my random thoughts and things:

An Update? What is that?

Sunday, April 23, 2005
I would like to give a big huge CONGRATS! to all of my friends at WMU who graduated this semester! so happy for them all and wish them the best of luck! They all deserve the best!
Well, it's been a while, and a lot but little has happened! hm, let's see, moved to GR, moved my stuff from Kzoo that my bro was using, finally got a job, and oh yeah, got engaged! ha! Zack! Most should know by now. ;) It all happened rather quickly, but what felt like to me, the right amount of time.

took some pictures 5 days ago when it was 80 degrees and I have them posted. click on pic above to take a look. I used Zack's Digital SLR for these. I found a new love- that camera....grrrrr......

So the job is for a marketing outsourcing company, based out of Utah. They have big big clients, and the one I represent is for the nation's leading large appliance company. I am their Brand Advocate for Best Buy, Sears, and Lowe's. I am so excited. Although my official start day was April 18th, I haven't started training yet. I am actually flying to Houston to do some training with another new hire down there this Wednesday, all expenses paid of course. I am just so excited! Of all the numbers of jobs I've applied for, this is the one that I wanted the most, and they are the only ones who called  me back! how awesome is that! Two phone interviews and a video presentation later, I'm hired! Monday I get to get up for an 8am conference call! sounds so geeky, but I am just stoked to have this job and so happy to actually to be out there, a real full time job in the marketing field! So, my record remains this: I have never not got a job that I've interviewed for! amazing!

Sadly, I am going to turn this site into just a picture gallery. The journal-ish portion of this site will be done after today ( I just can't keep up with it that part anymore). Now hopefully I will be taking A LOT more pictures while I am traveling around with my job.

Oh yes, and I more thing... Back on November 16, 2004 I had made a "list" of things that I was looking forward to and things that I wasn't.... It's funny to read it now. I guess the "not living with boys because they shed" part didn't exactly work out. Zack is hairy. (click the pink link to read again) haha. I should be getting a cat when I get back from Houston too!

Tuesday, February 9, 2005

Well, Florida was absolutely fabulous! I got myself a hair cut and color, and a bit of a tan which is still holding on... Stayed in Sarasota, Litha, and Orlando, went to SeaWorld, Busch Gardens, and a Paula Poundstone comedy show with my aunt. Met Gary Busey, went to the Sarasota Film Festival Pre-Party and got my picture with my aunt put in the Bradenton paper (yeah! they know who to take pictures of!)

The job hunt is exhausting... Still can't decide where I want to go, and now there are other factors to take into consideration... I need money and my bills aren't going away. I had a couple of lead in Florida, but I didn't go after them completely because i am chicken of moving down there for some reason, but the jobs in Michigan are nothing compared to what they are down there.

hopefully the next time i update, I will have a job! ha!

coulda, woulda, shoulda.... ;)

Thursday, December 29th 2004 1:00 am

Wow, I just had a really sharp pain go through my back... wait, that happens all of the time! thank you drums!

So yes, I am still here, in Kzoo. fabulous I know. Back and forth between Sketown and Kzoo I have been. Was in sketown for the holidays, drove to kzoo monday night, drove to grandville to meet up with my old roomies tuesday and saw meet the fockers (great movie! ), then continued home to Sketown, chilled for a bit this morning with mom (wednesday) then unloaded the van into storage ( I love how my stuff is in some garage thing right now), hurried back to kzoo to cosign the lease for my brother who has no credit, then went back to the apartment, powerpacked the kitchen and bathroom ( oh yeah, and there is still plenty more to pack, my step-dad is going to freak.... moving is a ridiculous amount of work) then I finally just got to go out and have a good time with kristin and jenny at wayside. And tomorrow I am driving back to sketown, again, to put the rest of my stuff in storage, and then driving back to kzoo again to party (hey, I am going to get out of this town what I can, while I can...) and then drive back to sketown friday to have "girl's day" with my mom and two sisters. (it sounds dumb, but we have the BEST time, we are all so easily amused, we just laugh all day!  :)  )

So, next wednesday I am getting on a plane in GR and flying south for quite some time. Main objective: to rest and relax and get a tan!

I hate moving so much. I almost wish I were still here another semester to get some more time in with friends who I've neglected too many times... and to not have to move in the winter during the holidays....

Monday, December 27th, 2004  

Well folks... I will be shutting off my internet tomorrow and getting my ass out of this town!
The whole moving/packing thing - not going very well at all.... My brother is having the most ridiculous time trying to find a place to live/finding a roommate - it's stressing me out!
I hope I can get a bit more "quality time" in with some friends before I go again... and avoid throwing up.... ( i hate that sooooo much! its so ugly!)
As far as my life after Feb 2, still way up in the air... you know how to reach me!

Friday, December 17,  2004

AH, SO YEAH...... and everything that is not "low"

Thursday, December 16, 2004

Oh my good god did I just get done paying bills! oy! Got my student loan consolidated for as low as 1.65%! yipee and stuff like that. I am now packing once again to be moving here in the next couple of weeks for the third time in the past year or so...

So ok, just because I don't have a "real job" yet, does not mean that my degree means nothing! I just want to spend christmas with my family and take a siesta in Florida for a month while I can... no man, no kids, no problem right? RIGHT!

So as for the rest of whatever has been going on with me... I am so in different places all of the time... and I feel bad because I have lost touch with a few people, I just wish people hadn't got angry with me for not being available when they wanted me to be.

