Wow!!! It has been FOREVER since i have written on here!! Sorry! Living in Vegas has just become a whole lot easier since the weather has cooled down!!! It makes me so happy! The highs= 70's and 80's Lows= 40's and 50's!! It has been perfect! So now is a good time to escape the snow and come visit me!!! ;) Well, not a whole lot new has happened, but i will update on a few things.
I am still at the Venetian---Canyon Ranch SpaClub---and i am still working at Massage Envy---BUT NOT FOR LONG!!! I am putting in my two weeks today, actually. I have found that the Venetian has been keeping me pretty busy and so has Massage Envy--as a result my body is getting very upset with me!!! I am getting worn out! And with what i am getting paid at Massage Envy, it's not worth it!! I would like to continue in this profession for a while longer, so if i don't take care of myself, i don't see that happening. They say the average length of time a therapist practices massage is 7 years---i still have at least 4 to go!! So, to try and make up for the little bit of money i was making at massage envy, i have a couple of options. I applied for a job and the Luxor to be a dresser backstage for their Cirque Du Soliel show!! It would completely make my day if i got this job!!! I think it would be so much fun! I hope to hear from them in the next few weeks. Also, the talent agency i am with has an office out here, so i hope to do some stuff with them as well--such as auditions for films or opportunities to be an extra. That can give me some extra money--if i am an extra 2 or 3 times a week, i will be making more than i would working 2 days at massage envy!! So, that's what has been going through my mind the past few weeks!
As far as Halloween is concerned....i had a fun Halloween! Our ward had a Hallowen party on the Monday before Halloween. It was combined with a couple other wards. It was fun to see everyone's costumes! I wasn't really planning on dressing up, but i put together a quick costume. I was a Gothic girl!! I dressed all in black and did some fun make-up!! So it wasn't anything special, but it was a fun night. On Halloween night, me and my new roomie--Oh yeah, Celeste decided to move out. She moved back in with her parents, so she is still close and still goes to the same ward. sorry, side note! :) ---where was i.....oh yeah.....my new roomie, Kortni and i went to FRIGHT DOME at Circus Circus. This was quite the place!!! It was probably one of the scaries places i've been to! They had 5 Haunted Houses to go through--one of them you had to wear 3-D glasses....so fun!--they also had roller coasters and freak shows and all sorts of fun stuff. And, of course, they had scary people just walking around and scaring you as you go from place to place. It was indoors and they must have had hundreds of fog machines around the place cuz the whole place was filled with fog--which made it even scarier! Yay for getting scared on Halloween!!! It was a blast! We then came home and Raeann and i watched a scary movie called The Eye. It was really good! There was no blood and gore and it actually had a really good plot line. And it had a happy ending, so you weren't scared to go up to your dark room! :) So, that was Halloween!
As far as Thanksgiving goes, i'm not going home, cuz it is alot of money to spend for just a couple of days. So i will just see what my roommates are doing, or i just remembered that i have relatives in St. George that i may see if i can crash at their house for a day! I am, however, going to come home for Christmas!!!! I'm hoping to come home on Dec. 17th and stay till Jan. 2. I put in a time off request at the Venetian, so i should have not problem--especially if i remain on call. I shouldn't have to find someone to cover my shifts. The beauty of being on call!!The good new about this trip is that i will be flying!!! Yay!! I guess my cute old car is still at home, so i can just use that to drive around town.
Well, i think i have made you read enough for now. I hope not to let 2 1/2 months go by without writing again!! I will keep you updated as i hear from those couple of new job options!! I love you all and thanks for keeping in touch with me!! It is always good to hear from home!!
