Let's Play Catch Up!

Wow, it's been a while, eh? A lot has happened since August. In a nutshell, here's the gist of it.

Softball turned out good. We ended up getting 4th place in the tourney. I'm so ready to start playing again. I could play year round. I met a guy during the tournament but I'll have to get into that later. It's really not "in a nutshell" type of story.

The ex got under my skin around the end of August. Some how he convinced me to move back to Utah. Something about things being easier. He would help me, give me money, and other stupid stuff. I got there and it was a nightmare. I was physically ill. I cried non-stop, X and I fought non-stop. It wasn't a good situation. Needless to say I moved back home after a week and a half. It's the best decision I've made since I left him a year before.

Moving back home was definitely a good thing, but hard. I had lost my awesome job and I really couldn't live in my parent's house any longer. My friend, I'll call her Tri, from where I had worked before offered her house and a bedroom for me to stay in. I was pretty weary about doing it because her boyfriend lived there as well and well...it made me a little nervous. I guess I was just worried about barging in on their life/relationship/thing/etc. I'm still living there and everything is working out fine. I look in the paper for good deals for rental as I would still really like to have my own place. But, I'm not in a hurry right now.

Losing my job was probably the hardest thing (besides dealing with X) that I had to deal with after moving to and from Utah. My aunt is in the process of building her log house and was kind enough to hire me to help. I actually really liked doing. Most of what I did was stack logs, lay decking and uh, that's about it. It was pretty neat because the majority of the work was being done by women. My aunt, mom, other aunt and I all did most of the stacking and what not. It was a lot of fun and very rewarding.

At my old job they ended up hiring someone else because I was a day too late in telling them that I was coming home and wanted my job back. After about 6 weeks of being back I got a call from the super. She said that the new girl had quit and she wanted to offer me my job back. I went in and talk to her and her manager and it went really well. I started the next day. They put me right back in like I had never left. The only problem was that I had to start at the bottom of the totem pole as far as seniority and benefits go. I started at the same pay, though, which was what I cared about the most.

Mountain Shake 'n' Bake

My sister convinced me to go up camping with the family on Friday night. I was reluctant, but I'm glad I did now. So, after work I gather Gavin and my things and headed up to Cold Springs. Cold Springs is a favorite camping spot that my family has shared for years. It has a natural spring bubbling out of the ground. The forest service has built a fence around it as the area is open range. The water coming out of that spring is probably the best water I have ever had. Here's a picture. The water is kind of hard to see. It's to right of the rock as it comes out of the ground there. The plant in the middle of the picture kind of hides it. It's pretty, none the less.

Friday night was spent sitting around the campfire, singing songs and roasting marshmallows. It had been sprinkling on and off the whole afternoon and finally got hard enough once to send us to bed.

Gavin wasn't very happy about this. I don't think he thought sleeping in a tent was his idea of fun. He kept on asking to go home. Jacs, my sister, pulled out some books she brought up to see if pictures would help calm him down. Although chapter books, the covers had pictures ;). She pulled out her Book of Mormon and started flipping through the pictures in the back. I found it rather interesting and disturbing that the only pictures in the book were recent Mormon history pictures. By recent, I mean post Josheph Smith. Funny how there are no pictures of ancient Book of Mormon places. I wasn't surprised...it was just funny. Gavin was happy with the pictures and finally did calm down enought to go to bed.

Oh how I love crisp cool mountain morning air. With the sun peaking over the pine trees in the not to far off distance. Nothing beats a more perfect setting. With morning came breakfast of french toast, bacon and sausage. No chef can surpass the quality of camping food. Okay, enough gushing from me :)
After the morning mess was cleaning up, we set out on our hike. We set out on the road which turned into a trail. We had never been on it and had no idea where it went. It was a gorgeous walk through pine trees, aspens, meadows, creeks and all sorts of beautiful flowers.

The hike took us to the top of one of the mountain at Targhee, the local ski resort. The last part of the hike was grouling as I had Gavin on my back and the incline was steen. The view was worth it, though.

