I'm slowly working my way out of the most stressful two weeks of this semester. I'll be posting again as soon as I'm done with my geology test. It's haunting my every waking and sleeping moment right now.
T and I went to a Coldplay concert last night. All I will say right now is that it was amazing. Completely incredible. Those guys know how to put on a show and win over anyone who goes to see them.
Pictures from that and a real blog coming soon! Wish me luck on my test tonight.
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10/22/2008
9/18/2008
Life and the future
I've been getting excited about life again. That's not to say that before I was on the verge of something drastic. I was just in the day to day routine of life: Wake up early, go to work, come home -or go to school then come home, go to bed, do it again. My roommate is engaged and while I was a tad jealous of her at first, I now wish that we were closer so that she would let me help with her plans (is that selfish?). I want so badly to be a social event planner and I really, REALLY want to plan weddings. I know I would be so great at finding out how people want to celebrate an occasion and then doing it for them. I would love to go to stores and venues and bakeries and help my client find exactly what he/she is picturing. So I started looking at schools again. Before I had a really hard time finding anything good but I've done some reading about the industry and looked a little harder at one of my top choices and found two, count them! TWO perfect programs at two colleges near me. I sent an email to the hospitality department at one school and now I have a phone meeting with the head of the department tonight at 6:00. I hate talking on the phone, but I'm really ecstatic at the prospect of having a career I love being within reach.
I found this article on an ezine while looking for music to sing at a wedding:
What better motivation for becoming a top level wedding planner than planning your own wedding and loving every moment of the process! This is exactly the way Rebecca Stone came into being Duet Weddings in February 2006. “I was completely head over heels smitten with the wedding planning process after planning my own wedding,” she told YWD. “I loved every second of it, starting with a vision, planning the details and then seeing it all come true and experiencing the magic of the day.” And when it was all over, there was no question in Rebecca’s mind concerning what she wanted to be doing each and every day thereafter: planning weddings, whether the request be for ‘month-of’ assistance, a full-service wedding, or anything in between.
After learning the planning process so thoroughly through her own wedding, Rebecca’s main goal was to share her experiences and what she had learned and to help other brides and grooms. “I understood exactly what they are feeling -- the excitement and happiness of the engagement; the confusion and stress which comes with the abundance of choices and costs; the wedding daydreams (and inability to focus on much else); and wedding nightmares (the repeated dream of forgetting to buy shoes resulting in many sleepless nights).”
And, she shared with us, she loves being the great listener for others that her friends and family were for her. “I want to be able to reassure and help. I wanted to guide and advise. I want to allow others to enjoy the process completely and enjoy the big day knowing that everything is being handled with the greatest of love and care.”
With her own wedding serving as her initial inspiration, we asked Rebecca about the source of her continued inspiration which we simply love what we found out: her inspiration is you! Rebecca virtually beamed when she shared, “I love nothing more than the look on a couple’s face as they walk back up the aisle as husband and wife during their recessional.” She also loves the look on their faces, the wide-eyed awe, when they first walk into their reception and the way their smiles for each other actually glow during their first dance. “As much as I adore the little details and beautiful wedding ‘things,’” Rebecca says, “what inspires me most are the couples I work with.”
But she does love those wedding “things” too. “I absolutely love the details and the ability to constantly create and imagine,” she says. She admitted a little secret, that she can talk for hours about flowers, invitations, linens, and gowns, and she lists some of the wedding-planning tasks she loves the most: ‘playing’ with paper products, scouring flea markets to find the perfect vase, planning menus and tasting accompanying wines, buying fabrics and ribbons to perhaps be used later as table runners, embellishments for the napkins, or another creative endeavor. A morning at the flower mart is also among her favorite things, where she enjoys spending the afternoon arranging and rearranging the flowers she has purchased until she achieves the perfect look.
Whether your wedding is to be in Rebecca’s vicinity, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, the Santa Ynez Valley, or a destination wedding anywhere worldwide, Rebecca’s enthusiasm is infectious. “Yes, yes, yes!” she says. “I absolutely love to travel and would be completely thrilled to take on a wedding opportunity anywhere in the world. Be it exotic and remote or bustling metropolitan - destination weddings are a huge dream of mine!”
