A quick break down on our Cruise since I said in my last post that I'd put this up right after.

We flew out to Tampa in business class, I don't think I can fly anything less ever again. The seats and the food and the drinks. Good way to start a vacation. We spent the first night in Tampa at a Marriott I think. Nice part of town but nothing special. The next morning we took a cab to the ship and waited in a VERY LONG line. I guess this was the first time our cruise line, Norwegian, had ever left from Port of Tampa. Not only that but Tampa is notorious for being an awful port (we learned that later) and the ship we were getting on had had a break out of the Norovirus on the cruise before us so everything had to be deep cleaned. Once on the ship we just explored and Jason taught me to golf swing on the top of the ship. That night I was really seasick. The weather the whole trip was kind of overcast and surprisingly windy and cold. The next day we spent at sea, Jason played roulette in the casino and made $20, we watched the always hilarious newlywed show (there was a couple there that had been married 70 years!) and just laid around and explored. The next day was Honduras. It was beautiful, on our trip to the beach we met another couple named Catalina and Anthony from California. We ended up hanging out with them a lot during the trip. In Honduras we snorkeled all day. The snorkeling was AMAZING, standing calf deep in water I had fish running into my legs. We got lots of video that I posted to my Facebook, one really great shot of me actually swimming in a school of fish. That night we had dinner with that couple and then went to the Majority Rules game show, and won it. Basically we had to answer really random questions but the catch was that our answer had to be what the majority of answers was. We got playing cards as a prize :l The next day we were at sea so we went to a magic show that was ok, what you would expect on a cruise ship. Did some country dancing, I made Jason slow dance with me, then a hypnotist show that Jason was in. Jason, of course, stole the show. The rest of the cruise and even on the plane home we had people stop us to tell him how hilarious he was in the show. He ate up the attention. Then had dinner at the 24/7 restaurant. Next morning we took a tender to Belize and then an hour long ride to the spot where we get our gear to go cave tubing. Btw, not recommended with so many people, with the hour drive there and back and how crowded it was, we were not impressed. After walking through the rain forest to the caves we floated the river with Catalina and Anthony and went down through the caves and saw bats and some really gorgeous rain forest. Unfortunately with the weather etc, it was kind of cold. When we got back on the ship Jason was in a ping pong tournament- I think he took fifth? Then went to the Perfect Couple game show, which was also funny. Ill mention here that our overall experience with the cruise ship and line was pretty awful. Because of the restrictions on the ship the first three days we had really slow service, just so-so food and the activities were not impressive. The DJ in the only club on the ship was outdated and had no idea what I was talking about when I requested a couple of current top 10 songs. After the restrictions were lifted everything was still just so so, a little easier because we could get our own food and drinks but still just, well we won't cruise with Norwegian ever again. Let's see, yes so that night we just did some dancing and met some more people. We engaged a lot on this cruise. The next morning we went snorkeling in Costa Maya for half of the day, it was pretty good but not like Honduras, however I did get a couple of great sea shells. The rest of the day we sat at a little beach hut in their swings at the bar and just hung out. The next day we were at sea again and Jason had to go to medical to get a deep sliver taken out of his hand. We didn't do much that day except eat and hang out, oh and Jason had a very interesting dance with Catalina. The next morning was Cozumel where we went scuba diving! Getting certified was so worth it for that one day of diving. The first dive I sort of freaked out, the dive master had to hold my hand. We did an hour at 80 feet where we saw a turtle chowing down on coral and swam through a cave. Then we took an hour break for lunch at a beach. How do I even explain, this beach had big conch shells just littering the beach, I mean tons and tons of them. I was in heaven of course. We went out for a second dive, again at 80 feet for an hour and on that dive we had a stingray swim up to us, a nurse shark swim right past us, a 6 foot moray eel just sitting on the sand under a rock edge, and I saw a huge lobster. We were part of a group of bikers from Houston haha that dove with us, they were really nice and offered me a lot of tips. After that we did some shopping in Cozumel and got back on the ship. Jason played in another ping pong tournament and that night we went to a specialty restaurant, Teppanyaki. The staff brought out a white anniversary cake and sang a love song to us. It was really sweet. That night was the White Hot themed party where we danced and just relaxed. The next day we were at sea so we played shuffle board with another couple and watched movies then had dinner with two elderly couples. The men were brothers and one of them bought wine for the table, they asked us a lot of questions about Utah. That night was the Elements show, pretty much a dance and lights show all about the elements. The last thing we did since this was the last night was go to the Quest game show. That was an audience scavenger hunt, it had us jumping over tables and all sorts of stuff I really don't want to tell my Mom about haha. And we won it also. The couple we teamed up with were just as crazy and outgoing as Jason and I so it was a pretty easy win. The next morning we flew home (coach) and passed out for two days haha.

