Update

Oh I feel the need to blog.

Yes I do WHO!
First. Although we’ve never met in person, I do read her blog (does that make me a stalker?).
Abbie….I must congratulate you. You and your husband have an amazing talent. That talent being your ability to make ADORABLE babies. Keep up the good work and congrats with your new little blessing!

Ok, let’s play catch up.
Let’s see.
I moved into a townhome about a month ago; responding to an ad I saw online. My roommate is a 30 year old lady who is never home and when she is home she lives on the lower half of the house. I get all the upstairs, utilities, and parking for just 350.00 a month. It’s a really great deal. Though I may be moving again here shortly as my friend Ale’ and I would really like to get our own little townhome.

I work two jobs, one with PSS World Medical in the morning, one on some nights and weekends at IHOP. In August, my aunt’s landlord became a little upset that I was staying so long at their house (even though they are buying it in two months…go figure) and I needed to move out. It was a good kick in the butt to force me to get a second job (if I still wanted to spend like the little shopper I am) and find a place. As much as it was really stressful, it was such a blessing in disguise. Up until about a month ago, I truly had not made any concrete friends. I was ‘dating’ someone at one point and made friends with his friends, but once I decided it wasn’t going to go anywhere in the long run, I was back at square one. I once asked him why it was so hard to make friends, and he explained to me that everyone in Utah has lived here their whole lives and have had the same friends since they were in diapers…I found out quickly it was hard to compete with friendships that lasted that long. Besides, I don’t belong to a ward or LDS church so that never helped.
So I’ve been socializing at coffee shops and clubs and what not, but lacking a girl to go out on the town with, or any one for that matter, to just relax and watch movies with.
Then IHOP comes in.
Since I was forced to move out and get a second job a month ago, I’ve made some AMAZING friends at IHOP. All of us get along great and 5 of us actually get together almost every weekend. Last weekend we hit some clubs and had a pizza&beer night. This weekend we are hitting all the haunted houses and all getting together to cook a huge feast to eat. I can’t even explain the stress and loneliness that has been removed from my shoulders since I met them.

I don’t really feel like a complete person when I’m not socializing, having fun and taking advantage of every moment in life. Things are getting much better in that Dept.

It’s not rare that we Beer n’ Board Games Night, go hit the downtown clubs (ah the power of a fake ID), Football parties, and this weekend we are hitting the circus.
I love them =]

I’m single. All in all I’ve been here eight months, and dated two people a total of 3 ½ months combined.
I got interested in someone shortly after I got here, but I think he was apprehensive of my, well, lets just say “spontaneous spirit”. He was a great guy; cute, tall, medical student, and lead singer of a band. He would have fun with me, but was always worried about the smallest things in life and would never just relax and let life take him where he needed to go. That started in midMarch and ended by end of April. About 2 months ago I started seeing a guy named Saxon. He was awesome too, but we were at complete and total different places in our lives. I felt like he was way more in love with me then I would ever be with him and I also couldn’t stand his parents. Family is often a deal breaker. He was just too opposite of me in a lot of ways. There are days when there is nothing I love more then sitting on a curb, sun on my backside, watching the people and cars go by. He, seemed to never just enjoy the smallest aspects of life, the moments where we don’t talk and just bask in our small blessings. On the other end, I often crave more then the norm, have a need to travel and meet new people, change my mind and directions on a whim and am very open-minded. He, well, was just “okay” with the norm. It sucked, because at one point I felt like maybe I could have the possibility of really liking him, but the heart is a crazy thing. So by Sept, I axed that one too. Neither of them was Mormon btw.

Hah. I’m such a maneater right?
Wait, I take that back…just a selective, picky girl.

I’m still friends with both of them, but I also depended on them both for friends so that was a hard loss.
I’m not exactly looking for anyone, just living. I mean if some gorgeous man asks me out, I won’t say no, but then again, most wouldn’t =D.

To spill the beans, I’m still dreadfully attached to someone in Oregon. I think about him a lot and maybe in all rights it’s not fair for me to date someone else.
Who knows.

What else to update on?
I’m coming home for a business trip here in about a week.
I will be back in January for the state contest. I’d like to come down sooner as I have accrued a free plane ticket, but I’m not sure when. Any ideas?
I think my friends Alejandra (Ale’), Tyson, and Sean and I may just drive in January as they are dying to see Oregon.

Welp, I gotta quit avoiding work. I think I’m going to take a break and run to Starbucks. Venti Light Peppermint White Mocha Frap….YUMMY

I think I’m going to start blogging again.
Maybe.
Shanny