Ok.....i am continuing from when i left off yesterday......Where was i?......oh yeah.....Chocolate Burger!! Like i said, it was really rich chocolate, but it was good!!! Anyway, next day--Friday--i had another day off, but Daniel called me that morning after their audition and wondered when we could get together and play. So we got together around noon and we went to the Fashion Mall on the Strip. It is a very big mall! It was fun to just walk around, talk and stuff. They were actually looking to switch phone companies, so i suggested Verizon, since that's what i have and i have liked them. So they decided to go with that! Yay!!! Now we can talk for free!! We had lunch there and just wandered around. Daniel and Ginger then decided to go back to the hotel for a little while and then we could meet up later, with Gamyr, and do something that night. So, we did and we had dinner at their hotel, the Flamingo. We went to the Seafood Buffet. It was actually really good!! They had other stuff besides seafood--which was good, cuz some seafood i don't care for!! :) So, after that we went to the Wynn, cuz Daniel said they have a pretty cool little water show there that we could go watch for free!!! So we walked down there and saw that a couple of times!! It was fun!! I got some pretty good pictures! Well, after that, we decided to call it a night. The next day--Saturday--i had to work at the Venetian from 9-6, but i ended up not having a 5 o'clock appointment, so i left early and called Daniel to see what their plans were. They said they were up for anything, so i just went to their room and when i walked in the door, they asked me how i felt about Liza Minnelli. I told them that i liked her voice, so they asked "how would you like to see her in concert?" I pretty much said that that would be awesome!! Daniel was looking on Craigs List while i was on my way and someone was selling their tickets that they had for her concert that night. So we decided to go!!!!! Daniel looked at his watch and said that we needed to hurry, cuz the show started at 8 and it was 7:20!!!! So we ran out of the hotel and called the guy with the tickets on the way to the theater. Now, the concert was in a little place call Primm, Nevada--which was about 20 minutes away. I was driving, cuz Daniel and Ginger didn't have a car. Well, on our way Daniel looked at the clock in my car and said "why does your car clock say it's 6:35?" I said, "Cuz that's the time!!" (duh!!) He said "Oh!!! We have plenty of time!!!" He didn't change his watch from Utah time!!!! Hahahahahahaha!!! Yay!! So, i slowed down a little. :) Well, by the time we were able to contact the guy with the tickets, he said that he wasn't going to be at the show to give us the tickets!!! He was hoping we could just pick them up from him in Vegas!!!! Oh just great!! We were already at the theater and we had no tickets!!! So, what do we do? We went to an ATM and took out $60. We found a piece of paper and wrote "Need 3 Tickets" on it and stood by the will call line!!!! We stood there for a while and eventually 3 different people came up to us and told us they each had 1 extra ticket to sell!!!! No way!!! It was so great! So, we told them that all the cash we had was $60---so $20 for each ticket. Now, these tickets were $75-$100!!!! But, it was close to the start of the show and it came down to if these people wanted to sell the tickets for $20 each or let the ticket go to waste.........So, they decided to take the money!!!! We got tickets!!!! And actually, one of the tickets was on the floor, about 5 rows from the front!!!!!!!!! They were all separate seats and Daniel and Ginger decided to give me the seat on the floor!! So, i was just sitting there--amazed at how close i was to the stage--and then Daniel and Ginger just came and stood by me and we talked a little bit till the show was going to start. Well, it got closer to the show starting and there were about 5 seats in front of me and 4 seats behind me that were empty.........so when the show started Daniel and Ginger just slid right into some seats in front of me! They were willing to move if anyone came to claim the seats..........but no one did!!!!! We stayed there the whole show!!! It was so great!!! Who knew we would get so lucky!!!! It was a great concert!! We could tell she was struggling a little bit, but she still sang as great as ever!!!! And she was even dancing around in some songs!!! She is amazing!! Anyway, that was my fun filled weekend with my friends!!!! I loved seeing them and being able to play with them a little!! It was so great to see familiar faces!! That makes 2 weekends in a row of seeing friends. I really needed that.
Well, now that your eyes are probably tired from staring at the computer so long cuz my stories are longer than a novel, i will bring this to a close. I am having a great time here in Vegas--especially since i have started at the Venetian!! I really like it there!! Thanks for all the support all of you are giving me!! It means the world to me! Love you all and please keep in touch!!
Till we meet again......
Yay!!!!!! My internet is finally working!!!!!!! I figured i'd better do this before it goes out again for a while. Don't worry.....we are going to get our own internet soon!!! Well, life is pretty good here in Vegas!!! Still as hot as ever, but that's why i'm glad i work in a nice air conditioned building and live in a nice air conditioned house!!!!
