Ft Collins! Hooray!

So let's see. I didn't get that office job, but that's ok. NBD (no big deal, thanks eric) I moved to Ft Collins on Thurs. nite. Nathan and Chris, 2 boys from my new ward helped me which was awesome. So yeah, Ft Collins is a sweet college town north of Longmont about 30-35 miles (not 50 Troy :P ) It's a much better place than Longmont because it's a college town and Longmont is suburbia. My car was still running so luckily it made it up to Ft Collins ok the nite I moved, but the next day on Friday when I went to turn in an application at Sunflower Market it totally died on the way there, so it doesn't run at all now. I'm going to see about getting it worked on. I really like my new place, it's a townhome and it's fairly new. It remind me of when I lived with Janalee in those fancy nice new apartments. It has a washer/dryer which is nice and rent is not bad. I also have the master bedroom which is sweet. The room is so big. New experience for me. I like it so far. I'm listening to awesome latin music. I love it. Listen to real Ricky Martin sometime, AMAZING!

Ok, my new roommate is Jennifer, she's freaking awesome and hot. She's getting her masters in microbiology and is super smart so it's intimidating. I pretty much feel like an idiot around her. She's awesome tho and we get along great. Like on Saturday nite she came home and she got free make up from Clinique and she never wears make up so she asked if I wanted it. I of course can't turn down free anything so I said sure. So she wanted me to try on the lipstick and it was like really dark purplish! Sooo not me, don't think I've ever worn lipstick that dark. So after putting it on we decided I needed dark "gothic" eye make up to go with it. It was fun. Troy of course, made fun of me. But I had fun.

So I had an interview today at Sunflower Market which is like a natural farmers market type place. I know I will really like working there. I'm pretty sure I got the job. Chris that helped me move works there and hooked me up which is nice. I had a really fun weekend hanging out with Troy and Nathan. Last nite was great because we all went on a nite hike and it was cold and raining and when we got to the top of the reservoir (which is within walking distance) it was snow. We were wet and cold by the time we got back 2.5 hours later. CRAZY but fun. Afterwards I made crepes and Nathan made homemade hot chocolate. Way good. Then we chilled out and watched Batman Begins on TV. I almost forgot how great that movie is. I've been meaning to buy it for a while.

So while I was still in Longmont I watched a new house episode on DVR and afterward discovered that my favorite tv show the IT CROWD was on the IFC channel on Tuesday nites and they just started showing it!!! AMAZING! It completely made my day, week, year. So great. So I made sure to DVR the first couple episodes and made people watch it for the last week I was in that house. It was all worth it just for that. I found out that like 4 months ago they made it crowd compatible and available for North America, way great. So as soon as I have a little bit of extra money I'm going to buy it and have my friends watch the rest because I've got a few friends hooked already. If you haven't seen it look into it NOW! (Jake) I'm trying to think of what else eventful has happened. I know I'm missing something. I just talked to Troy on the phone and lost my train of thought. And I'm freaking hungry. So now I'm going to upload some photos and be done. If I think of it later I will let you know. For some reason I think it had something to do with Becky and Spokane but I don't remember. Oh well. Peace out.

Wait! I remembered something. After my interview I started walking towards home and just chatted on the phone, it was nice, and I eventually got picked up by Nathan which was nice but I looked on google maps when I got home and I walked 3 miles! SO COOL! Didn't even really notice. I was walking for about an hour I guess. Now it's over.

ps. Troy's brother's family that he lives with, they are WONDERFUL and I love their 6 kids and spending time with them. Kinda like a home away from home. Fan-flippin-tastic.

My new bathroom

Troy after the nite hike

My new bed

Closet

Just so you can get a perspective of my room

Computer and board

Nathan at the top of the reservoir, the climax of our hike

Troy at the top

Jennifer at the top

Me at the top

Me after the hike, weird red streaks on my face, i think from the rain. They didn't go away all nite.

My new living room and kitchen (so nice)

My new stairs

Me with my dark lipstick and intense make up

Troy and I put leaves on Nathan's car, amazing

I was on the phone with Hayley

The reservoir in daylight

Troy at the Reservoir beach

CUTE Squirrel. I LOVE the squirrel's here

My new place

My new fellow townhome neighbors

Estes Park 9/20/2008 and Troy

My fuzzy caterpillar friend

Troy with a sweet sign in Ft Collins

It started hailing!

Dude, not this chipmunk but a different chipmunk ate KFC biscuit from my fingers and then nibbled on my finger. so cute.

Elk at Estes Park

I am posting again!!!! YAY!!!

Ok, I know it's been way too freaking long since I've posted, therefore I will do it again. So this is for you Hayley. Last Saturday Mark and Zaneta (the people I work for and live with) were nice enough to take me to Estes Park, which is a part of Rocky Mountain Natl. Park. It was beautiful! We saw and heard a whole bunch of elk. There were blue jays and chipmunks and even a fuzzy caterpillar who I found in my hair in the car. He was my friend. And of course mountains. I walked up this path to the top of Longs Peak and it is 12,005 ft above sea level! Basically I had the worst headache ever since we started inclining and it just got worse. I didn't feel better until we started declining. I literally felt like I was drunk or high (even tho I've never been any of those things) like on those Mt Everest movies where the climbers get so high up that they need oxygen and they are stumbling and not walking straight and can't think straight, well, that's how I felt. So yeah, my brain is just not used to being this high up. I just wikipedia'd Kennewick, WA where I grew up my whole life and found out the elevation is 407 ft. And I just wikipedia'd Longmont, CO where I am currently living and the elevation is 4,984 ft. Quite a difference. Ok I just looked up Spokane, WA where I lived for about 3 years and the elevation there is 2,376 ft. so I haven't lived just above sea level my whole life I guess. Anyway, now I'm just being boring. I sometimes get bad headaches here, if anyone has any suggestions on how to not get headaches in high elevation places please let me know. So enough about elevation. The reason they took me to Estes Park is because Mark got the job in Baltimore he interviewed for and they are moving really soon. I am not going to be working for them after Tuesday of next week. So I'm trying to figure out what I am doing. I had a second interview for an office clerk job on Thursday so I am hoping and praying I will get that job. We'll see. I'm really not too worried because I know the Lord will take care of me no matter what and everything will be ok.

