First year? Check.
Posted on: April 24, 2012 at 8:55 am. 1 comment
As of last thursday, I am officially done my first year of college. I will get my marks back later this week but I’m pretty sure I did awesome in the majority of my classes *knocks on wood*. The only one I was iffy about was my spanish class, but I ended up getting 100% on the exam because it was the biggest derp exam of life.
Now that I’m done school, I’ve just been working. As of Wednesday, I have two jobs. One full time and one part time, though the part time will only be for another 2 weeks until my 2-week-notice kicks in. So this week I have 25+ hours at the full time job, and 30+ the part time one (seems very part time, eh?). Wednesday will be my first official day, starting at 8am and I’ll have to be at the grocery story for 4-8. And there’s about a half hour drive between the two so… should be a fun day!
I’m quite excited for my new job, because I’ll be working with one of my best friends! She’s been doing (paid) co-op there for the past 4 months, and has the next 4 months as well. It’s a soil/mulch company, and since it’s summer they need more help and asked her if she knew anyone that was looking for a full time job for the summer. I’ll be getting 50+ hours a week, and after 44 you get paid overtime. It’s a lot of just office work, calling customers to let them know when their trucks of dirt are coming (over 100 calls a day) but it’s still going to be better than my current job as a cashier. Even though my current boss is pissed that I’m leaving, and I was worrying about that, but I realized it’s not really my problem. I have worked there for almost 2 years, get paid minimum wage and they basically treat me as their slave. They are understaffed and always refused to hire more people, and we all get overworked because of it.
But considering it’s taken me almost a day to write this post, since I kept getting distracted… I’ll end it here. I will try my best to blog as much as possible this summer, but I don’t know how I’ll handle 10 hours of working every day. We’ll see…
1 comment Tags: College, Friends, Life, Money, New Job, School, Work.
Almost the end…
Posted on: April 18, 2012 at 11:59 am. 1 comment
I am almost done my first year of school. I have one day & two classes left to finish. The other 7 are done, but for tomorrow I have an exam to study for, and two projects to (start/)finish. I am beyond excited to be done, even though as soon as I’m done I’ll go back into working- and may even end up with a full time summer job somewhere new, but I will post more about that later. I apologize for my complete lack of blogging. School has been taking up time. Work has been taking up time. Life has been taking up time. My life is…. well, kind of a mess right now. Not really in a terrible way. I am not the same person I was even in January of this year, and I don’t know how I feel about that. I am happy, but I am not. I have too much stuff to do to explain it all right now, but I just wanted to post that I am alive and well! But I will be better tomorrow afternoon.
I should be working on my projects now, but instead I’m procrastinating and browsing Geek Toys 2012. It’s a pretty awesome site filled with Petsmart coupons, Amazon promotional code and many amazing, cheap products. I already found something that I want to get my mom for christmas, and the prices are great! But alas, it is 11:59 and I told myself that I’d start all of my projects at noon so here I go…
1 comment Tags: Blah, College, Geek Toys, Life, Paid Blogging, School.
The Geek In Me
Posted on: March 13, 2012 at 9:34 am. 0 comments
I am a true geek at heart. I don’t always express it, and sometimes (usually) the country girl in me shines a whole lot more, but I will always be a sucker for something geeky (especially guys, but that’s a whole new topic). So I was pleasantly surprised when I came across a site filled with Geek Toys. I spent way too much time looking at all of the cool things they showcase on the site, and finding a ExpressCopy promo code. I should really be getting ready to go to class, but instead I’m sitting here looking through hundreds of gadgets that tickle my geek fancy. I know I would definitely be buying the Photoshop Shortcut Keyboard Decals if I hadn’t just purchased $63 worth of stuff online yesterday.
As a (future) graphic designer, printing is something that I’ll be doing for the rest of my life. For school projects, we have access to state of the art printers but when it’s a personal project, the 123 Print promotional codes found on Geek Alerts will really come in handy for me. You can get free shipping, $10 off, and many other coupons all in one place! Be sure to check it out if you need any printing done.
0 comments Tags: Career, Design, Geeky, Paid Blogging, School.
I miss being a kid.
Posted on: March 6, 2012 at 9:56 am. 1 comment
I was looking through all of my past layouts for Lover Dearest this morning, and it just makes me miss how things used to be. When I could spend all of my time making layouts and designing, and not worrying about having to go to school or work or money or how much gas costs. Don’t get me wrong- I’m glad I’m not a 15 year old kid anymore and would not go back for anything but I just miss the simplicity of it. I miss not having so many responsibilities and worries and so many midterms. Midterms that I should probably be studying for, considering I barely have and my midterm is in two hours. One of those hours will be spent driving to school.
I went to Nashville last week. It was awesome, and I’ll do a full post about it later (hopefully). For now, I’m off to study or eat or get dressed or do something that involves being 19 and not 15. Sigh.
