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I don't know why, but I feel like I just have to post about how happy and excited I am right now. I thought about changing my facebook status but that is currently honoring Susie and changing my g-mail thingy doesn't really matter if I'm not online all day. The only option was a blog post.
It's about an hour since I planned to go to bed, but here I am still up. And I'm loving life. It's weird but not much has really changed but I'm pretty much overwhelmed with happiness about life. I know sometimes I let little things bother me and get me down but when it all comes down to it, I don't have much to complain about. I have a great job, a great apartment, great roommates, a great life.
Sure there are sad things. Take for example the fact that Susie leaves on Wednesday and I won't be able to speak with her for the next year and 1/2. I crave random calls to Susie when I haven't had them in a while. Like bad cravings. I'll probably just call her old number a million times to give me some notion of satisfaction. But she's going out and doing great things and her year in Spain has probably had an amazing impact on weaning me off of that dependence.
Oh and I haven't blogged about my freaking funny dates lately. I think I might just feel bad if someone stumbled upon anything. Seriously I have funny stories. But really, I guess they make me laugh (seriously a lot) and that's never a bad thing.
I'm loving my role in the ward. I love having an individual identity. I love serving the people around me and working to build new friendships (as hard as that can be...but maybe that's just me).
I love calling three phones a million of times while I try to contact Susie in her last few days here. I love studying the gospel in ways I haven't in a long time. I love feeling motivated and excited for the future. I love seeing good things happening in the lives of everyone around me. I love understanding more about who I am and my place in this world. I love being friendly and outgoing...really letting go and being myself. I love the little things that hardly anyone notices that can make me smile and laugh for like 1o minutes. I love volunteering to help edit some random kid's paper in the computer lab and feeling bad that I and he probably didn't have enough time to make it the scholarship-winning essay it was supposed to be. I love reminiscing about days past and feeling from those days motivation to move forward stronger. I love feeling content and at peace. I love finding that one of my favorite bands has released new songs (soon a new album) and will be coming to Salt Lake in my favorite month. I love that I've contacted an old friend and that he started the countdown. I love that people care and that I care back. I love knowing that I can always be better and not feeling pressure. I love the random people who invite you into their lives. I love weird people...we are all weird. I love my sisters. (I also love Mckay.) I love making progress. I love making things work. I love letting loose and singing at the top of my lungs in a car ride with friends. I love planning future road trips. I love catching up. I love making connections. I love the feeling of being accomplished or appreciated. I love getting home late, changing into pjs and watching the DVR shows you've missed. I love late night chats. I love being OK with silence. I love change. I love improvement. I love that things can be different and that I can thrive on those differences. I love that I'm not stuck in the past. I love silly jokes. I love my weird sense of humor. I love finding the most random, smallest funny thing out of any situation. I love ....dang, I love it all.
Thank you all for your part in making me overwhelmed with love for life!!
February 22, 2009
February 21, 2009
yeah, I'm a genius
Everyone knows that the LDS culture is known for its extensive list of acronyms or nicknames. Well, have you ever forgotten one already existed and then tried to come up with it on your own?
I'm enjoying an evening reminiscing on BYU campus.
OK, really I was down in Provo for Brienne's baby shower and came here to the computer afterwards to write my talk for church tomorrow and print stuff out since I still have a whopping $3.09 left on my signature card. (And I still don't have my own printer despite month's of needing one.)
So I took a break and walked to the bathroom. (Sadly it was not my favorite one; even worse, I think it may be my least favorite one.) On the way back, I see this guy walking in the opposite direction. He looks very young. I conclude, "Man, he must be a freshmen." And then go on, "He definitely couldn't have served a mission yet. There's no way he's an RM. "
And then I think..."Hey, they should have a term for that...like a pre-RM type of thing..."
pre...
pre...
pre...
"Uh...PREEMIE?"
I'm enjoying an evening reminiscing on BYU campus.
OK, really I was down in Provo for Brienne's baby shower and came here to the computer afterwards to write my talk for church tomorrow and print stuff out since I still have a whopping $3.09 left on my signature card. (And I still don't have my own printer despite month's of needing one.)