So last nite I saw Pineapple Express at the cheap seats with Troy and it was wayyyy funny. Watching the crowd of people walk out at the end was the best part. I've never seen such an odd group of people walk out of a movie theatre before. It was great. And this morning the first thing I thought was that I wanted a HUGE bowl of lucky charms for breakfast and I did. I felt sick afterwards but not for too long. I was just impressed that I could eat that big of a bowl. Oh wow, Mark is blasting 'It's my life' by No Doubt on his bose and singing along. He can be quite eccentric, which is fine. Anyway, yeah Troy and I have been spending as much hang out time together as we can because he is the only person here that I knew previously to moving here and it's nice to have that connection. So I'm trying to think if anything else exciting happened that I would want to share on a blog. Ummmmmm, I don't think so, plus I'm sure everyone's sick of reading this. Oh wait! I found out if my trany does need replacing I can get the hook up with this guy's brother and get a new trany plus labor for 1,000 which is way better than twice that much or four times that much. Since I will need a car, I will probably do it. Also, I made a trip to one of only 2 Jack in the Box's in the state of Colorado. It was about an hour away near Denver. The Bishop's family took a carload of kids, awesome huh? Also, on my first date I went to Denver for the first time and that was awesome! I have some good photos, It was dark. Oh yeah and I found out I can follow people's blogs on here. I've got Richard's, Hayley's, Aynna's, Heather's and that' it so far, so if you have a blog on here let me know so I can follow it. Love you all. Thanks for being interested in the goings on of my Thuper, therial exciting life!

-Beka

ps. I love house season 4

Me at Jack in the Box in Arvada

Driving to Boulder

This is for Hayley (creepy looking bunny statue in Boulder)

Denver

Estes Park

Oh yes, crappy Colorado photos

Sorry these are so crappy. I'll get better one's soon. I need to go to the mountains. There are a lot of corn fields here that I need to take photos of. These are both on the way to church.

COLORADO 101

Dude, sorry this is late, I told some people it would be up like a couple weeks ago, but you know me, just a simple minded procrastinator sometimes. I hope this has spell check... djsgiun sweet, it does. Anyway, I have been living in Colorado since Aug. 30, 2008. I was living at home for like a year and a half, and that is just too long for a 22 year old adult to be living at home. I loved working at Hastings for the 11 months that I was there and it was really cool being promoted in a job for the first time in my life to a manager position AND finding out I was good at it. Really great experience, but needed to end sometime. I am now in Colorado north of Denver being a live in nanny for a set of twins, boy and a girl, 17 months, Luke and Caydence. They are adorable. So yeah, craigslist is a beautiful thing. My car's transmission started having problems as soon as I crossed the Wyoming/Colorado border and luckily made it the 89 more miles to my new home. Colorado drivers are MUCH better than Utah drivers I've discovered, I like them a lot. So, I have never experienced the no car life and with a job right where I live, it's really not so bad. I just catch rides to all the church activities and I'm good to go. Plus, I'm saving money on gas and insurance. It's perfect for my plan on saving money.
So the family I work for are really nice and the kids are really good and fun and like me, which is always good. I am making friends all the time. I found out that my friend Troy is living like 30 miles north of me which is nice, just to know someone from before. We hang out sometimes, it's a nice familiarity. There was a church dance on Saturday which was pretty dang fun. Troy is a great dancer and so were a bunch of his friends so I didn't feel alone cos I always dance. Plus there were some pretty cute dudes, that doesn't hurt. I actually had some homesickness at first which I wasn't expecting at all so that was strange. I was just so ready to leave, but I really do miss my family a lot and some good friends of mine. I love change and new experiences tho so I am ready for this different adventure. I'd never been to Colorado before and it is beautiful. I don't have any really good photos tho yet, sorry. I will post some crappy ones, just to give you all (Hayley) an idea of what it's like. It's sunny 300 days of the year which is awesome and the winters aren't as bad (Mom and Dad) in this particular area as you would expect. Something to do with the location of the mountains. So that's good to know. I won't be driving in snow anyway tho. I do like to drive in snow, I find it thrilling and challenging.

Mark and Zaneta (the people I work for) hooked me up with a cell phone which is nice and I went a little crazy so when you call me and hear loud music don't be alarmed.

I apologize for this being long, I just feel like there's so much that I haven't shared. Oh and the faint is doing a second US tour I just found out last nite which I am stoked about! They are playing in Boulder next month and I am totes (internet for totally) going. I can't wait. As some of you may know they are probably my favorite band and I was going to see them in Spokane beginning of August, I had a ticket, but no one would commit to going with me and I decided to hitch a ride down to Utah for a family reunion, I really wanted to see my siblings, so I just did that instead. I was bummed about missing the faint and now I don't have to be! And Troy is going with me. Cos he's awesome and likes the faint too. I think that's about it. I found out NM is only 7ish hours away, depending where you go of course and I want to go WAY bad because I've always been fascinated by the state. My horizons and traveling experiences are widening more and more. I am sure I will think of more to write soon so you won't be bored.

I miss you all!

-Beka


ps. I've read Green Eggs and Ham about 37 times already!

Mom and I at the Great Salt Lake, my first time

Me driving thru Wyoming for the first time

Wyoming landscape

Caydence

Luke