All of my pictures and video of the trip are on my Facebook page.

It's been 10 months since my last update soo this is a catch up post.

GREAT LIFE

When I posted last I was in the middle of 'life coaching' for Great Life. It was an incredible experience, I feel like I got more out of coaching, learned more things about myself, than the people I was coaching did haha, but I guess I'm very biased. The next month after I got done coaching Jason and I captained and co-captained a Part 1 training. Before we started the training the trainer asked me what it was that I wanted to get from my staffing experience. Why was I there sacrificing my time and money to be there for people I didn't even know? I said I want clarity, (which was a very vague answer) so he pried a little more at me and got down to I wanted to feel like I was in control of my life. Right there he changed the staff and made me captain and Jason co-captain. If you know Jason and I you can imagine how the rest of it went. Jason had a very hard time with me telling him what to do, I had a very hard time with him as one of my worker bees. It was a BIG stretch for our marriage, we were so used to the roles we had picked as leader and follower. And I got what I wanted, I came out feeling like I was more powerful and in control than I ever thought I was.

For record keeping sake- that was the last Part 1 in the Great Life building and as the Great Life Foundation, it changed and was taken over privately right after that Part 1.

RACE CAR

At the beginning of the summer Jason bought an Eagle Talon shell from Jesse. This was a completely stripped and caged car shell that was meant for drag racing. As a move for marketing for the business we decided to build a drag car that would run the 1/4 mile in 9 seconds. If only I'd known. It took several weeks of late nights and lots of money to get the car ready, the first handful of days at the track here, Rocky Mountain Raceway, were working out the bugs and tightening up the motor and replacing weak parts. Jason got in several good runs in the 12 second range but the motor was having this electrical issue. When the car got into boost (when it was making really good power, 650 WHP) something in the electrical would send a message to the engine and kill it. So just as the car would get into history making range it would just die. We tried everything to fix it. And I mean everything. Two months worth of diagnosing, and in the summer that is a good chunk of the season. We never did figure it out and ended up parting it out. More about that later. Jasons best run was an 11.4 1/4 mile with a trap time of 117 MPH. What's really impressive in the 1.50 60 foot- which means he launched off the line very, very, very fast. He made a video of racing using clips from inside and outside the car here:

TRUCK/TRAILER

Well to tow the race car to the track we bought our first large vehicle. It's a 2002 Ford F250 (we bought it used from the owner for $1,500 and had to do some engine work, no car payments for us and it runs like a charm) and we also bought a car hauler trailer (again, used from the owner so no payments for it). Jason was like a little kid at Christmas. We sold Cherry- I was very sad, and now we just have the truck.

BOAT

The other reason we had for picking up the truck was we bought a boat. One night Jason was browsing the classifieds and saw a boat listed for $100. Clicking into the ad he found out it was water worthy but had a blown motor and had been left outside so the interior was shot. Curious we called the owner and it was his wife that was selling it because the husband was not working on it and she wanted it out of her driveway. Well we went and picked it up haha. We first replaced the carpet and then built the motor and bought a new outdrive for it. Then later in the summer I replaced the worst of the interior- it wouldn't have needed replacing except the boat was previously parked next to another boat in the marina that caught fire and the heat from the other boats fire melted quite a bit of the vinyl. It took some troubleshooting at first but it runs great now. We were going out at least every day if not twice a day taking friends/family. I learned to drive the boat and tow others, I learned to wakeboard, wake skate and knee board, and I'm a pretty awesome tube puller haha.