So I took a break and walked to the bathroom. (Sadly it was not my favorite one; even worse, I think it may be my least favorite one.) On the way back, I see this guy walking in the opposite direction. He looks very young. I conclude, "Man, he must be a freshmen." And then go on, "He definitely couldn't have served a mission yet. There's no way he's an RM. "
And then I think..."Hey, they should have a term for that...like a pre-RM type of thing..."
pre...
pre...
pre...
"Uh...PREEMIE?"
February 12, 2009
Fake Job Interview
I subscribe to a lot of blogs and one that I’ve really enjoyed lately is entitled Careerealism: Because Every Job Is Temporary. Now many of you know that, as I journalist, I would love to be working for a publication much like one called Next Step Magazine, which is for high school students preparing to take, what else, their next step in life. I love the idea of researching and helping students explore their options about different colleges, majors, study abroad opportunities, jobs, scholarships, etc. (I would totally pursue a position by the way, but they are located in upstate New York and I'm just not sure about that.)
I think this all connects somehow to my interest of topics related to job searches, resumes and cover letters, interviews, and everything related. Really…I love this stuff. I wonder if that’s why I’m always antsy about staying at my current job for a while. Even though I really like it, maybe I feel like I’m missing out at the whole job searching adventure that I seem to have constantly been involved with in the last 4 plus years. All that said, maybe I should get my butt in gear and start writing articles about these things and see if I can get anything published.
Oh yea, the point of this post. Careerealism just posted an article entitled, “Interview Red Flags: Ever Felt Like THESE People? (I have!)” Perhaps the best part about the post is the video. I can’t find the info to embed it here so please venture over to the actual post to watch it.
The best thing about the article is the emphasis that a job interview is not only for the company wishing to hire but also to you, the hopeful employee. You have to make a decision about the fit just as much as they do. And I think that’s an aspect of the process that many often forget. Yes, sometimes people don’t feel like they have much of a choice, maybe they are looking for anything and open to everything. Even so, make sure you don’t get yourself into too sticky of a situation.
P.S. I kinda just had a sort of epiphany. I wonder if I wanted to start up a publication much like Next Step for high school students, if perhaps my current company might be a good possibility to back it. After all, all of our current publications are also for schools, although curriculum based and for K-6. But it could all just start as a new product line....oooh, that would be awesome. Something to consider I suppose.
I think this all connects somehow to my interest of topics related to job searches, resumes and cover letters, interviews, and everything related. Really…I love this stuff. I wonder if that’s why I’m always antsy about staying at my current job for a while. Even though I really like it, maybe I feel like I’m missing out at the whole job searching adventure that I seem to have constantly been involved with in the last 4 plus years. All that said, maybe I should get my butt in gear and start writing articles about these things and see if I can get anything published.
Oh yea, the point of this post. Careerealism just posted an article entitled, “Interview Red Flags: Ever Felt Like THESE People? (I have!)” Perhaps the best part about the post is the video. I can’t find the info to embed it here so please venture over to the actual post to watch it.
The best thing about the article is the emphasis that a job interview is not only for the company wishing to hire but also to you, the hopeful employee. You have to make a decision about the fit just as much as they do. And I think that’s an aspect of the process that many often forget. Yes, sometimes people don’t feel like they have much of a choice, maybe they are looking for anything and open to everything. Even so, make sure you don’t get yourself into too sticky of a situation.
P.S. I kinda just had a sort of epiphany. I wonder if I wanted to start up a publication much like Next Step for high school students, if perhaps my current company might be a good possibility to back it. After all, all of our current publications are also for schools, although curriculum based and for K-6. But it could all just start as a new product line....oooh, that would be awesome. Something to consider I suppose.
