Cat vs Sharks

Marty a cat we were watching for Bri's sister seemed very intrigued by my iPad. So I downloaded a quick shark app and watched while he enjoyed trying to chase them!

Wet Drywall and Other Clever Tales

The excitement of my week was waking up on Monday to this puddle coming from under my stove.

Hopefully you can actually see the water...I promise it's there.

This is a shot of course after I pulled off the drawer from under the stove. So I called our maintenance guy freaking out cause there was a puddle in our apartment. He said he'd be right over, and an hour later he was at the door. He was thinking it was a leak from upstairs, but after cutting a few beautiful holes in our walls and under the sink he found a small scrape on some of the plastic piping behind the sink, probably from a nail int he wrong spot when putting up the drywall.

Because the walls were very wet, our apartment has been in disarray for a week now, trying to leave them open enough to air out. Thankfully the holes are in location not accessible by any of the animals! We hope they'll fix it this week. But then again that's when they told they'd be here, so we'll just hope it's fixed by August. ; )

I am also very excited to get to see family the next few weeks. I miss being close to them and getting to hang out all the time. I'll see Scott and Cassie on their way back to Rexburg and give them a place for which to rest their heads. And then the Mid and West coast part of the family the next weekend!! I'm also enjoying the warm weather we've been having here in Utah and laying out by the pool!

Life is Good.

Paint Balling Birthday

I got to go paint balling for my birthday this year. Which was incredibly fun. I managed to walk away fairly unscathed, due to my ability to hide behind not only the barricades but also other people. :)
We got to play a few games with just our group and played a few with some more experienced players. But definitely had fun all around! The guys in my group were impressed with my skills. As was I!

Now that I'm officially 22 (even though I still feel like I'm 18) I've realized how much I have grown up since high school. I have an amazing apartment, I have a job that can support me, I am almost done with my bachelors degree, I have a great support system of friends and family, and I have learned to live and make decisions for myself and not for the expectations of others. As a newly 22 year old I'm happy to say that I am happy!

It's been a while since I've posted anything. I've been busy. I took a few videos today of Juno and Binx a new cat to our apartment. They have learned to get a long so well and love to fight and roll around and play together. They have even been caught grooming each other. Binx the black cat was recently shaved which is why she looks like she's wearing boots! Anyways enjoy!

Juno Training

Since I'm not home most of the time during the week, on the weekends I get to see what kind of trouble Juno gets in to while I'm normally gone. Her new favorite play place (beating out the toilet, sink, and refrigerator) is the bathtub. She loves to play in water and drink water when shes in control of how wet she gets. Without any inhibitions she jumps right through the closed curtain and knocks down the shampoo bottles, licks up any droplets left from the last shower, chews on the plastic curtain, and meows when she forgets how she got in.

Since I was home today I thought I would teach her that playing in the bath tub was probably not what she wanted to do.

I filled the tub with a couple inches of water, and closed the curtain.
I sat waiting with my camera until I heard the splash, and found this.



Juno eventually succeeded in drying herself off.
And hopefully I succeeded in teaching her not to play in the bathtub.

This is what we do..

Me: Thank you for calling discover this is Emily in Salt Lake may I have your account number please?
Lady on the phone: I don't have an account with you, I'm calling because I charged $600 on my ex-husbands discover card without him knowing. I just wanted to let you know that it was me so if he needs to press charges he can, I just don't want him to be held responsible for it.
Me: ...

In my line of work, grunt labor bottom of the food chain customer service rep, I get to see an interesting side of the human race. During the day its frustrating and I want to throw down my headset and walk out, but by the end of the day I can't help but to think back and laugh.

One of my favorite things is the things people say on the phone when they think I cant hear. Before customers get to me our automated system says "We are now transferring you to our customer service team in Utah." Right after that they're on my line and I can hear EVERYTHING they say. Their reactions to finding out their going to be talking to someone in Utah are pretty funny. Some of my favorites...

"Uuuutaaaahhhhhhh." (by far the most common too)
"Utah? That's probably why my accounts messed up."
"Where's Utah?"

My favorite call of the week though was this older lady who called in on her husbands account. When I asked for her name she gave his name, Timothy. People do this a lot because they know they're not listed on the account, but usually if I say like "I have so-and-so's account pulled up and who am I speaking with today?", they'll say oh this is his wife/or fiance/or other relation. It's my way of nicely saying its okay if you're not the account holder just don't lie to me, I'm not 80 years old but I wasn't born yesterday. This lady was adamant that her name was Timothy though. So I transferred her to the Security team who is not so nice to people pretending to be someone they're not. So satisfying.

More stories to come...

Cat vs Coke Box