Top 10 Things I Hate About Utah:

1. The mass amounts of undisciplined urchins running around because families are very young because they are either a. Mormon or b. Hispanic...both of which encourage children for parents that are very young and encourage lots of them! Which now brings me to point 2...
2.Mormons. period
3.Bad Drivers and their rush hour traffic (Learn the NY rule of the left passing lane...for my sanity)
4. Stupid Liquor Laws (which brings me back to point 2)
5. Lack of Trees
6. Their stupid road system (which brings me back to point 2)
7. The dryness (I constantly feel like a dehydrated lizard)
8. The sexist attitude (Just bring your husband by... you mean you aren't married?! Again bringing me back to point 2)
9. The fact that it takes an entire month to get permanent license plates. (Hello, welcome to America...it's called technology)
10. The fact that 90% of the people out here insist on driving badly with their unnecessarily large vehicles...If I get into an accident because of their incompetence...they win.

So I have been here for a month and the honeymoon is over. One month down...many more to go. I am missing the east like crazy. Which brings me to my recent happenings. I worked Monday and then took off for Ohio on Tuesday. (The trip was from Tuesday-Thursday and then I have Friday off..because I work for the government) Middle of nowhere Ohio. It was quasi east...and it made me realize how much I miss a decent amount of humidity and trees...and oh yeah normal people. The reason that I was in Ohio was to visit a Boeing factory that makes products the Air Force uses.

We landed in Ohio around 6:30. It took over an hour to get our rental car in Ohio! Then we were on the road, I feared for my life because the driver was slightly scary. Also, Mormon men do not believe in listening to women who might have an idea of where they are going...or maybe it was just the men I was with. Who knows... anyways because no one would listen to the girls we were an extra 45 minutes getting to our hotel than we needed to be. We checked in at 9 at night...I was exhausted and frazzled. I crashed.

Wedneday we went to Boeing. It was fascinating and I learned more than I would have sitting in my office in Utah. On the way back to the hotel the driver (coworker) got lost. Of course women's advice was not solicited...or listened to when given. I got to the point where I started yelling directions very loudly and flippantly to the front of the vehicle...I demand to be heard. I MAKE THE RULES!! The same thing happened that night going to and from dinner. Thursday morning it was back to the airport...The back of the car was open and the lights wouldn't turn off...I jumped out and tried to shut the door. It wouldn't work because the car wasn't in park and the door wouldn't open. DUH!! I tried to explain it...but the Mormon wouldn't listen. (Is anyone surprised) He decided that the 2 guys were going to get out of the car and try to shut it. Of course it worked because he had to put the car in park to get out. When he got back in he said, "It just needed a...(I thought in my head...if you say a man's touch, you lose a testicle) a... an engineer's touch. (He isn't an engineer!!) They must think I am a bitch...and that's why I am not married. Oh well. They can think that.

The other girl and I decided that the next time we take a trip...we are getting a rental car for the 2 of us. The guys can drive around lost for all we care.

On the way back home I decided that Utah rush hour traffic is the most annoying thing I have driven in. It is so worse than Northern Virginia rush hour...and they don't have nearly as many people. I think the problem is that Utahns don't believe that the left lane is for passing...so they will sit 4 cars across all doing 50 miles an hour (or far less) because the sunlight is in their eyes and they are too stupid to wear sunglasses. It took me over an hour to go 25 miles.

Yes, the honeymoon is over. And all that is left is a very bitter stubborn, scrappy, Irish-CATHOLIC east coast girl that misses home and everyone there.

That is all.