really been working for me. I think the longest shower I have taken has been 3-4 mins...which is better then the 2 min showers I was taking. For some reason, I can't get the water to stay hot. Eric on the other hand has not had a problem with this at all. He tried to teach me, which is why I had one shower that was 3-4 mins long. Yet, this is still not long enough to shave my Amazon lady hairy legs. So lets just say I have been sorta avoiding the shower. So I woke up this morning with my hair looking like this

Although I don't have the facial hair, the bangs are pretty dead on.