New little tosies

ANother weekend come and gone

Well, I'm doing a little better with the updates. I think I last wrote last Wednesday...am I right? Anyway, since then the Jazz are tied with the Lakers 2-2. I watched the game today and oh my heck it was amazing, I also watched it Friday, another great game and I'm soooo excited to see it going on after being down 2-0. I'm a big sports fan and have loved the Jazz since I was a little girl. I like all of the NBA, but of course I like my hometown boys. I even call Kyle Korver my future boyfriend, haha I"ll let you know how far that gets (I"m sure I"ll never even meet the guy, but I can dream right?) Well, backtracking a little bit for an update on my week. Thursday night I went hottubbing. Now I was terrified to the point of almost not going, just because swimsuit with other people isn't exactly my idea of the best activity. As I was sitting at my house I was thinking you know why not? Seriously what do I have to lose. It ended up being a blast and I"m glad I went. I also went and ordered a sign to sell my car. They were supposed to call Friday when it was done, they were a little special and took forever to help me and when they didn't call I knew they probably wouldn't so I went in Saturday afternoon and picked it up. My car is officially up for sale if anyone is interested???? Probably not anyone reading this but thats ok. Saturday, I worked in the morning. I also went and got a pedicure that afternoon. I'm going to try and post a picture to this because I must say they look pretty cool. It's like in a plaid design and I love them. Oooh another cool story I went to Seagull to find my mom a mother's day present. I was just browsing through the aisle and I saw a book that interested me. I was like, well I'm not going to get it, I didn't come in for me when I walked by the front of the store. The author of that book was there for that hour doing a book signing. Well, I must say I was very surprised and decided I had to buy it as some sort of sign. The author is Michele Ashman Bell and when she was signing it she asked who it was for. I looked at her kind of embarrassed and said me, after all it was the day before mother's day and that's what most people were getting it for. I told her my story and she got really excited and talked to me for a good five minutes. SHe said she had many other books and hoped I enjoyed them. I'm really excited to start reading it, I"m always looking for good authors I"ll let you all know what I think about it. So, today I was again asked to substitute for another primary class. I have the sunbeams, but they hardly ever come, just two little girls and when they do they have a hard time staying in primary the entire time. So, now I'm also the regular substitute, especially for the class right above mine. I'm beginning to love them, at first I had a hard time keeping control and actually getting a lesson in, but they are some of the smartest and cutest 5 year olds I know. ALthough today in sharing time we made cookie bouquets for the moms. Now, that was interesting trying to get 4 little 5 year olds through that and they seemed to go a little sticker happy, pretty much covering their little boxes in them. They also gave the kids cookies after. One little boy sat there with the saddest look on his face. I just thought oh its because he finished them all first and everyone still had one. Well, apparently he never got any and just didn't want to tell me. I felt so bad, but luckily someone else asked him and he got them and was very happy after. THey also have this thing of sitting in the window. I know I shouldn't have let them in the first place, but I must say its a good threat to listen to the lesson because they know they'll have to sit on their chairs if they aren't good. THe lesson was on prayer and that can always get some good stories out of them. THe funniest part is when they try to pretend they have a life experience almost identical to the book. I tell them something and ask if they had anything similar. Well, they always repeat the story just using their siblings names or whatever. Its quite funny actually, but I love teaching them and being in the primary. I even got to go up in Sacrament Meeting and sing to my mom today ( well I was a teacher helping the kids, but I still told my mom it was for her) Wow, time just flew by I put laundry in and hopefully now it's all done. I think I want to start reading one of my books. I have so many I don't know what to choose. Hope you all had great weekends and we'll see how long it takes me to write again.

Here are some samples of the pictures I took. They were taken on different nights, but both right before it got dark. One of them is fixed a little the other is not. I'm pretty proud of them because they were my first ones with the water effect. Yeah, I must say they're awesome haha

Wow, it's been awhile...

