This girl is a freak show.
How does she (or anyone else) think this looks good?
Monday, April 12, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
i got a new look!
One of my very best friends from middle school just become an apprentice hair stylist (her mom owns a salon and used to do my hair.) I've been looking for someone new and volunteered to let her practice on me. We had a ton of fun and she did an amazing job (for free too)! Believe it or not I was her first ever highlights. When it came to the cut I told her she could basically do whatever she wanted so she cut most of it then her mom did the texture.
What do you think?...it's my new back to school, get out of corporate America look.
(plus it gave me a chance to go crazy on Photo Booth...so sorry for the ANTM moment)
"trying" conversations
Question for you all...because I find this EXTREMELY strange and I'm wondering if I am way off base.
Why is it acceptable to talk about "trying" to get pregnant whenever you want?
Now I don't mind talking about it with close friends or family. Or even blogging about it. But at work? What? Huh?
This morning my boss (and another supervisor and our admin) were having a LOUD conversation about my boss starting to "try" in two months and how long her and her husband "tried" with their first child. Right in the middle of the office.
It's not appropriate to talk about your sex life at work when you are not "trying," so why does a baby make that suddenly ok? I'm pretty sure if I was telling people how long my boyfriend and I have been "not trying," I would be visited by HR before the conversation was over.
I'm a pretty open person and I love hearing about babies and children. But hearing these conversations (or people who I am not friends with having them with me) bothers the hell out of me! And at work it's just kind of gross!
Does anyone else feel this way? Am I just being prude?
Why is it acceptable to talk about "trying" to get pregnant whenever you want?
Now I don't mind talking about it with close friends or family. Or even blogging about it. But at work? What? Huh?
This morning my boss (and another supervisor and our admin) were having a LOUD conversation about my boss starting to "try" in two months and how long her and her husband "tried" with their first child. Right in the middle of the office.
It's not appropriate to talk about your sex life at work when you are not "trying," so why does a baby make that suddenly ok? I'm pretty sure if I was telling people how long my boyfriend and I have been "not trying," I would be visited by HR before the conversation was over.
I'm a pretty open person and I love hearing about babies and children. But hearing these conversations (or people who I am not friends with having them with me) bothers the hell out of me! And at work it's just kind of gross!
Does anyone else feel this way? Am I just being prude?
Thursday, April 8, 2010
quitter
I'm not a quitter.
In fact, I don't think I have ever quit anything in my life. All of the jobs and internships I have had sort of just came to an end either due to me leaving (to go back to college or go to college) or it was something that only had a set time frame. I never quit any clubs or extracurricular activities either, whenever I would stop, it would always be natural and on good terms. I never even dropped a class in college.
But I will be quitting my job, at the company I have worked with since I graduated college almost three years ago, in a matter of weeks. It's so strange to think about. I'm super excited and happy (which is kind of weird...yay! I'm happy I will have no money coming in!) but I have no idea how to tell my boss.
I have kept my plans very secret so I think this will come as a big surprise to her. While I don't know the exact date I will need to tell her pretty soon to allow two weeks. School starts in June but I am taking some time off before I start to get things in order and also because I will be going out of town for a couple graduations.
I'm going to draft a letter but I don't know if I should just email her the letter or ask to meet with her and give it to her? I don't want to be rude but I also don't want to get into tons of conversations with people about why I am leaving...I'm sure many people I work with will be critical and dealing with it is annoying. Or maybe I am completely wrong.
What do you think? Has anyone ever quit a "grown up" job? How did you do it?
In fact, I don't think I have ever quit anything in my life. All of the jobs and internships I have had sort of just came to an end either due to me leaving (to go back to college or go to college) or it was something that only had a set time frame. I never quit any clubs or extracurricular activities either, whenever I would stop, it would always be natural and on good terms. I never even dropped a class in college.
But I will be quitting my job, at the company I have worked with since I graduated college almost three years ago, in a matter of weeks. It's so strange to think about. I'm super excited and happy (which is kind of weird...yay! I'm happy I will have no money coming in!) but I have no idea how to tell my boss.
I have kept my plans very secret so I think this will come as a big surprise to her. While I don't know the exact date I will need to tell her pretty soon to allow two weeks. School starts in June but I am taking some time off before I start to get things in order and also because I will be going out of town for a couple graduations.
I'm going to draft a letter but I don't know if I should just email her the letter or ask to meet with her and give it to her? I don't want to be rude but I also don't want to get into tons of conversations with people about why I am leaving...I'm sure many people I work with will be critical and dealing with it is annoying. Or maybe I am completely wrong.
What do you think? Has anyone ever quit a "grown up" job? How did you do it?
Monday, April 5, 2010
it's time to trust my instincts, close my eyes and leap
After 9 months of planning, applications, interviews, stress, emails, phone calls and waiting and waiting and waiting some more...I finally have made an official decision as to where I will be going to grad school.
drum roll, please...
School #3!!!! Now to be known as LU.
