*Insert Exotic and Interesting Title Here*

So, if you're going to get up at 4 in the morning to help a friend through some problem, I'm not saying you ever have to by any stretch of the imagination, but if you ARE going to get up at 4 the best movie to watch is undoubtably this one:

 

In addition to being ridiculously cute and fun to watch, it makes getting up at 4 not quite as hard, and even slightly enjoyable. Plus it has an amazing soundtrack!

Day #1 at Job #3

Hello there peeps!! Today I started my first day at what I hope to have be my full time job soon.

It's funny, because I've known Dr. Park for basically my whole life...I've been going to him for chiropractic adjustments for years, and I was never nervous then. But today? Man this morning I was terrified!

So just in case I didn't mention it, the job that I started at today was at Dr. Parks as his receptionist and filer and well, pretty much anything he needs done I do. Especially since he's been without a receptionist for about 6 months so there are a lot of things that need to be filed and fixed and updated.

I woke up this morning and put on extra-professional, extra-pretty clothes so that I would have extra confidence when I started my first day. Because even though it was Dr. Park it was still a first day, and I was still nervous. So I get all dolled up and into work I walk...

There I see that Dr. Park is in jeans and a polo...and I was way overdressed. He chuckled at me and told me that I didn't need to dress up for work, and that he didn't have a dress code for the job. Just as I was feeling really stupid he gave me a smile and said, "You look good though" And then I just wasn't nervous anymore. We talked and chatted and I alphabetized and filed and we got to know each other a little bit better and talked about what the standards would be for employee and employer. Although I have to say, since I did spend the better half of the morning sitting on the floor with lots of paper around me I did really wish I didn't wear a skirt to work....But it was great and it was fun! And someday I'll be full time there, and I'll be really happy :-D

In other news I went on a date on Thursday night. It was the first date that I've been asked on since May and I had a very good time! And yeah, maybe he MIGHT have felt obligated to ask me out because my father MIGHT have cornered him and told him that I liked him (which I still have mixed feelings about, I love and yet am slightly angered at my father at the same time. I gotta be honest, it's mostly boiled down to love and appreciation at this point because as Dad says "We parents can say all sorts of things that you feel like you can't") but still! He asked me!! He didn't have to! And so unless he decided to take me on a pity date the whole thing was real and fun and I had a good time! We went out to see True Grit and we bought some ice cream (I finally found some Ben and Jerry's Cake Batter!! I was SO happy!) and then we ate our ice cream and played card games and talked. It was a blast! Someday, perhaps in the future there will be another one, that would be nice I think. And I then of course got to thoroughly analyze every aspect of the date with my sister and my friend and later my mom (isn't being a girl just wonderful? I think it is) and overthink absolutely everything!

I've also gotten my mother addicted to the TV show Psych! Go me!! I feel like this has been a very productive week so far.

Hardware Ranch

Hello!! I know, it has been ages since I've last written, and I would swear that I'm going to be better from now on but I have no way to absolutely guarantee that, so I'll hold off on that promise until I post a few more and actually have a trend going on :-D

So quick update, at the end of December I moved from Missouri back to Utah and began life anew (like I've done 4 times in 2010...) And well, really that's the update. I currently work 4 jobs, all part time which makes it slightly hard to manage a schedule but possible with kind bosses and a planner that never leaves my purse so I always know where it is....

And despite all this I've managed to maintain a fairly hopping social schedule as well! I had a girls night in with a friend of mine, Cindy, who was getting over a break-up so we consumed massive amounts of sugar, and watched Clueless and laughed hysterically about nothing. (We also decided that Bonnie has sections, and each little section of Bonnie is kind of crazy and odd and maybe a little scary, but if you put all the sections together it makes into a lovely person. See this is what kind of stuff you chat about on a girls night in) I had a girls night out with Tiffany where we had dinner and went to see a movie and catch up on all that's happened since we'd last seen each other. I also started attending a Singles Ward...the jury is still out on how I feel about it, I'm giving it a couple more tries.

But the particularly exciting thing of the week (not that all of those weren't exciting, they for sure were) was a trip to Hardware Ranch with me, Kylan, Mom, and Dad. I had never been up to Hardware Ranch before and Mom and Dad were kind and loving enough to decide that they would take me to go, and even let me invite a friend :-D So on Saturday the 22nd we all headed up to Logan and get to Hardware Ranch and take a sleigh ride and feed the Elk. And I was SUPER stoked!

Of course we got up there and realized that none of us had remembered to bring a camera, which was very very sad. But luckily Kylan's phone had a pretty good camera so we were able to snag at least a couple of pictures of the journey.

ELK! (Really they are quite pretty animals, I'd never really thought about it before, but they are)

So, random Elk fact. Their back teeth have rings on them (like a tree) that tell people how old they are. Crazy eh?

I think that particular male Elk had one of the biggest racks of the ones there. Did you know that with Elk the number of points they have doesn't actually dictate how old they are? I didn't! Learn something new everyday eh?)

Me (who was unfortunately caught with a it's-freezing-and-I'm-cold-so-hurry-up-and-take-the-picture smile) and Kylan (who was unfortunately caught with a half smile)

Me, staring at Elk

So this poor Elk had had a tangle with a wire fence earlier in the year, and he had this stuck to his antlers. The tour guy said that it would traumatize him more if they tried to remove it then it would for him to just have it hanging off of his horns until they drop off in May.

So that was Hardware Ranch. It was wonderfully fun and the day was continued with lunch out, a beautiful drive around the area we were at, and watching Meet the Robinson's when we finally got home (because why WOULDN'T you want to watch that movie?) It was a fabulous day!