February 9, 2009
the return of my long lost phone
Everyone keeps asking so I’m just posting the story now. :)
As most of you know, I lost my phone a couple months ago. (I just checked and it was mid-December so yea, about two months.) It was extremely weird because there weren’t many places it could have been and in the end, I thought someone had just stolen it. The only places I thought it could be were in my room somewhere, in my friend Grace’s car or at the gym. The gym turned out to be a no-go, I searched my room but there are ALWAYS random places in there that something could turn up, and Grace and I both searched her car at different occasions with no results. I was seriously looking through it for a good 15-20 min, moving the seats, looking under everything. But in the end, I thought it was lost. In the meantime my friend Chris Bishop gave me his old phone and I’ve been using that and looking into my options of getting a new one.
Again, this was all months ago. I thought my phone was long gone. Saturday night, however, I get a phone call from my dad. He asks, “Guess who I just got a call from?” “Who?” “Someone who found your phone.” “Really, are you serious? Where was it?”
Turns out my dad got a phone call from the Orem Walmart Auto Center. They told him that someone in a white Honda had found it in their car and turned it in. I was out of town, but my phone would be waiting there until I returned to retrieve it.
I was a little confused. How did my phone end up in some random car? Or why did it get returned to the Orem Walmart? My thoughts ranged from the person who stole it suddenly felt bad about it two months later and dropped it off at the first thought, that someone who worked there was somehow involved, that I had left it there during a Walmart trip and that somehow one of the workers picked it up and accidentally dropped it in the car. All options seemed unlikely.
Especially considering I never took my car to the Orem Walmart and most of my Walmart trips are usually at the Lindon Walmart. And why did they mention the white Honda? It seems kinda weird and, well, the only white Honda I know is that of my roommate Grace. Seemed a little odd.
Regardless of the situation, I was excited to finally get my phone back. Yay! I’ve realized how much I really liked my phone and was actually really sad about having to get a new one because I couldn’t find anything I liked as much. So I started to share the old tale of the reappearance of my long lost phone.
I returned from my East coast trip and was chatting with Grace that evening. I told her the crazy story, receiving the expected “That’s so weird.” “How did your phone get there?” etc, etc. There’s a moment of silence and then Grace asks, “Wait, when did this all happen.” I respond, “They called Saturday evening.”
At this point I’m not exactly sure what happened thoughtwise, but at some point Grace put together the pieces that SHE drives a white Honda, SHE was at that auto center Saturday, and SHE had found a phone in her car that she turned in.
My favorite comment was when I shared the story with Susie: “I’m glad you live with Grace. She is really funny.”
Turns out that the phone was, in fact, in Grace’s car the entire time and neither she nor I had managed to find it. The auto people, when vacuuming out her car, must have found it and placed it in a visible location. Grace, unsure where the phone came from, returned it to the center where the employee said that the guy working on her car had probably dropped it. She leaves, the employees realize it doesn’t belong to them, they somehow get enough power in it to find my dad’s phone number, and they call to report the found phone.
So today, I will venture over to that Walmart location and joyfully be reunited with my dear phone that I have oh so missed. I’ll see if I learn any more about this very interesting story.
As most of you know, I lost my phone a couple months ago. (I just checked and it was mid-December so yea, about two months.) It was extremely weird because there weren’t many places it could have been and in the end, I thought someone had just stolen it. The only places I thought it could be were in my room somewhere, in my friend Grace’s car or at the gym. The gym turned out to be a no-go, I searched my room but there are ALWAYS random places in there that something could turn up, and Grace and I both searched her car at different occasions with no results. I was seriously looking through it for a good 15-20 min, moving the seats, looking under everything. But in the end, I thought it was lost. In the meantime my friend Chris Bishop gave me his old phone and I’ve been using that and looking into my options of getting a new one.
Again, this was all months ago. I thought my phone was long gone. Saturday night, however, I get a phone call from my dad. He asks, “Guess who I just got a call from?” “Who?” “Someone who found your phone.” “Really, are you serious? Where was it?”
Turns out my dad got a phone call from the Orem Walmart Auto Center. They told him that someone in a white Honda had found it in their car and turned it in. I was out of town, but my phone would be waiting there until I returned to retrieve it.
