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Today would be about a 7. It was a pretty good day overall. I did end up working a full shift today. Which I normally don't do, but we're so short staffed during the summer it ended up being that way. But it wasn't crazy like last week. In fact, Megan and I just worked on layouts.

After work, Carl picked me up and we went and saw Oceans 13. I told you this would be the summer of the movies. And theres many more still to see! We both enjoyed Oceans 13. Almost better than Oceans 12. Oceans 11 is still the best but Oceans 13 was very good and I didn't predict the ending at all. That's all I say about that. Matt Damion is great in this one as always.

Our netflix movie of the night is Invincible. We wanted to see this one on the screen, but we missed it. I lost interest in about half way through. I know I know. It's a football movie. I like Mark Walhberg too, but it was a little slow. Carl enjoyed it. I liked it for the football and the history of the game and the teams.

A wierd but good note, after the movie we went to the grocery store. We went to the one on the other side of Mckellips by our old apartments because it was on the way home from the movie theater. We stood in line to pay, there was a lady in front of us, with not alot of stuff she wasn't there very long but she looked at me and I looked at her and we both did a double take, but shook it off. I kept thinking in my head, maybe I know her from 30th Ward (the ward we just moved out of). She looked vaguely familiar. I must know her from church. Don't ya hate that! Anyway, she paid for her things and went out of the parking lot. We didn't go out the same way. I got to the row we were parked on and she stopped me as she was getting ready to get into her car. She said " I know you from somewhere, and I don't know where!" I gave her my name. My married name. She looked confused. She said "that's not who you used to be". When I told her my maiden name ( I NEVER ever say anymore I don't have any assocation with it anymore), she said "AMY!" "it's Patty!" She was my very old, very dear friend from my youth. She was my mentor and my advisor for so many years. She helped me so much through the difficult changes and divorce and things going on in my family. As soon as she told me her name she grabbed me and hugged me. I started to cry so did she. It's been 15yrs!

I used to come down here, every six months or so. I would always stop in and see them. I stayed with them once or twice. They have three kids. I babysat them once in a while too. Her husband Gary was in the bishopbric when my parents were getting divorce. My dad was excommunicated, and Gary was very much involved in things that were going on with my parents. To my recollection, most people in the ward knew what was going on with my parents except the kids. Until the very end. We talked we could have stood there and talked a long time. We exchanged phone numbers. She was a person I had tried looking for when we first moved down. They are just on the other side of the high school from us. In a different stake.

I am also a firm believer that there are people in our lives for a purpose. Patty was one of those people. I have a testimony of the gospel still to this day, partially because of the influence of her and her leaders in YW. It's struggle for me constantly to stay strong in the gospel and I don't alway do. But I firmly believe that people around us can influence us for good and for bad. It made my day maybe even my week to see her after all these years.