Another day, Another dollar.

My last day at UTA was on the 18th of July... It was a wondrous day filled with relief and sadness at the same time. I have found a new job now, and I really think that I have found my niche. I am an administrative assistant for a company called Upper Limit Aviation.

What is so neat about this job is that I am getting to experience a lot of things that I never thought I would. What is it? Well Upper Limit Aviation is a helicopter flight training school. People come from all around the school to spend lots and lots of money and learn to fly helicopters. I have never really understood why people from anywhere other than Utah would want to come here for school... Utah kinda sucks..

I guess the reason why is that the weather here is always changing and the altitude and terrain are excellent things for pilots to put on a resume per say. Also because of where the school is located it is in what you call class b air space. Essentially what that means is that this area is a high traffic area. It can be very stressful on someone that has never flown through it before.

Anyway though I like it a lot so far the people I work with are really nice... Hopefully it stays that way. I did take a pay cut coming here from UTA, however I think that it is worth it. I love being able to wear what I want, and get a full nights rest. Don't get me wrong, there were a lot of things that I loved at UTA but this just fits my needs better.

I don't know how it is that I happen to stumble upon these neat jobs, and if this isn't what I want to do for the rest of my life... Well I guess I will have one hell of a resume!

I'm acting my age!

So this is how it started Mike has to be to work at 10:00 in the morning he sets his alarm for 9:15 and I usually set a backup alarm on my phone for 9:25. This particular morning Mike was very tired so he turned the alarm off and went back to sleep. I'm one of those people that when my alarm goes off I'm up, I don't press snooze, I don't lay back down, nothin I'm just UP. I was getting upset because he wouldn't get back up and he was gonna be late to work.

So we get into an argument about how just because my job at UTA is SUPER strict on tardies (as in 3 tardies of more than one minute and your fired) doesn't mean that his job is that way. Its ok for him to be late every once and a while, they don't care. Finally I get so frustrated because now the argument is just going in circles and meanwhile he is getting later and later to work. I just get fed up and tell him that "he is 24 and its about God damn time that he starts acting like and adult!" To which he replies "how about you start acting like your 23 and not 40 and relax a bit."

That was how the argument ended. He turned around and walked out the door. I was really pissed off for a while. Where did he get off telling me that I don't act my age? Then I started thinking about it, all I really do is work and go home. I go see my friends every once and a while but its mostly sitting around having pleasant conversation. I don't go to parties, I go to bed at like 9 or 10 at night, a fun evening for me is when I get to stay up late enough to see my favorite shows on tv....... OH MY GOD.... I AM 40!!!!!!

Sadie and I had made plans for her to come over that day, so while I was still pondering the fact that somehow I has skipped years 24-39, she showed up. Soon enough we were talking about other things and I had completely forgotten about my fight with Mike. Then she starts to tell me that she is getting a car. That her sister had gotten a new one, and she was taking the old one. Her family lives in North Carolina so she was gonna fly out and drive back. She told me that originally she bought a ticket for her cousin before she realized that her cousin does not have a
drivers license. So instantly in my mind I get this flash of Mike saying to act my age. I told her that I would go with her if she wanted so she wouldn't have to drive back the whole way.

The ticket is in my name I'm flying out to good 'ole NC on the 8th of Aug, staying a couple days, then driving back to Utah. I'm going on a vacation! A road trip! An opportunity TO ACT MY AGE! I'm Really excited in case you can't tell!

Last day at UTA

Well thats it, today was officially my last day as a bus operator for the Utah Transit Authority. I am relieved and sad at the same time. I have never had a job that I liked all of my supervisors so much, so I really wanted to do something nice for them. I wasn't sure what to do and it was really getting down to the wire. I finally decided on a neat little bag filled with candy and a personal note to all of them. I bought all of the stuff this morning and started to get it all ready. Then from there things started getting difficult. I got my wisdom teeth removed on Friday, and normally by now they shouldn't be so bothersome. Lucky me though, I happened to get "dry sockets". So I was in horrible pain all night and didn't sleep, then I took some pain killers to help me out. Well they finally kick in while I'm trying to put 30 bags together, and I am so loopy that I can barely think straight. So finally I call my brother to come and help cause I'm gonna need him to drive me around anyway. Zach comes over and saves my ass, by helping me put all these bags together and then helps me load them into the car. He first took me to the garage downtown where I give the bags to some of my favorite guys, and I started to get all sad.. :(
Then he takes me to the garage on 33rd, where I give them to all of the supervisors there. Now there are 27 supervisors, that are all your supervisors, per say, but only one that is your assigned supervisor. Mine was a man named Rob McNair, he is a great guy, very calm and kind. Just the kind I need, if you know me, you know I'm already wound up as it is. I gave him his and then he told me where to go to put the rest in everyones mail boxes. When I came back around the corner he had just finished reading his note, and he said it was making him all teary eyed. Well that was the end of me... I am an emotional person as it is, put me on Loratab, and I am a wreck! So then I start feeling really upset so I start crying and I'm really trying not to. So finally I get myself under control and get ready to go. It was really neat cause they were all saying not to be a stranger, and that I just need to call and they would let me come in to hang out. I was told that I had to send a wedding invitation to them, and that it was required! So even though I am sad to leave a family that I love and that I know loves me. I'm happy to be able to rest and look forward to a regular sleep schedule! Who knows I may go back to UTA...... Not as a driver though!