JASON KNEE

Might as well put this after the boat. Near the end of the summer Jason was wakeboarding and did a back roll. (He is very good, he jumps and flips and all sorts of crazy stuff on the wakeboard.) Well when he landed that back roll he tweaked his knee, not thinking much of it since it didn't really hurt he did a big jump and when he landed that his knee really hurt. Later after several doctor visits it was decided he probably has a torn meniscus (the cartilage in the knee) but to be sure he needs and MRI and surgery. Not having the money for either of those expensive things he stayed off it for awhile and has learned how to adjust so as not to inflame it. He still has not gotten it fixed, luckily its not a very urgent thing, but he is unable to do any heavy playing on it, like basketball that he loves so much, though he was able to go back out and wakeboard etc by the end of the summer. More on that later as well.

GARRETT VEGAS

We had a good friend turn 21 during the summer and went to Vegas with him and 'all the boys'. I was the only girl actually haha, it was a lot of fun. Many stories to blackmail each of Jasons friends with later.

ALEX

I mentioned in the last post I think that Nate our employee quit on us. Jason tried to go it alone without a mechanic but just hated it. He ended up hiring another employee Alex, who was great. He worked for us until we closed the shop. More on that later haha.

DAD and NANCY

Dad got married. As bluntly as I just stated that was as bluntly as I found out. Dad had been dating a lady named Nancy who is from Idaho for about 3 months. One weekend they took off 'to spend a weekend in southern Utah'. Three weeks later Dad casually informed us kids that he actually had eloped to Vegas that weekend with Nancy and was now a married man. You've probably picked up from my tone that it did not go over well. Not that we didn't like Nancy. But it hurt that 1) one of my parents had remarried already, 2) that he left us out of the whole thing, 3) that he so casually told us a whole three weeks later. I've since made it clear to Dad I feel like he really fucked up the way he handled that. I, and I don't think Chan or Rachel, cared that he eloped- his wedding his way, but we don't like that we were left out of everything leading up to it and everything after it. Now though things are fine. Nancy still lives in Idaho so her and Dad just commute while she figures out how to move her business (she's a massage therapist, Doterra healer etc etc.) down to Utah. She has three children, two girls and the youngest a boy.

MOM

Well since I'm on parents... I'm really proud of my Mom. After the divorce she got independent and started getting into the things she wants. Also she has chilled out a lot. She's been in school and got a job in a medical center- the field she wants- and has been dating a guy named Ronald. Well I guess now I should say she is engaged to a guy named Ronald. They are just waiting for the letter from the first presidency saying its ok and they will get sealed in the temple. It could be as soon as Thanksgiving which is in just over a week. Mostly I like Ron, Jason does too, he's kinda different in that he's definitely a techy, WOW personality type. We've only met two of his kids, the youngest girls. Rachel will be moving with Mom into Ronalds house. I'm kind of skipping the details of the family and new siblings because I have a family tree at the end of this post.

SUSAN

Jasons mom Susan has been dating a guy named Doug. Actually I've known Doug for a bit from Great Life. We really like them together. So far they've just been dating (well so far as we know, they could be secretly married too I guess). It's really nice to see them together being all cute, Kelci and Amber like them together also, I think. I don't remember how many kids Doug has but I know he has a grand baby. Hey maybe we will get lucky and all of our parents will be married by the time we have kids. Four sets of grandparents= good Christmas haha.

BLACK LIGHT

Chan and ReAhna started this party trend of cleaning out Dads shop, hanging up black sheeting, installing black lights, playing techno-ish music and giving partiers neon paint. I giggle as I write this because we've done this twice now. The first for ReAhnas birthday and the second for Chan and Rachels birthday and it has been a huge hit, and hilarious. Another Vegas-like, good times, great blackmail.

REAHNA

I don't think I've written about her yet. ReAhna is Chandlers girlfriend of- a year? I think. Think Chandlers perfect female half. That's a pretty close description of Re. She nannys and they live together with their two dogs Marley and Ayla. We like her and Jason and I hang out with Chan and Re a lot. I'm thinking marriage is in the near future for them but don't ask them about it. They don't give any solid answers haha.