Please plan on calling Rebecca immediately after that magical day you become engaged, because she takes on only a limited number of weddings each year in order to provide you with a superior level of attention and continuing magic. “I try to plan each wedding as if it were my own.” she says.
For you, this is a good thing, because the exquisite way in which she planned her own wedding resulted in a feature article in a leading bridal magazine. Rebecca says this was a huge honor and accomplishment after pouring her love into planning each and every little detail of that beautiful day. And this is the type of exquisite wedding Rebecca and Duet Weddings will lovingly and enthusiastically plan for you.
By Susan Hart Hellman, Executive Editor
Rebecca's website was at the end of the article and on her website is this blog which I have now put on my blog roll: Duet Weddings
I could run around my office building for an hour and not get tired, I'm so deliriously happy. Rebecca is me, well except I haven't gotten married, but I just love what she loves. I feel how she must have felt a couple of years ago right after she discovered her passion. My life ISN'T over. I have a future again!
I found this article on an ezine while looking for music to sing at a wedding:
What better motivation for becoming a top level wedding planner than planning your own wedding and loving every moment of the process! This is exactly the way Rebecca Stone came into being Duet Weddings in February 2006. “I was completely head over heels smitten with the wedding planning process after planning my own wedding,” she told YWD. “I loved every second of it, starting with a vision, planning the details and then seeing it all come true and experiencing the magic of the day.” And when it was all over, there was no question in Rebecca’s mind concerning what she wanted to be doing each and every day thereafter: planning weddings, whether the request be for ‘month-of’ assistance, a full-service wedding, or anything in between.
After learning the planning process so thoroughly through her own wedding, Rebecca’s main goal was to share her experiences and what she had learned and to help other brides and grooms. “I understood exactly what they are feeling -- the excitement and happiness of the engagement; the confusion and stress which comes with the abundance of choices and costs; the wedding daydreams (and inability to focus on much else); and wedding nightmares (the repeated dream of forgetting to buy shoes resulting in many sleepless nights).”
And, she shared with us, she loves being the great listener for others that her friends and family were for her. “I want to be able to reassure and help. I wanted to guide and advise. I want to allow others to enjoy the process completely and enjoy the big day knowing that everything is being handled with the greatest of love and care.”
With her own wedding serving as her initial inspiration, we asked Rebecca about the source of her continued inspiration which we simply love what we found out: her inspiration is you! Rebecca virtually beamed when she shared, “I love nothing more than the look on a couple’s face as they walk back up the aisle as husband and wife during their recessional.” She also loves the look on their faces, the wide-eyed awe, when they first walk into their reception and the way their smiles for each other actually glow during their first dance. “As much as I adore the little details and beautiful wedding ‘things,’” Rebecca says, “what inspires me most are the couples I work with.”
But she does love those wedding “things” too. “I absolutely love the details and the ability to constantly create and imagine,” she says. She admitted a little secret, that she can talk for hours about flowers, invitations, linens, and gowns, and she lists some of the wedding-planning tasks she loves the most: ‘playing’ with paper products, scouring flea markets to find the perfect vase, planning menus and tasting accompanying wines, buying fabrics and ribbons to perhaps be used later as table runners, embellishments for the napkins, or another creative endeavor. A morning at the flower mart is also among her favorite things, where she enjoys spending the afternoon arranging and rearranging the flowers she has purchased until she achieves the perfect look.
Whether your wedding is to be in Rebecca’s vicinity, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, the Santa Ynez Valley, or a destination wedding anywhere worldwide, Rebecca’s enthusiasm is infectious. “Yes, yes, yes!” she says. “I absolutely love to travel and would be completely thrilled to take on a wedding opportunity anywhere in the world. Be it exotic and remote or bustling metropolitan - destination weddings are a huge dream of mine!”
Please plan on calling Rebecca immediately after that magical day you become engaged, because she takes on only a limited number of weddings each year in order to provide you with a superior level of attention and continuing magic. “I try to plan each wedding as if it were my own.” she says.
For you, this is a good thing, because the exquisite way in which she planned her own wedding resulted in a feature article in a leading bridal magazine. Rebecca says this was a huge honor and accomplishment after pouring her love into planning each and every little detail of that beautiful day. And this is the type of exquisite wedding Rebecca and Duet Weddings will lovingly and enthusiastically plan for you.
