Lucky Me

Today I actually have adventures to write about (well sort of)!! I arrived at work did a phone interview and went off to my first interview of the day. The woman I was supposed to be interviewing at the hospital was not there. So I went to BYU for my second interview but since I was about 20 minutes early I sat in my car doing a few other things first. Bad bad idea. Whenever I sit in my car and do other things before getting out I always manage to forget to take the keys out of the ignition. Well this is what happened I left my keys in the car and I get out to go do my interview. Just as I shut the door I realized the Keys!!! I was so mad! I have a history of locking my keys in my car. So much so that my house keys and car keys aren't on the same key chain because when I was in college I would routinely lock my keys in my car and then have to return to my apartment to get my spare set, but it has been almost 3 years since I last locked my keys in my car, which is a very very long time given my history.
John also has an extra key to my car but I am pretty sure he would not appreciate having to drive to Provo just to let me in my car. I am considering having a third key made and leaving it in the side pocket of my purse but then I would probably leave my purse in the car too.
Lucky for me when I shut the door after locking the keys in my car, I didn't shut the door all the way. So I called the campus police and they so kindly agreed to come and help me. After standing in the cold for 10 minutes and signing a release saying if they break the window they are not reliable the police officer pried the door open and popped the lock! Two things: luckily I hadn't shut the door all the way otherwise a locksmith probably would have had to be called and that costs a lot of money! And second thing lucky for me I was on BYU campus not at some other random place where the police came within 10 minutes and helped me! After all that I was only 5 minutes late to my interview.

Why I Love My Job

There are many reasons I love being a journalist, writer, reporter or whatever else you may want to call me.
1. I LOVE writing. I am pretty sure I have dedicated more than one post to this but just to reiterate I love writing. I love taking the facts and putting them down on paper and coming up with a finished product that hopefully not only tells the tale but also interests readers and makes the story come to life.
2. I Love knowing things other people do not. This may sound silly but I like being the one that gets all the inside information that the general public doesn't have access too. It is fun when I am walking away from a crime scene (or event or interview) and someone stops and asks me what is going on and I can tell because I know.
3. I love interviewing people. It is fascinating to sit down and interview people (or do it over the phone), to hear about their life stories or the cause they are promoting. People are extremely passionate about their stories and it is fun to get to share a little bit in their passion.
4. I love the rush of writing on a deadline. I don't get this as much anymore since I don't write sports and don't have 20 minutes after a game to get quotes and write a story, but it is still a thrill when you know you are working against the clock.
5. I love being able to tell people what I do and have them say that is so cool; Shallow and silly but true. It is fun to not have a run of the mill job. Along with that it is fun to see my name in the paper. I have been writing for some sort of newspaper or another for close 5 years now but it is still fun to open the paper and see my name on the page.
I could go on and on about why I love my job but these are just a few of the reasons! I was reminded of a few of these last night when just as I was getting ready to go home a story happened and I had to go out and cover it. A man had barricaded himself in his home and was threatening to blow things up. Not the most exciting story but I had fun going out to cover it!!

I'll Do Better, I Promise!!

I know, I know I suck at blogging. It has been almost 9 months since my last blog, which makes me kind of sad because a lot of amazing things have happened in that time and I missed the chance to write about them!! Which only makes me more determined to do better in the future.
Of the important things that have happened getting a new job is probably the most exciting! I am now working as a full-time reporter at the Daily Herald in Provo and I love it!! I am writing for a living, it is so amazing and I am so lucky! The only down fall is the commute but I will deal with it if it means I can do what I love every single day.
John also has a new job he is working as a mechanic now and also loves it. Which brings me to other important things like Wedding Planning!! The wedding is finally close enough that I can start doing things and it is so fun. I am a planner by nature. I make lists, I make charts, I plan things out it is what I do and there is no better place to put my planning skills to good use then a wedding!
We decided on June 21, 2012 at Millennial Falls for the date and location and it is beautiful! I am so excited. Oh and I found a wedding dress (would've been such a good blog if I wasn't a slacker) it is beautiful of course.
Another exciting thing is I am training for the Wasatch Back Ragnar.. 12 people, 36 hours, 197 miles from Logan to Park City.. Yikes. If I survive I will be walking down the aisle 5 days later, so here is hoping I don't break my leg!!! I am excited though my mom, Morgan and Whitney are all doing it too and I think it will be a great time together!
So that is all of the updates I have in life for now. I will do better with the "daily" adventures of Paige, promise.

