Flowers!!

So all my life I've fantasized about how when I grow up I will have fresh flowers in my house every week. Well, now that I work at a flower shop, this dream is being fulfilled weekly! A lot of times I will bring home "dead" flowers that the shop is throwing away. It is not uncommon for me to be digging through the trash and pulling out flowers to take home. Everyone makes fun of me at work, but I don't care. I think they're perfectly good flowers and I am going to enjoy them! I always just tell them to make fun of my in their head not out loud. Anyways, here's some pictures of some of the flowers I've brought home.





I also have to share these super crazy flowers we got in for a wedding. I never even knew you could get flowers like this!







I know you're wondering, but no, these flowers weren't for a gay wedding. Just for some super hippie people!!

- <3

CHANGES!!!

Wow, I am completely overwhelmed today! A lot of changes have been happening in my life in the past month. I have moved into a new place and it is just amazing! I love it so much! I have two really great roommates and we seem to get along really great, so it's good:) I now also have 3 jobs I'm maintaining. I still have the 2 jobs at parks and rec then I also work at a flower shop. It's really fun! I thought it would be really hard to manage 3 jobs, but it's not too bad. It's fun to not have to do the same exact thing every day. The last big change in my life is today they released me from my dream calling at church. It was completely unexpected and a HUGE shocker to me! They told me right before church started and I literally cried through all 3 hours of church. I'm so sad!!! Everyone keeps telling me that maybe someone else needs to experience the calling. But really I just want to be selfish for a bit and have the attitude that I don't want to have any other calling and I should still be in there:)

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.