AMBER WEDDING

Jasons sister Amber got married this last summer to her missionary Scott. They dated before he left on his mission and then when he got home they wasted no time tying the knot. We really like Scott as well. We don't see them much as they are both in school and work a lot, well, and they are newlyweds so I think we will see more of them after a year haha. The wedding was super cute and incredibly packed, a nice family reunion on Jasons side.

CRUISE

About three months before we went on the cruise is when I booked it. At the time of booking I had no idea how ironic the cruise I picked would be. It came right after we decided to close the shop but right before we actually started doing it. Honestly my experience was like a 8 out of 10. I'm going to do a whole post with pics and more detail on it right after this but I'll say that the ship itself was meh and the ports were fun. I got scuba certified just for the trip and I LOVED it. I love diving. But you know, a cruise is hard to really ruin so we had fun.

HALLOWEEN

For Halloween we got invited to a party at a friends house. Well not a house, a mansion, eh actually villa is a more appropriate description. A family friend of Jasons has this house up on the mountain that is HUGE. I don't even know the specs I just know I was there for four hours and was lost almost the whole time. I went as a pirate (I know, new costume next year) and Jason went as 'the whole package'. Meaning he wore just a box around his waist, his humor is like that haha. It was a HUGE hit. He had people that he'd never met posing with him for pictures and still we run into people that were at the party that have to bring up how hilarious it was. He won the costume category 'LMAO' of probably the 200 people that were there. And of course he just ate up the attention haha. I walked around half embarrassed half crying from laughter.

CLOSING SHOP

I kept saying more on that later so here it is. Jason and I decided to close the shop. And not just the shop but the website as well. It was kind of a combination of things that all happened at once but really it boils down to we're tired. Running a business is so much work and the industry has become an ugly one. Jason hates working on cars now and the cash flow and the health insurance and the stress etc etc etc. We were no longer going in the direction we wanted. Also working together was really taking it's toll on our marriage. For the last month or so we've been in shut down mode. Selling everything off and cleaning out the shop- I just yesterday got the house put back together, it's been sad and liberating and scary. As of right now we are both unemployed- and doing good. Everyone asks whats next, well I am finally going to do web design for real. I've been doing it forever as a side hobby but I like it enough to do it for free, getting paid will just be icing haha. I hope. I have my sort of site up- jocelynndesign.com. Now that were done with shop stuff this week is my week to hit it hard and really get moving with my new career choice. I'm excited and scared. Jason is going into sales. He is a gifted salesman, I don't know if he was born this way or what but he reads people so well when it comes to sales. He wants to go into something higher end with a way to make tangible results and get paid highly for those results. Unfortunately his resume is a little short on experience since he has been running a business the last five years haha. He is thinking used car sales at first to get some experience and obviously he has a ton of knowledge so making some quick cash is no big but from there he has big dreams. We will see.

So coming up for us we have Thanksgiving is being held at our house with the Smith family, my sibs and Dad and Nancy, getting going in new careers and of course the holidays. I wonder where we will be the next time I get around to posting.

For pictures of all of these things-

Cruise: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150886188015215.757609.579155214&type=1&l=f7145a3dd8

General: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.196211365214.258387.579155214&type=1&l=8f3876c8c9

Cars Toys: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150404931020215.622498.579155214&type=1&l=9ea3377814

My tagline for this blog is soooo appropriate.

*Warning: This entry swears- I just let it roll this time.

SURGERY x2

Surgery dos was a breeze compared to the first one. I was down about a week. they cut along the same scar, I have the plate and screws in a bag, and that's the end of that story...almost. I'm still harassing the insurance company about my settlement but I'm not really worried about it yet. The next two weeks will tell me if I need to hire someone.

FLYING PLANES

So this isn't really an event but just for posterities sake. Along with loving cars, Jason loves planes. But planes are a little big for him to play with right now so he flies RC planes. Christmas of 2009 I got him this super cool, dont know why it's the best but I bought it anyway plane. So during the summer and fall Jason makes me get up Saturday morning to watch him fly the plane at the park. Used to be that when he landed it wasn't really landing it was like a less awful version of crashing, but with his now two years of experience he can land and take off like a champ.

