To finish my thought....

So, I didn't really finish my commentary on student married wards and I think I gave people the wrong idea....

The past couple weeks, I've started to realize that the people in my ward aren't as different from me as I thought. I started realizing that a third of the people I met were married within a week of me (and another third had been married this past summer). I began to feel not so alone, because a lot of the ward is in the same boat! We're all just newlyweds trying to figure out what married life is.

Work was fun today. It was Whitney's birthday, so every time someone walked into the office, we'd start singing  "Happy Birthday!" Then everybody started keeping a count because we wanted to sing to her for every year she's been alive. I left before they made it to 23, but I participated in a lot of the repetitions. It sounds like kind of a kid thing to do, but it was so much fun! And I'm one of the youngest people in my office--second youngest, actually--which is kinda funny.

I'm writing an article for the DU on spice, a new drug that lawmakers are trying to make illegal. It's a fake marijuana, pretty much, and you can get it in weird flavors like watermelon. It's widely a legal drug, even though some of the effects are worse than marijuana. You can buy it for $6 per ounce at any smoke shop and several convenience stores. And you can't get in trouble for driving under it's influence! My partner and I were doing research on it and found an introductory video about it. The guy rolling the spice talked about how bus drivers and any other person who has a job where you can't use drugs can use it and if the cops came into the store, they couldn't arrest him for possession of it. It doesn't even show up in drug tests because it's synthetic. It's terrible! I was shocked at how bad it was and how easy it was to get!

Tennis tournament again this week. Yay! lol. That means lots of evening work. But it's not bad. I can do it from home, which is so nice.