Another New Experience

I had the opportunity of going to the Draper Temple Dedication on Sunday and though it was a long day, I had a wonderful time! We had to be on a bus to ride to the temple at 11:30am even though our session didn't start until 2:00pm. We had to sit in the chapel of a Stake Center until it was time to go into the temple. Fortunately my friends and I planned ahead and packed enough treats and water to feed the entire congregation, which was a good thing because it turned out to be a great way to make new friends.

When we got in the temple, we were seated in one of the sealing rooms and with a couple of flat screens in front of us. Even though we weren't in the same room as the Prophet and other General Authorities, the Spirit was still very strong. There were several excellent speakers, and as always, President Monson's caring personality shined through as he made personal comments and greetings to members of the congregation with him in the Celestial Room.

How fortunate I feel to have so many temples so close to me. I was thinking about it and there are literally 5 temples (soon to be 6 with the new Oquirrh Mountain Temple) within 25 minutes of my house. I love it!

You don't know what you don't know...ya know?

So...since my last post when I delivered my triplets I have been on a bit of a roller coaster of illness...actually it was less like a roller coaster and more like a free fall since there didn't seem to be any 'ups' only 'downs' on my health ride the past few weeks. It turned out that I had one more kidney stone still in my kidney that was more than double the size of the 3 others that I had already passed. That 4th stone started passing, but got stuck about a week and a half ago. Unfortunately, my doctor didn't think it was going to pass without help so I ended up having surgery this past week to break up the stone. Since then I have finally been able to pass the last stone! For me, worse than the pain caused by the stone was the nausea, dizziness, and fevers which accompanied it. I have been fortunate to have enjoyed good health for most of my life and what has surprised me the most the past few days is that I didn't know how sick I have been feeling until I started feeling good again. And I also learned first hand how priceless our health really is, I guess we really don't know what we don't know...ya know?

I had triplets!

I know that I am kind of springing this on all of you, because you probably didn't even know that I was expecting...well...neither did I actually...so it was a TOTAL surprise to me when I started having pains on Thursday night and checked myself into the hospital. Anyway...the little ones were delivered around 8:35am on Saturday morning....here they are....

These kidney stones! And they were the absolute worst experience I have ever had. And I am not a weirdo who saved these little guys for souvenirs, my doctor wanted me to save them so they could be analyzed….so I am not keeping them, I am giving them up for adoption and for science!

Talking, talking, talking...

So one constant thing in the life of a single person is the continuous conversations regarding relationships. It seems that eveyone (married or single) always wants to talk about who I am dating, who I am interested in, and what could possibly be wrong with me to still be a single woman at the tender age of 33!

With my single girlfriends I talk about the guys we know and how they ALWAYS seem to be interested in the girls who are totally wrong for them....if only they would listen to us!

With my single guy friends we usually talk about girls, mostly the "it" girls (since all the guys I know seem to like the same 5 girls). Of course by talking about this with them I am secretly hoping that they will NATURALLY discover that, indeed, I am the girl of their dreams and that all of these "it" girls are totally uninteresting and shallow...why can't they see this??

This tactic does not seem to be working...and all of this constant talking, talking, talking doesn't seem to be getting me anywhere.

Can Money Buy Happiness?

So...it's a weird thing to talk about and think about money all day, every day. One thing that I have learned is that there is A LOT of money in the world. The only problem is that it is not evenly distributed. This is evidenced by the fact that I have a client who just had me do a transfer for them for $25 Million dollars and I have about $25 dollars in my account. :) The US government recently injected $700 Billion dollars into the US economy under the TARP plan, yet there is still the same guy on the corner by my office collecting change by cleaning snow off of people's cars. What gives? I definitely don't have all the answers...all I really know is that I would like to take one for the team and find out once and for all if money really can buy happiness. Donations for this experiment can be sent to my home address.

Out with the old and in with the new

A very common occurrance this time of year is to make New Year's Resolutions...I actually don't like the word "resolution"...it sounds a little too cliche to me. However, I wanted to do something different to commemorate the turning of the page on my calendar from 2008 to 2009. So, I sat down, took stock of what happened in 2008; the highs and the lows, and what I want for 2009. And they say that one of the differences between a wish and a goal is to write it down...so here goes...





This year I want to take a writing class...and if you are reading this blog you are probably thinking to yourself...HALELUJIAH! Heehee! I've always enjoyed writing and decided to take advantage of the community classes offered through the University of Utah. I don't really expect to become a best selling author, however it would sure to be fun to hone some skills to improve something that I enjoy doing.



I also want to reach my goal weight this year...if you have known me for more than a week, you will know that the battle with my weight has been a life long struggle for me. And that the concept of "goal weight" is something that I personally haven't experienced since about the age of 4 or so. Even though this journey has been a long one for me, it has been only the past 2 years that my current path has been really working for me. As of today, I have lost 93 pounds and know that if I continue to work hard I will reach my goal weight this year. What an accomplishment that will be for me!


Something else that I really want this year is to get married. There are 7 kids in my family, and in the past 2 months the last two single members of my family have gotten engaged; excluding me of course! That makes me officially the Last of the Mohicans...or at least the Last of the Workmans. Oh...what a joy! :) Actually, I am really happy for both of my brothers and think it is just what they need. The problem with this goal, is that I feel like I have less control over this one than I do over the other two goals I have written down this year. So maybe the goal shouldn't be "to get married" but rather to put myself out there and be prepared so that I can be blessed with that opportunity. It's a much harder goal to measure, but one that I really want so am willing to put it all out there.

So...like I said earlier...here goes....