SUNDAY RITUAL

Again, not really an event, just record keeping. Almost every Sunday my Dad, brother and sister come over to our house and do dinner and play the Wii. Well, the kids play the Wii, Dad makes chocolate cake. I don't really know why this has become tradition, we should probably use this day to see the family we don't work right next to- oh well. I like Wii and cake.

DUSTIN

Ew. Ok heads up this paragraph is going to be full of beliefs and 'stuff' and venting. I see it, I don't care.

Originally Jason ran a website called pricematchedparts.com, but after about a year of doing this he had so many requests and saw such potential in working on the cars themselves he went to a shop location at which point we changed the name to PMP Motorsports. At first he had a small 3 car shop and one of his friends Jeff Liddle (who had just finished GL training) quit the job he hated to come be mechanic for Jason. (Jason refused to turn wrench himself, he HATES working on cars that are not his own project.) At the time it seemed like a great idea- who else to work with but the friend who was all fired up from training? Weellll, what we didn't really consider was Jeff didn't have any real previous experience turning wrench. And after about six months (and every car he built coming back in) it was apparent this wasn't going to work. Our reputation in serious jeopardy, Jason decides to team up with another guy named Dustin who had a solid background in mechanic-ing and was known for doing good work. At the time Dustin was working out of his driveway, he had a client base that kept him occupied but he was looking to become a business and get a shop. Jason and Dustin decide to work out a deal. They moved to a larger shop and split the overhead costs. Dustin uses Jasons lift, welder etc etc and in return Jason sends all of his jobs through Dustin and gets a discounted labor rate. In the end it was two businesses out of one office and it started to get messy. Dustin became resentful that he was being called Jasons employee and he felt that he should be charging Jason full price. Jason was frustrated that Dustin wasn't keeping his time commitments on getting his jobs done, leaving Jason to hang as the bad guy to his customers. (If it had been this clean cut it wouldn't have been a big deal- unfortunately Dustin is very dramatic so everything was a fight.)

Ok so Dustin decides to move out to his own shop location. Him and Jason are good with splitting ways. (When they had moved into this bigger shop they had to repair some things and had decided to split the costs, Jason owed Dustin about $300 for the repairs.) Moving day I get a call from Jason telling me that Dustin just told him that if Jason didn't pay Dustin that $300 by the end of the day that Dustin was going to be taking the materials he had paid for with him. Ha. Meaning, if Jason didn't pay Dustin was going to rip the electrical wiring out of the walls and take doorknobs etc. I was shocked. Jason didn't have a problem paying him the $300 but didn't have an extra $300 laying around to give him, especially now that Jason was taking over the full payments of the shop. So I was shocked at such a dick move. I asked if Jason had offered to pay like $100 today and then $200 next week or something and he said yes and that Dustin wouldn't do it. Jason decides to call his Dad and learns that Dustin legally is not allowed to remove anything from the building because it is now the property of the landlord, that reminds Jason that he and Dustin got two months of free rent from the landlord because of the repairs they had done to the shop. Jason calls the landlord to make sure that was actually why they had gotten the two free months and after it's confirmed he let the landlord know that Dustin was moving out.

Alright so Jason gets off the phone and Dustin comes back from dropping off his first load and Jason tells him the bad news of, I'm not paying you and you cannot take any of the things you are threatening. Ha well Dustin becomes so upset that Jason calls the police while Dustin calls the landlord. So both sheriff and landlord come down to the shop and the landlord says, I own anything that is mounted or bolted, that stuff stays here and the sheriff backs him up. Well Dustin tried to fight with the sheriff and got no where and as he (and the six friends he had called over) finished packing up his things every time he passed Jason he said, "Fuck you Jason." Haahahaha. I get so upset telling this but I also laugh because if Dustin hadn't pulled such a move and just let Jason pay him the next week, he would have made money and gotten to take any of the things he wanted that were bolted. Karma.

Now I have to put this or Jason will get on my case. Jason doesn't hate Dustin, and actually has attempted several apologies about the way things went down. Dustin though is not over it, and still bad mouths Jason and PMP on Facebook. (Though not blatantly enough for me to slap him with a slander suit.) Maybe someday I will be as big a person as Jason is....maybe.

