Living the Utah Life

It's been a while since my last post so I thought it was time to write another even though I don't really have much to say. Can you believe it's almost June?! I can't! I was talking to someone the other day and she mentioned something about our birthdays (our birthdays are only ya few days apart) and it only just dawned on me that my birthday is coming up! I kinda wish my birthday would just not come this year cuz I don't have any friends to celebrate it with. But I guess I haven't really had a birthday at home with my family for 4 years it'll be nice whatever we decide to do. 


The other day across the street my parent's ward had a bbq with a live high school jazz band. It was a lovely afternoon sitting and listening to the music. It made me really miss Nic. I remember when we were both still living in Toowoomba he took me down to the jazz club in Brisbane one night, it was so wonderful. There is nothing in this world more romantic than jazz I reckon. 


While I was sitting over there mum came back up from the house with blankets. She said that she had just talked to my Grandma on the phone, and that was really odd cuz mum never talks to Grandma if she can help it haha Anyway, she went on to say that Grandma had bought me a piano and it's ready to be picked up. I had a bit of a delayed reaction, the excitement just bubbled over I started crying. I can't believe it! Dad is picking it up on Wednesday and then I'll have a piano! I'm so spoilt! But I love it. Thanks Grandma <3


My thesis is almost finished, I spent practically all day Saturday working on it. I'm determined to have it done before my birthday! It's so close now that I think I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. I can't even begin to tell how good it will feel when it's all finished and I never have to worry about it again! 

Update On My Fish...

It died.

Goings On

So today I started really liking my job. We had a carnival celebration for Target's 50th anniversary and I won a fish and a dvd. I am feeling more apart and involved in the team, it makes it more bearable to wake up at 6am every morning. 


My lecturer at uni finally emailed me back saying that he is going on long service leave as of the 30th of June so my thesis needs to be finished by mid June. I've got to get my bum into gear! He asked me to send him my updated Chapter 4 asap but the updated version has more stuff deleted than added so that's a bit of a worry! Lol 


I also have a new calling at church. I am on the ward family history council. The "job description" if you will is indexing. I need to index 500 names a month. At first I thought that was crazy but since I've gotten into it I love it. It feels good to be doing my part. 

What a Week! And it's only Tuesday!

It has been a really great week this week, well mostly anyway. It all started on Sunday when I finally got a piano teacher! :-D Dad asked someone in his ward at church if he would be able to teach me and later that afternoon we went to his house to and were able to have a chat. Unfortunately however, we do not as of yet have a piano so I have to go to other people's houses which is really hard for me to do but at the same time I'm so excited to have a piano teacher that I just have to suck it up and play! It feels so good to move my fingers like that <3 I know that I sound really weird saying that but I am a muso after all! Hehe


Our band has a performance on Thursday night so I'm way excited about that. It will be my debut on the Tenor saxophone, should be interesting. Hopefully I'll remember to buy a softer reed before then so I don't squeak! Haha And I think my family (some of them at least) are coming to watch which makes it even more exciting for me cuz I don't think they have ever seen me play in a band :-D 


The bad thing that happened this week was that I had two shifts cancelled which means less money than what little I do get :-( But, I do get to sleep in...I dunno, I can't help but be disappointed.


Saturday I am going up to Logan again to spend time with my Grandma. I love that I am able to that. I don't think she gets to see her grandchildren very often which is sad considering that they don't really live too far away. I'm looking forward to spending time with her again. 

When I Live It I Am Better

I had the most lovely Sabbath Day yesterday. I guess since I have started working I have begun to more appreciate how important and how grateful I am for Sunday. I am so grateful for the counsel we have been given not to work on Sundays it is such a great blessing. So many wonderful things happened, I had an interview and received a calling to be on the family history council I accepted  although I wasn't really sure about it but in Sacrament meeting the hymns that were sung and the talks that were given made me feel good about accepting the call. Then our Relief Society lesson was on temples and family history, talk about a confirmation! It was such an uplifting day and I think that this calling will be a great opportunity for to learn more about the temple and focus on it as I prepare to get married there. 


Our Relief Society President got released today and shared here testimony of the gospel to us and one thing she said really stuck with me because I can relate to it. She said that she knows the church is true because when she lives it she is better. I too attest to that, I know that when I live the principles of the gospel I am a better person.

Was it Destiny?

As I was driving to band last night I got to thinking about all the seemingly trivial moments in my life to get me there. My pondering started at 4 or 5 years ago my mum and I picked up my cousin to have a sleepover with my brothers and I was talking to her about how I wanted to learn another instrument and that the one I really wanted to learn was the saxophone. Keiren piped up with 'My dad has a saxophone'. I was so excited I think I called Uncle Russell as soon as I got home! I remember like it was yesterday going over there a few days later, I was SO excited to touch it. He showed me how to care for it and a few fingerings. I took it home to start playing (I already bought a book to learn from haha). When I started at uni I asked one of the lecturers if he could give me some lessons but he said that he didn't have time. It wasn't until the big band tour (that I was desperately trying to get out of) where I met the guy who was would teach me, who will soon be my husband. At the time I would have given anything to not go on that tour so I wouldn't miss something back home. But I can't help but wonder that if I was able to skip that tour would I have asked Nic to teach me?


Jump back to the present, thinking about how I was able to find this community band I'm in. I was out to lunch with my friend telling her that I can't find a job anywhere. She mentioned a good website to look at and when I got home I went on there and applied for some jobs. When I went in for an interview the person who was supposed to be interviewing me was sick. The guy who ended up interviewing me played the trumpet in this band and gave me the address of the rehearsal space. When I got home I saw that there was a missed call from him telling me that the other guy was sick and to reschedule. If I hadn't have missed that call I wouldn't have met the trumpeter of the band. Now, I don't know if I really believe in destiny and I'm probably reading too much into it but for the sake of a story I think it is pretty damn cool! I am one lucky girl! :-D 


I'm sorry if this was a stupid post but I just thought it was cool seeing how everything came together in hindsight. 

Working Girl

So I've been working for a week now and I love it! I'm so excited to get out of the house :-D I'm still getting into a routine and getting use to early mornings. I use to be a morning person when I went to the gym so it shouldn't take too long to get back into it. But the past few days I've been really exhausted, this afternoon I went back to bed for 3hrs haha My position is called instocks, every morning we have a list of products and isles to scan into the system some to count, others to register as empty and also to set up rainchecks. I'm kind of like an elf hehe I love that my job is a job with lists, I love that I have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings. I'm so excited for my first pay-cheque, it won't be much but it'll be something and the first thing I'm going to buy will be the cake topper for my wedding cake :-D