Life Update

Once upon a time it was the first day of school and I thought that I knew all of my classes, and more importantly, the times. So I went to my evening Biology Lab at 5:00pm only to realize that its starts at 7:00pm. Bummer! Thus I am going to take this opportunity to update the cyber world of what I have been up too.

Things are going pretty good right now. In December I finished my first semester of school since I have been home. I officially became a Biology major with hopes of becoming a Microbiology major and transferring to BYU this coming fall as UVU doesn't offer a Microbiology major. School was good, chose to do night school and work at doTERRA during the day. Needless to say, I have was pretty busy! This semester I expect to be just about the same as the last one. I am taking Philosophy, Racquetball, another Biology, Biology Lab, Chemistry, and last but not least Institute. I am very excited to be in school again. I enjoyed the break but I seem to be happier when I am busy and stressed out :)

I am still living at my grandma's and it's working out pretty well. I am planning on moving out this summer with a bunch of friends. About a month ago I made a pretty exciting purchase, I bought a saltwater fish tank! I love it so much!! I literally could sit and just watch it all day/night. Over the last couple of weeks I have purchased my first specimens, I now have 10 hermit crabs, 10 snails, 1 starfish, 1 peppermint shrimp, and I yellow wrasse (my only actual fish). It has been very fun to watch my little ecosystem become more stable. I will be sure to keep you all up to date as well as post pictures soon! 

Work is going good. I recently moved over to a different suite in our building. I now work with people with real jobs ha. It also feels like I work in a library because it is so blasted quiet! I do however enjoy that I now have many less distractions and can do my work in peace. For those of you who don't know, I manage all of doTERRA's Professional Accounts, which are mostly spa's and salons who purchase product in bulk. I really enjoy it.

And last but not least, 2 weeks ago my parents surprised all of us and took us on a cruise/ Disneyland for  Christmas. It was wonderful! We had so much fun! I didn't think I was in such a need for a vacation, but I was. While on the cruise, when I wasn't eating or napping, I was able to read and finish the Hunger Games series. They were fantastic and I would suggest them for anyone who is looking for a good new series. Disneyland was fun as well, but crazy busy. Needless to say I have a fantastic family!

So, in a nut shell, things are going good. 

Work Crisis: Someone stole my chair!

I enjoy my job. I work at a little desk in the corner where I don't have to talk to many co-workers. I mean I would like to talk to people but often my workload does not allow me to. My job stresses me out sometimes. I work with large Hotel/Spa chains who often ask me very hard questions that I have no idea how to answer. Besides my plant, I have only one comfort at work, and that is my chair.

Until recently there has been a chair shortage at my workplace, how that happens I don't know. I witnessed weeks of chair theft, luckily I work most of the day everyday so I was rarely a victim. In an effort to rectify the situation my work purchased about 12 new chairs. I was lucky enough to secure one of them for myself. That was about 2 weeks ago. I thought that with the surplus of chairs the pirating would discontinue. I was right, at least until last Monday when I walked into the office and my brand new chair was gone. It didn't take me long to discover who did it. It was one of the new girls. Now I had a moral dilemma, should I ask her to give my chair back? Should I take it back when she was not looking? Should I just let her have it? All bad options, I put that chair together, I was part of it and it was part of me. I remember the time I put it together backwards so I could only lean forward and instead of backwards! We bonded!

So a week went by... Every day I would mention to my neighbors around me that I missed my chair. I just couldn't bring myself to steal my chair back! Or so I thought. Finally after a failed attempt on Tuesday to take back what was mine, today I finally struck back, I did the lowest of the low, I stole it while she was in a meeting... Actually technically I didn't steal it back, I got cold feet, so my good friend Taylor stole it back for me.

So today I had a pleasant day in my good ol' chair. I still feel mildly guilty about the whole situation, but she should not have stolen my chair :)

Missionary Moment

I had a pretty cool missionary moment this week at work of all places. I have been praying for missionary opportunities and this was a pretty good answer to my prayers.