So here goes, I'll try and nutshell my last two weeks. I can't believe it's been that long, I seriously feel as if it was yesterday these past few weeks have been crazy. K, this update may seem all over the place, but I"m going to type it as it comes to my mind. First, haha kind of sad this is what first came to mind. My little stalker note guy. My manager kept trying to call him with no answer, he finally put a note on his account the next time he came in to have him talk to him. Well, sure enough he came in a few days later. I was at lunch, which is weird he normally comes in right when we open. Anyway, I actually was just getting back when I was walking out into the lobby and saw him in my manager's office. Well, I bolted as fast as I could to our back room. He left a few minutes later and my manager asked to talk to me. Well get ready for a laugh but he said he knew I was young, but he thought I was flirting with him. I was like whoa he has an interesting idea of flirting, he's like yeah I didn't get any definitions. Anyway, he said he wouldn't come to me anymore and my manager just asked me to watch and see what he does. He had started like cutting in front of people in line, so he said just see how he acts, hopefully he'll just stop. I agree and think he will although right before my manager was able to talk to him he had come in to me first I was very businesslike with him, it was the first time I"d seen him since the note, I really just wanted him out of the way. I started to shake so bad after he left he just gave me the creeps. He ended up coming back like halfhour later I saw him pull in so I ran to the back room. Well, he didn't come in for like ten minutes so I decided to come out. He then came in so I was still able to hurry back there and all he did was exchange a dollar for quarters. Anyway, that really freaked me out cause he knows I leave to go to school and I was afraid he was going to try and follow me since he had waited so long. Well, he hasn't done that again since and hopefully he'll just stop and realize if he's old enough to be my grandpa I probably don't want him. Well, next I finally finished this semester of school. That's mostly why i've been so long writing this I had finals and everything going on. Also, Joed was back in town for about a week, so if I wasn't studying I was hanging out with him. We did a lot of fun things like take pictures a few times up Big Cottonwood canyon, went to Tracy Aviary with my dad too and up MIlcreek Canyon. He taught me how to take the waterfall pictures. Hopefully he won't mind but go to www.fotolog.com/furtadoj and can see some of his stuff. Some of it I was there for and other stuff he's taken before. I think he's amazing with the waterfalls so I was way excited I got to learn. Mine of course need some help, but I'm working on it. Oh haha I tried to take some pictures of the birds at Tracy Aviary, we'll just say those didn't turn out too well. I even made fun of myself, but the birds are really really hard, I didn't get to save any of them (it's sort of a sore subject haha just kidding Joed) but it's probably for the best. Along with all this picture taking and part of the reason I got to learn is he bought a new camera at Inkley's. That's probably where we spent half the time together either driving there or in the store. I printed some of his stuff, including 2 20 by 30 prints of waterfalls, some smaller ones of birds(my favorite you can see in his blog of the little bird sitting on the rock in the middle of the river) and he took some of Sam for me that are probably the funniest pictures I've ever seen of her. I'll have to have him email them to me and I"ll post them on here. I've really started to like photography, I've taken two classes on it, but I've considered buying a camera to start doing more, we'll see what happens. Ooh speaking of buying things, I was preapproved for an auto loan at my work for a really good rate. We have a promotion going on now so I decided to see if I'd qualify. I have my car up for sale now, I've had one interest, but I don't think it'll work out. If you know anyone interested just let me know. I want to get a Chevy Cobalt I finally decided. My main reason is because volkswagen's are so expensive to fix, seriously double anytime anything is wrong with it. I want the Cobalt because I think they're really cute and affordable, I could even get a new one in my price range. Let's see what else, oh I"m not totally out of the woods with school. last year I signed up for an independent study class through BYU and you have a year to complete it. I realized yesterday that would be June 19. It's better then I thought, but I need to get on it. Hopefully I'm not repeating stuff I've wrote about before and just forgot about. Ohhh I went to the Jazz game Friday night. They totally kicked the Houston Rockets to move onto the Lakers. Sadly, they lost to them Sunday, but I'm so excited for tomorrow's game I just can't wait. I love basketball so this playoff season I"m just going crazy for. Hmmm what else......just a bunch of little things and they all seem to run together so I can't remember any of them. ANyway, I'll let you go for now and promise to be better about the updates.

