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What were you doing a decade ago?

A decade ago, I was a newlywed, married on Valentines day of 1998! Steve and I were living in a two bedroom duplex on Stubbs Ave in East Bay in Provo. We thought for a newly married couple, it was a pretty nice place. Our rent was $450.00! At the time I remember thinking 'how are we ever going to make the rent and utilities?' (If only it was that cheap now!) I was attending BYU, and working on my major of Marriage, Family, and Human Relations. I was also working part time at Valley Hearing Clinic. That job did not last too long, because I didn't like it, and I soon went to work full time as a waitress at Cracker Barrel. Besides only making $2.16 an hour before tips, I really enjoyed the job!

5 things on my to do list?

1- Rearrange plans to go to Sea World in San Diego from this weekend to May. I am bound and determined to go! (It also didn't help having crying kids yesterday when I had to tell them we couldn't go this weekend as planned.)
2- Get a new book to read....or should I say about four new books to get me through next week!
3- Figure out how to use my new blackberry curve. (Never upgrade to a cell phone that is smarter than you are!)
4- Frame the pictures that were taken of my kids back in February.
5- Go and play racquetball at the gym with my mom.

5 places I've lived

I haven't lived in too many places, so I have to actually go back to my birth to complete this part of the tag.
1- The first sixteen months of my life, I lived in San Pedro, California.
2- Oak View, California when I was a toddler.
3- Ojai, California, from about four years of age until I went to BYU
4- Provo, Utah, for six years
5- Bakersfield for the last four years!

5 jobs I've had

1- Waitress at Cracker Barrel in Springville, Utah.
2- Ojai Valley Inn and Country Club and Spa- worked as an assistant in the housekeeping office and also as a server in banquets.
3- Front Desk at Howard Johnson's in Provo.
4- Front Desk at Best Western in Ojai.
5- Assistant Unit Manager at Heritage School in Provo. (This was my favorite job I've ever had. Heritage is a treatment program and I worked with at-risk teenagers. I could have done this my entire life, but had to quit when we moved back to California.)

5 things people don't know about me

1- I can't go to sleep at night if Steve doesn't rob my legs and then tuck me in for the night!
2- While attending Ventura Junior College, my friend and I took up surfing. We used ditch school and go long-boarding a lot! It was such a good time in my life. Actually, I really love outdoor sports. Snow skiing and wave running are my favorites. I always say, "There is nothing a good day of skiing (....or wave running, or surfing.....) won't cure!
3- Mouth noises really bother me. I cannot tolerate them. I hate to hear people eat, snap gum, kiss on television, or anything that has to do with the mouth. I get very ornery, very fast when I have to be around mouth noises!
4- History intrigues me. I love to read about it, study it, and watch movies about it.
5- I am so terrible at math that they actually tested me to see if I was math illiterate at BYU.