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!

Today was an incredibly hard day at the office for me. I received a phone call around lunch time from an employee working in Washington. He was asking about start cards for the drilling and needed help sorting it out. I explained to him I didn't know how much help I'd be as all my files were sent to Fontana, CA in February. Sadly for me he kept asking and insisting that I'd be able to help.

This situation has been happening more & more often for me. That employee's I could help have been calling me needing help. Yet they don't realize that I am know a Mushroom and don't know anything when it comes to the projects they are on. Either the files are no longer in my office or I can't get the individual offices to return my calls or emails. It just makes the day incredibly hard for me. Especially having the feeling that I am basically useless to the field guys who I used to be able to help no problem.

I know I know everyone has bad days at work it just seems like mine is lasting months not just days. And I'm losing hope for being happy with the company, even with changing divisions.

I don't know why this phone call was any different than the others but I just lost it. Had to go outside and just let it out. I think I lasted another 30 minutes before I left for the day. I've just had it with work. Which makes me really want to jump ship whether it be within the same drilling business or get out of it entirely.

Honestly right now I just want to run away from everything and hide in my sweet cousin's grotto picture. At least there I'd have a beautiful view that would help brighten my day.