Friendship Ramblings

Friendships are a wonderful thing. They can be traumatizing, glorious, and tiring not to mention many other aspects that my mind is not thinking of.

Looking back on the many different friends I’ve had has made me realize that I am horrible at keeping in touch with people, let alone my family. I can count on one hand friends that I’ve been close to, that have helped me through the hardest times of my life. Some are gone; others I've lost touch with, yet others are still near. The saddest part is those that still live relatively close...in Utah... I don't reach out and keep in touch with them. Somehow as I was going through life my mind interpreted talking to people and asking questions as being intrusive, and is should not be done. I am trying to break this habit, but it’s not going very well.

I have two friends who recently had a child, and still I have not gone to visit them. I keep saying…well I don’t have their address besides they wouldn’t want a visitor with a new baby…which a part of my mind believes yet the other part is screaming as loud as it possibly could (mind you it is barely heard) that its malarkey!! People love having visitors, and they don’t consider them a nuisance. Yet again the louder portion of my mind says that.
I would like to say thank you to all my friends, and my family. You mean so much to me and I am so thankful that they stick with me. Both during the easy times of life and they trying ones which I tend to hide I would love to say I’ll be better and call at least each month, or write, but I’d hate to disappoint anyone. But I will try, I won’t promise anything but I’ll try.

Poll of Four

Four Jobs I've had in my life:
1. Bountiful Rec Center, I did everything there, then it was closed to be built anew as the South Davis Rec Center, and I work there as well
2. 3-D Video, I stocked, ran the cash register and made popcorn. Which was ever so fun because then you had a snack through out the night...popcorn is always yummy!
3. LDS Hospital, Food Server, handler whatever you want to call it. I helped in the kitchen preparing & delivering dinners to the patients. I even helped with making the shakes & individual snacks for the diabetic patients or the patient that needed an extra little snack. It was so much fun!
4. Layne Christensen Co., I've been here 10 years running the office, handling all the paperwork. Sadly now I'm bored to tears and debating about jumping ship as it is no longer a place of happiness or even a little joy. Just loneliness & sadness

Four movies I would (or have) watched over and over: Mind you they're in no specific order, just how I remember them...
1. Transformers
2. Count of Monte Cristo
3. The Illusionist, I absolutely LOVE this show!!
4. V for Vendetta
5. I have to add another...Stardust, its a sweet sweet show and I normally don't care for many chickflicks. Could be because I don't watch a lot of them.

Four places I have lived:
1. Bountiful, Utah (twice, we moved once the year I was going into Kindergarten)
2. Salt Lake City, Utah
3. Kaysville, Utah
4. Honestly don't plan on moving again

Four of my favorite foods:
1. POTATO'S!!!! The meal most prepared at my house is sliced potato's with cheese and sometimes meat. Always prepared in butter & garlic though...very tasty!!
2. Homemade Taco's
3. Enchilada's
4. Currently anything with Chocolate & raspberries

Four places I'd rather be right now:
1. In Hawaii on a beach
2. Ireland is my dream location, maybe one day we'll get there
3. At home
4. In the sun

I'm supposed to pass this onto 4 other people, but I really have a hard time asking people to do things, so if anyone wants to feel free. Its always fun to see what people write.

Not so Young - Hubby

We have had our bikes now for three days and feeling young is an incorrect statement. The plan of biking to get in shape has some definite drawbacks and I would call them feeling sore, old and out of shape. When I was a child it was very easy to ride “One gear” it was that easy. How in the heck do you manage 24, my car only has 6 and works just fine. We have learned about upgrades for our bikes and made the first required upgrade out of complete necessity. The seats had to go, this was an easy decision since we decided sitting on some kind of padding was essential. I wouldn’t even place the seats they came with in any type of category except painful. Calling them seats would be a generous and very false statement. I would take a good lashing from my folks over sitting on those “things” again.


Our rides are starting out small and hopefully one day we will be able to circle our entire block once maybe even twice but I am not holding my breath. Joking aside currently our rides are about a half hour in length and will most likely grow from there.


Since buying our bikes we have been back to the bike shop every day. I could say financing a small village or country would be cheaper and produce a larger reward in the long run. My only hope for this week is we do not have to go back to the shop for anything else. The Wife however enjoys wandering the shop and finding more items to buy. I shall draw the line on spandex shorts, man was not meant to wear them, I don’t care if it will enable me to do mach 10 down a hill. The person who came up with it probably did it as a joke and laughs all the way to the bank.


Thank you and good night, I’ll be here all week and don’t forget to try the veal.

Feeling young again

Just a quick note, I'm so excited!! We bought 2 bikes yesterday evening!!! This has been a topic of discussion for many months, yes even years that we might get bikes, and now it has happened!!

I haven't been on a bike since junior high, which is a really long time ago, its been even longer for hubby!! But we're going to start a daily ritual of riding at least for 30 minutes, or until our bums fall off from never being used...who knows, this may help us get back into shape!!

Weekend Fun!!

So Hubby was lovely this weekend and surprised me with a trip to Lost Creek!! Little did we know it'd be so much fun!

The drive up was lovely and surprisingly I did not get a headache on the drive!! Normally I do.


Driving up the canyon we saw a quaint cabin that was just beautiful...nestled within a side shoot of the canyon, it truly made me want to live in the backwoods. How fun that would be...mind you this was not the fun part.

Further into the canyon you'll reach the reservoir. Just before the reservoir is an old campground site that we cross a creek to reach the property...this mind you is where the adventure began!

Driving into the camp ground we got stuck!! The snow was much deeper then it appeared. If you look closely you can see in the snow the tracks the bottom of our car left. But this adventurous site entertained us thoroughly for an hour and a half! I don't think I've had so much fun playing in the snow before!





Just a few friendly natives that helped free us from the treacherous snow!!





This is a glimpse of the path we made leaving the adventurous site, in reverse mind you! Oh and with me jumping on the back of the car to "add" weight so it might move forward...seriously tons of fun, I suggest all of you get stuck in the snow at least once in your lifetime!