I work at a company called doTERRA which is a fantastic place to work. I am pretty sure that 98-100% of the employees are active LDS so there are not many places for missionary work... or so I thought. For my job I manage all of doTERRA's Professional Accounts meaning mainly our spa accounts. I work with people all over the the world and its pretty cool. I have a couple of accounts in Alaska so when I talk with reps for those accounts I love to talk Alaska. There is this lady that I have been working with named Monica and she has a couple of account that I manage so we talk all the time and have a great working relationship. She knew I was LDS because when I initially met her I told her that I loved Alaska and had just spend 2 years up there for the LDS Church.This last week she called me and asked/told me something else. She told me that she had been trying to get ahold of the LDS church but she couldn't get a hold of anyone from the church listing. That made sense because usually there is not anyone at the church to answer the hall phone during the day. So she asked if I could get her in touch with the church. I of course have tons of contacts with the church and asked if she would feel comfortable if she got a call from the missionaries. She said yes and that she actually had time right now and had a slot available later that afternoon. She then asked me a doctrinal question, she had observed how LDS people are fairly aware of how they appear meaning they are modest. She then told me that she had some tattoo's and was wondering if that could cause any problems down the road. I of course told her that the church suggests you don't have tattoo's but if you have them there is not a lot you can do. Basically I told her not to get anymore and that if she chose to join the church she would still be temple worthy as long as she met all the other criteria. It was great! I then called the mission office and gave them an official referral. It was great to talk to them again! After I gave them the Monica's cell I e-mailed her and let her know that I contacted the mission office. The next morning when I came to work I  had an e-mail from Monica saying that she had met with two sister missionaries and had a wonderful time!

This was a great experience for me because it helped me remember that while my job at doTERRA is very important, the church and the gospel are what are really important.

I will keep you posted with Monica!

Missoula, the Police and the La Quinta

Let me tell you of an adventure that I had this last weekend. I had the opportunity... no wait... the privilege of going to Missoula with 3 of my good friends. We went up to Missoula Montana Sunday, and came back on Monday. Needless to say it was a lot of driving. We had a lot of fun though!

To make a long story short, we went to Missoula to pick up a car from the police so they didn't auction it on November 13th. I left my house around 9:30am, went and picked everyone up, and we were on our way. The car ride was fun, we listened to a lot of music sang, played this game called "King of Pain"... well half of us played :). We played several rounds of those alphabet games where you have to think of something starting with an A then a B etc. We then stopped and ate lunch in Pocatello, ID at Olivers Restaurant. We chose a little hometown restaurant and we sure made a good choice. Our waitress was Rayleen (Ray-ray for short) and we had some good quotes from her. "I get off in 30mins, then I am off like a pair of dirty shorts," and, "I don't know how they make it, it comes to us frozen," and finally my favorite, "I'm an ankle biting bit**!" then from behind another waitress said,"Amen!" It was so funny! After we ate we loaded back up and finished the trip to Missoula. We got to Missoula about 8:30pm and stayed at the La Quinta. There were 4 of us and 2 queens, sounds okay right? Here's the catch, there were 2 boys and 2 girls ha! The girls had no problem sharing, but we boys do not share beds for anything. We the played cards and watched dirty jobs the remainder of the night, oh and we went swimming. Then we went to bed.

Ray-ray and us at Oliver's Restaurant

In the morning we woke up at ..7:00am to an ipod while the person was still asleep... Erin...:). Then it took her like 5 mins to turn it off because she couldn't find it. I would just like to mention that previously we agreed that I would set my alarm for 8:30am and that is when we would arise. After we ate we dropped the girls off at the mall and we went to get the car. I quickly found out that in downtown Missoula there is not a lot of parking available for trucks pulling trailers. So my partner in crime, Colton, dropped me off at the court house and drove around till I was done. Consequently the Court House was not the correct place, so I went to the Police Station that was behind the Court House. The GPS only told me that I had reached my destination at the Court House.... I was close :). Fortunately there were no hang-ups with getting the paperwork done so I could claim the car. $125.00 and a colored paper later we were off to the impound yard.

Upon arriving at the impound yard I had my first encounter with the car. It was pretty beat up. There was some sort of dent/scratch on every side and surprise it didn't start when I turned the ignition. We did jump it though and it started right up. So I drove it to the trailer and we loaded it. Upon driving it there I discovered that the brakes didn't work. Luckily the E-Brake still worked otherwise I would have hit a fence :). Also when I drove the car up onto the trailer the whole trailer lifted up! Apparently the trailer didn't get hooked up tightly! We drove the whole was up to Missoula from Utah with a trailer that wasn't tightened!! We then loaded it up and away we went, after of course with picked up the girls.

The ride back was uneventful, it snowed the whole way so that was fun. I was so proud of my truck. It did so good pulling a trailer with a car on it!

And that was the Missoula report. I know, my life is exciting!