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Deposit

Carriage Cove made me pay a $200 deposit when I signed my contract to live there. When I moved out this is how much I got back:

Carpet fee (per contract) -$35.00
Re-hang closet doors-$10.00
Check-out cleaning-$50.00
Trash hauled out-$30.00
Bricks divided x 3- $25.00
Sofa removed divided x 3-20.00

If you do the math you can see that I got $30.00 back!

Yep, that's THIRTY dollars!!

The closet doors weren't on when I moved in, the "sofa" is a chair that a previous roommate left in the apartment. The cinder that were in my room I moved out, the remaining ones I believe where in the apartment when I moved in, along with a bunch of other crap.

I expected to be charged for not doing my cleaning check and for them hauling out trash, because I wasn't going to haul out stuff that wasn't mine. It's not even worth it to go talk to them about the closet doors.

Never having to deal with Carriage Cove and their money hungry ways-PRICELESS!!!!

Blogging about blogging about blogging about...

So I have been helping get everything ready for the Summer Reading Program at the Provo Library (sign-ups for the program begin June 1st and the program runs until July 31st all you need to sign-up is a Provo Library Card). I have been calling up sponsors and helping with the activities for the Teen portion of the program. I have been especially working on a blog that we are going to use for the Teen program. You can check it out here. Since this is the centennial for the library in Provo we are doing a time travel theme. I have learned a lot about the past 100 years in working on this project. It's going to be a fun summer, so you should all sign-up for the Summer Reading Program!

Pedometer

2,000 steps=1 mile

I've walked 47,440 steps in the past 4 days. That equals 23 miles.

I'm doing this as part of a wellness challenge sponsered by BYU. But mostly I just wanted the pedometer! It's really fun tracking how many steps I walk in a day! The goal is to get 800,000 steps between May 1 and August 25.

New Baby

Here is little Natalie Jean Hansen! She is so cute!!

P.S. I found out tonight that ANOTHER one of my friends is expecting a baby! I guess it is the season to have a child.

Now if I could just get a date...

Time Flies!

I swear that this was just yesterday! But in reality it has been almost 2 years since I was Ashley's maid of honor. Her sister Melanie will be coming to COLLEGE in the fall along with my sister! (I can't believe they are old enough to be in college!)

And this afternoon Ashley and Tim welcomed a baby girl into their family. Natalie Jean Hansen (I think this is the name they have finally decided on) was born around 2:30 this afternoon. She weighed 7 lbs. 13 oz. and was 21 inches long. She has dark hair and dimples. It was fun to talk to Ashley this afternoon and hear about her new baby girl. I can't believe that she is a mom! But I know that she and Tim are going to be excellent parents! I'll post pictures when they send some to me. I can't wait to meet this little girl in July when I go home for a family reunion and also to visit Ash and Tim at their house in Indiana!

Life after Graduation...

Nama asked me to write about life post graduation. There are really both pros and cons about life after graduation…

Pros

No Homework!

No Finals!

No Studying!

Life is more relaxed!

Less Stress!

For the most part once you are done with work for the day, you don’t have to think about your job anymore!

Cons

You miss being on campus and wearing a backpack

You miss learning different things everyday

After a while, even if you love your job…it becomes monotonous

Eventually you realize you are now an adult and that is SCARY!

Even though life after graduation isn’t always a dream come true…I would DEFINITELY recommend it! I loved college, but I’m happy to be graduated!!

p.s. can you believe that I’ve been graduated for 2 years now!!

Em is the coolest

person I know!

I really don't know what else to say... She makes my life so much fun and I'm gonna miss her when she moves away. Em is so friendly and charitable. She makes me laugh and I know that she is a fabulous teacher!
Em is AWESOME!!

Writers Block

I have writers block.

Not too much is happening in my life. Besides the fact that I will be moving to a different position at BYU because I didn't want to take a 30 hour position (working 50 hours a week for some reason just didn't appeal to me), and moving to a new apartment in a few weeks, I am just doing my regular day to day stuff.

Boring, but true.

If you have a topic you would like me to write about, just leave me a comment and maybe then I will have something new to blog about.

Car Loan

Tomorrow I will make my last car payment to my bank!!! I still owe my aunt and uncle some money for my car, but I am almost done paying it off!! Woo-Hoo!

