Public Relations

I dropped Jorja off at school this morning. We saw Bode walking into the school. Jorja said, "That's not a good sign." I sent her with my phone, hers has stopped working. Sometimes these elections are won and lost on Instagram now. Jorja texted Mike during the election meeting this morning. Her text said, "I can't win against these people." Yikes! Mike told her to try anyway, the worst thing that could happen is that she will be able to have Struiksma for advisory. Jorja signed up to run for vice president, even though Bode was running. She did not want to do that. She originally wanted to run for public relations, but thought Brenton was running for that. He is in our ward and she did not want to run against him. Brenton is running for president. Jorja decided to switch to public relations. She texted Mr. Palmer and told her she was switching, and sent him her campaign posters to approve. These are her posters. Mike, Jorja and Stockton did a great job on them.

Jorja tried to get them printed out at school, but there was too long of a line and she wouldn't get them back until tomorrow morning. Too late to turn them into signs to carry. She has a $50 budget and posters were going to take up the entire thing now. Until my cousin Jason became a hero. Jason works at Overstock. Mike texted him and asked if he could help. Jason hooked Mike up with someone who was able to print out the posters for free. W-O-W. Talk about coming through in a clutch! Thank you Jason!

Mike also filmed her so she could put it on Instagram. I think Stockton came up with the 'racing attire' puns. (In case you can't watch this video, Jorja says something like, "Hey Alta, I'm in racing attire, racing a tire." She then drives the tiny jeep after a tire Stockton has rolled down the road. It was pretty funny. Jorja wasn't quite sure, but Mike and Stockton convinced her to post it.

Here is another video she did that she can post later if she wants.

Jorja was so emotional today. She is super worried about the elections and stressed about everything right now. I got kind of annoyed with her. For the record, today I hate boys. Except mine. They are awesome. Jorja stayed up late working on her campaign and doing homework. I had Stockton help her with math. I keep telling her that school is super important now, more important than student government or softball. Hopefully she'll be able to juggle all the balls in the air. Stockton was really funny trying to explain math in terms Jorja could understand. Something about the exponent has a shield so it blocks one order of elevation . . . That kid cracks me up. All. The. Time. He also is able to make Jorja happy, which I am loving right now.