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Another day in the life... let me just explain.

Wakey wake off to work, start cup one of hot coco (that's to Lamar my Momita at work I have Stephens mint!!!) I usually get in to the office to find messages from all my friends on my phone. Probably about 5 each morning. Each person on the other side of the message having their own emergencies to which I am the savior... (in their eyes).

After I address the messages and search all the programs working with the cases, I usually need another cup of coco. This time extra Chocolate. With my fresh cup of coco, I am ready to face my case load. I pull up my "alert" page. "Alerts" are the tasks that have to be completed to maintain my cases. They are auto- sent from out computer programs and are the things that have to be completed on my cases. At any time a state work has various pages of alerts, I at this point have 6 pages. These alerts could include anything from Reviews, to new Applications, and minor things like verifications that have been turned in.

Fast forward to lunch... about 1 pm or when ever I can get away from "changing lives." LUNCH. Juli is one of my Closest friends at work. Lunch with Juli is a MUST. She recently got a bag of Tamales and that has been our alimentation the last little while. (love them)

Then back to the office. By this time my shoes are long gone, and I have pulled a chair under my desk to put my feet up and I'm on cup 6 of coco... Don't forget the Im's along the way. Shawn is another of Cher's BFF in the DWS world. We Im like no other. My head Phones, with some great tunes are also necessary to my survival.

About 5:30 rolls around and I'm either finishing up case work, or way too far into case work to be able to leave. Hopefully, I'm heading home for the day with a brief run over to the GYM. (We heart curves.) Every day of the week I have some sort of Church activity going on. LITERALLY EVERY NIGHT. So the rush after the gym, to change and get to the activity, then I get to go home. Usually around 8:30 - 9 at night.

Seriously, that's life. Morning, everything starts all over. The weekend are usually packed with dates, or some sort of social gathering... like non stop. I also have been going to the Chiropractor every other Friday, and getting full body massages. I also have been going to the Dermatologist- I AM STARTING ACUTANE TODAY. I have pledged not to get prego, and done the blood testing... I'm ready to go.

So not that life to busy, of too difficult. Just that there is allot of stuff that needs to be done, it seems like it is ever part of the day I have things pulling at my time. ONE TOP OF EVERYTHING ELSE, I AM DATING!!!! (A tone none the less). Life in Provo has been such an answer to many many prayers.

Busy, and stressed, torn between different things to do all the time, BUT DANG HAPPY. NOT only happy but becoming who I should be. Can't really complain about whats right.

I love my life!

It was suck a good weekend.

Thursday, which equals Friday at Cheryl's job but so incredibly stressful that when Thursday night hit instead of the normal routine: gym, institute, movies with a guy in the ward... I sat on my couch. Just sat. No TV no food nothing. My sister Ceri and I were on the phone and I had to stop talking to her cause I was going to rip her head off for no reason at all...

With this being said... I was in direr need of a good weekend. I ended up starring at the ceiling until like 4 am that night... BLAH. Apparently some one needs better stress management skills.

So Friday rolls allot and I did the normal, run around shop for food, I cooked dinner for the next month and froze it all. I had made a few plans... for Halloween... BUT
HALLOWEEN ROCKED!!!
Then the night after I had a really good blind date...
Then Church went well, and played fun games all night...
Now work... the week starts all over again.

October- No way!

Happy Holidays... already? Seriously doesn't it seem like once Halloween comes everything else flys by! I remember "old" people saying that when I was growing up- and now I am on the other side of that saying. WEIRD.

So a couple things have gone down since the last writing... I'll spare all the uncanny details (really no one wants to know) But there were a few high lights I think could be enjoyed...

1) I got my first full body massage (and now get them regularly) and my first adjustment by a chiropractor... K so the day of I was hating life... (I didn't drink any water) but the day after I never felt better. massage therapist = so amazing direct ticket to Celestial kingdom.

2) I was kinda dating a guy: I really liked him... and he broke it off. So now I'm dating many... but Sad! I just want to settle down. The Irony. Before when i had missions to serve and degrees to get guys wanted to get serious... now that I'm ready (and have killer insurance) guys just want to play... (Alanis MOrset has it all right... "isn't it Ironic")

3) Holidays are coming up... which means lots of time with my family... Who I'm so grateful for... I just really don't fit in... I don't have kids, don't make bread, and I'm not going to lie allot of times feel like a total outsider. I've chalked it up as a part of life, but the holidays are always a hard time for me.

4) I've made Friends in my ward... and we HIKE. SO awesome! I forgot what was out there... Our latest and greatest location... HOT SPRINGS. We found some (I don't say where) with cascading water falls and varing degrees of water temperature. Amazing. Last weekend we went half way up Timp... But up the back side so the view was literally breath taking. At one point I was in tears. So Amazing.

5) I'm over a tutoring/esl program for my stake. Every Tuesday night a few valiant souls tutor the kids in the stake and there is an ESL class going on at the same time. Allot of the kids are Spanish speakers- I'm not going to lie... special spot in my corazon for those angels... I look forward to my Tuesday nights although some people in my ward aren't as passionate as I am... (everyone has there thing to be passionate about) but some times college kids are flaky.

