UPDATE!

Hello to all our loyal GS (General Services) fans,

This is Kari. And this is my first blog post EVER!!

Please forgive me if I make any blogging faux pas.

Alright, seeing as this blog has not been updated for over a year, I have decided to write a quick update of the last year.

1. Ruthann Beatrice Grawe: Worked at General Services before her Mission to New Jersey. After returning from her Mission Ruthann discovered that General Services was quite different. In fact, no one she had previously worked with still worked at GS.

2. Janae Elizabeth Card Stubbs: Married Richard Stubbs in July 2009. She was offered a Physics TA position at BYU and therefore decided that her time at GS was over. Her last day as a GSG (General Services Girl) was in December 2009.

3. Julia Itri: Received her Mission Call to Omaha, Nebraska. Her last day as a GSG was also in December 2009. In January, she returned to the MTC, this time trading in her white MTC Employee name tag for a black missionary tag.

4. Gretchen Anne Young: Returned to GS in January 2010 after a semester break.

5. Jennica Myra Faye Ostler: Joined the GS crew in January 2010.

Custodian Changes:

Because the 1M afternoon custodians come in each day to clean our office, we often become friends with them. There have been many custodian changes this past year.

1. September 2008-April 2009: Greg and Valerie.

2. April-August 2009: Davey and Melinda

3.August- December 2009: Valerie and Michael

4. January 2010-April 2010: Valerie and Stephan

5. Currently: Two guys that we haven't yet become friends with... and I can't remember their names...

Here are some random pictures from our time at General Services:

Jess & I with Greg & Valerie.

The Afternoon Crew

We had some great times!!

Julia doing her homework.

We are so lucky that we get our homework done while at work!

Gretch doing her homework.

GSG at Gretchen's House

August 2009

GSG with the Custodians Davey & Melinda

Sometimes GS can be exhausting!

It's a tough job at GS

Currently Gretchen, Jennica, and I are keeping the MTC up and running. Ruthann is vacationing (I mean... doing a study abroad) in Mexico. Jessica went "home" to Connecticut (Home, is really in Alpine, but her family has been living in Connecticut for the past two years. They will be returning to Utah this summer). Both Ruthie and Jess will be returning to GS in July. Jennica will then be leaving to work as a Nanny and will return in the Fall.

Well, there you have it folks, a quick summary of the past year. I hope you have enjoyed my first blog post. Please, look forward to more interesting and exciting posts from me and other GSG.

Ten-Four. Over and Out.

Lazy? Or are we just bored out of our minds?

Long days. Long days give us long faces...

...unless we make a good time of it!


We found out that my camera takes panoramic shots. Wanna see?



To be continued...

Today the FANTASTIC day...

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you, our Gretchen. Someone once said that "storytelling is a dying art." Gretchen, ladies and gentlemen, is living proof that such a statement is not yet true. For she lives today and tells stories! Even now--if you listen--you might hear her, telling stories about the day of her birth. Why, today is the day of her birth!!! And so, without further adieu... a haiku.

I don't think I could
Ever say enough of you.
Gretchen is amazing!

Gretchen stands so strong
'Gainst winds of adversity.
And she gives good hugs.

Would that I could tell
All there was to tell--but nay--
'Tis impossible.

Gretchen is not one
To be measured by words alone.
She pretty much rocks.

Happy birthday gal!
Still after office hours
Stands our love for you!

Opa!

So Gretchen, may this day be the bestest ever! Well, for now.

And I expect some awesome stories tomorrow. :)

It's Time to Party!

Well, it's that time of year again. Janae is celebrating the day of her birth for the 21st time. That's right. The lovely creature pictured above is old enough to do so many things. She can legally drink (haha, but she won't), she can have a job and make money so that she can live on her own, she can count to ten (I'm pretty sure she could do that before), but she can not rent a car yet. So my point is...she's a catch. I'm lucky to know her.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANAE!!!

Our Dear, Departed Friends...

A eulogy to the late Snow family.

Oh what a sweet and glorious time
When Mr. Snow was made!
The paper stack was high until
It in the shredder was laid.

The bags came out in threes. In Threes!
No doubt this stemmed th'ideas.
Each three was piled up straight and tall
So we kept them like pet chias.

Mr., Mrs., and baby Snow--
Their eyes were bright as paper coal.
Baby even had a Binky,
Each had a simple, happy soul.

Then, one day, out of the mists
There came a sad event,
Upon a morning hour so that
No help could be sent.

The morning girls came in that day
And beheld--to their dismay--
The Snows were gone forevermore;
And thought, "What did this happen for?"

"What purpose in this suffering?
The pain they must have felt?"
Their tears were truly wretched
--the loss their hearts did melt.




The Snows are survived by Caroline, Janae, Kari, Jessica, Gretchen, and Julia. They resided at S.E. Corner, General Services, MTC. Condolences can be sent (in the forms of money and food) to General Services MTC.

In the beginning...

Almost every day the girls at general services expand their horizons. That's right...a word of the day. They sound much smarter now with vocabularies which include words such as "verbiage," "cupidity," "fettle," and "euphonious." Using these words in common conversation keep the gals looking--and feeling--incredibly intelligent.

But that isn't the point. The point is that the gals wanted their stories to reach father than the bricks of 1M-Wilford Woodruff.
The girls of General Services are here to serve. Generally. But at any given time if you were to walk past you would hear laughter, smell Caroline's latest masterpiece, and see them "working." It's only once in a blue moon that they get swamped. Like that one time...

That's why I, the old one, have begun this blog. Our stories must be told. A record of our dealings with the missionaries must be kept so that our children and our children's children can look to us for inspiration and strength in the trying times that are yet to come in these, the latter days. But mostly it's so that they can have a good laugh.