Urban Poly Princess

I looove my 4-day weekend. Bryan and Lori need to find out for sure that Sharla is available next Friday. We need to make sure she is at her own party. I looked at cake prices at Macey's. It is $20 for a 1/4 sheet cake. I'd like to check Smith's and Walmart too. Walmart will probably have the best price. She told me she won't eat cake EVER again so I'm just getting it for everyone else to eat. I'm just going to have them write Best Wishes Sharla. That should be enough.

I will miss my 4-day weekend when I get another job. I have a sweet schedule and sweet apartment here but I don't make enough money right now and I don't like Logan. I can't believe friends from my ward miss it here. Do they just not talk to anyone where they move??? I feel like I'll be fine wherever I move. Actually the thought of moving somewhere I don't know anyone is extremely attractive to me. I just don't want the isolation again. I think if I moved to work in Park City I would've been fine. It reminds me of Hawaii only with snow and ice. They have incredible restaurants, stores, art, a theatre community and they are only 1/2 an hour from Salt Lake City. There were a couple librarians there who commuted from there to work. It's closer than Provo and about the same distance as probably American Fork to Salt Lake City. Amy Troy lived there too when she was the anchor for the morning show in Salt Lake City.

I love the variety of broadcast journalism. I wish the pay didn't suck quite so much. The anchor makes what a Library manager makes. Great but getting there takes years at very sucky pay levels and horrible schedules. I'd love to work real estate in Park City. From what I understand it's very difficult to start there BUUUT other people have done it. I always feel I can do anything anyone else does.

In addition to starting real estate here I'd like to take editing classes at Bridgerland. John Goodman from my ward teaches those classes and they are very inexpensive. I would love to report stuff for my own blog.

I read an article about Siale Angilau that made me more mad. He had pled guilty to I think it was robbing a 7-11 2 nights in a row along with other TCG members. The latest trial was racketeering charges by the Feds. City Weekly likes to report on controversial stories. Moana Uluave was his classmate from East High School. I like that school because kids from the West side attend along with the wealthy East side students. I think this makes it better for ALL the students there. I wonder how long that's been happening and how long it will continue.

One night Siale stole potato chips. The writer asks if the potato chips were distributed to other TCG members with the intent to distribute them. This would fit the trumped-up racketeering charges. Siale was serving a 9-year sentence. She asks some poignant pieces in her Youtube "Letter to Siale," piece. These experiences are easy for people to ignore who aren't Tongan or Polynesian or any other race. There are so many injustices in the world. Only other Poly people are even prompted to notice or publicize the racist ridiculous treatment.

It's always nice to see the librarians who attend ULA I used to work with as a substitute. The differences between the libraries in West Valley, Kearns and Draper are extreme although they are all in the same county. The newer libraries are all beautiful. Even the one in Magna that used to be one of the uglier ones. Kearns was the worst to me.

There is a new city library being built in Glendale. There is also a new one being built in the rising Marmalade district. There are some nice apartments in Marmalade. I just don't like that they didn't have washer/dryer hookups. They had amazing woodfloors however.

There is a new condo on the next street next to my mother. I'd like to find out how much rent there is too ALTHOUGH it seems stupid to live in Salt Lake and pay rent when I can live with her for free and maybe pay her something too. I just wish she'd let me remodel. Maybe if I do it piece by piece. I'd like to start with the kitchen. She had a dream that I'd need to move there because I wouldn't have anywhere else to go and that I'd be sleeping in here living room while my room and bathroom were rented out to someone else. That is her main concern for not wanting to break down the extra bedroom. It could be opened up to the living room and kitchen making that part open-concept. The closet could be remodeled to give me another closet I could access from my bathroom. What I really want to do is change the floor. It has this ugly green carpet I'm sure is filled with bacteria and dirt from the previous tenants. I want to remove it but I want to open up the other bedroom first so it can be this seamless stuff.

I don't know why my mother assumes these things will happen. She also thinks I'm going to have to move there with my husband and baby. When I told her I'll just get a screen and put her crib in a corner she got mad and said she needs her own room. I told her I'm not going to be living with her if I get married, especially not if I have a child.

She also had a dream she was taking care of my daughter. I'm not having any kids out of wedlock although that seems to be her stupid fear. Yea if that was going to happen it would've been years ago before my mission. Actually I was always strong with that and there was no chance of that happening especially when I made that decision when I was 16. Now it would be even tougher. I don't get how anyone who has been through the temple breaks the law of chastity. How do you commit fornication when you have to take off your garments? A HUGE reminder of your covenants. I don't get it and I hope I NEVER get it.

I saw Rich at Macey's yesterday. He is still very attractive to me and he still dresses very well. I had to leave without saying much to him. He is married now so I'm not about to put myself in any type of temptation/situation there. He is awesome and I just hope things are going well with him. He wasn't with Pandi and it was weird to see him there because I know she has a house in North Logan. I think she had roommates however so maybe she just moved in with him at Blackhawk. AGAIN, I love Rich but I don't need to think about him at all now. It was nice to see him BUUUT we can be couple friends someday if I get married and live around him again. There is no need for us to have any other type of relationship at all. I'm grateful to have had him as my home teacher BUUUT that was enough and there's no need for anything now.

I have never had a stronger warning AGAINST someone before I knew them at all. After I did get to know him it was completely clear to me because he is everything I want AND much more that I don't.