Drug Test

I just got a second job- it's working at the local ski area as a ski/snowboard instructor. I know what you're thinking- "doesn't Kelli live in Las Vegas? YES I do in fact still live in Las Vegas but there is a small ski area about 20 minutes away, sweet huh? So for this job I had to go do a drug test which consists of peeing in a cup. As all my women friends out there know, it's very difficult as a girl to pee in a cup. Well first of all they give me all these strict guidelines like, fill it up to a specific line, you can't flush the toilet, or wash your hands, and you have to submit the sample in less than 4 minutes. So with all that pressure on me I was feeling very anxious. Luckily, I did have to pee so I had no problem there but I was focusing on filling the cup up exactly to where he said while keeping in mind the rules. I also don't like to sit on the toilet in public places to avoid as much germs as possible- I'm a "hoverer". So while trying to accomplish the task of getting it in the cup I ended up getting it all over, because a woman sort of sprays pee and its not like a nice stream of liquid. I had urine all down my leg, on my pants, and even on the floor. HOW EMBARRASSING!! But in all I passed the drug test, it was just a very gruesome task that I hope to not repeat in any near future.

Ok this is a new record. 2 posts in 2 days. I know what you must be thinking but don't worry it probably won't be a new tradition or anything. I just had a scary thing happen today that I thought I'd write about. I was working at the ropes course today doing maintenance and at one point othe day I was climbing up the poles and tightening the bolts. So the first one I climbed up and decided to take a chance and shimmy out the cable and check the pully in the middle. Bad idea. I got stuck just about! It was so hard to pull myself back over to the pole that t took just about all my energy. So I started climbing back down the pole and all of a sudden my belay device somehow became disconnected from me! So here I am 30 feet up this pole not connected to anything and tired as heck. I tried getting it back on my harness and I couldn't get it so I started freaking out completely and my whole body began to shake and my hands were so sweaty it became harder to hang on. After trying multiple times I finally got it connected again and eventually got down. Whew! I am exhausted! But glad I am not laying in some hospital with some serious injuries:)

UPDATE

ok, so it's time for an update. I figured since my Mom checks this every week I'd be nice and give her some new reading material :) So I'm all done with my internship and am officially done with school!!! SO WEIRD! I feel a little like I'm in a state of limbo right now. I thought that by the time I got done with school I would know exactly what I want to do with my life and have everything all planned out. The only thing I know for sure right now is that I'm staying in Vegas. The living situation is good, the ward is good, and I love the weather! I have a couple of possibilities for jobs and it looks like if I wanted to I could manage two jobs. I got a job right away working the ropes course being a facilitator. Which is awesome but since it's winter and the course is up in the cold mountains the actual ropes course is closed for the rest of the year until April. So since it looks like I won't have a lot of work to do there I also have a job teaching snowboard lessons at the local ski area. But I haven't quite decided if I'm going to keep it. It would be fun, but I kinda feel like if I'm going to work at a ski area I want to be somewhere in Colorado or a really nice area- not the podunk one that's here haha. So we'll see. I'll hopefully have it all figured out by the end of this week.

So happy! :)

Well I've been in Vegas a month now, and I have to say (or shout) I LOVE IT HERE!!! I can honestly say I've never been happier in my entire life! I can't believe how everything has just fallen into place perfectly- I got a nice job/internship so I can finish school, I was able to move in with my aunt and uncle's family (which is great!), and best of all, my ward is just amazing. I've never met so many nice and welcoming people in my life. I actually look forward to going to church and all the activities each week. I'm so grateful to everyone here who's made this transition so easy. I was thinking today, I never knew this level of happiness existed! I never knew I could be this happy, and I'm loving it. I'm really excited- I just got called to be the 1st counselor in the young woman's program in my ward. And just to clear it up- yes, I do go to a singles ward, but we have young woman's and primary for all the bishopric's kids so that their families are a part of the ward too. It's pretty cool. So I'm really REALLY excited and honored to have this new calling. We only have 3 girls, then 2 leaders but I think that's perfect. So that's the update for now. Thanks for tuning in!

Well I'm all moved in and ready to go in Vegas! I truly feel like this is supposed to be!! I got a job easily and have already made some friends. My ward seems awesome and everyone is really friendly. I can't wait to go to church on Sunday and get my job going also! That's the update for now...stay tuned!

What's Going On

Hello everybody! Well I am very late for an update on here. I have graduted!! I graduated from BYU-Idaho on July 23rd. It was so exciting and I'm so happy to be a college grad! I am now headed to Las Vegas where I will complete my internship with the Clark County Parks and Recreation dept. I will specifically be working in the special events. I will be in charge of finding venues, production of events, and other things. I will have my own office and everything. (But hopefully I won't be in the office all the time- not my style haha) But anyways that's what I'm doing right now. Come visit me in Vegas!

Update

Wow, it's been a while since I wrote on here. It's been a busy month. I was able to go down to Salt Lake for conference and it was the first time I was able to actually go to conference, and it was WAY cool. It's incredible how different it really is from watching it on tv. The spirit in there is so strong, it's amazing! The next week after that was finals and then I went home for the next week. It was nice to go home, but it made me realize how much I've grown in the last year. Normally I'm just itching to go home, but this time was different. I didn't really find it to be as exciting as it usually is. I was excited to come back to school for my last semester. I'm 2 weeks into it so far and everything seems to be going ok. I have a job working on the ropes course here on campus and I love it! I actually love going to work! I have only 4 classes so that's nice, but I don't love my schedule. I have a 7:45 class 3 days a week and it's difficult because it's a class that I'm not at all interested in and I just have to take it for my major. But othere than that it's fine. Anyways, that's what's been going on. I'll try to keep this more updated :) Thanks for reading!

