Here is what I have been up to for the last 30 years, sorry it's a little long and I was trying to keep it short!
In 1977 I attended Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho, I took generals there and had lots of fun! In 1978 I moved home and attended Weber State College for one year. In 1979 I left to serve an LDS Mission to the Lansing Michigan Mission. This was a great experience and helped me come out of my shell. I was no longer so shy. I arrived home from my mission in August 1980 and started back into school that September, also at Weber State College. I had decided to become a Medical Technologist. I graduated from Weber State in 1984 with a major in Medical Technology and minored in Chemistry and Microbiology. My first job was at Jordan Valley Hospital in West Jordan, where I worked for 2 ½ years. Then I moved to Portland, Oregon, since I needed a change from Salt Lake City and Utah and my young sister, Dianne and her family lived up there. This move was in 1988, I believe. I stayed in Oregon for 11 years. I worked for 10 years at a large hospital/trauma center (OHSU) Oregon Health Sciences University Medical Center. I loved Oregon, the green reminded me of Michigan and the ocean was close enough to go to the beach often. (once a month if I could escape the city) I love the ocean and fell in love with the Oregon Coast. I still have to go up to Oregon once every year if possible.
In 1994, I married a friend I had met a few years earlier, Daniel B. Kuhn. We were married for 10 years. In 1999, we moved back to Utah and into our first home. (we had always rented apts. before.) He had lived in Salt Lake on a couple of different occasions, though from California originally. Unfortunately, we were never able to have children, nor were we ever lucky enough to have any adoptions we tried for come through. After 10 years of a roller-coaster marriage, we divorced in 2004. I still own my home and have a cat named Zephyr, a gray tabby. I have been employed for the past six years at Davis Hospital and Medical Center in the Laboratory, as a Medical Technologist. It has been nice to be close to my parents again. We have helped each other out a lot. Both of my sisters live out of state.
I don't have a lot to say about my High School days. I was so shy back then that I didn't talk a lot to very many people other than my immediate friends. I didn't join a lot of clubs or get involved with many things because I was too shy. Though I do remember being on the Senior Class Committee and that was fun. I like drama and art and have used my typing skills in all of my working positions since high school. Mrs. Beatties' humanities class had a profound influence on my knowledge and appreciation of the arts. I have been to Washington D.C. and the Smithsonian and have seen more original works of art that we learned about in her class. And again, just this past May I had the wonderful opportunity to visit New York and while there seeing all the tourist sites, I also got to visit some of the world renowned Museums. We visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art), the Guggenheim and the Museum of Natural History with in Mrs. Beatties' class in high school! Is she still around? I would love to thank her for all the knowledge of the arts she pounded into our heads, all the paintings we had to memorize and great artists we had to learn to recognize.
Some of my other interests have been playing the piano and in the past 10 to 15 years learning the organ as well. I enjoy traveling and seeing new places as well as revisiting those places I have grown to love so much (like Oregon) I still like to knit and crochet things and crosstitch. I sew on occasion, but not a great seamstress. I love photography, just for fun. I love new adventures, and have had a few by working with the Cub Scout, Wolf Den for the past 1 ½ years. I still love kids and have a lot of fun whenever I get to do things with or for kids. I love to stay involved with my nieces and nephews and what they are up to. (I have eight - 3 nephews and 5 nieces) ages 25 down to 11.
So that is what I have been up to for the past 30 years. It has gone by the way to quickly and I still can't believe I am only a couple of years from turning 50. I don't feel any older, more mature, but not older. I do wish I could jump back to by 30's and stay there for awhile. Oh, well - life goes on.