Alright back to work... which is a whole other subject... All I can say is my opinion of the welfare system has done a 90 degree change- holy moses.

Have a good day!!! Love you all!

Tag...

I tag... Virgy Poo, Lins Wiiiintch, Christina "the Nail girl" Smith, Wendy Bertagnole, and LYnnn my Dear Sista.

Tag... Blog style.

My friend, Saundra,tagged me, so now I have to share 6 quirky things about myself.

1. If I could I would have one shampoo and conditioner for every day of the week labeled. I would also have different tooth brushes and paste for every day along with my closet organized by season and color and then my kitchen/ fridge organized either alphabetically or by dish. I TOTALLY have OCDC tendencies, but have been lucky enough to ID them and hopefully move in a healthier direction.

2. I can just stop feeling. It's the weirdest thing. If I decide to I can just be over something and move on. Allot of people ask me "aren't you mad" or what ever- no I seriously can just get over it- and move on. Some people are offended... I have had friends that have wronged me and I just move on. I don't feel the need for restitution, I can just say "that's you, this is me" and I'm fine never talking to someone again.

3. I basically call every one I know and love Hermana. Before my mission I called everyone "dude" But since my mission it's been Hermana. I like it cause it helps me remember we are all sisters and I get excited to think of my BFF's I get to be sisters with too... (you know who you are- shout out!)

4. I HATE t-shirts with the crew neck!!! It was probably one of the better days in my life when i found this out. They are so constrictive and closed in... I HATE THEM!!!! all of my t- shirts have the neck cut out and the sleeves cut to Cap length. I don't know why- but I can't stand them!

5. I am really bad at first impressions. I'm bad at giving them, and I'm bad at taking them. Usually I decide very early on that I don't "like" the person and I'm not going to be their friend... This has proven FALSE with all of my best friends- I hated them all... and vise versa... I usually decide I'm going to like a person and end up not getting along with them. This has proven time and time again with people I date, or girl I chose to go to lunch with from work. Usually the people I chose are so Bland and have very little spice to life... and then there are the people that just naturally we become best friends and they are heavenly sent! Either way- my first impressions are about 100% wrong.

6. I am probably one of the most intolerant/ inpatient people you have ever met. I know... all of you are thinking... "no way- she's awesome, she loves multi cultures and is great with kids" When it comes to people being "intolerant" "judgemental" or "rude" I'm so out of there, I have ZERO patience for people.

I'm a huge fan of capital punishment. 3 strikes your out... etc.

I don't want those people in my life so I'd rather not deal with it. Bullys are another one of those... People who have to Bully some one into something... I have such a strong tendency to do that, and hopefully I'm over coming it. I feel that because I struggle with it, I know it's possible to get over.

Life is too short to deal with that Crap.

So there you have it... MY 6 quarky things...

Vegas!

The weekend was Amazing!!!

For all that didn't know my dad, My bro in law Jerry and I went to Vegas for a conference on Taxes and Asset protection. Let me tell you- The conference was... interesting. I learned So much! Especially how all of us are paying Far too much in taxes, and that there are very simple things that we could do to avoid them.

We stayed with one of my long time Best Friends- Sole (my first daughter will be named that!) LOVE IT! She was one of my very first roomies at BYU and we instantly clicked. She was really quite and I was all over the place (imagine that) and we had some seriously awesome times. She is from Argentina and on top of being amazing her food is to die for too... Those are very good combinations!

Well... Her and her hubby (the chance a nator) have 2 babys that are so cute: itsy girl and tubbys. We played and the kids were so good. My dad put on grandpa hat and was all over that!

The first night we had Empanadas (from Argentina)... YUM!!! and watched funny movies all night... mostly SNL.

Then the next night we hit up a yummy stake house and Grubbed down. Ribs like no other!!! Chance let me and Sole go out so we hit up the town. I found some awesome finds at New York and Co. (my most recently found fav. store) and we went to some ghetto stores that were Very Vegas ish. Then we hit up the Strip... SO FUN! I love the energy on the strip!!! Not all the gross stuff, But I love the energy! All the fun things to see...

Then I wanted to gamble so we put a dollar in at her local casino. I didn't even realize I was done, I was trying to pull the lever down, and that was a no go. I have no Idea how people get addicted to that. BUT I did see a craps table in real life and poker table (my first time). Interesting.

Then Sunday Came and I was So tired (from the parties) and was ready to go home.

Over all it was a great visit. Dad was on his best behavior, and I actually enjoyed our time together.

Sole Custom makes Jewelry... and she hooked me up BIG TIME. I have 3 necklaces that are adorable. I will never buy jewels from anyone else again. (mark my words) She sales them to everyone... and has a blog... I'll get he sight and post it...

So now it's back to work... so I can go to St George to see one of my other Very Favorite People in the wide world... LINS! and My NIECES... Syd and Ambri!

Vive Las Vegas!