First Snow & Free Turkeys

     It's officially winter in Utah.  We finally got snow at my place on the valley floor.  I have been trying to mentally prepare myself for an eternal arctic winter since I moved here in March.  However I just couldn't contain myself on the first snow.  We got between 1 and 2 inches of the largest snowflakes I have ever seen!  I caught a few of the biggest in my mouth and each one was an entire mouthful of snow by itself.  In addition to catching snowflakes in my mouth, I also ran around in it ridiculously, made a friend who I named Harold and went down our snow-covered slide a few times.  It was good fun, but after a while I could no longer feel my hands, at which point I went in and warmed up with some extra chocolatey hot cocoa with cinnamon, marshmallows and vanilla.  Mmmmm... Quite good, quite good.

     My new job has been going very well.  With the exception of last night, I have mostly adjusted to the early schedule and hopefully my weekends don't throw me off to badly when I have to get up at 4am on Monday morning.  There's a lot to learn, especially about the products which is mostly what I've been doing this week.  A lot of them have strange names like Epoch, Baobab, Galvanic, and so on.  At any given time I have had random product names just floating through my head.  It's kind of weird.  But the people are good and the company is great!  My roommate got a job with the same company a month earlier but in a different department and we both got free 13 pound frozen turkeys from the company for Thanksgiving.  We barely had room for mine in our freezer and he put his in the fridge to thaw a bit until this afternoon when his friend is coming over to marinate it.  She's in culinary school and is a regular over here making tres leches cake from scratch quite often for us.  We like it.  Next week at work, the IT department will hopefully have my system access authorization all set up and I can start training on more of the processes that I'll be doing.  Its only a three day work week, which is nice, but it'll be extra busy because of that shortness.  I'll work as much as I have to on Wednesday, I'm just glad to be getting the day after Thanksgiving off!
     Speaking of Thanksgiving, I'm excited to have a couple tasty dinners. At least one with each of my sisters that live nearby and hopefully, if all schedules coincide, we'll be able to have one all together.  There's also some tentative plans with a few different friends but it's too early to know details for sure.  I just know that it's going to be a good fun week!
     There was something else I was going to mention but I've forgotten what it was...  If I remember I'll come back and add to this post rather than making a new one.  Oh also, I've been working on expanding some of the other pages, accessible through links in the top page header.  Even though they won't change or be updated as much as the regular posts, feel free to check them out periodically.  Still couldn't remember anything else, so I guess that's all for now!