Here is an update of what has been going on in my life.

As of July 31st, I started my two week journey of traveling. On the 31st I started my drive to Idaho Falls where I would join my Mom and Dad and drive to Boise that evening. The next day my parents and I drove to Portland Oregon where we would join Jeff and Alison and others in my family to go through the temple that evening to go through the temple, which was the time that Alison took out her endowments.

The next day on the 2nd of Aug we went to the temple again and Jeff and Alison were married. I really enjoyed being with my family and being in the temple so much during those two days.

The next evening we had Jeff and Alison's reception. It was pretty boring. I had nothing to do. The main thing that kept me entertained was hanging out with Lori (Alison's old roommate) and I helped her serve food with her mom. At the reception I did not know many people other than my own family my grandparents, Todd my old roommate and I did talk to some relatives that were from the Washington area. I recognized some of them and it was interesting meeting some of them. The only real interesting thing that happened at the reception is that my mom told someone that I knew stuff about computers, so I helped some lady with her computer for a while trying to make the stupid thing run a scan disk. It gave me something to do other than help clean up.

That night my parents and I went to our hotel. They went to bed and I stayed up and went to sit in the hot tub because my back was killing me and I did not want to go to bed before standard time (midnight). So I hung out with myself that evening. I am a fun guy to hang out with so it was quite fun (I was very bored).

The next day I woke up at about 10 am. I went down to get my breakfast from the hotel. We got in the car and started our drive from Richland WA to Idaho falls. At about 8pm we got to Idaho falls and I was so irritable that day due to the fact that I did not want to face the problems of life back in Provo UT. At about 12:15 I arrived in SLC and I stayed the night at my brothers house so that I would not have to drive back to Temple Square in the morning for the performance that we were doing for the Joseph Smith family. So basically this day all I did was drive. I was quite annoyed with this fact.

At about 2pm on Sunday I drove back to my place and I was very irritable. I just wanted to be home. With my luck there was a big traffic jam due to I-15 construction. I got home and cleaned my apartment a bit and tried to be productive.

I tried to get some work at Big Planet so that I would not be sitting around all the time but I did not get any extra work. I ended up just doing lots of random things like going to the temple. Even though I did not get much done, I felt as though I was not wasting my life during those three days. I did not do much with anyone those few days and I was pretty bored and lonely.

On Wed I drove to SLC again and met up with My brother and his wife Mandy and we drove to Idaho Falls again. We drove to Idaho Falls so that we could go up to Island Park near Yellowstone the next day for a family reunion that we were going to have.

The family reunion was ok other than the fact that at noon when we got there they wanted to go on a drive again and go to Yellowstone. So we went to Yellowstone ate a sack lunch and drove around Yellowstone for a while. We stopped at a few sites, but it was mostly driving around which I preferred not to do at the time.

Other than sitting around at my family reunion, we went canoeing and went to quake lake. Quake lake is a lake that was formed by a earthquake 15 years back. It buried a bunch of campers. And the canoeing was ok. It gave me some exercise and some sun. I went in a canoe with my mom and I kept trying to tip the boat and she was not too pleased with me. What my mom did not realize at the time was that when I was tipping the canoe I was actually putting my foot in the water to make sure that the boat would not tip.

And so the reunion ended and we went back to Idaho Falls to have another reception for Jeff and Alison. That reception was much better due to the fact that I knew more than 5 people at the thing. I cleaned tables and took pictures for my parents. Not really fun, but it was ok. The only annoying thing was having to deal with everyone asking when I was next or if I was dating someone, or giving me advice not to feel pressured and rush into anything. I wanted to beat people.

The only problem with the reception was when I gave Britney and Sara instructions on how to get to my place. I forgot to give Britney the exit number from the freeway and they ended up driving around Idaho Falls for some time. So when they finally got to the reception they stayed for a few minutes and then they drove back to Provo. I am sure that Britney and Sara were quite annoyed with me at the time.

Anyways, the next day I drove back to Provo after going to church in Idaho Falls. I came back and arrived just in time for ward prayer and I hung out with some random people in the ward and then stayed at Doug and Courtney's that night because they were not home. I did not want to stay at the apartment with Jeff and Alison for some strange reason.

So right now I am at work and I am hating it with all my heart. I truly want a new job and I really need to get a new job or I will go crazy. In 2 weeks I go full time at my job and I don't think I will be able to handle it so I really need to work at finding a new job.

And as for tonight, I get to hang out with Doug and Courtney. They are moving to Boston in the morning. I also am going to go over to get peanut butter cookies from a girl named Heather tonight. I was talking to her at ward prayer for a while and at 10pm it is cookie time for me.

And after all that fun, I am going to go to Jeff and Alison's place tonight to sleep. I don't have anyone else that I feel comfortable just staying the night there. Yes they are newly weds, but they are probably the best friends I have at the current time. Everyone else in the valley has just quit trying to be a friend to me so I says screw them all and hang out with people that try to be friendly to me.

So I am sort of bitter from the fact that I feel like I have no friends in the area. I have friends, but everyone just quit trying to include me in things. I have finally decided that if my friends want me to be their friend, they will have to show some effort in being friendly to me. I am really looking forward to moving tomorrow so that I can start making new friends. I would love to try to make friends now, but it is so hard working evenings and living so far away from people and having no roommates. In two weeks I start working days so I will have a social life again.

So that is the complete update in my life. I have just been typing all this between chats here at work. Life is going well for me, but I have just been a little annoyed recently.