My Adventures

I am a Land Surveyor. When I tell people my job they simply state "oh, cool." I don't think the quite grasp what I do at work. The closest thing I can relate it to is Geocaching in rough terrain. If you don't know what geochaching is, then to describe my job I will tell you about my amazing work trip up at Ririe Resevoir about 20 miles east of Idaho Falls.

This week was very labor intensive. I have so many new cuts, bruises, calluses (ew... i know) and sore muscles than I know what to do with.
When I arrive at work, we simply set up a "base." This is kind of a reference point for the "points" we record that mark the property boundary. The points we found were mainly brass caps or concrete monuments. Anyway... I am not going to bore you with those details. The part that made this week so hard was that the "points" we were going after were hard to get to. I was climbing up and down 300-400 foot high basalt cliffs. Hard hiking + 90 degree weather + 10 hr work days + an encounter with a rattlesnake (at least it gave me an adrenaline rush to get out) + carrying equipment around with us the entire time = my legs feeling like jello by the end of each day. Okay... so I still don't think I explained just how hard my job actually is, but you will just have to take my word for it.

The week wasn't all that bad though. I enhanced my farmers tan, road around on 4-wheelers, found myself getting along with my work partner better than ever before (he is actually a pretty respectful guy), and I stayed in the BEST hotel my job has ever sent us to! It had cloud beds that I got sucked into, a pool, hot tub, workout center, and a great location near the mall next to the theater and Texas Roadhouse! In addition, the man I still can't seem to get over visited me both Tues and Wed night! :D And if he can make it to visit his family this weekend, I am invited over for the 4th of July.

I was glad he came to visit, I was finally able to tell him how I really felt and we talked about everything. He said if it were up to him, he would marry me right now, but the time is not right because we are both going on missions now. We both still love each other and when he thought I was trying to get over him, he didn't like it. He doesn't want me to move on. And just as always, we ended up kissing again and just as always, it made my heart flutter and melt into oblivion. You would think I would get used to the way he kisses, but it feels like a first kiss over and over and I absolutely love it! Of coarse this still confuses me, but I don't have to worry about it now that I am starting to fill out mission papers. Plus, I cherrish every moment we can just sit and talk and spend time together. We saw Eclipse together (which I liked a lot) and we went hot tubbing and just sat and talked forever. Saying goodbye was difficult. How come this is so much harder for me than it is for him. Somehow I think he has found peace about our situation which I seem to lack. I am more at peace than I was before, but still have trouble seeing it through his eyes.

Enough of me rambling... I am going to go home and catch up on some much needed sleep after a long work week and staying up too late. Happy July 4th! I hope I can have some fun... I don't have any solid plans just yet.