Murdock Update

I just had an idea.  When I write to Jessica each week, I'll also post the letter here so we keep you all up to date as well.  Why didn't I think of this before?  Anyway, here you go.  I'll post the other ones too, so you'll have some background info.

Dear Sister Kennedy,

I think I told you that Justin and I are taking a ballroom class together.  The first dance we learned was foxtrot, and our test for it was Monday.  We had to wear church-type clothes for it, which meant I had to wear a skirt to work, and it was really cold that day.  Blah.  Anyway, Justin actually did really well on the test.  The practice session before hand was bad, but he really pulled it together for the test.  And he doesn't believe me when I tell him he's better than he thinks he is.

Speaking of Justin, BYU sent out admission letters on Friday evening.  This was their most competitive session to date, and they're denying about 50% of applicants.  Which means Justin will have to deal with lots of upset kids and their parents on Monday wanting to know why their brilliant son/daughter/self didn't get in.  Short answer: there's no room for them.  Will they like that answer: no.  Justin and his office are in for a fun time next week.

Let's see, we also got our taxes done this week.  That was an adventure for a couple reasons.  One, I had a hard time getting my W-2 form from one of my employers.  Had to track that down.  Then when it was time for our appointment (Accounting students at BYU will help you do it for free.  Woo hoo!), we couldn't find the room we were supposed to be in.  They had it tucked away in this back corner on the bottom floor of this crazy building on campus.  We walked all over that building searching and finally found it 30 mins. later.  Crazy.  Then the computer was having issues and it wouldn't accept the name of the company I currently work for.  When we finally got out of there, the 45-minute appointment had taken two hours, and Justin and I were very late getting back to work.  But at least we got our taxes done and we'll get a pretty big refund.  Woo hoo!

So, I learned something interesting at work the other day.  Our office gives bonuses if you write more than four settlement demands in one month (That's the document we send the insurance company saying, "This is what happened, this is how our client was injured, this is how their life was affected by this car accident, and this is why you should pay them X amount of money.").  We get a $20 bonus per demand, beginning with number five.  I counted up how many demands I've written while I've been working there, and just in January and February, I wrote 30 demands, plus another five in December.  Which adds up to $460 in bonus money.  Which made my most recent paycheck very pretty indeed.  :)  My bank account thanked me very much for that.  

Let's see, Justin and I went over to our Home Teacher's house (his name is Josh) on Wednesday and played video games with him and his wife (Raven).  We played Super Smash Brothers and Mario Kart, then Raven and I talked about wedding and photography stuff because we're both pretty newly wed while the boys played Halo.  We actually had a lot of fun, and we're planning to do it again soon.  I think we've actually made some friends around here.  Miracle!

Yesterday, Justin and I went out shopping and to the library.  I got the second and third books of a trilogy I started on our last library trip, so I can finish that soon.  Yay!  I got a pair of new pajamas at a store that's going out of business, so they were really cheap.  Always nice.  :)  Not-quite-so-nice part is that they're 100% cotton, so they shrunk when we washed them.  The pants were almost long enough before the wash-and-dry, but they're capris now.  We laughed about that one.

I'll quit now before this letter gets too much longer.  Love you, little sis.  Hugs and tickles.