ya gheli du?

That is Athabascan for, "Is it good with you?" I hope so. It is with me. For the most part. Thanksgiving was fantastic. I was able to get away from people for a few days while I was housesitting and that was a very welcome change. I spent Thanksgiving Day among friends who have become stranger (that is, even more strange than before) and strangers who have become friends. I did have my feelings hurt badly by a boy who is no older than 8 years old. And then I started to think about what the boy must be facing in his own life that would allow for him to say such a hurtful thing to someone whom he had never before met. And it broke my heart.

There was some sad news this weekend too. One of my friends, Millie, was set to be married in February to the father of her little girl. She has been busy making wedding plans and designing invitations and everything that goes along with it. Her fiance was found frozen on Sunday morning in a village way up north. I have not heard the details surrounding his death but I do know that his death is a tragedy and a mystery. He had been with her just the night before taking her on the back of his snowmobile from Noorvik to Kotzebue, about a 2 hour trip. Something devastating had to happen between that time and the time that he died. Just pray for her and his family. His name is Joe.

I saw a movie Friday night with my friend Jeff. Deja vu is a great movie and here is just a little piece of trivia for you: there is an ambulance in the movie and on the front of it where the license plate should be there is one of those dealer advertising tags, you know what I am talking about? Well, it is from Olathe Ford. Olathe, KS is a suburb of Kansas City; it neighbors with Overland Park, which is where I moved from to Alaska. It's an action-packed movie - a little sci-fi, a little thriller, a little crime, etc... It was kinda scary too, what they were "playing" with in the movie. See it and you'll know what I'm talking about.

I am working on a couple other posts, one of which I hope to have up by this weekend.