Wow

So much has happened since the last time I blogged! I have barely had time to think.
First and most important I am engaged!!!
It was super unexpected and has taken a while to sink in. I'm sure anyone who is reading this has seen the video but I'll tell the story anyways.
So Tuesday I go to work (at midnight) like usual thoroughly excited for my last day of work for vacation. I spend the day counting down the hours before I leave. So about 10 minuets before I am supposed to leave my producer starts bugging me that I can leave because I had nothing left to do but I thought it was weird so I stuck around for five or so more minutes then left. I walked out the door of the studio and there is John. My heart just started beating a million miles an hour and everything from this point on is a blur. He starts talking about how much he loves me and everything and it kind of hits me what he is doing but I was so shocked I just kept asking him "What are you doing?" I wish I had have paid a little more attention to the details. Like I don't think I even looked in his eyes the whole time, and definitely not when he was down on one knee asking me to marry him. I had been telling everyone for weeks that he wouldn't propose for a while because I seriously thought this was six or more months away. We went to breakfast and I was still just in shock. I called most of my family members and they were excited. I watched the video of the proposal about 15 hundred times. So I wake up on Wednesday when we are going to Vegas and it really hits me. I'm getting married. Now that it has sunk in and I've had time to think about it I am really excited! So Vegas was awesome, it was great to just get away and relax and not have to worry about anything really. Oh when we arrived in Vegas John has rented a stretch hummer limo (yes he is extravagant) and the man holding the sign when we arrived said "The Future Mrs. Hoffman" so crazy! The limo was so much fun though. We ate some amazing food, won a little money, lost a little money and just had an overall good time. Now I am back to work, ugh, and working on planning a wedding! Which for now is fun but I am sure will be stressful at some point.

Sports

I miss covering sports. Period. Not the high school sports I covered for a while but covering all sports all the time like I did as Sports Editor. It was awesome to sit in my little corner, telling people what to do and talking about random sports incidents all day, like the day we spent an hour on google trying to figure out what happened to Stuart Scott's eye. Or putting as many cliches into one story as possible. So fun. Unfortunately I don't think there will ever be another time like that in my life. Even if I was to be sports editor at another paper, I think being in college and covering one single sports team allowed us to goof off a lot and goof off we did. Again I say it was awesome.

Adrenaline Rush!!

I have been a blogging slacker. And for no really good reason either. I mean my life isn't as exciting at the title of my blog might imply, but I still have some good adventures. I just haven't felt much like writing them on here. Instead I work on writing my book. It's so fun! I always thought writing a book was so hard but once I had an idea (I never said it was a good idea but it is an idea nonetheless) the words kind of just flow out of me. It sounds cheesy I know but I actually get an adrenaline rush from writing. That makes me sound like a total nerd, I mean most people get adrenaline rushes from riding roller coasters, nope not me. I can get excited and I mean really excited just by sitting on my couch and busting out 5 or 6 pages. I used to get this feeling when I had to write on deadline for the newspaper, because its stressful you know. You have to write so many words and only have so many minutes to do it. But I never knew I could get the same feeling when there isn't a deadline anywhere in sight, but I LOVE it!! I came to work yesterday just smiling because I had written so much and it made me happy. So yeah to say the least I love writing. I always knew I did but now I know for sure I made the right decision 4 years ago when I chose journalism over being a doctor or sports medicine person. I was born to be a writer, okay that might be exaggerating, but still. I'm sure if you read my blog and I have been talking about this book for three or four posts now you are wondering what said book is about. Well..... I can't tell you yet! I'm worried if I try to describe it to someone else I might think it sounds stupid and stop writing, which is not what I want to happen! So maybe someday soon I'll post a little snippet but as for the whole story you'll just have to wait until I'm finished!

Fail

I have failed miserably. Since my last post when I said I was going to work on book for a minimum of 30 minutes a day, I haven't worked on it any minutes a day!! I am a failure! I think winter is making me bummed I haven't really felt like doing much of anything expect sleeping which I do plenty of.
I think I kind of stopped writing my book because I am to the point where I actually have to start writing it, like I've laid out the basics of what is going to happen and written character synopsis so now it is time to put some words on paper. But I get scared because then what if no one wants to read it and I put all this hard work in!!
But I have to just go ahead and do it, I hear that the first book is always the hardest. I hope this is true.