Award

My nieces and nephews are the cutest/sweetest. Reanne and Sierra love giving awards. It is really sweet. One of the ways they show/tell you they love you.  Today I got the award for being a fantastic aunt! How sweet it that? I put my award up at work.... but I have to put it up on my blog so that I can have it forever. I sure do love my nieces and nephews.

Utah Dining - Take 7 - Spitz

This is another post that is only going to get one restaurant review. Why? Because they gave me a free meal... and it was that good.

This review is for Spitz. I had never heard of them before they contacted me on Instagram asking me if I would give them a review on my Instagram if they gave me a gift card for $25. I of course said yes. Why would I turn that down? I really have had some cool opportunities with Instagram since gaining more followers. It's been awesome.

Since Stacey is one of my favorite people and has hooked me up with his connections before, I decided to invite him. He was thrilled. So last night we drove up to Sugarhouse and tried it out.

Apparently it is a chain. I had no idea. There is one in Sugarhouse and one in downtown Salt Lake and there are other in other states. Now that I have tried it, I wish there was one closer to me. It is a total Hipster Joint... which I love.

Since we had $25 worth of food we could get, we ordered 3 things to share (yes, I had my first cheat meal since starting my diet... I deserve it right?) Did I tell you that it is Mediterranean Street food? I was excited because I pretty much love all food... Stacey had tried Mediterranean before and didn't love it, so I just let him order whatever for us to share. We got one wrap and Stacey knows I love sweet potato fries, so we got an order of those full of goodness and for dessert he ordered us cinnamon sugar pita sticks. ALL of it was SOOOOO good. I will stop there again for sure when I am in the area.... and not on my diet.

Thank you Spitz for contacting me and giving me free food!

Paint Date

I blog about a lot of bad and awkward dates... but sometimes I have good dates too.

I started talking to this guy on Tinder. He was only up here temporarily from Southern Utah for work. He is a forest fire fighter and in the National Guard. Any who... unlike a lot of the guys on there, he didn't want to hook up with me, he wanted to be a gentleman and take me on a creative date where we could get to know each other.

So what did he come up with?

He bought painting supplies at the store and then we went to Utah Lake to watch the sunset and paint the scenery while we chatted. It was freezing... but thankfully he had extra layers for me.

We sat at the lake for a couple of hours while we each painted a picture of the mountains and lake. I discovered that water color is not my talent... I have an easier time painting with other paints. He on the other hand said he hadn't painted with water color since he was little and I don't believe it for a second. His painting was stupid good. It made me embarrassed of mine.

Regardless it was still fun and I appreciated a real date that had thought put into it instead of another guy just trying to get some action out of me and move on his way. He took me to dinner after too. Nice guy. He wasn't really my type, plus he doesn't live around here anyway... but hey, I appreciate a good date when it comes along.... which is not very often.

At the end he kept my painting and had me keep his. He said he is going to hang mine up... but I wouldn't if I were him. I for sure got the better end of that deal. I didn't take a picture of mine... but here is a picture of his water color of where we sat at Utah Lake to watch the sunset.

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It got cold again... boo!!!

I already blogged about my weekend adventures. That was the highlight of the week for sure.

Sunday was good. The weather was nice that day. The Provo City Temple Dedication was that day and it was really nice. Glad I went and sat by my friend Mike which was nice so I didn't have to sit a lone. After church my old roommate Penny is in town and came by to visit. Fun to chat with her. Then My friend Becky wanted to see how my hammocks were, so we went to the park and set them up and chatted. That was nice. I hope that there is a lot more of that this year. Then family dinner at my parents house which I always enjoy. My uncle Dale came too and I always enjoy when he is there.

Monday was back to the grind. This week has been unusually busy. I don't know why, because quarter end is next month. Makes me worry a little bit how crazy next month will be. I'm not allowed to take any time off the last two weeks of April. So... I'm guessing it is going to get real busy. Right now it only seems like I am. Everything that comes in is my area. Lucky me (sarcasm).

