Politics

So I went to the republican caucus on Tuesday. Lucky for me caucuses were done by legeslative district this year instead of by precinct. Had they been held by precinct I never would have found the caucus because no one from my precinct showed up or apparently has for a while.
It turns out that when you are the only one from your precinct to show up to the caucus they ask you to fill all 7 positions available.
I didn't think that I could handle 7 titles, so I asked which were the most important, I would do those. So I am now the precinct chair, the county delegate, and the state delegate. I am still not sure exactly what this entails, all I know is that I will be going to a couple of meetings. I assume that there is a little more to it and hopefully someone will let me know what that "more" is.

Celebrating!

I am now officially done training and have completed my first week as an independent Nurse Practitioner. I am SO excited about it.
Really I am excited about a bunch of little things. I have a desk where I can put pictures of my sweetheart. I have business cards and a prescription pad with MY name on them. MY name is on the office door and on the directory on the first floor so my patients know where to find me. I even have a front desk staff and medical assistant. I LOVE IT! My mom and honey told me I should take a picture pointing to my name on the directory, but I am a little embarrassed because I don't think that I am supposed to be so excited about something so not-a-big-deal, but I am.
Since this was my first week taking my own patients there were some gaps in my schedule, I had quite a few empty appointments, but today, today it was full. That was a great feeling. Next week, not so full, but I will keep my fingers crossed that that changes.
Overall I am thrilled! And so excited to finally be here. YEAH!!!!

I am old

So I just celebrated my birthday. I have to admit that I didn't really expect that I would really turn 30. Though I imagined getting old and gray with grand kids running around, turning 30 never really played into my imagined world.
I am not so much upset about being 30, it just doesn't seem like a number that fits ME. Plus kissing my 20's goodbye is... well... just weird!
Not long ago people in their 30's were these very old people, they were practically over the hill. I am definitely no where near over the hill. I feel nearly the same as I did when I was 25, and that isn't very old.
My sister tells me to look on the bright side, I am in a much better place professionally, financially, and romantically than I was when I turned 20. That is very true. I am happy with my life and where I am. But frankly, I liked that life better when I was 29.

Facebook

So I caved. I joined Facebook. I have been resisting for a very long time, then about a month ago I was sitting in Relief Society, after the announcements someone raised her hand and announced that a new baby had been born in the ward. The woman at the stand replied, "well that was on facebook so I didn't think that I needed to announce it." I sincerely thought that others in the ward would resent that a little, not even the old ladies (70+) were with me. They all had facebook pages and were friends with everyone in the ward.
Seriously, I am more technologically backward than the old people?!?!? It was then that I knew that I couldn't hold out much longer.

Well, I have been spending a lot of time not doing much, I can't move around well enough to make the bed, sweep, mop, vacuum, or put hardly anything away (having your hands full of crutches is very limiting). So I spend a lot more time reading, on the computer, and trying to clean (it took me almost an hour unload the dishwasher, how sad). It was during that, "what am I going to do now" time that I signed up for facebook.

It is not all that I thought that it would be. I didn't realize it was a small-blurb kind of thing. I thought that it would be a little closer to blogs. It is not. It does though connect you to lots of people. I don't know how it does it, but people that I know kept popping up on the right of the screen asking if I wanted to make them my friends. That was cool.

I also like that since I am incredibly slow getting on, I know tons of people and found lots of people pretty fast. There have to be some perks to my tardiness. :)