So I will be in the not fabulous town of Kzoo for probably two more weeks on and off. I am done with Sears next wednesday, and I will move the following week between xmas and new year. I won't be moving anywhere really, just temporarily staying with my parents, then who knows where - Grand Rapids, Holland, Tampa, .... Tokyo... no, not Japan. dude, that would be crazy.

Wednesday, December 8, 2004

well it has been a while since I last updated. Not much to fill in on other than turning 23, kicking some major ass on my group presentations last thursday, and being half way through exams!

Saturday will be very strange.
And a word of encouragement for what it's worth: If you don't think you'll  get there, you might not... attitude makes all the difference. If you know what you want, go for it, you'll get it if you don't give up or compromise what you really want. Just don't compromise, because you are only compromising yourself, and that's the last thing anyone should compromise.

Monday, Nov. 29, 2004

Yay for Monday. Graduation-less than two weeks away.... 2 presentations on Thursday/ 23rd birthday.... after Thursday I might be able to breath....

Black Friday

That's Mrs. Miller to you buddy.... what makes you think you can just waltz into my family like that?

Technically Tuesday, November 16, 2004

So, I just figured out that I only have 3 more days of the marketing class from hell... granted 2 of those classes are for presentations.... I can't help to notice that it seems it isn't just me who is having crazy problems with classes this semester. I just don't get it.
I just want this semester to be over so bad, not just because I am graduating (finally) but because this semester is kicking my ass in so many ways...
I haven't seen my family at home for almost two months now-that sucks.
I have had this damn cold for almost 2 weeks- that sucks.
I failed the first test ever of my life this semester-that sucks.
My little sister left the state and hasn't even called me yet-that sucks a lot.
My social life is being eaten away by my job-this sucks.
I have to give two presentations on my birthday-that sucks

Ok, so more things that I am not looking forward to:
a full time job
moving AGAIN
turning 23 ( I mean, what is there to look forward to, now I am just getting old)
3 more group presentations
missing my sister
final exams
the day after thanksgiving sale at work ( i.e. crazy/bitchy people EVERYWHERE!)
working 10 hours a day on the weekends ( I think working retail means that you have to give up a life on the weekends, and that you are not entitled to see your family during the holidays. "Well if I knew you were going to take a week off I would have never hired you." ) What is that?
and of course cleaning the bathroom of the  "things"  that don't belong to me! talk about nasty. I mean for real, they are everywhere, I think they reproduce once they hit the floor or something...

But, things I am looking forward to:
GRADUATING
FLORIDA
HOLIDAYS in Muskegon...
graduation par-tay!
GRADUATING! ( i know I already said this )
possibly making real money
NO MORE SEARS!
getting a cat
NO MORE SCHOOL
a social life for a week.
oh yeah, and GRADUATING
Not living with a boy/boys ( it was nice living with girls for a while, they don't "shed" )

I should really go to bed now.

I realized over the weekend that there are things that I really miss...  :)

 

Tuesday, November 9, 2004

I bought my cap and gown today. I don't know if it is really sinking in yet... just about a month left to go. Then what? What will I do without homework and group projects and lectures?

Friday NOv. 5, 2004 anywhere you see " * " you may enter a profane word of your choice...

My ears are still ringing and my voice is slowly recovering.

It was the best * concert ever! OH you have no * idea! I had no idea it would be so * good. I still can't get over it! (even though damn breslin security people turned the damn lights on in the middle of the set to try to stop people from lighting up.... let's think.... concert, college kids, incubus, oh yeah! how can you forget about pot!) like dur.
The Music didn't open for some reason, but Koppel gave a tasty treat instead!  It was hot.  What was even hotter was when Brandon, Jose, and Ben busted out a * crazy drum thing.... You had to be there! I can't find the words to describe it... Nicole!--the best person to go to an Incubus concert with!
The song list went like this:

Pistola, Nice To Know You, Idiot Box, Wish You Were Here, Just A Phase, Stellar, Make Yourself, Here in My Room, Drive, Priceless, Vitamin, Talk Shows, Follow, Sick, Sad Little World, Megalomaniac ---- Pantomime, Southern Girl, Crow

The best ever!

afterwards, we went to hang out with some peeps from Lansing. Good times.

Wednesday

Hmmmm...

Incubus tomorrow night!

Oh yes, and my bit on the election and all of the mess of politics. When will it be enough? When will everyone be satisfied? NEVER. That is just the way it is. I hear my mother in the back of my head "everything in the world isn't fair, so stop complaining." And I completely agree. What is complaining and bickering going to do? Absolutely nothing besides drive everyone nuts. (and the obviously goes for many other things in life...)
Yes, 51% of the population voted for Bush. It's done, it's decided. If he's a lemon, then make lemonade for crying out loud.
He is the President of the United States, and if that can't be respected even a tiny itsy bit, then your mom didn't teach you about respect.

In my Japanese Religion class today, we were talking about how schools in Japan used to have eithics textbooks...
be filial to your parents, affectionate to your brothers and sisters; as husbands and wives be harmonious, as friends true; bear yourselves in modesty and moderation; extend your benevolence to all: pursue learning and cultivate arts, and thereby develop intellectual faculties and perfect moral powers; furthermore advance public good and promote common interests
Right now, putting textbooks like this in classrooms doesn't sound so profoundly stupid.

Tuesday 12:30am

Well I'm glad my mom didn't tell me on saturday I guess. .. This hurts a lot. I know there is nothing I can do, which is would be exactly the same if they would have just told me themselves. Can't deal anymore. I am afraid I will become numb.