Today is evaluate your life day. This day could be scary for some, but how else can you make sure that you are on the right track. My life right now boils down to several things: friends/family, writing/editing, school, training, and work (changing in order from day to day and hour to hour).
First of all, my family and friends are important to me. Once a week I like to drop my Oma an email telling her about anything exciting that happened or just how my week was. I grew up living next to my Oma and Opa and as a kid would always run next door after school and these little emails are still my way of running next door to them after school. Another one is my best friend, Laura. Although we haven't lived close to each other for several years, we still text and email about problems and our days and happy moments and have the occasional phone call that lasts at least an hour.
Second thing in my life is my writing and editing. I'm currently editing another book to be published with the help of friends and family, after having read it over several times myself. I'm also working on and planning another book that I'm going to write for this years NaNoWriMo. I love writing. It gives me a chance to be different people and to not be interrupted.
School is of course a big part of my life right now as I'm in grad school. To those that are currently in grad school or have been in grad school, you know what I'm talking about. Also with school I'm the Criminal Justice Student Association President where I get to talk to federal agents (yes, I have some awesome contacts in federal agencies) and arrange speakers and tours for the members.
Training is another big part of my life. I would say working out, but training sounds better for one, and training means that there is a goal that you want to accomplish at the end. For me, I'm training for my third Tough Mudder in 323 days.
Finally work. Last week I was promoted of sorts to House Management Supervisor. Basically meaning I get to do a little more work.
All in all, I love my life even with all of my weird medical stuff that has been going on this year. Yes, sometimes it's a bit stressful and challenging, but if it's not challenging, is it really worth it?
So, evaluate your life today. If you find that you don't like a specific thing, then ask yourself why and don't be afraid to make some changes for the better.
Showing posts with label work. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 19, 2013
Friday, September 27, 2013
What's Your Quirk?
Everyone I know has a weird little quirk when it comes to working out. Some stare themselves down in the mirror, some look really pissed off while lifting, while others go in pairs or groups to the gym and everyone stands around one person while that person is lifting.
My quirk you ask? Well I have several.
I always do 100 reps on each machine I use. I typically always do 4 sets of 25 and take a water break after my 3rd set. Sometimes I'll do more, but 100 is my minimum.
When I'm not feeling the workout, I usually dedicate it to someone who is in the military and that pushes me harder.
My final quirk, is music. When I'm lifting, I can't stand listening to my iPod just because the cord gets in the way, but when I do cardio, I will sing along to all of the songs...sometimes out loud.
Whatever your workout quirk is, don't worry about it, just keep lifting!
My quirk you ask? Well I have several.
I always do 100 reps on each machine I use. I typically always do 4 sets of 25 and take a water break after my 3rd set. Sometimes I'll do more, but 100 is my minimum.
When I'm not feeling the workout, I usually dedicate it to someone who is in the military and that pushes me harder.
My final quirk, is music. When I'm lifting, I can't stand listening to my iPod just because the cord gets in the way, but when I do cardio, I will sing along to all of the songs...sometimes out loud.
Whatever your workout quirk is, don't worry about it, just keep lifting!
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Co Workers
Everyone has that one co-worker that is a pain in the ass. Last night, I had to work with that person, lucky me. First, let me explain what I do. I'm a House Manager at school and basically what I do is tear tickets to theater and musical performances and help the patrons (people coming to see the show) with any problems and at times keep the directors calms, and open doors and what not. Typically things go smoothly and there are no crazy things that happen, every once in a while though, when you are least expecting it, shit blows up. Last night was one of those nights.
I was supposed to work with, let's call him Thomas. Thomas is great to work with: I can trust him to do whatever I ask of him and in a reasonable amount of time. Instead, I got to work with, let's call her Sarah (the pain in the ass). We are scheduled to get there an hour and a half before the show starts, so for this particular night, 6pm. I get there a little early (cause I'm German) and wait around for my partner. She didn't show up for ten minutes which is the grace period to be late so I call her and she finally answers. Apparently she was in the wrong building. She was on the main campus when we were supposed to work about a mile away in a different building still owned by the campus. She gets there at 6:30 and by this time (being opening night) things are already going crazy, and to top it all off, I'm still sick and could barely talk. When she did finally come, she was useless, less than useless really. She didn't help train the ushers, she didn't know anything about the play or who the director and Stage Manager were or anything. To top it all off, she is one of those people that talk really quietly so you have to say 'what' a hundred times just to hear what she says. 7pm comes around and we open the house to let people sit down and we are tearing tickets and everything (finally) is going smoothly (still losing the voice that I barely had). At 7:30 when we were supposed to start the show, the director decided to hold it for 10 minutes because of a snow/rain storm and the roads were slippery, so that's fine. At 7:35 we were supposed to make an announcement to have people move together so latecomers wouldn't have to crawl on top of people and possibly step on their toes. Normally I would and it would be fine but since I could barely talk as it was and my volume was barely there, I told Sarah to do it. She constantly said no and I finally told her she had to because I couldn't talk loud enough. I went downstairs to check to see if anyone else was coming up the walk while she was supposed to make the announcement, which I later learned that she made the director do (which he wasn't happy about because it isn't his job).
The play started and it was hilarious. We laughed, we clapped and luckily Sarah sat outside of the hall to deal with late comers. After the show we fill out the report and talked with the Stage Manager to make sure everything went well and then we were free to go. We go downstairs to the office and sign out and I was finally free of her.
I'm sure all of you have at least one co-worker that you can't stand no matter how nice you try to be to them. My advice to you, try not to be sick when you have to work with them, it will only make it that much more worse.
I was supposed to work with, let's call him Thomas. Thomas is great to work with: I can trust him to do whatever I ask of him and in a reasonable amount of time. Instead, I got to work with, let's call her Sarah (the pain in the ass). We are scheduled to get there an hour and a half before the show starts, so for this particular night, 6pm. I get there a little early (cause I'm German) and wait around for my partner. She didn't show up for ten minutes which is the grace period to be late so I call her and she finally answers. Apparently she was in the wrong building. She was on the main campus when we were supposed to work about a mile away in a different building still owned by the campus. She gets there at 6:30 and by this time (being opening night) things are already going crazy, and to top it all off, I'm still sick and could barely talk. When she did finally come, she was useless, less than useless really. She didn't help train the ushers, she didn't know anything about the play or who the director and Stage Manager were or anything. To top it all off, she is one of those people that talk really quietly so you have to say 'what' a hundred times just to hear what she says. 7pm comes around and we open the house to let people sit down and we are tearing tickets and everything (finally) is going smoothly (still losing the voice that I barely had). At 7:30 when we were supposed to start the show, the director decided to hold it for 10 minutes because of a snow/rain storm and the roads were slippery, so that's fine. At 7:35 we were supposed to make an announcement to have people move together so latecomers wouldn't have to crawl on top of people and possibly step on their toes. Normally I would and it would be fine but since I could barely talk as it was and my volume was barely there, I told Sarah to do it. She constantly said no and I finally told her she had to because I couldn't talk loud enough. I went downstairs to check to see if anyone else was coming up the walk while she was supposed to make the announcement, which I later learned that she made the director do (which he wasn't happy about because it isn't his job).
The play started and it was hilarious. We laughed, we clapped and luckily Sarah sat outside of the hall to deal with late comers. After the show we fill out the report and talked with the Stage Manager to make sure everything went well and then we were free to go. We go downstairs to the office and sign out and I was finally free of her.
I'm sure all of you have at least one co-worker that you can't stand no matter how nice you try to be to them. My advice to you, try not to be sick when you have to work with them, it will only make it that much more worse.
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