Your Mom

Buck

This blog is dedicated to Buck and Caroline. Enjoy!

Beige

I was having a conversation with a friend the other night and she described a person as being beige. That is how I feel lately. That I am beige. I feel like I am lacking color and excitement and passion in my life. I know that I used to be a more colorful person and I don't know when or why I turned beige, but I want the color back in my life! So I know that this is silly and pretty lame, but I am asking the people that read my blog to help me remember the color that I have in my life. I trust each of your opinions and am seeking your advice in how to become a colorful person once again!

Em made me do it...

I edited the lists so that I didn't have to think as hard and took out the questions that I didn't have immediate answers to! If you don't like it... TOO BAD!

5 movies you can watch over and over:
1. Elf
2. Three Amigos
3. You've Got Mail
4. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
5. The Terminal

5 memorable halloween costumes:
1. Pippi Longstocking
2. Kat's Skirt
3. Clown
4. Black Cat
5. Princess

5 celebrities you believe may secretly be alien:
1. Tom Cruise
2. Star Jones
3. Paris Hilton
4. Nicholas Cage
5. Lindsay Lohan

5 occupations you know you could never do:
1. Trashman
2. Professional Basketball Player
3. Telemarketer
4. Mathematician
5. The Bearded Lady

5 books you've recently read:
1. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
2. Better than you think you are by Ardith Kapp
3. She got up off the couch by Haven Kimmell
4. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
5. The Lion, The Wich, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

5 ways to perfectly spend an afternoon:
1. Playing at the Park
2. Reading a good book
3. Eating
4. Chatting with a good friend
5. Watching a movie

Doctor Discrimination

So my wrist has been hurting for like 2 weeks now and I am finally giving in an wanting to go to the doctor to see what's wrong.

I haven't been to the doctor since I moved to Utah and don't really care who I go to at this point.

I have called 2 different doctors (one in Provo and the other in Orem) this week to see if I could set up an appointment to see them. Both receptionists asked if I was a current patient of Dr. So-and-So. I replied "no". Their next question was "are you pregnant?" Again I replied "no". They then both proceeded to tell me that Dr. So-and-So was not taking any new patients at the time that were not pregnant.

What's a girl gotta do to see a doctor in this town???

I didn't realize how much this town was obsessed with marriage and family until they denied me medical treatment on the basis of my lack of pro-creation!

Opera

I went to the opera on Saturday night! It was a lot of fun. I went with a few of my co-workers at the Provo Library to see this.

I feel so cultured!

Mad Hot Ballroom Party

I will be having a "Mad Hot Ballroom" Party at my apartment this Friday starting at 7:30. We'll watch the movie, have some treats and just have fun!

I live at Carriage Cove and you can call me if you need directions.

It will be a blast!

P.S. You can't park in the parking lot after 9pm so you might want to initally park on the street or be prepared to move your car around 9.

Happy Blogaversary to Me!!

So tomorrow (March 7th) is my one year Blogaversary.

As I think over this past year I think of laughter, tears, crazy people and jokes about your mom!

Happy birthday little blog!!

P.S. I finally got a hold of a copy of the movie "Mad hot ballroom"! If you wanna see it give me a call and we can have a party!!

Decision

March is going to be a great month! Winter is on it's way out and the weather has been perfect the last couple of days! I'm ready to be a happy girl again, and this new weather just might do the trick!

Fun at work

I was talking to one of our "computer guys" at work (Provo) a day or two after valentines day. He replaced a floppy drive and gave the bad one to me to be thrown away. I made a snide comment like "oh this is what I've always wanted!". Later that night he brought me this!


If you can't read the bottom it says: "Just what every girl wants on valentines day, a bunch of broken hard drive parts"
This "valentine" made my day!

On a different note... tonight at the Provo Library I was talking to one of my supervisors. She was saying how there was a suspicious bag left last night at closing time. It was a black bag that sort of looked like a camera case. It was making noises and they weren't sure if it could possibly be bomb related. So they called the library director and the police. The police sent in the bomb squad and they apparently detonated the device. It turned out not to be a bomb, but someone's scriptures! That cracks me up that they blew up scriptures. That may not be "kosher" but I still think it's funny. No one has yet asked for the bag, but if they do they will have to talk to the police for causing such a ruckus!