July -
- After the amazing quick trip to Idaho, the following weekend. My good friend and roommate Michelle and I went to go see Wicked! It was fantastic. It was my second time seeing it, and it was just as great. It never ceases to remind me of my dear companion Hermana Kimsey who had the whole musical memorized and would often burst into song. :) On funny side note... during one scene Glenda accidentally threw her wand off of the stage, the actresses tried to play it off, but ended up bursting up laughing. Luckily it was at a not so serious part of the production.
- Then the following Sunday we had a small reunion. Heidi and Nicki came over for dinner with Michelle and I. The four of us lived on the same floor our freshman year, and it is amazing the experiences we have had nearly seven years later.
- The third weekend in July brought a fun trip up to Snowflake for the 24th celebration.
- We had a ward campout up on the rim. After a 2 hours drive we turned into the camping area and spent another HOUR trying to find our group. Of course it was pitch black, and no cell phone service. As Michelle, Kristalyn, and I drove it was definitely a test of our patience. :) We had a great time playing games and talking. I woke up early on Saturday morning and went and took a few pictures that you can see here. :) As you can see in the picture below we had to get a little inventive with our cooking utensils for breakfast. Overall a great time was had by all. :)
- The last weekend was also spent up at a friend's cabin near Heber.
- I found out that I had been accepted to graduate school at ASU, and would be starting in three weeks.
- This resulted in three frantic weeks of getting things in order, including trying prove Arizona residency. (Really where else would I be a resident? I have been registered to vote in Arizona since 2004 and I've had my license from Arizona since 2003.) $50.00 bucks an insane amount of paper work, and four weeks later I had my residency.
- With school starting my life ended (Working full time forty hours, interning for six hours, and fifteen hours of class adds up quickly)
- The second week of class, I made a quick stop a copy shop only to come out to my car which would not start. After a nice call to AAA I got it jump started, and drove to class in downtown Phoenix. Then at 11:00 pm as I'm trying to leave the lovely parking garage my wonderful car would not start again. Some kind souls from class tried to help me jump it, but ended up frying my jumper cables. So with another call to AAA someone came to jump it... no luck...so another hour later I got to push my car out of the parking garage and load it up on a tow truck. Oh I should mention that the security guard felt the need to keep me company and talk my ear off in fact he talked to me up until the second I closed the door of the tow truck. This was my first time in a tow truck, and you can imagine at 1 in the morning it made for an interesting trip home. My new friend, Joe, gave me his life story including being 50 and blowing all of his savings over three years of doing nothing. He also used some choice words to describe his relationship with his girlfriend who is 15 years younger than him. As frustrating as it was that my car would not work, I felt very blessed to feel safe the whole time.
- We moved from our lovely little apartment to a house way too big for us house, but we love it! :) Come and visit we have plenty of space!
- What the heck happened to September???
- Honestly I'm not sure I have any real recollection of what happened... hmm... this is a bad sign.
- And here we are finally at October...with a promise and resolve to be a little better.
I am only including this because one friend mockingly told me "now you'll have to blog about it" Well while walking back to my car after spending some time in downtown Phoenix with friends, I noticed this beautiful tree. I could not resist the urge to climb it, much to the embarrassment of my accompanying friends. It was a great tree to climb. I highly recommend climbing trees even at 25, I think there is something healthy about escaping to the top of a tree. :)
