Such is Life

So I completed all of my training hours on Saturday. Now I don't have to get paid minimum wage! Woohoo! Saturday was a really long and frustrating day. Saturdays are pretty busy at the portrait studio, who woulda thought. I showed up for work at opening, at 8:45 and didn't get to leave until 5:30 that night. No lunch break, no sitting down, and mind you I had to drive to Idaho Falls and back. Ugh. And worst of all, I was getting so frustrated because my boss had assigned another associate to kind of watch me do my sales and to make sure I was doing things right. I wouldn't have minded, but when I was being told "No, you need to do it this way," that's when I got frustrated. While I wasn't doing anything wrong, I was getting in trouble because I didn't do it the same way that she does things. Ugh. For example, I placed a clipboard down on the counter, I was then told that I needed to place that clipboard in another place (which was 6 inches over) because that is where she puts it. Wow.

So its been a long week. I worked from 3 until 7 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday...and then all day Saturday. So by the time I get home I am exhausted, I head right to bed, and then I wake up at 5am to do that day's homework. I really like the structure and the time management skills I am learning, but I think I ran myself down a little. This morning I woke up with a sore throat. Not good. There are four girls in my apartment complex who have swine flu so any kind of sickness is not good right now. In addition...its midterms!

I am excited that it is midterms, but not excited for what midterms entails. In fact, I have a test tomorrow. Crap. Well, just wanted to give you all an update. Hope everyone is doing well.

Oh! I almost forgot...on Thursday Mom and Dad came by Rexburg as they were driving home from Salt Lake. We went out to dinner, it was really good to see them. It worked out perfectly that I didn't have to work on Thursday, and Mom didn't have jury duty the next morning. Thanks for coming Mom and Dad! Love you!

General Conference

My roommate Lauren got four tickets for the Saturday morning session of General Conference. So we drove down to Salt Lake on Friday night, stayed in a hotel, went to conference, and visited some friends in Provo.

On the way to the conference center.


At the conference center, we asked a nice sister missionary to take our picture.

MoTab!


After the morning session we went to lunch at Zupas in Salt Lake where I got to see my roommate Amber from summer semester. So good to see her! I miss her lots.

And then we headed to Provo where we watched the afternoon session of conference. Afterward we went to dinner at a little diner called Sammy's. We got our Polaroid picture taken and put it on the wall!


I got to see my good friend Remington, who is going to BYU while we were in Provo.

And this was soooo not on my diet....but how could I resist? Oreo mint pie milk shake, potato fries and fry sauce as well as sweet potato fries with a sweet sauce. Sooo good!