I had my first day at the Venetian a week ago wednesday! It was really scary, but it was a good time! And......i didn't get lost!!!! Yipee!!! I just went in for a few hours just to get my feet wet and then right after i went to Massage Envy and did 5 massages!!!! Long day! But it was good. I then got a strange, but very welcome, phone messeage from one of the counselors of my bishopric back home in Utah and he said that he was inviting me to a BBQ that the bishopric was having for all the couples that got married while they were serving---cuz they would be released soon...........I had to listen to the message again to make sure i heard him right......married couples?.......did he know something i didn't? Haha!! So i called him back and asked him if it was really for married couples or if he just made a mistake in calling me and he said that there was another Carrie in the ward that got married and he got us mixed up!!!! I thought it was quite funny!!! But i did find out that they were going to be released in 2 weeks!!! That made me sad, cuz i was thinking they would be released around the end of August beginning of September and i was kinda planning on going back to Utah and seeing them before they got released. Well, i was thinking one night and i realized that the Venetian hadn't put me on the books yet and Massage Envy had already taken me off the books cuz i would be at the Venetian. So i talked with my boss at the Venetian and she said that since i wasn't on the books yet that i could have the weekend off and they would start me the following weekend!!!! What a miracle!!!! Now i could go to Utah and see everyone!!!!! I also realized that the ward was going to be up in Flaming Gorge that weekend and thought that it would be really fun to go up and suprise everyone!! So, i left for Utah on Thursday the 7th and drove to Jill and Dave's house and stayed the night there. The next morning i went and got some blonde highlights in my hair by my friend Stacee, who is going to cosmetology school. Yup, i think i will slowly go back to blonde!!! Anyway, after i got my hair done, i took off for Flaming Gorge!!!!! Yes, i know......i'm nuts for driving so much.......i did consider all the driving i was about to do, but i thought it would be worth it. So, i eventually made it and made my suprise appearance!!!!! It was at that very moment, all the driving was TOTALLY worth it!!!!! It was so great to see everyone's faces and double takes!!!! It was awesome!! So i stayed the night up there.....i just slept in my car---which was actually quite comfortable---and then got up early the next morning to catch the early morning skiing--or in my case, kneeboarding---Thanks to Jill and Dave for letting me borrow their kneeboard!!!! Wow, that was alot of random sentences i just put into one!!! :) It turned out to be the best trip ever!!! So i drove back to my good ol home in Bountiful and stayed the night there and then i went to church the next morning and it was such an emotional day!! The Bishopric and their wives gave their final talks and testimonies. It was so great!!! I have LOVED this bishopric!!! They are such amazing men and they have such strong testimonies!! I will really miss them!! I didn't find out who will be the next bishop, cuz they weren't going to be released until the next sunday. So, i went home after church and finished up a little gift i was going to give the bishopric and their wives. Nancy, Jill, Dave and the kids then came up to Brad's house and we all had dinner that night, so it was good to see them again!!! Afterwards, i went and stopped by the Nish's house, cuz Brady, Jonathan's brother, got home from his mission on the 6th, but he was out with friends, so i didn't get to see him!!!! Oh well. It was so good to talk to Mel and Jeff!!! I hadn't seen them in a long time!! Then on Monday i delivered the gifts to the bishopric and then met up with another friend, Jessica Richardson, for lunch, then made the mighty trip back to Vegas!!!! It was just a short trip home, but i have to say, that i truely needed it!!!! It made me feel so good that i got to say good-bye to the bishopric and tell them how much i appreciate all that they did for me. Most of all, it was so good to see family and friends! I consider myself to be so incredibly blessed to have such amazing people in my life!!!! How did i get so lucky?!? So, thank you to all of you that made that visit the best ever!!!!
So, this past week has been good and busy!! I worked at Massage Envy on Tuesday and Wednesday, had Thursday and Friday off and then went to work at the Venetian on Saturday and today, Sunday! So, I found out that my really good friends, Daniel and Ginger, were coming down to Vegas to audition for Phantom of the Opera at the Venetian!!! So, they came down on thursday, but they were tired and wanted to get sleep for their audition in the morning, so i went hung out with my other friend from Utah, Gamyr, who was down here doing the lights for a Kenny G show!! We went to the Bodies Exhibit at the Luxor!!!! It was so amazing!!!! For those who may not know, this is a place where they have muscles and bones of actual human bodies on display! Alot of them are in positions, like one is throwing a football, shooting a basketball, etc. It was really interesting to me, as a massage therapist to see all the muscles and actually see where they attach and everything!! Loved it!! Then we went to a place called the Burger Bar and we got something to eat. I got something called a chocolate burger!!!! It was so cool!!! The chocolate was very rich, but it was so creative how they made it. They took a donut--without the hole--and cut it in half for the "bun." Then the "patty" was a piece of fudge cut in a circle, the "pickles" were slices of strawberries and the "cheese" was a square piece of passion fruit in jelly form--really interesting!! Then they had a mint leaf for the "lettuce." It was really fun!! I should have taken a picture, but i didn't. Next time!!! Ok, have to go, but i will finish later......hopefully---if my internet was working!!! Take Care!!!
Hey Everyone!! Sorry, it's been awhile since i posted last. Alot has been going on......and my internet has been fussy, but i guess i shouldn't complain about free internet!!