SAN DIEGO RSA/ QUITTING ZRII

On to better topics. I did my last event with Zrii, yes I said last. I also gave my 3 week notice to Zrii before the event. I was sad to leave. And not. There was too much baggage with that place. Just read Ambers blog- you will know what I'm talking about. Honestly I had the BEST co-workers there. I loved 95% percent of them and sometimes I still miss them when I have crazy stories to tell. I need to go visit....

Anyway RSA was pretty much like all the other RSA's though I was on stage a lot this time because it was my first event as Recognition Coordinator. Also, I have to say this, I did a fucking awesome job pulling the recognition together for that event. Like really, I rocked it. So well in fact I went out that last night and drank with the events team, breaking one of my rules. (NEVER drink around coworkers.)

I work at the shop with Jason now. That was really my main purpose in leaving was to come run PMP with Jason. It was the right choice, I am where I want to be right now.

HALLOWEEN/JASON IN VEGAS

There is this auto show every year in Vegas called SEMA. It's the largest auto expo in the world and the largest event in Vegas. To go you have to be an industry professional so it's not open to the public. Jason decided to go this year and took his best friend Bryan. This was my first time meeting Bryan, I was a little nervous. It went well though. He flew in on Halloween and we had a crazy party at our house that night and then he was at the shop with Jason on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday they drove to Vegas did the meet, had some very 'The Hangover' moments, and then came home in one piece. Friends were shocked that I was so ok with Jason going to Vegas for a week with his friend from out of town, I am very fortunate that in my marriage Jason and I do not have doubts about each other like that.

THANKSGIVING

A new favorite perk of working with Jason is that we can go on vacation whenever we feel like it. Well sort of. For Thanksgiving we went to my Dads sisters house in Washington, we call it The Smith House. My first time in Washington. There was so much effing snow. The drive there was 5 hours longer then normal and the drive back was 6 hours longer then normal. It was soo nice though to get to hang out with family that was ok with just doing nothing. We ate, played on our electronics and played with the dogs (and cats). Oh and ate.

DOGNAPPED

If I get a free shot at anyone in the afterlife I think I will go find this guy. Friday afternoon we let Nina out to play on the lot where our shop and Dads shop sits. No big deal, she always runs around chasing Turbo in our parking lot. But this Friday we noticed her missing after about an hour of her being outside. We searched Friday night and Saturday morning, called the local pounds, placed a missing ad etc. I was a mess, Jason actually took me shopping to get me to stop crying. Saturday night Dad gets a voicemail from a guy who says he found Nina and is wondering if there is a reward for her. I called him back to get details and the guy tells me he found her eating out of a dumpster and says he thought she might be lost so he took her to his house and called us. (She is tagged.) He asks if there is a reward, I said no there wasn't but how about $20 for finding her. He says he was thinking more like $50- whatever I said ok whats your address? Yeah he is in Springville. 20 MINUTES AWAY! I get off the phone sort of confused and tell Jason about it, Jason gets upset and tells me about people that steal dogs and then return them for the reward money. Luckily we are with a group of guys so we all head down to Springville and call the cops on the way there. Jason gives them the address but doesn't wait for the cops to show up to go in and get Nina.

Jason and Jesse (our best friend) go into this guys trailer, yes trailer in an RV park and the trailer was one of those aluminum twinkie looking ones. The guys says he collects and sells scrap metal and while he was searching for metal he found Nina here, (and pulled out a map he had drawn up before we got there to show Jason where he found Nina.) Yeah he took her from OUR PARKING LOT. Jason says ok thanks for finding her and starts to walk out the door with her. The guy said to Jason, "What no reward?" and Jason responded, "No. You fucking stole my dog." This guy started to sort of defend himself by telling Jason what a bad owner he is and stuff but Jason walked out. As he was handing me Nina and I was getting in Jesses truck with her the guy came out I think to follow Jason and Jesse but then he saw there were several of us, so he said stopped and said, "So you think I stole your dog huh?" and Jason said, "Yep." He went back inside. The cop showed up after that and Jason told him what happened and said I don't care about pressing charges about my dog but he has other dogs in there that I don't think are his. The cop told us to leave and he went in to the trailer. We don't know what happened to the guy but we haven't seen him back around the shop. I hope he rots.

