Halloween and hostess

Sorry this is such a late update! I've been busy at work.  Halloween was sober fun; all my friends were in Eugene.  I was a Mardi Gras person and I danced sober, which is hard to do around a bunch of drunk people. 

Adria and I in my awesome masks

On monday, I started my job and I've worked 28 hours this week.  I also made good tips! I've basically been working and working out all week; it's been good!

I started the LifeWorks seminar a week ago and have quite a lot of homework to do.  I think I have ideas of what I'm going to do next.  Maybe move to phoenix and transfer my job down there, and stay with a family friend til I get some money saved.  We'll see, just an idea for now.

CrossOver Seminar and Life update

I just finished the CrossOver seminar on Sunday evening.  I start the last of the 3 seminars on Thursday.  Some special person on the back up team for CrossOver loaned me 1000 dollars to do the seminar, that I will pay back in 5 years.  I couldn't past that up.  LifeWorks is one weekend a month for 4 months, which means I will be in Eugene until at least the end of January. 

More good news... I got a job at McGraths today as a hostess.  I start on Monday and should get about 25-28 hours per week.  My life is sorta figured out for the next 4 months or so.  I'll have another update after this weekend to let you all know about halloween with my masks from New Orleans and the first weekend of the LifeWorks seminar.  It's on my life vision, so it should be good.

I Am a Deserving, Committed and Powerful Woman!

Continuation of the Blog!

I will have updates to the blog every so often to keep you in the loop.  I will have an update after the seminar for sure.

PS everyone should take a minute to admire the sky, for some reason it looks much bigger!

.... Going Home

In the morning, Cynthia made me breakfast and coffee, which we ate on the porch.  Then I got ready and it was time to go.  We said the tearful goodbyes.  We will cherish this time we had forever and hopefully there will be another similarly awesome time. 

The drive home wasn't so interesting even though I was shocked by the fog.  I didn't get tired or hungry the whole way.  I actually made it home in 7 hours, which was amazing. 

This was the crazy fog

This is a glimpse at Lake Shasta

This is Oregon the beautiful at its best in the fall

Sacramento again...

There were three really interesting things we saw driving next to the great salt lake.  One was the huge mounds of salt at the refineries.  More interesting was these fields of what we thought was salt in some form.  It looks like snow but its rock hard and grainy.  The third thing was this water we would drive alongside.  It was incredible! It acted as a mirror better than any water I have ever observed.

Mounds of Salt

Me standing in the middle of a salt field

 

The salt stuff up close

The mirror water, we thought there must be a film a the top.

It was bazaar to look at both sides of the road and see the sky in the water.  It felt like we were floating.

 A sculpture in the middle of nowhere

We stopped in Elko, Nevada for lunch.  We drove down the main street for find food and what we found was a walk-a-thon with blocked off streets.  We parked and got out of the car to walk the street the wrong direction in search of food.  We didn't find any, so we asked a lady and she said to go to Machi's or The Fish.  We went to Machi's and it was closed on Saturdays.  We saw a "Stray Dog Cafe and Pub" but it wasn't open til 3pm.  We asked a guy where to go and he sent us to the Star Hotel.  It looked really sketchy, not windows and we couldn't find the door.  So we tired to find The fish and come across a mexican place called Sergio's.  We split a $10 meal, wasted an hour and got out of that town.

We needed gas when we got to Reno, so we stopped.   Cruella gave us the run around here trying to find a DQ.  We gave up and I settled for M&Ms.  We arrived in Sacramento around 6:30pm and Chris, Cynthia's Husband, was making us a healthy dinner.  We decided that we needed a little bit of healthy food considering all the country cooking.  We had a nice evening and when to bed.

Sunset at Cynthia's

The drive from Cheyenne and Salt Lake City

In the morning, we got up and went to the coffee shop and ordered breakfast sandwiches and DC (Diet Coke).  Then we went to The Wrangler, which was a store before Wrangler was a brand.  I needed some cowboy boots.  We probably tried on half the selection in an hour and we bought boots.  They weren't cheap! We also went in the train station.  Cheyenne has these decorated boots all around town just like Eugene has the decorated ducks.

The Wrangler

Me next to a big boot

The outside of the train station

Inside of the train station

The Plains Hotel that we stayed in

On the way to Salt Lake City, we stopped for lunch in Rawlins, Wyoming.  Penny's Diner was so cute!  I saw steak and mashed potatoes when I walked in, so I got a mound of mashed potatoes and gravy for my lunch... and it was only a dollar! 

Penny's Diner

We arrived in Salt Lake at about 6:30pm and went to dinner with Carolyn and the kids.  The next morning, I got ready for my interview/meeting.  It went pretty well!  Afterwards, Cynthia and I went to Squatters Brewery for lunch.  We had cocktails, I was needing one, and we shared calamari and chicken quesadilla.  Then it was time for our nap, but I watched Grey's Anatomy and Brothers and Sisters instead.  Carolyn got home and we all headed down to the family history library.  This was pretty cool, I called Grandma Holly to find out some stuff about my dad's side of the family.  Then I looked it up and found more stuff.  I'll have to continue looking stuff up when I get home.

We went back to Carolyn's and had a delicious dinner of steak, zucchini, rice and sourdough bread.  Then we had double fudge brownie ice cream.  As 9 o'clock rolled around Cynthia and I headed downtown to see the nightlife.  We didn't really feel like going but if I was going to consider moving to Salt lake I had to see the nightlife.  It was worth it because we talked to this guy bartending at Gracies who told us all about the city.  He said theres hiking, rock climbing, snowboarding and lots of lakes, which is all the things I want to do..... and it doesn't rain!  We went to a few more places just to check it out and went home to bed.

Cheyenne!

Cynthia and I left Omaha at 9am and headed for Cheyenne.  We got there at 5:15pm and needed to get the oil changed.  We went to Midas and the guys there were so nice to us.  We asked them if they knew of a nice, cheap, safe hotel, and they happened to know the people at the historic downtown hotel.  They got us a great deal on a room right across from the historic train depot.  Everyone was so nice! We got cleaned up and had dinner at the hotel restaurant, which was a really fun experience. 

The Plains Hotel!!

Cynthia and I at dinner

Then we walked over to The Shadows Brew Pub and had a drink.  We chatted with this guy Jerry and he took us to the Drunken Skunk, which was a block away.  We played a game of pool and went back to the hotel.   

This happened on the walk...