A little bit of nothing

Well, today I asked for work off so I could get a little bit of homework done. Surprise, surprise I got maybe an hours worth in. Even though I'm so close the the end I've had no ambition to just get everything out of the way. Truly if I just sat down I could get most everything out of the way but no I felt like watching a movie and going to the bookstore instead. At the bookstore I finally broke down and bought that Twilight book everyone has been obsessed over. I have a rule with myself that during the school year I can't read "fun" books. When I was younger I used to read so much my mom would have to hide my books so I'd even eat dinner. (you'd think that love would come to textbooks as well, but not so much). Anyway, it started getting popular beginning last school year so now I finally can do it. Of course I'll finish out all my finals and papers before I crack it open, I really shouldn't have even bought it until after that but not much I can do about it now. I also bought a book to help practice for the test to get into graduate school. Now, I'm not sure what I want to do after I graduate next spring, but I need to make some decisions pretty soon. I've wanted to do law school, but then I think I should get a master's in something else before that so really I'm up in the air at this moment. I also might work for a year or so, but then it's hard going back to school after that. I'll read over the book and see how I feel about it all. Also, I need to make some decisions pretty quick about what I"m doing this summer. Sooooo many choices and I truly have no idea what I should be doing. Generally I lean to something that I know I should be doing, but I feel everything that's available could be good for me. I wish I just had enough money to not worry about things and just be able to go to school. Haha in a perfect world right? Well, the more time that goes on the faster that decision will need to be made. It's interesting how it's almost like I"m being tested. I've written about it before where I used to super plan out my life and I've stopped doing that lately. I feel most of the things that have happened to me, like the good things, happen right at the end when I"m not expecting it, it's like my patience is being tested and that I'll have enough faith everything will work out. Anyway, I also went to the chiropractor today which was much needed but always makes me sore for two or three days after. I think about this all the time how other peoples backs feel. Now I don't want to go too far off on some tangent, but just like the pain I think I have is as bad as I think it is if that makes sense. Or if someone had my back for a day would they think it was horrible pain or I was just a baby about it. I don't voice my complaints too often with it, if someone asks I'll tell them and sometimes to my mom if I feel its been especially bad. I know a lot of it can be stress too, like something triggers it and the stress tightens it and keeps it in. I've tried to get into stretching and yoga but I'm not always the best at it. The doctor suggested today getting an exercise ball and he'd print me off things to do while on it. Anyway, I hope no one takes that as complaining but just a thought about how everyone handles things differently. Well besides that (whoa I almost just put nothing else exciting going on, but we all know my luck when I make that statement haha) I guess one update a friend from work said my little stalker note passer guy came in today. He went up to her and said where's the tall red head that sits down on the end. So, that means he doesn't know my name and I"m sooooo happy I wasn't there although worried he'll come tomorrow since he knew I had today off and should be there tomorrow. Its not that I"m afraid of him, I just don't know what to say if he says anything. We were joking and she should have told him yeah she got passed this really creepy note so they made her transfer to the Deseret First up in Sandy. Haha, but oh well maybe i'll start wearing that huge ring I have and tell him I eloped last weekend or something to some 6 foot 8 inch football player. Anyway, I need to get working on other stuff just giving you all an update.

Sitting at work

So, since I haven't updated this for awhile I decided to attempt it while at work. I'm prewarning you if it seems scattered it's probably because I'll get interrupted have to come back, but lose my train of thought in the process. So, I'll tell you what I did this past weekend. Friday night I went to a chili cookoff for my ward party. It was...how you'd expect a ward party to be...no further details needed. After I went Latin dancing with some friends from work. I almost didn't go because I was so tired and my feet hurt from standing all afternoon making the chili, but I decided oh well I'll try it out. Besides some guys asking to take pictures of us (I stood back) it was pretty fun. I swear since I clogged for so many years my hips are trained to stay stationary and let my feet do the dancing. Well, you can't do that in Latin dancing. As soon as I got home I collapsed into bed haha and it was only like 1 am. Saturday, I didn't do too much during the day. (whew my boss just walked by I hide to hide the window) I took my dad out to take care of some stuff but that didn't last long before I thought I'd have to grab a puke bucket haha jk. I also helped Chalice start up the lawnmower, not a good idea when your back is sensitive to anything like that. Later that night I watched the amazing Jazz game. I love sports and depending during what season you ask me that is my favorite sport, so now it's basketball. Sunday I got up and went to church. I had prepared my lesson for primary and sat in there for all of sharing time and singing. I didn't have any kids but a few weeks before the primary president told me one little girl goes to nursery then likes to come in for the lesson, so I figured I better stay. She comes up to me and says you know you can go. I explained why I stayed and she had forgotten about that so we went to find the girls mom to ask what she wanted us to do. I also have a coteacher we tradeoff every other week. I guess she asked to be released to go to a singles ward. They asked if I"d be willing to become full time teacher since I only have max two little girls. One of them hasn't come in a few months and the other we're going to take it a week by week basis if she wants to come in or stay in nursery. So basically I have to prepare a lesson each week, but I may not give it. We had dinner that night and I had put homework off all weekend so I was up until around 1 finishing it. Monday I went to work and class. I finally got all my verification stuff taken care of at school, which was a huge relief because there were so many documents I had to gather up. I didn't do too much that afternoon except again watch the Jazz game. I really really really want to go to the game Thursday and hopefully I will. I went to two playoff games last year and it was so much fun. That brings me to today just sitting at work. It's been rather slow and people mainly doing basic things which is definitely good compared to other days, but I don't want to jinx myself. Well, lunch crowd is bound to hit soon so I"ll leave it at this.