You can see the valley below where I reside. We had lunch and headed home. It was much easier and faster as it was all but downhill. I was glad to get back to camp. My feet were killing me and I could tell I was going to be one sore chica. I wandered to the tent and took a much needed nap. After my short snooze I helped with dinner, dutch oven chicken, and left for the rest of the night to more fun filled adventures.

My Findings

I've been doing lots of research latley about Mormon history. I really can't get enough of it. To find my whole life, the way I was raised and my perspective, all has been causedlies from an arrogant, power hungry man is just baffling. I've never REALLY beleived.

I was raised by a very conservitive strict mormon family. Now, I'm a bit torn about it. The way I was raised was amazing and I can only hope I can be that good of a parent to my son. But, part of me hurts so bad to know that my family's whole life revolves around this "religion". I want to share what I've found with them so bad. I just don't want them to feel...hurt...maybe? I realy don't think they would understand as they have their blinders on as do most in the LDS church. Then again....Man, i just don't know. My mind is going so many different directions its hard to put across anything understandable.

If anyone has any resourses for me I would love to know about them.

Reunion Time

This weekend was the Durtschi Family Reunion. It's one of the few events I look forward to every summer. This one wasn't actually as fun as others we have. This one consisted of the Edward Durtschi family along with the Freidrich Durtschi family. There were TONS of OLD people there I didn't know. Luckily, there were some there that I knew really well and look forward to seeing (and pretty much the only reason I go). Anyway, the reunion was put together very poorly. They had no entertainment for the chillins let alone entertainment for the adults. After lunch there was this old lady that got up and started rambling on and on about how many bishops, primary presidents, missionaries and on and on and on there have been in the 5-7 generations of Durtschi's we have now. I think her figuring was a little off because he stats stated that less than 20 were in each category. Where, there are thousands of people in this family. *sigh* I left during the middle of that.

We ended up with two of my second cousins staying with us, Eric and Analee Edlefsen. On Sunday night, we decided to head up the canyon to look for their uncle (my 1st cousin once removed), Phil. I really can't beleive we found him as we had no idea where he was. We stuck around until about 1 AM taking turns playing the guitar and reminicing about old times. It was a blast.

Next year will be even better I suspect. Phil's sister Chris is planning and I hear we're going to be doing a week long camping trip. The reunion will be much smaller because it will consist of the Alfred Durtschi Family. Alfred is my Great Grandpa and it seems his offspring is much more than dull. I can hardly wait.

This has been quite the productive week...

Saw the Lawyer

I finally got ahold of a lawyer and I saw him on Monday. I found out that the divorce can probably be done in about a month!! That's not to say the custody thing will be taken care of, but at least the divorce will be done and I can get on with my life.

AC in the Office

This summer has been HOT. Everyone knows that, as it is a world wide heat wave. Well, my office hasn't had AC all summer. I've had to sit in a 80-95 degree office for the whole summer. They've been promising me an AC for months and I finally got it today. I was so nice to walk into my office and be hit with a blast of cold air.

I Got My Store Built

Okay, I confess, I'm a geek. I play this "game" (I hate calling it that). It's really a 3D virtual world. Anyway, I don't feel like getting too much into it right now. In a nutshell, I design and sell clothes. I've been wanting to remodel my store for a long time. I've tried again and again but was never happy with the result and always ended up throwing it away. The past three days I finally came up with a design I liked. Let me see if I can figure out this picture thing...



Damn, I knew there was something else too. I can't think of it. Oh well, it's late and I'm tired.

Can you say "Jail Bait"?

She's cute, for a child. She doesn't know any better and has no idea what she's getting herself into with him. It won't last. She has nice hair. Does he really like hugging a pole? Don't let her touch my son, she's barely old enough to wipe her own ass.

*sigh* I met Chad's girlfriend this weekend as I was dropping off Gavin. I'm so pathetic. I don't want him. Why should I care if someone else has him? What's wrong with me? Why do I cry? Is it because he's always talking about her and how wonderful she is? How she does everything he wishes I had done? How she's there with him taking care of MY son? Living in my house? Sleeping in my bed?

