Thursday, January 31, 2008

I've Been Tagged!

A. The rules of this game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player answers the question about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, and then leaves a comment on their blog letting them know they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog to get the directions.

10 yrs ago: I had just finished up my junior season of volleyball. I was busting my butt in the weight room and individuals so that I could keep up with all of the other amazing girls on my team! I was having lots of fun with my friends and was living with Andie in our Madison Avenue apartment. I was poor and was driving a junker Volkswagon jetta--which incidently got rear-ended in February of 98 as I was returning home from the grocery store to buy milk, cereal, rice, yogurt, eggs, and tortillas with the last fifty bucks I had. When the officer and ambulance arrived to ask me if I was okay, all I could think about was how my parents were going to kill me if I had to borrow some money from them for more food, so I insisted that we try to salvage all the food we could from the trunk!

5 Things on my list of things to do today: 1. Book a couples massage at Sego Lily spa. 2. Babysit Jagger Hammer. 3. Clean up my tornado stricken room. 4. Order my Adidas promo stuff. 5. Return that 4 day overdue movie to the blasted Redbox.

Things I would do if I suddenly was a Billionaire: I would not be working for money anymore--it would be just for the sheer pleasure of it. I would buy a big ranch somewhere in Idaho and hire people to run it so I could just enjoy myself. I would build my dream home and spend as much time as I could with the people that I love. I would pay off every last bill that I and my parents have and would set up a college fund for my future kids. I would travel the world or at least to Costa Rica, Spain, the Medditeranean, Australia, New Zealand, and the Carribean.

3 of my bad habits: 1. I spend too much money on jeans and shoes. 2. I never wash my face unless you count the shower. 3. I get lazy and don't clean my house until I realize I would be embarrassed if my mother saw how bad it was.

Places I have lived: 1. St. Anthony 2. Preston 3. Whitney 4. Ogden 5. Whitney again 6. Ogden again.

Jobs I have had:
1. Worming--picking up worms and selling them to people who sell them to bait shops.
2. Ritewood Eggs--the EXACT same job Napoleon Dynamite had with the chickens and for the EXACT same salary too.
3. Lifeguard--This was the best job EVER!! I actually got paid to watch people, work on my tan, and occasionally fish a little kid out of the bottom of the green tube slide pool. The only thing I regret now is walking around like that in a swimsuit in front of hundreds of people on a daily basis. Oh and I regret the night we got caught skinny dipping by our boss after hours.
4. Presto Products--I stood on my feet for eight hours a day wearing a hair net, steel-toed boots, and as few clothes as possible to endure the heat while zip-lock bags were spat out of a machine at me. I rolled them up, popped open the box on my hip, stuffed them in the box, sealed the box, placed the box in a case, and then loaded the full cases on a conveyor belt. OVER and OVER and OVER again. It was awful.
5. Painter--Oh yes...several of my teammates and I were on the Weber State paint crew. Some of our most prized jobs include the Student Services building, every cotton picking bench and handrail on campus, and ourselves. It was actually a very fun job because we took 4 breaks a day and had a summer-long water fight with the carpenters. They actually filled our truck up with water. I can't believe we didn't get fired. The worst part about the whole job was Jaynee falling in love with some panty sniffer...
6. National Youth Sports Program volleyball and health teacher--I taught a bunch of renegades and trouble-makers how to play volleyball and eat kale.
7. Volleyball summer camp instructor
8. Breitweiser Insurance Customer Service Representative--Basically I provided people with insurance quotes and wrote policies. And filed the mail--lots and lots of mail. That part was horrible, but I actually really liked this job because my boss was awesome!
9. Baker and candy bouquet maker--How sad...I got paid $4/hr to wake up at 5am and bake bread all by myself at the worst bakery ever: Ma's Pies and Goodies in Logan. Needless to say, the joint got shut down because our boss refused to comply with the food safety people's many requests to post our ingredients on the products we sold. Oh yeah, the candy bouquet part--I wrapped little butterscotch candies and mini-candy bars onto wire sticks with green floral tape and then I arranged them into beautiful bouquets for the general public to admire and eat.
10. Utah State University Graduate Assistant--I taught Walking/jogging, Dynamic Fitness, Conditioning, Swimming, Volleyball, and Weight Training.
11. Youth Worker--This is a nice title for describing what I really did--babysit male sex offenders. I worked at a residential facility for boys who were anywhere from 12-18 that had been placed there in order to recieve treatment and counseling for abusing someone else. They were low-functioning too, so they often had behavioral issues as well.
12. Weber State University Adjunct Faculty--I teach volleyball activity classes and have taught a coaching/officiating volleyball class too.
13. AND FINALLY.......Assistant Volleyball Coach at Weber State University. Herein lies the excitment! After all of those other jobs, I finally settled on this one. I will be going into my 8th season this fall. Wow, how the time flies!

Things most people don't know about me: I am obsessed with jeans and shoes. Ok, so everyone knows that about me. How bout these dandies then:
1. I would love to go to beauty school.
2. I, like Mrs. Birch, secretly want to be a yoga and spin instructor!
3. I have a scar across my nose from sniffing a cookie sheet fresh out of the oven when I was a little girl.
4. I used to play with my Dad's thermoses--like they were dolls or something--and call them my "family babies".
5. I am the new Gospel Doctorine Sunday School teacher in my single's ward.
6. When I was younger, I painted my name on my dad's truck with nail polish and blamed it on our neighbor Janeen.
7. I have a SERIOUS fear of heights.
8. I love calla lilies. They are beautiful.
9. I am a little bit OCD. I have this weird obsession with numbers (I count when I walk, run, get a drink of water) and laundry (it has to be folded EXACTLY as I like it).

I tag Lindsey, Tyra, April, Rena, Alexis, and Dwight of course.

5 comments:

Bonnie said...

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Alexis said...

That is not true about you having a dirty house! And I remember the story about your babies! Too cute.

Jaynee said...

*ahem*

yea... so....

thanks for that.

i noticed you forgot to mention that it wasn't MY panties he sniffed.

nope.

Happy Linda said...

Hi Melissa! It's me, your old boss. I had no idea you thought that way about the bakery and the balloon store. That hurts my feelings. You'll never work for me again. If you do end up going to beauty school, forget about working at the Hair Affair.

Justin said...

I'm the gospel doctrine teacher too. Except that I do it because I'm the Ward Mission Leader (which I'm still getting use to).

Justin Metcalf