Two days in one

Well when I should be doing about ten trillion other things I thought you all would enjoy an update since I didn't get the chance yesterday and I didn't want 10 emails about why I didn't do it.  I'm ok no worries  I just have been busy.  So, I"ll take you back to yesterday I went to work although truthfully my mind wasn't there whatsoever, I had a bunch of other things I needed to take care of.  This was the day of my presentation and although I was up late the night before looking over things I just wasn't as comfortable with the topic and it is a much larger class then the one I did the presentation for last week.  To make matters wore when we were finishing up last minute details outside of the classroom the teacher walks out with three students who presented last week.  I only heard bits of the conversation but the basic story was part of their paper(we have to write a 5 page group paper along with the presentation) I guess was plagiarized.  She was all I thought I recognized this I went online and found the exact copy verbatim.  Now, I'm not sure if this was a group decision to copy or one student putting their piece as that and the others didn't know.  It totally scared me because I've been in tons of groups and even this one we each wrote our own piece then someone just transitioned it together.  I wouldn't know if someone else got their stuff from the internet.  I have no idea what will happen because the University has very strict policies to the point of failing the course or being kicked out so who knows.  So, after hearing this it was in the back of my mind the entire presentation.  I did ok, although I mostly read from my notes but one other girl who didn't show up for our last meeting and is rarely in class when she was doing her part froze midsentence and was shaking.  She had to sit down and someone else finished.  There are a lot of outspoken people in class but our group didn't get any of them.  We all finished our parts in like 20 minutes but luckily we did a class discussion which dragged it to about 40 so we called it good.  I then went to take care of some things at the financial aid office.  I was turning in an application for summer aid and the girl told me I received my maximum fall and spring because of the tuition scholarship I had.  I was pretty mad because I really wasn't budgeting to pay for summer tuition I know next year the scholarship I have will pay for about half tuition all year so I'm ok to pay the other part, but now I"m not sure I can afford summer.  I'm going through many debates on what to do.  I could just get a full time job that pays more then I get now and work like crazy through the summer without doing school.  By the time fall/spring come around I can go to school like crazy taking a ton of hours and not work, but live off what I make this summer then I'll still be able to graduate in spring.  Another option get an internship like I was talking about and only take one class although the frustrating thing is you have to pay all the fees upfront so one class is about a thousand bucks.  Another option just stick with the job I have but work a little more.  The last two options I'm not sure if I can graduate when I want to, it might drag out another semester which I"m not sure if I want to do that, we'll see what plays out.  I then headed home and just caught up on some things I needed to do here.  My dad had knee surgery yesterday so he got home not to long after that.  My mom and grandpa had helped him at the hospital and we had to get him situated here and hooked up to some sort of machine.  It was pretty cool because the doctor who did his operation operated on Tiger Woods knee the day before.  Anyway, my mom went to a bookclub meeting so we just hung out here although he kept getting visitors and people calling.  We also had the Jazz game on, wow that was a sad game but hey they're still in the playoffs I guess.  I then just went to bed.  This morning I also had to help get him situated downstairs and was a little late to work which I felt bad about but that's how life goes.  I worked and now I"m home. I think I"m going to a wedding reception tonight and then I need to start my massive amount of homework. I asked for next Wednesday off and I got it so I'm pretty happy I can get a lot of stuff taken care of. I've got so many decision to make within the next few weeks and its scary but we'll see how things go. Another crazy thing happened at work. So I'm not meaning to go all crazy spiritual or anything but it was pretty cool. So, we're supposed to get at least one upsell a month at work. You think not so hard but sometimes it is just because we get really busy and it's scary to ask if they are interested in our products. So anyway today a kid came in with only $100 overdraft, which isn't very much at all. It counts as an upsell if we ask to increase it I did and he wanted to. I was very excited because he even stayed to fill out the application sometimes we can get them interested in it, but they never bring the application back. I'll know probably early next week but more then likely something like that will be approved especially because he already has one with us. Also, we are promoting our super low auto rates right now 4.9% I know come see me if you want this sweet deal. We have a bunch of flags around our branch and a member in drive thru asked if there's a race going on. I told him about the low rates and if he was interested. He said sure so I was able to give him an application. Now, two possible upsells in one day is pretty crazy good. THe whole reason why is earlier this morning I was thinking it's nearing the end of the month and I knew I didn't have anything. I said a little prayer that I could have some luck getting anything for this month. Now think of that two in one day??? I don't think it's coincidence. Anyway, all in all pretty good day so far hope you all enjoy your day!