So, this is the latest....i have been working alot at Massage Envy lately. I work 4 days a week there right now--Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday--until i start at the Venetian!!!! Yes, i am finally starting there!!! Getting started there has taken alot longer than i anticipated, but i am just grateful i got the job!!! So i will be on call at the Venetian on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. So i won't work at Massage Envy on Saturday, however, Massage Envy said that if by chance the Venetian doesn't call me in for a day and i want to work, I can call them and have them put me on the schedule. Luckily, that clinic is VERY busy, so they are always in need of a therapist!!! It has been really nice working there!! I have been completely booked every single day i have worked, so i have been loving it!! There are some great people there and i have already had some clients come back and request me!! Yay!! They like me, they really like me!!!
Anyway, life at the house is good!! However, right now it's just me and Celeste at the house, cuz the other girls went home to California or on vacation!! So, it's been quiet, but it's been fun to hang out with Celeste. She has invited me to her parent's house a couple of times, too, to just hang out with our friend Heather and her brothers Kendall and Janson. It has been great!!!! We watched a little bit of Bill Cosby, Himself the other day and i, of course, laughed my head off, cuz what else can you do when you are watching Bill!! So funny! Then we watched Oceans 13, which was a really good movie. Definately better than Oceans 12, but i still like Oceans 11 the best!! It always seems to turn out that way.....the first movie is always the best!! Well, while i was there, Kendall found out that Heather and I hadn't seen the movie Get Smart, so he got some free tickets to see that the next day!! That movie is also very funny!! I loved it. So, i've been seeing alot of movies lately........oh, and one more movie.....Hahahaha......today, Celeste and I saw Wall E!!!! So cute!! Highly recommended----even if you just go for the short film at the beginning!!!! So great!
Well, i am doing great here in Vegas---despite the heat :) !!! I've been having fun with the Ward and meeting lots of new friends!!! Everyone is so nice! I hope all is going well for everyone else!! Please keep in touch!! I miss you all! Have a great one!!
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Greetings!! The past few weeks have been really crazy!! To make a really long story a little bit shorter, i got a job at a Massage Envy near my house!! I am working there during the week and then i am going to be on call at the Venetian on the weekend!!! Yay!!! Things are finally starting to come together!! I just filled out some final paperwork at the Venetian and then they will call me to come and go through an orientation. I am very excited to start there. Like i said in one of my earlier blogs, this is one of the largest spas in the world, so they have a climbing wall, weight room and they also have yoga, Pilate's and spinning classes---and guess what.......i get to use all that stuff FOR FREE!!!!!! :D In fact, if we do take one of the classes, the teacher will sign a paper and we get a certain amount of points. If we get so many points we get perks like free massages and stuff like that!! I am way excited about this!! They treat their employees very well!! So, that's what i will be doing for awhile!! I am still waiting to hear from Excalibur. If they do call me and offer me a part-time job i will have to rearrange my schedule a little. If they just want me on call, i don't think i will take it. I don't know, i'll have to see. Apparently, this Massage Envy is really busy, so i am excited to be working there, too. I'm just glad to be starting to work. This whole hiring process was taking a lot longer than i thought!!! But everything is coming together, so life is good!!
Life in the house is great too!!! We have been having a lot of fun together!! On Sunday, Becky taught me how to make FANTASTIC cinnamon rolls!! She is a great cook and i am glad she is sharing her plethora of knowledge!! We also had some friends over one night and one of them brought over a great movie. It is called Out of Time and it was a really good movie......of course any movie with Denzel Washington and Dean Cain in it has to be good!!! :) No, really, it was a good movie---Intense!!! Another thing i am excited about is that we are going to the midnight showing of the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight!!!! Yay!!!!! I have been waiting for this for such a long time and i am sooooo very excited!!
Well, i think that is all for now!!! I hope all is going well for everyone!! Be sure to keep me posted of everything going on!!! Love all of you!!!
