Pocatello

This weekend I took a little road trip to visit two of my very favorite people, B & Whit, in lovely Pocatello. We had so much fun (at least I had so much fun, and they said they did too...I choose to believe them)
Wanna know some of the fun things we did? Ok, I'll tell you:
They showed me around town a bit, I saw where B goes to school and works, and they pointed out where Whit works, and we went to the mall, which was...well...a little sad. The mall in Pocatello isn't really that impressive.
Then we went to the Fort Hall Casino...which is also not the most impressive thing ever... While there we got some hot cocoa, and we all played some slots. Whit and I played more than B did, we both played $1.00, Brandon only played $0.01. We are High Rollers!
Once we had decided that we had inhaled enough second hand smoke, we left the casino and went to a movie. We saw Arthur Christmas, which was SO GREAT! I really loved that movie!
After that we went back to their apartment, made some Muddy Buddies (yum!) and hung out until the wee hours of the morning.
It was so great! Thanks Brandon and Whitney for inviting me to visit!

An Invitation

Thursday, December 8, at 10:45 pm I am the lucky recipient of the following text:

"Muddy buddies, an Xbox Christmas preview, comfy queen size bed with feather mattress pad and matching sheet/comforter set, and a special pan of vegetarian lasagna await your arrival in exotic Pocatello (a mere three hour jaunt) this weekend if you choose to accept this limited time offer.
*limited to the first caller, most expenses paid, offeree responsible for interstate travel."

I immediately called in (to my younger brother) and found out that I was, in fact, the first caller!! Whoo Hoo, I won a trip to visit my Brother and Sister-in-law! Pocatello here I come!

My Friend Santa

I am lucky enough to live within walking distance of work. In fact, it would probably take me longer to get my car out of my parking garage at home, drive over, and park it at the parking garage at work than it does just to walk the two(ish) blocks. In order to get to work, I usually walk through the building that houses the children's museum here at The Gateway. Well, during the holidays they have a little area in that building where Santa comes to hang out, and the kids can sit on his little purple sofa and get their picture taken with him. I LOVE that. I love walking past all the fun holiday decorations every day. I love seeing the kids that are all excited cause they just saw Santa. And I love that I have been walking past Santa on such a regular basis, that we have started to become friends.

It started out slowly. I would walk past, smiling cause I was happy to be seeing all the Christmas spirit around me, and Santa and I would kind of make eye contact and smile at each other. Then after a couple days of that, he obviously noticed that I walk past everyday cause I started getting that little head nod of recognition. One day as I was walking home, I got a full on hand wave from him. A couple days ago, he actually said "hello" to me. And last Friday as I was walking home for lunch, there weren't any children there, so we exchanged a little small talk. It makes me so happy!

So if anyone needs me to do some damage control cause they were a little more naughty than nice this past year, let me know. Santa and I are totally becoming friends!

I'm Back...(to blogging)

I finally got the internet....and I want to start blogging again...ok, here I go....

Day One

Well, I survived day one of my new job...I got a lot of information and I'm not sure I can remember all of it at this point. That was a little overwhelming but all in all it was a really good day. I think that this is going to be good!

More Happy News

I (with lots of help from my mom) found an apartment! I (again, with lots of help from my mom) looked and looked on the Internet and went down to Salt Lake a couple of days and was hopeful of finding a nice place, but didn't really think it would happen very soon. Anything worth moving into had a waiting list, and most places were telling me they didn't think anything would be available for at least a couple months. Actually, it was the office personnel that was telling me that, not the building itself...I didn't want to confuse anyone...ha ha, man I'm funny! Anyway. I was finding that if I wanted to actually live in Salt Lake and not in a neighboring city, I either had to compromise on my budget and pay more than I thought I could really afford, or compromise on my expectations of how nice a place I could find. Well folks it turns out that sometimes you really can have your proverbial cake and eat it too! I went to look at the apartments at The Gateway and thought they looked really nice, but found that they were WAY out my price range. I gave up hope on those apartments and continued to search elsewhere, but my wonderful mom didn't give up. After some phone call (thanks mom!) and some serious time on my part trying to convince myself not to get my hopes up, we found out that they do have a few select units that would fit my budget...but (pause for effect) they aren't often available. Bummer, huh? NOPE! My mom is a diligent one! She found out that one of these units had just been rented, BUT that the people were thinking that they didn't actually want it. So she called and called and called some more and when the renters finally decided they didn't in fact want the apartment she was the squeaky wheel that got the grease (yup, i threw another little proverb in there for you. You're welcome.).

It (by "it" I mean my soon to be apartment) is (in case you didn't figure it out from the above story) at Northgate Apartments at The Gateway. It's a one bedroom, one bath cute little place and I am so, so excited! It should be ready for me to move in (assuming the application process goes smoothly...knock on wood) April 19, which is only a week and a couple days after I start my new job down there (which is MUCH better than the month-ish that I was expecting) Thanks for all the help Mom! Yay!

New Job

Hey guess what...after looking and looking for WAY too long, I have finally found myself a full-time job! Cool, huh? Yeah, I'm pretty excited! Starting next Monday (April 11th) I will work in Salt Lake for what seems like a really great company and I am very excited about it! I am so very ready to start a new adventure and I think that this is just what I need. Yay for me!!