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Happy New Year! And Happy New Blog, too!
Last year I made two New Year’s resolutions, and it was the first time I seriously attempted this. The first was personal, but I’d like to say that it was a partial success. In fact… not a bad job.
The second one I did share last year, and it was a wish to get my life moving again. Specifically, go to college. My first, knee-jerk reaction is that I failed on this completely, but the more I reflect back on it, the more I realized that I didn’t completely fail. No, I’m not in college. No, I’m not really any closer to going to college. No, I haven’t even taken another online class.
But it seems like the more that I push for it, the more I feel something pushing back. I know it sounds like a cop-out, but I’m starting to believe that I’m not supposed to be there just yet, for whatever reason. I’ve been focusing a lot on my job, and you know what? In the last year, I’ve gotten a major promotion and a three-dollar pay raise. For my first job, that’s not too bad. I’m management now, working full time. I have insurance.
This leads me up to next year’s resolutions.
So, six things. We’ll see how this goes, okay?
I’ve been getting this message from a million different directions recently… that life is too short for all the crap we’ve got going on. One of my closest friends could have died very recently in a car accident, and everything she’s been saying since has confirmed this. One little thing in your life could go slightly differently, and boom… you could be gone. Life is too short for all of the things we are and are not doing.
I feel like I need to make a lot of changes in my own life. A lot of changes. I feel resolute; I feel like this whole thing is so fleeting and I’m wasting my time with inactivity. I need to get up and go. I’ve come up with a list of New Year’s Resolutions. Now, before you tell me that it’s not the new year just yet… I’m thinking more along the lines of “I want to check back on myself around New Year’s, and I want to see if I’ve actually done what I set out to do.”
That was a ridiculous time with no updates. Sorry, guys! But see, I’ve been working at Braums for a week now, and by the time I get online, I’m too exhausted to even check my email! But today was the first truly good day I’ve had so far, and so here I am, actually updating.
Jessyca poking me helped.
Anyhow, it’s not going too bad! The Braums I work at is really small… the other ones in town are literally twice the size! My niche is mainly working the grocery counter, and then stocking things. I got comfortable with that, had my nice little comfort zone, and then today I ended up doing almost everything BUT that. I washed dishes, took out trash, learned how to work the food register (where they order burgers and such), learned how to make milkshakes and malts and such (FINALLY!), made my first banana split (I’ve never even EATEN one in my LIFE), and ended up helping to train a girl who today was her first day. It was like the blind leading the blind… “Do as I say, not as I do!” *messes up ice cream sundae*… (more…)
I have a friend who makes music videos, and after months of trying to figure out how it works, I did it! It’s from the movie Newsies, if you’ve ever seen or heard of it (Xan has), and I’m kinda proud of it, as a first attempt. So if you have Windows Media Player, you can download and watch it for me…
Anyhow, as for real life. The people from OBU are much nicer than those up in Edmond. I mean, I sent FAFSA information to UCO and they never even acknowledged me. Oklahoma Baptist, on the other hand, has been averaging a piece of correspondance every two days or so, and one woman even called me to tell me about enrollment dates and what kind of test scores I need for what kind of aid.
This is very, very good.
Working on getting my liscense and getting it soon. I got to drive Dad’s little red car (he sold his, by the way, so I did end up losing my car, but it wasn’t because of me) and I did so much better in it. I’m actually excited about driving again. If only the gas prices weren’t so day-gone high!
List five non-material things you wish you had, and then tag three people to do the same!
Now I tag Darlene, Jessie, and James. I’d tag Jessyca but she doesn’t have a blog!