Oh my gosh!!! TWO blog entries in less than 7 days?? Woohoo Me!! This is kind of fun...I wonder if my kids like that I am spending more time on the computer with this project...my guess is not really. But hopefully they will like hearing about their crazy mom later in life..
The Challenge: What are some choices in your life that affected where you are now?There are a few choices that have very directly influenced my life since I graduated high school. I was working at JC Penney-and had worked there for 2 years when I decided to quit that job and take a $1/hour pay-cut to take a job in the food services department at LDS Hospital. I didn’t want to work in food services, but I wanted to get my foot in the door to the medical industry and knew I had to start somewhere….and that is where I met my amazingly awesome guy for a husband Andrew!
Two months after we got married I got a job in the Cytology department- still at LDSH and loved that job; but my eyes were also opened to the Histology department and I knew I could build a career there, so after 1 ½ yrs in Cytology, I moved over to the Histo department as a pathology technician. I finished my AS degree, they trained me how to cut tissue and voila-I sat for my ASCP boards examination and became a Histotechnician. This move also allowed Andrew to be able to apply and get hired on in the Cytology department, and now he is the team lead in Cytology Prep.
By making these choices we were able to buy a house…where you ask? That city, my city!?!?! Never in my life have I wanted to live in this city-I really didn’t even know it was here! We even tried to make an offer on another, bigger, more expensive house-but it was already under contract, so we decided on this one…and you know what??? I have been able to have met a few amazingly awesome women with whom I am very lucky to call great girlfriends for life.
One time, in 2008, I thought that it might be fun to change things up a bit. I decided to apply for a Histotech position in St. George. I had even done the first interview with them. Then I had started praying really hard about the decision and felt that just wasn’t the time for us to try and do something like this. So I called and told them that I wasn’t interested in the position anymore. Two weeks later, we found out that we were going to have a baby-and that turned out to be Zoey. There is no way that I wanted to be 5 hours away from my closest family when I turned into a mommy.
I am surprised that these choices have led to where I have been and am just a little bit curious to find out where they will take me in this life. I am just REALLY glad that I have Andrew, Zoey and Jackson along for the ride.
I love learning more and more about you! I had no idea that you were thinking of moving down to St George in 2008!! Were you just going to leave me and not even tell me?!?
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