I was a little confused. How did my phone end up in some random car? Or why did it get returned to the Orem Walmart? My thoughts ranged from the person who stole it suddenly felt bad about it two months later and dropped it off at the first thought, that someone who worked there was somehow involved, that I had left it there during a Walmart trip and that somehow one of the workers picked it up and accidentally dropped it in the car. All options seemed unlikely.
Especially considering I never took my car to the Orem Walmart and most of my Walmart trips are usually at the Lindon Walmart. And why did they mention the white Honda? It seems kinda weird and, well, the only white Honda I know is that of my roommate Grace. Seemed a little odd.
Regardless of the situation, I was excited to finally get my phone back. Yay! I’ve realized how much I really liked my phone and was actually really sad about having to get a new one because I couldn’t find anything I liked as much. So I started to share the old tale of the reappearance of my long lost phone.
I returned from my East coast trip and was chatting with Grace that evening. I told her the crazy story, receiving the expected “That’s so weird.” “How did your phone get there?” etc, etc. There’s a moment of silence and then Grace asks, “Wait, when did this all happen.” I respond, “They called Saturday evening.”
At this point I’m not exactly sure what happened thoughtwise, but at some point Grace put together the pieces that SHE drives a white Honda, SHE was at that auto center Saturday, and SHE had found a phone in her car that she turned in.
My favorite comment was when I shared the story with Susie: “I’m glad you live with Grace. She is really funny.”
Turns out that the phone was, in fact, in Grace’s car the entire time and neither she nor I had managed to find it. The auto people, when vacuuming out her car, must have found it and placed it in a visible location. Grace, unsure where the phone came from, returned it to the center where the employee said that the guy working on her car had probably dropped it. She leaves, the employees realize it doesn’t belong to them, they somehow get enough power in it to find my dad’s phone number, and they call to report the found phone.
So today, I will venture over to that Walmart location and joyfully be reunited with my dear phone that I have oh so missed. I’ll see if I learn any more about this very interesting story.
February 3, 2009
cars and gas
I have only had my car for like 6 months and I've already gotten two rock chips in it...both of which are right in my line of vision...well, one slightly to the left and one down...but both on my side!!!
The crazy thing about the second one is that I swear I was nowhere near anything that could be springing rocks at me...all of the sudden just, BANG...what was that...and oh, there's a chip. Come on people, what's up with that!!!
But today I also noticed that gas has jumped up a whopping 10 cents a gallon. I look down at my gas gauge and guess what? I just filled up like...yesterday I think. It's kinda weird, but I've had really good luck on getting awesome gas deals. When the prices were dropping like crazy, I got in the habit of only filling half-way up so that the gas price would be significantly different and I'd be able to partake of the better price at a better price. Now, I'm sure that all evens out somehow but hey, it made me feel thrifty. I do admit that going to the gas station twice as many times was slightly inconvenient but not much because I pass my normal gas station every day. But there was one day, when gas prices seemed to be steadying that I thought...what the heck, I'll fill all the way up.
Guess what happened the next day? You got it, the price went up again.
I considered myself pretty lucky...and still do, since it seemingly keeps happening again and again and again.
The crazy thing about the second one is that I swear I was nowhere near anything that could be springing rocks at me...all of the sudden just, BANG...what was that...and oh, there's a chip. Come on people, what's up with that!!!
But today I also noticed that gas has jumped up a whopping 10 cents a gallon. I look down at my gas gauge and guess what? I just filled up like...yesterday I think. It's kinda weird, but I've had really good luck on getting awesome gas deals. When the prices were dropping like crazy, I got in the habit of only filling half-way up so that the gas price would be significantly different and I'd be able to partake of the better price at a better price. Now, I'm sure that all evens out somehow but hey, it made me feel thrifty. I do admit that going to the gas station twice as many times was slightly inconvenient but not much because I pass my normal gas station every day. But there was one day, when gas prices seemed to be steadying that I thought...what the heck, I'll fill all the way up.
Guess what happened the next day? You got it, the price went up again.
I considered myself pretty lucky...and still do, since it seemingly keeps happening again and again and again.
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