I got ahold of a layer and I'm meeting with him on Wednesday morning. I'm really glad I'm finally doing this because I need to get out of this so I can feel some closure. So I can go on with my life with out feeling guilty. So I can be ME. I need me to be happy for ME. ME ME ME! What's wrong with being selfish ONCE IN MY LIFE?!?!?

I'm just glad I have softball tomorrow...

Double Header

Any chance to play softball is one I'm going to jump on. Softball is my therapy. I love to play and if I can't play I can watch for hours. When I was still with my ex-husband I would often find myself in the quadplex watching game after game.

My team had a double header tonight. We played Sure Green first which consists of a lot of neighbors and their family. It was a tough game. Neither team was having a very easy time hitting the ball so it ended up being a defensive game. We were pretty much neck to neck the whole game. In the top of the last inning, they pulled ahead by one. We ended up winning in the with a few base hits. It was a good one to win as they are considered one of the better teams in the league.

Our next game was more like batting practice. The team we played is sponsored by a lawyer and it seems that it consists of all his clients. He, the sponsor, as well has half the team showed up plaster to the wall. Many of them are pretty good ball players when they can see straight. It was a fun game though. Our team did some pretty good ball playin'. I had a pretty good defensive game. (We won't talk about my hitting tonight) For some reason, no body could get a ball to me. I play first and I was flying all over the place getting to those balls. I didn't let one go by and I also found out I can do the splits. Who knew!?!? I played third the last two innings with the same results. Needless to say, my white shirt wasn't so white by the time the game was over.

Another Day, Another Dollar

I had to work in the Driggs office today. I work there every Thursday so I can get off in time for softball. I have the perfect shift; 8:30-5:00. I don't have to open or close. I wonder if my co-workers realize my good fortune. When I got to work the DSL was down valley wide. I was the only one there besides my supervisor and we were swamped with calls. So, the day started off busy and pretty much stayed that way the rest of the day. Which is good as it makes the day fly!

I really like my one day a week in Victor. It's mostly used for me to do my extra curricular customer service duties. Things like reports, tabs, NSF's and training so I can start approving orders which I can't wait for.

It seemed everyone was on one today at work. They were all light hearted, sarcastic, stressed and kind of "off". I think I was rolling half of the day. Betty was in Victor as she is there every Thursday. I think she thinks I'm her little slave girl when she's there and I'm in Driggs. I was running all over the place and doing all sorts of things for her today. She had me print this report. I don't know what the hell I did but I had to fill that paper tray up twice because of the GIANT report that was printing out. I really hoped nobody would notice, but not a couple minutes later, I hear from the neighbor cubical..."Heather, what are you doing over there?". *SIGH* I'm glad I can be the humor relief for the office.

Introduction of a Heather

This hasn't really ever been my thing. I've tried the blog thing time and time again. I've just not been very good at keeping it updated. I'm going to make a goal to post at least every other day on this thing. Someone please call me on it if I'm a slacker. I tend to be lazy sometimes.

Alrighty, down to the nitty gritty. I'm 23 years old, going through a divorce and living with my parents for the time being (going on 9 months, kill me now!!). I have one son who will be three in October. You should meet him, you'd like him. I'm working for the local telephone company and I really like my job. I've earned my Associated Degree in graphic design and I'm doing a little side freelancing as well. I'm not going to get into to much of my messy stuff because, to tell ya the truth, it's late and I'm almost ready for bed.

Damn....I just squished a bug on my moniter, 'scuse me...ewww. That was gross. My family just got back from Yellowstone and I think they brought ever bug in the state of Wyoming home with them. I just had this beatle thing attack me....eeek. Lucky for me, the light from my laptop is the only light on in this house. So, guess who gets the visiters! ME! Ew, that beatle is big. Okay, I'm really going to bed before I see something bigger.

Nighty night.