CHRISTMAS

What a weird Christmas we had this year. I now have five separate sets of parents. My mom, my Dad, Susan, Brett and Cat. Dad isn't ok with being in the same room as Mom yet. This year it went like this: Christmas Eve with Mom at our house, Christmas morning with Dad at our house, Christmas afternoon at Susans house, the day after Christmas we left to Jackson. I will never do it like that again. It was fun but stressful and busier then it needed to be. Here is your heads up family, next year we will be at our house. We would love you to come see us on Christmas. I got an iHome and Jason got me a board/boots/bindings that I love, Rachel got a red Wii, I got Mom tickets to the Judds, Jesse got us Linkin Park tickets...uhh I don't remember it all but it was all good. I love Christmas.

NEW YEARS

I'm putting the post about the Jackson trip with this one. This year Brett got all us kids Grand Passes to the resort in Jackson. So every day between Christmas and New Years Jason and Brett hit the mountain. I only made it like 3 of 5 or something haha. Anyway it was awesome, we will for sure be getting snowboarding passes down here next year. There were some AMAZING spots up on the mountain and I watched Jason do the half pipe (so attractive, my husband is hot). At the Casper Lodge there was this actor but for the life of me I cannot place him, he was in a chick flick thats all I remember. That week we went to The Bird, a sports bar and then on New Years we went out with Brett and Cat to a martini lounge called Ignight. That was probably the best New Years party I have ever been to- and I didn't really even know anyone haha. Maybe that is why it was better.

NATE QUITTING

Ah so we are 0 for 3 in the mechanic department. After Dustin left Jason hired a guy named Nate that he knew from working at the Mitsubishi Dealership. Nate knew his stuff and for the first couple of months was awesome....and then shit hit the fan. We've learned it's our pattern with mechanics. Nate just quit coming to work. He disappeared for a week and more then disappeared- he would hang up on Jason when Jason would call, and Jason even called his wifes number (who is crazy- that is a WHOLE 'nother story), but she would pretend she couldn't find Nate. So finally after about a week of nothing from Nate he texted Jason and said that he couldn't keep working for Jason because the shop wasn't busy enough but that he would be willing to do 1 to 2 days a week. What? There was always work for Nate to do- it just wasn't jobs he liked doing. Jason's response was, "No thanks I was only getting about 1 to 2 days a week from you before anyway". So strange. That was a month ago and Nate still has not come to get his tools etc from the shop. Though Nates wife has texted Jason a ton to find out where his last check was and where his w2 was... Jason has quit responding to her- how do you deal with crazy? The plan now is Jason is flipping cars and we are only taking jobs Jason wants to do and then continuing to sell parts. Thank heavens, it took me telling Jason that I don't think having an employee is in alignment with what he actually wants since the result is we can't seem to keep them around for him to realize it. I'm glad, being a manager is not really Jason's thing and we are having way more fun at work now.

SICK SICK SICK

I despise being sick. As I am writing this I am fighting the worst sore throat I have had since high school. Hence my sentences and spelling being all mucked up. Jason started it, well actually he caught it first up at the Gwilliam house and then gave it to me. Flu and cold and strep all rolled together.

JESSE

We have this really good friend, well he's more of a brother now since we are with him so often, named Jesse. He met Jason through car stuff and in the last year just showed up a lot. Last month he went through Part 1 and 2 though he stopped before 3. I am actually coaching what would have been his Part 3 group. It's hard wanting to go deep with him, especially with Great Life stuff since that is such a huge part of our lives, and not really being able to because he hasn't finished. Hmmmm.....

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CHERRY

Cherry is the name for my new car. She is a beautiful red 1991 3000gt that is in 'cherry' condition lol. Also she has this sticker on her bumper that has been nicknamed the tramp stamp. I am excited to finally have my own 3K.

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COACHING/STAFFING/CAPTAINING

Well when I first started this post I hadn't started coaching yet. But now that I am in the middle of it I realize it deserves its own post- I have learned that much. I am coaching group 274, Jason staffed Part 1 for 275 and is captaining Part 1 for 276. I'm thinking by March we will be pretty Great Life'd out haha.