New Calling

I got called to see the bishop on Sunday morning and was called to be the 1st counselor in the Relief Society. At first I was really nervous and didn't know if I could really do it. But then I was reassured when I found out who the rest of the presidency was and I knew them all. So it seems like a pretty cool presidency and we all have basically the same ideas and goals for relief society. I just hope that I can keep my excitement level up to where it is now and stay on top of things and make it a successful semester- my last one!! I have a week left of school and I can't wait!! I need the break so bad and I get to go home and relax for 10 whole days :) I'm excited for next semester because there's 4 of the 6 of us staying and our apartment complex isn't filled so we aren't getting any new girls. So that'll be good because I hipe there will be less drama and more fun. My only concern is that the 4 of us are pretty segregated. It'll basically be like 2 of them on one side of the apartment and the 2 of us on the other. So I hope that doesn't make things weird. So my last semester, the way it's lining up looks like it'll be way fun and possibly (hopefully) they funnest one yet!

Update on the sobbing sitch

So I figue I shouldn't leave everyone hanging on the whole crying situation. After thinking a lot about it I decided it would be best to let the relief society pres know about it and leave it in her hands. I'm not sure if anything has happened or if things are fixed but I really hope that girl is okay. It was kind of funny lastnight some girls from that apartment came to my fhe and I wondered to myself if it was one of them. Anyways that's the update on that situation. I'll let you know if any other progressions come from it.

Sad!

So it's 3:30 in the morning and I should be sleeping, right? Well I was watching a movie and just came up to my room and as I'm laying in bed I can hear something. It sounds like talking or crying. So I got up and listened more intently and sure enough, the girl in the room next to mine in a different apartment is SOBBING! This has been going on for a good 45 minutes now and I feel so bad for her! I have no idea who it is and I wish I could do something for her, but I don't know what. The only thing I can think of is to knock on the wall and say, "are you okay in there?" But then I think that would freak the heck out of her and she'll think I'm trying to tell her to shut up. Wow seriousley she sounds so sad! This is not just regular crying people, this girl is sobbing like no other. What should I do!??

Why did I pick Sociology??

My minor is sociology and I'm taking 4 soc classes this semester. One thing....I HATE THE WAY THESE TEACHERS GRADE!! I'm so frustrated with all the times when I think I've done really good on an assignment and gave it my all just to get it back and have them tell me it's not good enough. What do these people want!?? I can't figure it out and I feel like no matter how hard I try it's never going to be enough for them. grrrrr!!! (that's me growling...)

Update

I've had a request for an update, so here we go. Not much is really going on. This week is midterms; I've taken 3 and have 1 to go. I feel like I've done pretty good on them all so far, but I know on one of them that I totally ace'd it! It's such a good feeling knowing you did really good and feel confident about it when you turn it in. As far as life in general, its rough at times, but who's life isn't rough once in a while? The roommates have been a bit of a roller coaster ride. We had a bit of a blow up lastnight but happily I feel like we were able to settle our problems in a mature way. I told them that I've been in apartments that things have gotten out of hand and things weren't solved and that I didn't want that with happen in this one. They agreed and hopefully we will be able to communicate better with each other from now on. I've made a personal goal to try not to talk about people and gossip, so hopefully I can stay on top of that. I realize that I don't want my words and my actions to counteract each other and I want people to feel they can trust me and confide in me, and that can't happen when I'm talking about people behind their backs. Oh the joys of learning, huh? haha well I have to go get my laundry before it gets stolen...lol jk! I'll write again soon hopefully!

How frustrating

So this weekend is a 3 day weekend and it's been a bit of a rough semester so far and I just really need a home break. So I was planning on going home but I knew I needed to find someone to go with because it's too far to go by myself. Well, my roomate's family just moved to Arvada so I asked her if she was going and she was! However, she and her boyfriend are going so he can "talk" to her dad, and when I asked her if I could go with them she made it completely obvious that she didn't want me to go with them. So I asked around and found that my friend Corey was going. So I was planning all week to go with him and today he bailed on me. So I went and asked my roomate again if I could ride with them because I couldn't find any other way to go and she flat out said no because it's a "big weekend". OH PLEASE!! What, is he going to propose to her in the car? NO. I just don't see how me being in the car will make any difference. Whatever. So since I can't go home, I decided that my Aunt Lisa in Las Vegas is the next best thing to my mom so I'm going there now, which will be fun. I just am so sick of having plans fall through all the time. I guess this just teaches me that I can't trust anyone and I can't rely on anyone..oh well- that's life.

School

Well, I'm fully into my semester now and things are actually going pretty good. I'm taking 18 credits this semester, which I've never been brave enough to do. But it looks like I'm going to be okay. I figured out that next semester will for sure be my last semester and then I will have my internship left and I will be graduated!! I'm so excited! But I'm a little bit scared too because I have no idea what post-college life will bring. But I am viewing it as my time to take a big adventure. Maybe I'll go somewhere exotic and work there for a while! But as for now, I'm just trying to focus on school here and now.

What a weekend

So I left on Thursday for school and to visit some friends in utah for the weekend. It was horrible! All we did was sit around at their house and I watched them clean ALL the time and believe it or not they even made me clean. Who makes their guest clean?? I didn't hardly have any fun and was so incredibly bored the entire time. So I left a day earlier than I had planned to and let's just say drama followed me. Why do I always get wrapped up in stupid drama!? I hate drama and I hate having to deal with it! This whole drama thing happened right as I was about to reach Rexburg and it's ruined my arrival. I was crying once again when I arrived here, but luckily none of my roomates are here yet to see that like last year. And I never cry!! I'm so emotionally drained now and am looking forward to a good nights sleep and some relaxation by myself until my roomates arrive. Let's hope they're fun, nice, drama-free firls that I'm going to be living with!