As many of you know, this was not my original first choice because it will take a bit longer to complete (I should graduate in January 2012), however the more I thought about it the better it just felt to me. The fact that I will be able to work at some kind of job plus how wonderful everyone I have interacted with there definitely were major factors in my decision.
You may be wondering what happened with School #1. First I was told I was on a wait list and if they were able to find enough internship placements they would put me into the class starting this summer (they only have one small "cohort" each year for this program.) Well, they ended up not being able to accept me for this year but did offer me a spot in the 2011-2012 cohort.
Since I had already pretty much decided on LU I told them "thanks, but no thanks" and let LU know right away I would be coming there!
So now I am jumping in, making more plans and seeing where I go from here. It's very scary to think of quiting my job, borrowing money, starting school again and finding a new job (or more likely a couple small jobs) but I am excited to be pursuing my dream. I know once I have a career that I actually want and enjoy all this will be worth it.
drum roll, please...
School #3!!!! Now to be known as LU.
As many of you know, this was not my original first choice because it will take a bit longer to complete (I should graduate in January 2012), however the more I thought about it the better it just felt to me. The fact that I will be able to work at some kind of job plus how wonderful everyone I have interacted with there definitely were major factors in my decision.
You may be wondering what happened with School #1. First I was told I was on a wait list and if they were able to find enough internship placements they would put me into the class starting this summer (they only have one small "cohort" each year for this program.) Well, they ended up not being able to accept me for this year but did offer me a spot in the 2011-2012 cohort.
Since I had already pretty much decided on LU I told them "thanks, but no thanks" and let LU know right away I would be coming there!
So now I am jumping in, making more plans and seeing where I go from here. It's very scary to think of quiting my job, borrowing money, starting school again and finding a new job (or more likely a couple small jobs) but I am excited to be pursuing my dream. I know once I have a career that I actually want and enjoy all this will be worth it.
Easter weekend (in bullets because I am lazy)
OK the real reason for the bullets is because it's super busy at work today but I still wanted to be sure to post about my weekend.
- We left MD on Thursday as soon as K got home from class and got to my aunt's house in Pinehurst, NC at 3:00 am. It was a long drive but I was glad we got it done at night.
- Hanna was very good in the car both on they way there are on the way home. She used to barf on long car trips so I was worried, but there were no incidents.
- Friday night we had fondue which is always fun and yummy. This was actually K and my 3rd Easter in a row having fondue. The past two years we have spent it alone and always did fondue for something different and fun.
- Saturday we did some shopping/browsing downtown and went out to dinner at a really good restaurant.
- Easter was spent in the car. It took forever to get back home so when we finally did we just ordered pizza and got caught up on the dvr.
- I also spent the weekend trying to convince K we needed to move to the South. I love the friendly people, cheaper home prices, quiet and the warm weather. Not to mention sweet tea!
- Why is it after going away for the weekend I get totally behind in everything I need to do for the week? For example, I don't think I will cook dinner all week just because I didn't have the weekend to menu plan/grocery shop.
- As usual, I failed epically at taking random pictures to document the trip.
How was your weekend?
Thursday, April 1, 2010
road trip! and muffins!
K and I (and Hanna) are leaving tonight to drive to North Carolina for the weekend. My parents, brother and sister (and Gryffin---their dog) are also going but they are leaving earlier today. We are all going to visit my aunt and my cousin and will probably eat too much, drink too much, enjoy the sunshine and relax. I'm especially looking forward to the fondue and martini night my aunt has planned.
I wanted to make something to bring with me so I decided on trying out two different kinds of muffins recipes and a cherry scone recipe I got off Weight Watchers. Last night I was literally baking from 6-10.
I'm looking forward to these...
Raspberry Muffins
3 POINTS each, makes 12 muffins.
You'll need: 1 1/2 cup(s) whole wheat self-rising flour OR If you cannot find whole wheat self-rising flour, mix together 1 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour with 2 1/4 teaspoons of baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
4 Tbsp margarine, softened.
2 cups ready-to-eat crisp rice cereal, divided
1 1/2 cup(s) raspberries, divided
2/3 cup unpacked brown sugar, divided 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
2/3 cups buttermilk
4 Tbsp margarine, softened.
2 cups ready-to-eat crisp rice cereal, divided
1 1/2 cup(s) raspberries, divided
2/3 cup unpacked brown sugar, divided 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
2/3 cups buttermilk
How to make them: Preheat oven to 400ºF. Coat a 12-hole muffin tin with cooking spray or use liners. Place flour in a large bowl and rub in margarine with your fingers. Stir in 1 1/3 cups of cereal, 1 cup of raspberries and 1/2 cup of sugar. Combine eggs and milk in a small bowl; stir into flour-fruit mixture. Pour mixture into prepared tin; sprinkle with remaining raspberries (I put one whole raspberry on top of each muffin), cereal and sugar. Bake 25 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes before flipping onto wire rack to cool.
I hope you have a very nice Easter weekend!
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