1: This morning in my prayer, I asked that I might be able to come across someone that I could serve in some way. At work, there was a big group of new people moving in, and one lady was nervous because she felt like she didn't retain any of the information she had just learned throughout the whole day of training. So I let her watch me do a couple calls, let her ask me as many questions as she needed, and listened in on her first call in case she still had questions. Which is something all ATLs do, but today was my first day as an ATL. See? Ask, and ye shall receive.

2: Speaking of ATL. I think it was a week or two ago that my supervisor called me into the training room and told me that he was going to promote me to be an ATL in a couple of weeks. He said that along with the promotion came a 50 cent raise! Today, he called me in again.

"You ready to become an ATL now!?"

"yeah! sure!"

"How much did I tell you your raise would be?"

"50 cents. So that puts me at $9.50. but we could make it $10.00 if you want! hah..:)"

"Okay. Let's make it $10.00." 

[Not to mention that being an ATL also comes with weekly bonuses! woot!]

I'm tellin' ya! Ask, and ye shall receive!

3: Tonight at the gym, I went to one of those sculpting classes. I've kind of been wanting to do a kickboxing class for quite some time, so after my class got over, I asked if they had any kickboxing classes. The instructor said that they didn't anymore, but she was the one that used to teach it and she'd do one with me right then! A couple of people from the previous class stayed and it was so much fun. We're gonna try to make it every week! ASK, and ye shall receive.

Love, Kay

I could've gone to bed at 5 and still slept all night.

That's how tired I am.

I work 7-4 every day. meaning I have to get up at 6. And this entire week I don't get to take my lunch break, because I had to take some time off last Friday to go buy my new car* so that I would be able to get to work on Monday, and we have to make up work we miss. So that's 9 hours a day for me. Then I come home and workout, eat dinner with my family, and wait patiently for Matthew to get back from his brother's house in Sandy. Typically, he gets back around 9:30 or 10:00, which sucks for me because I have to get up at 6:00, remember? But it's not like I can just NOT see the boyfriend. I have to. So I've been getting approximately 5 hours of sleep each day. (totally worth it, I might add.)

Today after I finished my work out, I was doing a bit of stretches and guess what happened? I fell asleep mid-stretch. You know the one where you spread your legs as wide as you can and put your forehead to the floor? fell asleep with my forehead on the floor. 

So even though I haven't been getting any sleep lately, I am ever so grateful that I can literally fall asleep anytime, anywhere. And right now, I finally have time for a 2 hour nap before the boyfriend will be back. Lucky me, huh!? 

I have to admit...I'm loving it all.**

Don't you just love summertime? Even though I haven't had a sno-cone yet, the boyfriend and I have been on zillions of dates lately, and i have a feeling it will start getting warmer soon. I can tell, because people keep telling me I'm tan! How does that happen?! woot!

Tell me, how are each of your summers going?

Also, why haven't any of you called me to hang out yet?!

Do iiittttt.

:]

NOTES:

*the transmission on Bernard died...I cried. at work. while on the phone with a client. cause that's when I got the text from my mom. Bernard will never be forgotten.This also means that I have to make car payments now. Because, technically, Bernard belonged to my mama. New car belongs to me. In full. And I now have to pay. in full. boo. New Car is a Black, 2008 VW Jetta. She's super cute. And despite my mourning for Bernard, I love her.

**Except work..my job isn't my favorite. but I'm lucky enough that I will be able to make enough for that new car, an apartment for next year, and my fall semester of schooling at BYU. I am a child of God. It's utterly obvious.

p.s. Glee!! YES!! Seriously. so happy about Rach and Finn. 

how does everyone feel about Mercedes and Sam?....hmm...

It's Friday the 13th.

Since I am all-wise-and-knowing {end sarcasm} I am going to give you some advice.

13 THINGS NOT TO DO:

1: Overlook the words "DO NOT MICROWAVE: contains raw poultry" on your cordon bleu. Unless you happen to have frozen corn dogs on back up. Those CAN be microwaved.

2: Watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One right before you go to bed; hence why I was skyping the boyfriend out of fear at 2:30 in the morning.

3: procrastinate school advising. Turns out that a lot of popular classes get taken early. Go figure.

4: Play twirl-a-whirl (a game where you just spin as fast as you can and try not to run into anything) in your boyfriends living room. Especially if there is a banister nearby. Result = head-to-banister in unfavorable fashion.

5: Accidentally send a text to your ex-boyfriend. One meant for your best friend saying, "I miss you and I'm grateful for you in my life." uhwellthatwasdumb. Luckily, he's on a mission and didn't receive that text. Yours may not be.

6: Fall asleep whilst skyping your boyfriend in the middle of the night with your computer too close. You may roll over onto it and somehow turn it off, resulting in an offended boyfriend. "babe, i promise you weren't snoring..."

7: Fall asleep with a Twix candy bar in your hand. This just means your obese; there's no way around that.

8: Use your scriptures as a pillow. They aren't comfortable. They make your face sweaty. And you get colorful markings on your nose, and they leave scar-like indents on your face; neither of which will come off in time for work. Classy, Kay. I know.

9: Tell everyone you hate your job before you find out that you get a $10.00 gift card every week, just for doing your job. People will think you hate freebies, and you'll never be given anything again. (results not proven.)

10: Go onto Urban Outfitters' website when you are broke. You will fall in love with everything you see and you will obsess over it, even when it was over 13 hours ago. Hmmmph.

11: Buy $300 Spanish books that your professor says will be discontinued the next year. The bookstore will not buy them back from you, and you will lose a lot of money.

12: Sneeze with your eyes open. Yur eyeballz will fall owt. That is...le bad. chirp chirp.

13: Go to bed without going potty. You can't sleep, and you become too lazy to get up and go midway through the night. So you lay in bed and cringe, hoping it will pass. It doesn't. And your bladder explodes. Kaboom. Gross. That. or you pee your pants. Or you just eventually get up and go and cry because you've wasted so much time being lazy when you could have been sleeping. 

There ya go. You're welcome.

Love, Kay.

Hi, my name's Kalynn and I'm with Myler Disability Law Firm.

Today I started my first day of work at my new job.

Allow me to tell you a little about it.

Myler Disability is a law firm that helps people who become injured, or who have a disease, and therefore unable to work, obtain their Social Security money early.

My part of the job is to answer phone calls of potential clients, or if they have left a message on our website, then I contact them and I go through the application process with them.

Can I tell you that, especially on the first day, it's really scary to know that someone may or may not get that money because of me?

Simply because that application is the first step in a multiple-year long process, and if I record something wrong...it's all my fault. 

So after only a day of training and paperwork, i was ridiculously nervous for my first phone call.

But guess what?

It wasn't even that bad.

I probably took longer than it would normally take, but it was my first day.

And I don't think I made any mistakes...

But it's fun, and I'm learning sooo much about about law.

who knew, right?

Finally.

I got a job.