Urban Poly Princess

I love that it's after 8 and I'm at home with no specific plans to go anywhere or do anything unless I want to do that!!!

I always thought I'd leave Stevens-Henager College before Sharla but it'll be much easier to leave someone I don't really know next year. I've been here over 4 years now. I can't believe it's been that long. I'm going to walk to the Riverwalk today and do the entire thing. I'm going to try to do the same thing tomorrow after I rest from the temple. It's so beautiful there. I wish they hadn't cut down so many trees. You can really see the golf course now. Before it made me feel like I was somewhere else.

If I had more time during lunch I'd do the whole thing all the time. I'm going to time myself today and see how long it takes. Saturday is an exhausting day. Perhaps I'll take a break then. Tonight we have a comedy act and chocolate fountains. I said I'd go online but I think I'll just sleep for the temple. I'm also going to add weight-training so I'll be sore tomorrow. Every other day so that means I'll do more weight-training Sunday night. I am so grateful for opportunities to improve myself physically. We have that opportunity each day to eat better, workout more.

Not only can we improve ourselves daily spiritually, we can improve ourselves in every area every single day. I want to die with a finely honed and tuned spirit AND body. I may live on a farm but I can make that experience great. I have already gained so much. I can talk to my father in heaven as much as I want. He has provided me with so much now. I have access to so much wisdom and guidance through reading the scriptures. The internet is filled with so much stuff to enhance my study. Anyone alive today is so blessed. We have so much knowledge available easily at the mere click of a button.

I am so grateful for what I enjoy. Time is going to fly by and before I know it I'll be ready to leave the farm!!! It was fun talking to my cousin Lulu. She lives in Hawaii with some lady she takes care of part time in exchange for room and board. She lives in Hawaii Kai which is nice. She is planning on entering their speech therapy program. I thought she was already in graduate school but she said since it's in another area from her undergrad Social Work she is completing prerequisites now. She was active in some Midsingles ward in Salt Lake. She had a bad breakup with her boyfriend Brent which prompted her move. She loves her bishop and her ward.

I would love to try selling real estate in Hawaii. There are so many things I miss about that place. She told me Joe is there divorced for the 4th time. Paul is also there and still single living on Kapahulu Avenue in Waikiki. Paul is good-looking. So is Joe. I wonder why Paul never got married. He used to date my friend Tamara and he had it bad for my other friend Tupou. They are both married now. The last time I saw Paul he was talking with Puna about how they couldn't see me with anyone they knew. Paul said I was high-maintenance. I'm sooo NOOOT!!!

They were basing that on my love for clothes, makeup and getting my nails and hair done. I do love that stuff and I do appreciate STRAIGHT men who dress well BUUUT that has never been what is most important to me. I could usually tell who was into me because they'd start dressing better. Now I can tell pretty quickly by the way they act. Where was this power in high school? I probably wasn't given that discernment then because I would've used it to manipulate people even more than I already did.

I am grateful for the gospel and for the spirit. I am grateful for the opportunity I have to continually learn and grow. I want to be the best version of myself and I don't want to manipulate people anymore. It used to be a game to me to see what I could get some guy to do for me. Pay for my gas, buy me lunch, dinner. Buying me anything. Sonny may not have been fine BUUUT he knew how to treat me like a queen and he wasn't a player. Players say all the right things, dress well and spoil you too but they are doing the same thing to several women and you can't take anything they say or do seriously. Now I want to manage my own money better, maximize my earning potential, have a family AND time to spend with them.

That is the whole reason why real estate is important to me. I know it will let me do that. Its potential will allow me to build the type of reserve I want so my husband can quit his job to be a mission president somewhere, so we can help build the kingdom of God asap. I want my children, at least some of them raised in a mission home. I want the church to be my life whatever I end up doing and whatever my husband does. I know it will eventually through my patriarchal blessing. I just want to be well prepared for that.

I want a nice condo in downtown Salt Lake City, a condo at Turtle Bay Hilton in Hawaii and then I don't really care about where my house is located and I hope to live in several different ones with at least one of them being a mission home.

My mother's house is actually in an ideal location. It is still at the edge of the ghetto however. While I like Cottonwood, I'd rather have a home in the Avenues or Federal Heights. My mother's house is right at the edge of Rosepark AND downtown. I like being that close to downtown. I like that Trax runs right to the airport now and that the stop is a block from her house. It is perfect. I just don't like the neighborhood or the idea of raising my kids there. HOWEVER it is perfect for my husband who is going to end up working at the church office building someday.

I always wanted to live in DC. I think Heavenly Father wanted this for me instead. While I wasn't specifically led to be here by any spiritual prompting, I can see how much my life has improved. MBA, Real Estate license AND librarian experience ALL at once. Not relying on my family as much as I have has also been a blessing. I need to finish my Cache Valley experience strong. I love that I am actively working on my goal of optimal health. I love walking everywhere. Now I don't want to leave my mother alone in Salt Lake City. I would also love living in California which isn't too far either. I am going to move to Salt Lake City when I'm done with this. I will look for a good job before I leave here so I can save money and move to an apartment I want. As much as I love my mother I really don't want to live with her again although there is nothing wrong with visiting her often and taking her groceries, fixing stuff at her house or anything like that. I want to move to a condo in downtown Salt Lake City. I loved living at the Belvedere when I did. I'd like to use Trax as much as possible and have a good librarian job with the City or County, it doesn't matter to me. If I get a City job I'll also sub for the County and then explode in real estate too.

I really want to establish my income-properties and maybe get one of my cousins to manage these for me on the side or my brother. They can do all sorts of repairs, I just need to make it worth it for them financially. I just want a system set up so that I can pay my living expenses just off my income-properties. Maybe I want too much. I don't think so.

2 Nephi 24