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Simple Summer Update.

Summer has been..... decent so far.

First of all, I need to say how happy I am that the great Taneil Wilson lives with me now :D She is SO entertaining and awesome. I can't help but smile and laugh when she is around. I heart her.

I turned 28 last month..... ew. But it WAS the best birthday I think I've ever had! Taneil, Sarah P. and I drove down to Idaho to visit Josh and Kenny and it was a FABULOUS trip! It was all very.... Idaho. We went camping Friday night, made dutch oven potatoes, roasted starburst over a fire, almost got stuck in the mud.. awesome. Saturday we went to Logan to this really neat outdoor art fair. Josh had a painting on display and someone totally bought it :) That night we went to a demolition derby!! So hick, but so awesome! Sunday we went to church in Josh's ward, and he happened to give a talk that day. That afternoon we went to see his dad's fox/mink farm. I had no idea that foxes make crow-like noises. Kinda freaked me out but it was pretty hilarious to see Sarah shed tears once she realized what the farm was for! All in all, a great weekend, and it was SO great to see Josh and Kenny. Plus, Chris and Mike came down from Rexburg for a bit so it was fun to see them too. Taneil and I might go back later next month... we'll see. I also want to go to BC for a couple days, so we'll see what ends up happening.

Work is going well. I work with a few pretty cool peeps who make it interesting ;) I don't have to close at ALL this month, so I'm hoping that I will be able to find many adventures to go on.

However, I'm trying to save my money so I can go home for a visit in August. By then, my lightly-toasted niece will be born (aka little mixie) and I can't wait to be an aunt :)

BSB next month!!!! I'm going to ANOTHER Backstreet Boys concert August 8th in calgary :) I'm going with Taneil and Jessica. We scored 6th row floor seats! I'll finally get to see them the way I was always meant to see them :)

Oh. So I heard that it takes 30 days to break a bad habit and I'm putting this to the test. I've already broken the habit of biting my nails. It's only taken me a lifetime to do this, and I finally have! It's kinda hard to believe actually. I keep waking up in the morning afraid that I may have bitten them all off in my sleep or something, but I never do! They're beautiful :) Also, I'm working on the caffeine habit. I finally admitted to myself that I actually am addicted, and I have the headaches to prove it. I'm trying to wean (sp?) myself off of it because when I go cold turkey, I get bad headaches and get super cranky. But I'm doing pretty well. Today is day 2 without ANY caffeine. I figure if I cut it out completely while at work, that'll be half the battle. I have one or two other things that I'm working on, and so far so good.

Well this post is over. Not because I have nothing more to say, but because I really have to pee. (I've replaced pop with water and my bladder has definitely noticed...)

... and summer begins!

..ok so maybe not weather wise quite yet, but school is over for the summer and I'm VERY excited about it. I actually did WAAYY better in my classes than I thought I would. I was afraid I'd fail economics and have to take it again, but I pulled off a B-! I have no idea how that happened because I definitely had a C-/D+ going into the final.... I guess I'm a better guesser than I thought! I also got a B+'s in both accounting AND "managing responsibly in a global environment" and I got an A- in Organizational Behavior. So not too shabby at all considering I barely ever went to class.... oops!

2 of my roommates are moving out. Carle and Erin. It's a little weird, but I'm grateful that 2 of my best friends here are moving in!! Sarah and Taneil. I'll see them all summer anyway, so it makes sense that they may as well just live with me :) I'm excited!

I tried to ride a bike today for the first time in years and it did not end well. We were riding downtown, and we rode by my work place and I pointed "hey that's where I work!" and.... I fell off :( I scraped my chin, skinned my hand, and bruised up my knee pretty badly actually... It's super swollen.. I feel like I'm wearing a knee pad. It hurts and its huge and purple :( Plus everyone at work saw me fall, as well as a few random customers so I was super embarassed. At least I fell where I could go in and wash up I guess... And at least I have an excuse to buy new jeans since I ripped the ones I was wearing. What really sucks about it, is that there was this big social tonight at this local restaurant/bar and Megan came to Lethbridge to go to it. It was great to see her, but I couldn't stay very long because of my knee. It just kept throbbing and getting bigger and bigger. So I had to give up and go home to nurse my wounds :(

People are leaving for the summer. Luckily not too many of my friends are leaving, but Braden is leaving and I'm actually going to miss him a butt load. He and I have become pretty good friends and I'm really grateful for our friendship. We have a lot of fun together in class (which may be partly why I almost failed economics) and we laugh a LOT. Plus we have some pretty good serious conversations sometimes too. He's definitely one of my very favourite people. It's nice to have a platonic relationship with a guy like this. His advice has a completely different perspective which often helps a lot. I'm gonna miss him..

I hope to be able to go home for a visit this summer. I'm slightly poor... but we'll see. I need to convince someone at work to quit so I can have more hours. I just really miss my family and it's been almost a year since I've seen Faith and Rainer. Plus my niece is scheduled to arrive into the world in July, so I'd really like to meet her before Christmas! I can't wait to be her favourite aunt.... suck it Megan ;)

Ok... I'm feeling light headed and nauseous.. I think its time to elevate my leg and go to bed.