Hello Everyone!! I thought I would take some time to update you all on the happenings of the past week. Obviously we--Nancy, Brad and I--arrived safely down here in Vegas!! And it was HOT!! We arrived around 11:30pm and it was 104 degrees outside!!!! Crazy!!! We stayed in a hotel that night--got a very nice discount, thanks to Brad --and then we got up early so I could go to my "hands on" part of my interview with the Venetian. Well, we got to the hotel and I finally found my way to the spa and it blew me away how huge this place was!!! It was amazing! It had a rock climbing wall, excerising area and a little cafe where you could get lots of healthy things to snack on!! I met up with the girl I was going go give the massage to--her name was Krista and she was one of the lead therapists there. She had been working there for 8 years! She was super nice!! She said that this was one of the biggest spas in the nation!! There are 85 rooms in this spa!! Anyway, I gave her a massage and she said that i did a great job and that she was going to recommend that they hire me!!! Yay!! She said that someone would call me to set up a time to do an interview. So, I was VERY happy!! So, after that i called one of my roommates and asked when would be a good time to come and move my stuff in. We found out that we had some time to kill, so we went and got something to eat. After that, we made our way to my new house!!! We met one of my roommates named Celeste. She is really cute!! She works as an esthetician. So we moved in all my stuff--then we had to sit and enjoy the air conditioning for a while!! We then decided to go back to the Strip and see some things around there before Nancy and Brad had to take off!! So we went to the Bellagio and Ceasars Palace and just wandered around and saw some cool shops and things like that. There was a really cool little garden at the Bellagio that i took quite a few pictures at. I will try and send them to you. Anyway, we then went back to the house to get Nancy and Brad on their way. It was hard to say good-bye, but we did and then i went up to my room to start unpacking. I got pretty much everything unpacked when i got a friendly text from Brad reminding me to wipe off all the bugs on the side of my entertainment center!! Yeah, that was gross!! We didn't cover the stuff in Brad's truck, so luckily that was the only thing that got bugs on it!! Hehehe!! I met the rest of my roommates later that evening when they all came home from work. Their names are Raeann, Becky, and CJ. All three of them work as Elementary School teachers!! Raeann is 26, Becky and CJ are 22 and Celeste is 21. I guess i get to be the "mother" of the house, being the oldest!! Oh, well, i'm used to being the oldest among my friends!! Raeann also served a mission in Canada, so we've been able to talk about our msisions a little bit. I have really enjoyed getting to know all the girls!! I have found many things in common with all of them and we all get along really well!! I feel so blessed to have been able to find this house!! So, i just got settled that night and the next morning. On Wednesday, one of the guys from the ward, Derrick was having a birthday party so we went to that and i was able to meet some of the members of the ward!! It was really fun!! It was my first poolside party in Vegas--i hope there are many more to come in the future!! After the party some of us went and saw a movie-. We saw Hancock. It was pretty good. However, if you thought the prices for movies was expensive there in Utah, you have no idea what expensive is till you come here!!! It was $10 for a movie!!! Ahhhhh!!! Anyway, it was good times and the guy i sat next to i found out that he served in the same mission i did!!!! Crazy!!! He, of course, came after me, but it was cool to talk about some of the places we served!! Random!! Anyway, the next day i just ran some errands and we had institute that night. We just had it at a local church house--i think it is the one we go to for church. They are just doing a lecture series right now. It was a very nice lecture!! I also got a call from Mom and Dad that evening!! It was so good to hear from them!! I really needed that!! The next day was the 4th of July and i found out that one of my friends, Gamyr, from The Egyptian Theater was coming down to Vegas to do the lights for a concert!! He is a lighting designer, so he was doing the lights for this show. Guess who was doing the concert?!?! The band AMERICA!!! He came down on Thursday night and we met up for dinner and then he got me into the concert for free on Friday night!!! It was soooo much fun!! They did a great job!! I was then going to go meet up with my roommate Becky and her friend Derrick and sit on the roof of his house and watch all the fireworks across the valley, but i didn't leave the concert in time and so i saw a lot of them on the drive to his house!! So, i didn't get to see many fireworks, but it was still a fun night!! It was good to see a friend and a familiar face!! Saturday was just kind of a chill day. Me and Raeann hung out pretty much the whole day. Oh, i forgot to tell you, that Raeann broke her ankle in a motorbike accident, so she is on crutches and can't do much, so i broke out my Gilmore Girls and we watched those for a while!! Yay for Gilmore Girls!! Well, now it's sunday and it's time for church!! We have church at 1:00--which is a good thing cuz it gives all us girls time to get ready!!! Otherwise i would have to wake up at like 5AM if i wanted to get ready in time!!! Lol!!! As far as my job search goes, i FINALLY got a call from the Venetian and they are going to hire me!!!!! Of, course it will only be "on call"--which i was expecting. So i will be on call Friday, Saturday and Sunday then hopefully i will work my way up to part time. So in the meantime, i am going to apply at Massage Envy--which is only about 10 minutes away from my house--and i have also applied at Treasure Island and Excalibur!! I have an interview at Excalibur on Thursday the 10th, so i hope that goes well!! So things are finally coming together bit by bit!! I am so grateful to all of you for all your support !! It means the world to me and i know the Lord is blessing me every single day--more than i even realize!! I love you all so much and please keep in touch and come and visit sometime, if you have the time!! Lots of Love!!!
Carrie
