Home Sweet Home

I finally have my own home, it took four months for the sale to go through, but I'm so excited. I closed on Tuesday and got my keys on Wednesday. I went yesterday to just check out the place, there was some drama getting into the building. Thirty minutes later I finally got into the building and got to move in a few things.

Snuggles was of course the first thing I moved in. Snuggles has been my friend for 23 years.

Here is a view of my kitchen. More pictures will come as soon as I move more stuff in and decorate some.

Updates from Haiti

The Institute I go to has a forum after classes on Wednesday nights, each week they get someone from church leadership to come and talk to us. This week we had Elder John K.Carmack, an Emeritus member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, who is the presently serving as Managing Director of the Perpetual Education Fund. Elder Carmack told us some amazing stories of the good the Perpetual Education Fund is doing, it has currently helped over 40,000 people in 42 countries. But he also gave an update from Haiti, so far they have 17 confirmed members of the church that did not survive the earthquake and every single one of the church buildings are still standing. Since these church buildings are some of the few that are still in decent condition they are serving as shelters to thousands of people. The church also has had tons of aid, food, clothes, doctors, you name it, on the ground in Haiti for several days already.

Don't Go Outside!!!

Welcome to Salt Lake City, home of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Utah Utes, and the country's worst polluted air in North America. Seriously we have the worst air quality that I have ever seen. We have had bad inversion before, but the last couple of days you could actually taste the crap in the air. I think I might be getting lung cancer just by walking from my car to my house. Don't you just love Utah? I know I do.....

Welcome 2010!!!

Things I'm Looking Forward to in 2010:

I love the Olympics!!!! Honestly I do like the summer Olympics more than the winter Olympics, I can just sit in front of the T.V. and watch the amazing athletes all day. One day I will go to the Olympics, I haven't been able to accomplish that goal, but it is on my bucket list.

Another bucket list item is going to the World Cup. In 2009 I was able to go to a World Cup qualifying game, and that was amazing!

I think my only hope of ever going to the World Cup is if the U.S. A. gets to host it again.

This year I actually do get to cross of one thing from my bucket list.....finally. I grew up with two older brothers and two older sisters, which most of them LOVED the band U2. So that meant that I grew up listening to this awesome band...the funny thing is that very few of the people my age love U2.

I've said for years that I would pay good money and travel to see a U2 concert and this year I'm finally going to do it. This year my sister is going to meet me in San Francisco to go the concert and have a fun vacation. I just can't wait.

Of course I have many other things that I'm looking forward to this year, one being buying a condo and finally owning my own place after renting for a few years. I'm actually hoping that this happens in the next few weeks, but it has been a mess and I can't wait to get this over with.