New Joys

So with the change of the seasons comes the beginning of a new chapter in my life. so many wonderful events are taking place that my whole self is filled with happiness and i'm excited for every new corner i turn. The thing is, is that i know things happen for a reason and i believe that for whatever reason things happen the way they do they do happen for a purpose. ack! its just figuring out what that reason is and staying calm till things fit into place. :) well, things have been fitting into place for me lately and its been wonderful!

August, September, October and November have brought a few new surprises that i never would have guessed would of come. for starters, i've buckled down and scheduled to take my national certification for massage and bodywork exam. i will be taking it this friday! wish me luck! i've been studying my brains out and i feel my retention level has dropped %75! panic! pre-jitters im sure. i'm very nervous and unsure about changing jobs at this time with economy in such disarray, that im trying to come up with a good plan so as to stay as stable as possible during these times. maybe keep my job and do massage part time? hmm.... we shall see.

This year i celebrated my 21st birthday! so to celebrate my wonderful friends aubrey and darshiki and i took a weekend trip down to moab to shop, camp and swim. it was a great get away from everything, and the stars were beautiful! at night aubrey and i taught darshiki a few songs and she taught us some from her home in kenya. it was a lot of fun, except for breakfast lol. wanna know, you'll have to ask haha.

oh! and you havent met my little kitty have you? his name is Egypt :) jose and i got him together when he was only a few weeks old. he's soo cute!

this is a picture of him sitting in my lap while i did some scrapbooking. sweetheart! i miss him... he lives with jose and, oh! some more new news on here, jose and i are no longer together. he's a great person but he is not the one i am meant to be with. him and i still work together for the same company and talk, but we have both moved on. he now has a cute girl who i think fits his life style better and i have found a wonderful man who i feel completes me. his name is Brandon A. Williams. he is currently serving as a corporal in the united states marine corp. (im very proud of him) he's been over in iraq for forever now... he is currently on his third and last deployment, which will be over within a few months from now, im so happy! it will be wonderful to have him back home and safe.

(~he's going to kill me for putting this picture up! lol~)

its kinda a funny story behind us, i met brandon a little over a year ago actually. first time i met him he was dressed up in his dress blues when he came to visit his best friend while on leave from iraq... his best friend happened to be jose... yup :) i was dating jose at the time that i met brandon. the first night i met him he dedicated a song to me (very romantic man!) and now, a year later, he rededicated it to me as his girl. now dont think this is messed up, brandon never would try to steal his best friends girlfriend away. it was 6 months later after jose and i had broken up that brandon even mentioned his feelings for me. and even then it was only after brandon had talked to jose and asked for his permission to even try to date me did he make any move.

well, so since then brandon and i have been dating, and he's been wonderful. my heart throb :) brandon, me, jose and his girlfriend monica went on a few double dates just a few weeks ago while brandon was on leave. we had so much fun! we actually met up on halloween where we went bowling and out to dinner at the cheese cake factory mmmm mmm! the next day we went dancing at studio 600. i was so afraid, i dont dance and all three of them seemed to be 10 times more experienced than me! he made me feel like i had talent lol. after a bit of struggling he told me to close my eyes, .... and he danced with me.... this is for anyone who's never tried this before! go dancing and have your partner lead while you close your eyes! it feels so wonderful and almost mystical, everything changes and it feels like flying!

he is such a wonderful person, i really didnt believe there was someone out there that was as wonderful as he is. when he picked me up saturday night i was in such low spirits. to cheer me up not only did he surprise me with a rose, but he took me on a horse drawn carriage ride around temple square and up into the avenues! i cant stay sad around him. less than a week after he left utah i came home to find a large vase of flowers waiting for me in my bedroom! ....he's too nice to me. i dont deserve him. but im glad he loves me! needless to say, anngilee is twitterpaited.....

faster pased job wanted

Blah blah blah blah. Im sitting at work annoyed (but im still ok) cause i am finding it very difficult to find work to keep me busy. i have gone around to everyone asking if there was something that i could do for them... nope. my job is needed...i cover breaks and lunches for the cashier and receptionist...and i do money deposits in the mornings and afternoons...but its still not enough to keep me going all day. I'd say i have about 3 hours were im out of work. but no, coming in later is not a possibility...man i wish it were...

i like the company ive been with it for two years now, but i need a job that will keep me busy.
i like staying busy, it gives me a rush getting stuff done. anyone with job openings let me know!

First Train Trip

Hey! i wanted to share with you my last trip that i took out of good ol' salt lake city. i left december 14th and returned on the 16th. it was a blast. it was a 15 hour train ride from slc, utah to denver colorado. i made the trip with my boyfriend jose, and my best friend aubrey and her boyfriend der. ok, so i got a little motion sickness and that wasnt fun, but it was a new experience for me and i would do it again if i could.

This here is a picture of our train on the way to denver. very snowy out there. but it was beautiful, there was a lot of iced over rivers and unique designs made by the snow on the hills and mountains. i am hoping that i can take another train ride during the summer and see all the green that will be out. i love the outdoors!

this is the best picture! it makes me happy :) this is jose and i on the train right before making it into denver. we were tired. but i love taking pictures and so he was nice and let me take all the pictures of us i wanted (isnt he great?) ya, im a little picture crazy, but thats ok! we have fun and thats all that counts right?

And this here is a picture of my bestest friend aubrey and her boo der! they rock. i have the most fun when this group of 4 is together. for valentines day we are all going to go hike angels landing in zion national park and we're gonna have a picnic up there. fun huh?!? i know it will be a lit cold, but we're tough, it'll make for great memories! in this picture we are at the hard rock cafe' in denver eating dinner. it was really cool cause that night there were a ton of local bands playin on stage just below us (we were upstairs next to the overlook).

Here is a picture of the stage. if you look closely you can make out the drummer, guitarist and lead singer (hint: the singer is really fuzzy)

it was cool to listen but it was very very loud and so we had to yell at leach other so we could understand what the other was saying. ya, it was a challenge trying to tell the waitress what we wanted to order! lol!

Hey you knew i had to put another picture of jose and i in right? this is us at hard rock cafe'. man i hate flashes on cameras! they make me look transparent white! aaahhh!!! thats ok, what can ya do right?

this was a good night, it was our last night in denver and boy was it a great meal! jose and i decided to get two mexican dishes and share them. mmmm mmm mmm! i cant wait to go to another HRC and try out some more of their deluctible meals! hey, that'd be a fun goal, to try out as many HRC's in different states as possible. haha, i'll let you know how that goes.


This was a cool picture that we took in the elevator up to our room on the 11th floor! the celing was mirror so we started taking pictures of us, haha, that was fun :)


This next picture here big building is the denver art museum which was just a few blocks down and over from our hotel. it was, well...museumy. lots of cool artifacts and pictures. though i got asked not to take certain pictures a lot. geese, ya im gonna sell copies of what i took pictures of...i mean, come on, my friends were in all of them. oh well, still fun stuff. this picture shows aubrey and der walking towards the entrence of the obscure building ;)







this is all made by sand. cool huh? i thought, wow! i could never make that!




All sand! wow














Our trip wasnt very long, and we kept it simple but we all had a lot of fun.

Ahhh, sleep time. there was a lot of that on the train!