Utah

Besides that it snowed in the mountains yesterday, Utah is fantastic! I've been working hard at my internship and finally feel somewhat proficient at the Walgreens way of life. My parents went to pick up my brother from his mission in Russia and the rest of the family decided to remodel our bathrooms. It has been a huge undertaking and has worn us all out, but it was a great project and it looks great! My brother is home from Russia and he is still the same great kid. I am happy that my family is all at home, at least for a little while and we are having some good times. To welcome Shayne home, we went shooting the tube the next day. It is my favorite activity in Salt Lake, the funnest thing ever!!! I've spent lots of time with Sarah and she is great. So, all-in-all, Utah is treating me quite well.

New Start

My first day at Walgreen's Pharmacy in Taylorsville Utah is officially over. It went okay, I guess. I am reminded how much I hate feeling like I can't do anything. I am pretty good at my job as an intern at CVS and I have six years of experience in the pharmacy, but that doesn't mean much when you go into a new environment. I pretty much felt like an idiot the entire day. I don't know how to use their computer system nor their registers, so I was left to count pills all day (which I am already wicked fast at). I attempted to answer the phone once but I couldn't help the lady cause I had no idea how to navigate the system. I love learning to do things and I especially love knowing that I can do things. Hopefully they will start to teach me a little more or I may go crazy! That is why I think education is so important. If you don't learn how to do things, you are helpless and depend on others for everything. The more you know and the more you can do on your own the better off you are in life. "Only the educated are free!" Educate yourselves!

There's no place like home...

(CLICK, CLICK)...And in a flash I was home. Well, now quite. My day started at 3:00 in the morning, so it was a really long day and several plane rides and then I was home! I love the feeling of getting close to Salt Lake and being totally at peace, knowing that you are home. I love seeing the mountains again! Sarah picked me up at the airport and we went to lunch, which was great. Then we spent the day with my family, hanging out and watching the BYU game and playing lego's with my nephews (I love lego's, its a genious toy). We all went to dinner and then my family went to a session afterwards. What an awesome day. I am so excited to be home for 2 months! It comes at a price, because I will really miss some things about Mass. I start my internship on tuesday and I am really excited to see how it goes with Walgreen's. I am also really excited to catch up with all my friends, its gonna be a fun two months. There is no place like home, and that is the truth.

The cutest

I just love these kids! Look how cute they are, all little Harry Potters!

Scared?!

Is it bad that I am twenty five years old and I still get scared at night when I am home alone? So, the last few nights I have been in this house all by myself. I get scared every night. Not so much scared that I can't move or that I do hide under my covers in my bed (this is what I did when I was younger) but just a little bit edgy. Usually when the whole family is home, we all just go to sleep and no one ever thinks about locking the doors. But, I walk around checking them all several times to make sure that they are locked before I go to bed. I lock all the windows as well. I even fixed one of the doors that has never locked, all in an effort to feel safe. I think that I may have watched too many scarry movies. I know that the murders and sick people of the world wander in the woods and only come out at night when they know their prey is home alone. Well this house happens to be surrounded by woods which produce some freaky noices. At times I can just feel eyes watching me from outside. Freaky.

Halleluja!!!

I don't even know how to spell that, but I am so glad to be done with class work and tests for 3 months that it doesn't matter if I can spell it correctly or not!!! I came home yesterday after taking my last two finals and I slept from like 5 in the afternoon until 10 this morning. All it takes is one really good nights sleep and life is beautiful again. La vie est belle

Last day of July

So, I went to my last class of the school year today and it felt so good to walk out and be one step closer to a month off school and one step closer to graduation in only 2 years. I only have to get through finals and then I will be having my short (1 month) summer that I have been waiting for. My aunt and uncle and cousins are leaving soon for England, so I will be all alone for 1 month. I will be taking care of the dog, cleaning the pool so that I can have many pool parties, mowing the lawn, watching tv, reading great books (the Bourne novels), working a little bit more and playing with my new laptop that I bought (don't tell my dad, he doesn't like it when I buy things. sshh). I can't wait! I have worked my butt off this year and I feel like I deserve a good break. I am also excited because I don't actually have to go back to class until the end of october. I have been approved to do a rotation in SLC for 2 months and I could not be more happy. It's always good to have some time away from the blasted pharmacy books and have a good time, right? That's what I thought too. Guess I better get studying.