I've always been a big fan of downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. 

It's just great fun. The buildings are interesting to look at, there are so many fun shops and the Off Broadway Theater (OBT) is one of my favorite places.

I could just walk around the area for hours and never get bored. Heck, I've done so countless times.

While hanging out with my cousins this weekend, we didn't get to spend as much time exploring downtown as I would have liked (Parking was way too expensive) but it was still nice to see the trees in bloom and enjoy the lovely day.

We hit up a great little restaurant called Cafe Med (which is actually a ways from downtown, but worth the drive). It looks like a total dive from the outside, but the food is great! Mmm Greek food.

I ordered the Salmon Sandwich. I almost died went to awesome food heaven. 

The four of us bought tickets to our favorite Improv group, Laughing Stock at the OBT.

Have you ever been to see one of their shows? It's two hours of hilarity. Symptoms include sore, cramped sides, watering eyes and bruises on the arms from the many elbow nudges and "did you just see his Beyonce impression?!"s.

It's a great show! And very affordable! Everyone that is looking for entertainment in the Salt Lake City area should definitely look into one of their shows.

It was a very enjoyable day. 

There are a few things that I don't enjoy about living in Las Vegas.

The heat.

The lack of green things.

But most of all, the mountains.

Yes. There are mountains in Vegas. But they are brown and ugly.

Growing up in Utah, I was always surrounded by lovely mountains covered with green and snow. It's been rough living in the presence of these brown monstrosities. 

This past weekend I was in Salt Lake visiting my cousins (more pictures to come soon), and I ran around feeling giddy about how gorgeous the mountains were.

I don't miss how cold it is in Utah, even in May.

But I do miss these mountains.

I was browsing through my old computer files this morning.

I like to do this from time to time. There are so many hidden treasures buried in those folders that have been lost or forgotten.

Today, I came across my digital scrapbook pages.

I spent so much time looking through them all and it made me want to make a few new ones. Maybe soon.

But in any case, I thought I would share some of my favorite pages with you.

This was my first digital scrapbook page. My sister Alyson had started scrapbooking in Photoshop. But back in 2006, I didn't have access to Photoshop. So I pulled out Microsoft Word and after a lot of aggravation, made this page. It's still one of my favorites.

I did mostly two page spreads for two years. Until I decided that the one page spread was my best friend. 

It's just so much fun! And how many photos of my niece and nephew have I not yet made into pages? Countless. 

I should definitely make a few more.

Sleep and I have a very intense love/hate relationship.

Dreaming is lovely. Dreaming only happens when you're asleep. I like to dream.

However, I can go to bed at a normal hour and still wake up at 3 in the morning, wide awake, only a few hours of sleep under my belt. 

Unfortunately this means that around noon, I start to get sleepy and crave the five hours my body missed feels it deserves.

Now that I'm working, this is especially difficult. I don't want to spend my entire time away from work sleeping or thinking about when I can let myself sleep. That's not a life. Not a fun one anyway.

I've decided that sleep is stupid.

I want the option to sleep, but only to dream good dreams. In all other cases, I want to be able to stay awake and never sleep again.

Sound fair? Good. 

The first day on the job went well, by the way.

There have been some great additions into the world of Simply Kate.

I've been reading like a maniac.

I love to read, but with chaos and distraction, I don't always read as much I want to.

But after purchasing three new books with the Amazon.com gift card I was given for my birthday, my interest in books has flared back into life!

As such, I added a new feature to my blog's menu. All about the books I read! You see the link on the menu bar under my header!

I thought it would be great fun to share the books I am reading with all of you. The page is separated into two different sections. What I am currently reading and what I have recently finished, which will feature the last twenty books I have read and where you can find the video reviews I have made for them! 

I'm really excited about this new project and hope you will all check it out and even read some of these books along with me! 

And I am always on the lookout for more books, so if you want to recommend something you've read that you think I'd enjoy; please tell me about it!

I am now a proud associate of GameStop!

That's right. I'll be working in a video game store! Perfect right?

There are some great perks. I get to rent any game for four days so I can better recommend it to customers. How cool is that?

It's only part time right now, and I'm still looking for a second job, but because I have been hired at GameStop, I am now able to stay in Las Vegas! Yay!

These little updates have me very happy and excited! It's a good day!

In other news, this guy also makes me very very happy!

He's just kind of perfect for me. That's all. 

What is good about your day?

I'm a night owl by nature. I love being awake all night and sleeping all day. 

The problem with this is that I don't get to see much sunlight. I'm like a self proclaimed vampire most days.

And whenever I'm out and about when the sun is up, I'm either too preoccupied to really notice, or walking around like a zombie who is craving a nap more than brains.

But on the rare occasions when I actually take the time to appreciate the beauty of sunlight and how it affects the every day things in life, I can't help but sigh at how lovely the day time is.

It's enough to make me want to sleep at night like a normal person.