My week really has been pretty boring. I haven't done anything after work most days, just sitting at home ... alone these days because my roommates are mad at me for telling them to clean up after themselves because the house had gotten out of control with the disgusting mess. They cleaned it up, but now they are all mad at me and don't want to talk to me. COOL. Whatever... it's fine, that is why I have my own space downstairs. At least they are keeping the house pretty clean now. Now if only I could get them to pay their rent on time. You would think that older women would be a little more responsible.

I have stayed really good on my diet. Got on the scale on Monday and was so sad that I hadn't lost any weight in 2 weeks after working so hard to stick to my diet even when I am on vacation and road tripping. It's moments like that were you ask yourself why you are being so strict and trying so hard if it isn't doing anything. However, then I went to the gym and I got a pep talk. Kristi (the one in charge of the gym) told me that she can see a difference in my body and I probably lost inches instead of weight. That could be true, but it is still frustrating. I am trying to concentrate on that and not give up or lose motivation... so I have had another good week. I did weight training yesterday too that really kicked my butt and now I am sore from it. So that is good. I'm hoping the number on the scale this next Monday goes down though. It needs to in order for me to keep going strong. It just needs to.

I finished watched Naked and Afraid... well, at least the current season, I haven't wanted the previous seasons except for an episode here and there. Anyway... Stacey told me he really likes iZombie and that I should watch it. I was hesitant for a while because I am kind of over the whole zombie thing... but I decided to give it a go because Stacey and I typically have very similar taste on things. So I started watching it and I am all caught up with the current episodes now. I like it because it isn't heavy on the gross zombie stuff, it's more like "Warm Bodies" where it is a funny spin on how most people view zombies. It's a detective show. I really like it. I just got all caught up on the most recent episode today... so now I need to find another show to watch.

I also need to decide what paddle board to buy soon. I want it ready for as soon as it gets warm enough. I have an instagram friend that is going to let me test his out to see if i like it and if I do he will give me a discount on it. I'm super excited to get one though. I want to be doing a lot of that this summer. After work even. That will be awesome. Can't wait.

Sad to say, but that is pretty much all I have for you this week. Like I said, uneventful week. I just got done watching a bunch of different video's I have made since 2004. So fun to watch. They make me smile. I have made a lot of silly video's and done a lot of silly things in my life. I'm so glad that I document my life so well though, because I do like to look back at fun times and relive them. It's a lot of fun.

That's all for me this week. Until next time...

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This is just my attempt to get an artsy photo of Monument Valley

Monument Valley

I have been wanting to go to Monument Valley for a while. It is a bit out of the way, so most of my friends were not thrilled to drive there. Last week my friend Amber asked me if I wanted to get out of town and do something fun. I said of course and suggested Monument Valley and she was all for it. That is one of the many reasons why I love hanging out with her. She is like me, up for just about anything and is spontaneous. We didn't plan. We just decided the day before we were going to go and then next day after work we went. It was great. I need more of that in my life.

We of course ended up doing other things as well. There isn't a lot to do in Monument Valley, but it is awesome and definitely worth the drive to go see. The drive wasn't that bad to me anyway. We ended up doing a lot in one day. We saw Monument Valley, stopped and saw The Hole N' the Rock and went to Moab and explored around Arches and went home. That is an eventful day. Loved it. Nice temperature too. That is why I LOVE seeing southern Utah in the Winter Spring & Fall. A LOT cooler... and I like that. :)

This rock is called The Mexican Hat.

Some of my favorite pics of the great Monument Valley.

Hole N' the Rock

While driving from Monument Valley to Moab.... I saw this place on the side of the road. I had no idea what it was, but I quickly pulled over to check it out. Why not right? That is what exploring a state is all about... discovering all the little places that you didn't know was there.

So we get out to see what it is all about. Turns out it's a bunch of collective.... stuff. They even have a zoo and a shop. SO random. I guess there is a house/ restaurant in there too. So we wandered around and took some pictures and took it all in and then went on our way.

Oh... and they were making a really big deal about a big foot sighting. I figure it was a joke... but I don't know, they may think it is serious. ha ha.

It had some pretty cool things too. The license plate art was my favorite.

You never know what you are going to discover when you are road tripping.