Reason #1 that I love being home...

Ok this might turn into more than one reason. This morning I went on a great hike with Kathy up the backside of Flattop. I figured even if the doctor says to go easy on my knee with running I still need to train for Mt. Marathon (eep!) and even though it was sort of a grey day we had lots of fun! Long hikes in the mountains are a great place to solve all the problems of the world. I'm going to miss having the mountains so accessable next year.
I had a little bit of a bummer afternoon. I called a bunch of the other places that I had applied for jobs and several of them told me that they were done hiring people. Darn! But I'm still holding out hope for a few of them. I decided that I needed an uplift so where did I go but the yarn shop....I needed to get some yarn to reinforce the strap on my cool felted bag that Charis got me in Norway. After the yarn store I headed to the grocery store. Since my parents are so busy this summer I have become the default grocery shopper/dinner cooker. But never fear, the grocery store was the best part of the day! First I ran into Darcy,a friend from high school who wants to go hiking, and then I ran into Andy, who I didn't think I was going to get to see at all this summer. You would think that I wouldn't be so excited to see an ex-boyfriend but he's a really nice guy that I wouldn't mind hanging out with again (in a friendly sort of way). I left the store in a much better mood, feeling like life is good. Hooray for being home and seeing friends at the grocery store!


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I'm employed

Well after a week of plastering the town with my resume I have found myself a job. The hospital that I was hoping to work at hired someone permanent, so its not that; however, my dad is on the board of a local non-profit group and knew that they needed an administrator, and they decided that it was okay to hire me for the summer. It's only 15 hours a week, I set my hours, and the pay is great. I think I'll still try to get another part time job, since I can, and I will need the money in the fall. Unfortunately I don't think any work will be coming from the knitting stores that I had spoken to in the spring, but hopefully someone is sitting out there with my resume thinking that I would be perfect.....

Graduated, Drove, and now I'm Home, anybody got a job for me?

Ok, I'm giving this a whirl....my very own blog complete with pictures and everything. I'm still figuring out how the "everything" part works, so forgive me if the first few posts are a little sketchy.

The past few weeks have been busy, busy, busy. I can't believe that just two weeks ago I was in Salt Lake City, graduating. And just to prove that I did it......

Can you see that it's me??

After graduation we (read entire family) furiously packed my apartment (and I must say thanks to Grandma and Grandpa who have moved a million times and are packing pros, we never could have done it without them), and my mom and I embarked on a 3000 mile journey through Edmonton and up to Anchorage.

Edmonton is great, I'm glad we took the time to visit. The building that I will be spending most of my time in is huge, and it's bright yellow. I guess it's supposed to keep me happy in the winter. But I got the feeling that the people that I am going to be working with and the work that I will be doing will keep me happy anyways.

After 2 days in Edmonton my mom and I packed into my car again and headed off for the second half of the drive, which was by far the most beautiful but also the more tiring part of the trip.

Our trusty steed and my wonderful co-pilot:


The scenery was beautiful, and I'm not going to do it justice by putting in any pictures here, you'll just have to do the drive yourself. But we did see lots of fun wild life. I think the final list came to bison, moose, caribou, deer, black bears, elk, dall sheep, stone sheep, a wolf, a fox, and a few showshoe hares.



I've been home for a week now and my most exciting thing that I have been doing is looking for a job. I've never had to really apply for a job like this before, and its really pretty of frustrating. I've turned in a bunch of applications, for both fun jobs and jobs that are actually in my field, and now I get to sit around and wait for them to call. But don't worry, I'm not just twiddling my thumbs.

It's not blocked yet, but I can't wait to wear it! Yeah for Alaskan summers that are cool enough to wear scarves!!!

So what do you think? Will I survive as a blogger.....stay tuned!