Meet Your Meat

If you eat meat I think you owe it to yourself to become educated about the products that you are consuming and today's factory farming industry. This video might be disturbing to you and it might make you feel sad...I can only hope that you will consider how the animals feel when they go through this process-I'm sure it's a lot worse. I read online somewhere that by going vegetarian, you can save more than 90 animals a year by going vegetarian!

Make a difference in the world...go vegetarian!

Back to the grind...a few small thoughts

So as you all know, we moved about 2 weeks ago to downtown Ogden. We are now only 2 blocks away from the Solomon Center where the downtown Gold's Gym is located. I've had a membership there for about 4 years. I'll admit, I haven't been that dedicated and committed to going to the gym, but now since I live only 2 blocks away from it, I think I'll try to start going regularly. Rodrigo and I went in last night and we added him to my account. It was only $12 more per month to add him! We just got back from our first night of going to the gym together and I feel great! We both ran 3 miles and then we sat in the sauna. I feel so refreshed and so good about myself. Our goal is to go 4 times a week. Wish us luck! By the time we get where we want to be, we are going to be quite the little hunks!!

This time next week, we will be in Boston, MA probably fast asleep from a busy day and a night of traveling across the country. I'm so excited to get away for a week. And I'm so excited to see Tegan and Sara!! This will be our third time this year seeing them live. This is their last tour with their album "The Con" and then it's back into the recording studio for them!

I'm still having a hard time adjusting to the mentality of certain people at work. The demographic of people that we market to are quite the opposite of me! It makes it a little hard to relate too. Even the people that I work for, they all own secondary vacation homes, own like 2 or 3 different cars, and live lavish lifestyles. Me on the other hand, live in Ogden and pay less then $600 for my rent, drive a Honda Civic with a $200 car payment, ride my bicycle around Ogden, hang out at dive bars on the weekends, and buy clothes from places like Ross and Target. I don't think anyone at work really know about the sleeve of tattoos I'm hiding underneath my pressed button up collared Wolf Creek Utah shirt. Somehow, I'm suppose to relate to these people on some certain level. It's very strange for me.

Well, enough for tonight...I must finish Eclipse!!!

Tegan and Sara-Call It Off

This is the latest video by my favorite band Tegan and Sara. Rodrigo and I are about to head to MA to see them live in Worcester on October 4th. I CAN'T WAIT!!!!! Plus, I think they both have really cool haircuts.

YAY!! I have my internet hooked up now

Update time...we are all moved in to our new apartment and we just barely got our internet hooked up this morning.  Did you know Comcast now does installations on Sundays now?  Worked out perfectly being that this is my only day off this week.  We have a little less than 2 weeks now to our vacation to Boston.  I'm quite excited as this will be my last hoorah before the ski season picks up at work and I become chained to my desk there.  Our new apartment is cozy and I finally feel like my life is getting back to normal.  I'm not sure if the full moon last weekend had anything to do with it, but I feel like my life was turned upside down into shambles.  No matter what I did, I feel like it all went wrong.  I don't feel that way anymore.  It's always hard adjusting to a new house.  I was told by a co worker that the stress that moving creates is equal to dealing with a death or divorce.  I totally believe it.  I didn't feel like myself and I still feel a little bit homeless.  Moving totally messes with your balance and energy fields.  Our new neighbors are nice.  They are quite the football fanatics, we have been listening to them screaming and cheering all day.  The first time it happened, I thought something was wrong.  Sorry about the short post, I'll try to write more later.  Still unpacking boxes and moving stuff around here...

Oh the rollercoaster of life...

Today was an overwhelming day of work.  I went all day without eating and it seemed like I talked all day, non stop.  It's nice to sit at home and say and do nothing at all.  I plan on not speaking another word for the rest of the night!!!

I just wrote a whole paragraph venting about work and the hardships that I am going through there, and I just deleted it because I know I wouldn't be a good leader if I posted everything that was going wrong in my life on the internet.  I can't show the enemy my weaknesses!!  (Work is not my enemy, but we all know what happened with Carrie and the blue shirt company-big brother might be watching!!) At least not on my blog where nosy people could possibly stumble across them and find all of this incriminating evidence of me being an actual human living in a free country where I can actually voice my opinion about my co workers.  :)

Blah blah blah.  It's been a long day.  Time to snuggle up in my jammies with the 3rd book out of the Twilight Saga.  Rodrigo is out on a bikeride and it actually feels nice to have the house all by myself.  We are moving out of this house in a week and I'm honestly sad to leave.  Rody and I have so many memories in this apartment-this is our first together and I lived here before I even met him.  This house represents a period of healing in my life and it's sort of been my safe haven and my little cozy bat cave where I retire each night.  I know home is where the heart is, but it's always weird moving to new places.  Especially to older places where I know a lot of people have lived.  My new house was built in 1910 and I know I'm going to have to go through a whole bag of Kosher sea salt, a few sage bundles and about 4 billion hours of Reiki sessions to cleanse and create the energy that I need to live there.      

My life as a Guest Service Manager

Guest Service Manager.  That is my title at my job.  Sounds simple, but it's really not.  I started at an entry level position making reservations as a Reservations Agent two years ago this December.  I played my cards right, put my time in and got promoted fairly quick.  This December will be 1 year as a manager.  I am in charge of all the guest service agents, reservations, and setting the standard for our service level.  Basically, I run the daily operations of our reservation/guest service team.  I respond to complaints, set goals for my team, coach employees and today I even sent home an employee for wearing something inappropriate to work for the first time.  I'm also in the process of trying to promote one of my employees to be my assistant.  I will actually have an assistant. (Ok, well we really will call the title a "Lead Reservation Agent", but still, she will be just like an extension of me). We have a job fair on Saturday and I will also interviewing dozens (hopefully!) of applicants.  It's weird for me to have a grown up job as a leader in a company that puts so much faith and trust in me.  The little company for which I work for is well on it's way to being a giant company.  The opportunity in this company is endless!!  The people who I work for are wonderful.  They are compassionate, understanding and have been my advocate when things have not gone so good for me at work. If I don't like the way something is going, I tell them and they change it.  Don't get me wrong, there are days that I feel like running away and jumping the next plane to anywhere but Wolf Creek Utah, but they definitely sure know how to butter me up to staying, and actually feel good about staying.   

Go Wolf Creek Utah!  A great place to work!  :)