Woops, long time huh?

Wow! I just now realized my last post was December 1st... yea not too good at this thing. Anyways, what's new in my life? Well probably the first thing I think of is that I am on a diet. To this day I have lost 16 pounds since May 3rd. It's fantastic! I only eat 500 calories a day and actually am not hungry most of the time. I do however greatly miss Dr. Pepper, french toast, and sandwiches. I only have one more week of the 500 calories and then its just maintaining the weight- and hopefully losing more!:) I've been really involved with the young women and last week we did a trek and I got to go. It was really fun! Much better experience than when I went when I was a young woman. It's kind of funny though that I blend in so well with the yw. I feel a little weird because I don't feel old enough to be a leader so I much prefer to hang out with the girls to the leaders. So I have to remind myself that I am actually a leader and not one of the girls:). Well, that's all for now, gotta run! I'll write more soon! Stay tuned...

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!