Fall at the Shoreline Trail

TJ and I had a wonderful week, marriage really does get better and better. So last week my dream of all dreams at work came true well I thought it was about to anyway . . . . my boss came around one by one herding us to new seats. My seating situation has been a touchy subject at work, my boss and I are both runners so I used to sit a seat away from him and we would chat about running good times for work ya know. Then one day his evil boss Gina, who I'm convinced is a really nice person just not to our department moved into the seat across from my boss and continued to glare at me and tell me she could hear every word I said everyday. My response was "I'm sorry but I served a mission at Temple Square where I was used to projecting my voice sometimes over the drilling of concrete or the collapsing of buildings to large groups" that's not what I told her but that is the truth. Temple Square sisters are loud I only knew one who wasn't but she could have been. So my boss cast me to the other side of our department amongst all the smokers and told he put me there to help them, I cried no joke 2 times. I hate the inversion and I hate when smokers smoke. Most of the people over there worked there longer than me so I felt useless. Eventually I trained for a while. One day after they all came in from a smoke brake and the circulation was very poor I was granted to move to what was my desk for about 4 months. In walked in some guy, he smelled really strange, infectious, and he told us he was supposed to be on house arrest for the Swine Flue. We all joked about how we would get it and sure enough about 5 days later I went to the Dr result being the Swine, H1N1 or Influenza A. It was a glorious week of chicken broth, TV, and sleep, I almost wish I could get it again but still be able to run, I missed running. So let me find a picture of my desk. The above photo is similar. Soon after my return from my Swinevacation I was placed permanently in the very desk I contracted it. Assigned next to me was a super smoker with a loud voice and the most negative attitude, Josh, and a guy who was married after I was and already divorced, Chris poor kid. My two least favorite people in the building really. I thought I would die. I didn't cry this time though. So work is not fun unless you talk to your coworkers, so my little social butterfly came out and really I feel like Josh and Chris are my brothers now. We had our row orchestrated quite nice and were about to install our own refrigerator under my desk. The day we all got moved we were happily playing a card game together. That week we had thoroughly decorated our row with webbing and spiders. So Josh got moved right next to the desk I always dreamed of, the only desk with real lighting even though it was through an opaque skylight, it was the cubicle I always pictured myself in, you could even see down the hall to real windows in another department. Sadly I got cast to the farthest cubicle away. I have been lonely and bored for a couple days but more and more I'm talking to people I can't see on the other side of my cubicle and trapping unsuspecting people with my layout of books into missionary moments. As one of the voices from the other side said "sitting there alone will build character." It looks pretty much exactly like this except I have a big white flat screen, that was a good day too, when we were all granted flat screens. I found this photo on a blog giving tips for taking cubicle naps, really funny. http://humblehumanhowtos.com/2007/08/24/how-to-take-a-worktime-cubicle-nap.aspx
TJ has gone fishing with his brothers in Idaho for the weekend this is our first night apart since we have been married minus my swinavacation when I slept on the couch.

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Catching up with friends again! TJ and I enjoyed the last warm weekend with Kinzer and Hannah one of our favorite couple friends up Millcreek roasting corn, hotdogs, and smores. Kinzer was TJ's trainer on the mission and we all seem to be able to relate really well together to life as newlyweds.
The week after that the institute issued a Temple Square scavenger hunt. Kristen one of my mission friends and I were way excited about this so we invited anyone we thought might be interested and went. My friends Drew and Josh showed up, they were there the night TJ and I "clicked" also at Temple Square so we relived some of that first night, it was a blast! The day also happened to fall on the exact day I got my mission call 4 years earlier and TJ and I are pictured in the exact spot I got it also at Temple Square, I might just spend too much time there but I'm not sure that's possible.
The next day brought mission reunions and General Conference. This marks a year since TJ and I got engaged! I was also able to see my mission president from Las Vegas, finaly! What added even greater joy to that was much of the Mesquite Zone was there upon my arrival! However my conviction was renewed that the Prophet and all our church leaders are called of God to speak to us in terms directly for the days we live in.

The next weekend was my little sister Christina's birthday. I made her one of my famous star ice cream cakes, it had been about 6 years since I made my last one and it was for her as well so I embarqued again this time it was funfetti with vanilla ice cream. My "little" sister may be younger than me but in many ways I think she is way ahead of me. Although she is only 23 she is a wonderful woman who has done many great things with her life including getting her degree, serving in a Romanian orphanage for a semester, getting married, and buying a really cute home. More importantly I remember her being a team with my mom always helping her do something she is one driven woman!

The weekend following Colorado Springs I ran the Salt Lake Half Marathon by sports am obviously different than the one I ran in the spring. This was a beautiful and wonderful run up Emmigration Canyon and then down it. There were only 2 water stations the whole race and none for the last 6 miles but I still managed my goal of under 2 hours by doing it in 1:58 something, just 3 minutes behind first place in my age group placing me in 9th place. Imagine what some water could have done I was parched! One of the best parts of the half was that it ended right in front of TJ's work so he could come out and cheer me on, when I reached the finish line strangers were cheering me on got to love my husband! We were filmed again but I didn't even bother to see by who, I just remembered that haha. We were on the news after I ran the St George marathon and TJ proposed. The top 3 pictures are from the St. George marathon where we got engaged. Sorry I tend to where the same shirt for race days.

Wow I'm behind! TJ and I ventured to Colorado Springs in August, we winded along the way stopping in Moab and an amazing hike I've always dreamed of hiking called Hanging Lake. We went to help my mom paint the house so our trip was short. On our way out the car was making a funny noise so we had to take it in luckily the repair wasn't too pricey and they even fixed what was left of my drooping muffler for free, yea for Meineke I only got one run in on one of my old trails and didn't even get to eat the best Chinese food known to man kind! Guess we'll have to go back.