By Susan Hart Hellman, Executive Editor
Rebecca's website was at the end of the article and on her website is this blog which I have now put on my blog roll: Duet Weddings
I could run around my office building for an hour and not get tired, I'm so deliriously happy. Rebecca is me, well except I haven't gotten married, but I just love what she loves. I feel how she must have felt a couple of years ago right after she discovered her passion. My life ISN'T over. I have a future again!
9/16/2008
This and That
The other day I was listening to the radio and someone requested "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mixalot. First of all, this is a terrible, demeaning song to women, but for some reason I stayed on the station and listened to the words. He mentions magazines being all about stick thin girls and how they tell us "normal" sized women are fat but he doesn't agree (he says this in a more rap and less lame way, but you get it). While most of this song is very dirty, I'm kind of happy that someone wrote a song about it being ok if we have some curves and meat on our bones. I just wish that I could feel that way when I look in the mirror because when I see a stick thin girl with a smallish bum and size B bust (like my roommate), I wish I could be her. When will I learn?
On to less depressing things. T and I went to an orchard/nursery on Saturday and bought a bunch of home grown veggies and fruit. I don't know why people waste their money at the grocery store on stuff that came all the way from California when you can get it less expensive and it came from someone's back yard. I couldn't find anyone that was selling broccoli which was sad. It's supposed to be in season here, but I could only find cauliflower. So I bought two heads of that, a ton of nectarines, purple grapes, acorn squash, butternut squash, and six ears of corn (I wasn't going to get it but I only hear good things about this particular farm's corn so I couldn't pass it up). I also bought yellow and red peppers on a whim and was pretty close to getting some yams and cooking onions when T told me to stop. I get on these kicks and I can't control myself. If someone isn't there to hold me back, I just buy everything and don't use it up in time. I have to get on with freezing this stuff though. I bought extra so I could do that and now I'm having the busiest week ever.
What about that two hours in the wetlands on a rainy day, you ask? Well, two hours turned into about one hour by the time we got there, and that was still much longer than needed. We were taken to one area which was very thick with mud and my teacher brought his dog. A big dog who likes swimming in ponds and romping through mud puddles. I was pretty convinced I was going to go sliding on my bum down a hill or fall on my face when we had to jump over a stream from one slippery hill to the other, but I did ok. The second watershed we went to was much grassier but we then had to walk through giant, wet wild flowers. I stared at the ground the whole time. It wasn't the little crickets that bothered me (of which there must have been billions! The grass appeared to move on its own and it wasn't windy!), it was the big spiders I knew must be lurking behind every weed I pushed out of the way. I tried my best not to spin around in circles looking for spiders to be crawling up my back or on my legs. I tried very hard to stay calm and look like I always stomp my way through tall grass in the middle of a fall hurricane remnant. I am not looking forward to any more of these science labs.
On to less depressing things. T and I went to an orchard/nursery on Saturday and bought a bunch of home grown veggies and fruit. I don't know why people waste their money at the grocery store on stuff that came all the way from California when you can get it less expensive and it came from someone's back yard. I couldn't find anyone that was selling broccoli which was sad. It's supposed to be in season here, but I could only find cauliflower. So I bought two heads of that, a ton of nectarines, purple grapes, acorn squash, butternut squash, and six ears of corn (I wasn't going to get it but I only hear good things about this particular farm's corn so I couldn't pass it up). I also bought yellow and red peppers on a whim and was pretty close to getting some yams and cooking onions when T told me to stop. I get on these kicks and I can't control myself. If someone isn't there to hold me back, I just buy everything and don't use it up in time. I have to get on with freezing this stuff though. I bought extra so I could do that and now I'm having the busiest week ever.
What about that two hours in the wetlands on a rainy day, you ask? Well, two hours turned into about one hour by the time we got there, and that was still much longer than needed. We were taken to one area which was very thick with mud and my teacher brought his dog. A big dog who likes swimming in ponds and romping through mud puddles. I was pretty convinced I was going to go sliding on my bum down a hill or fall on my face when we had to jump over a stream from one slippery hill to the other, but I did ok. The second watershed we went to was much grassier but we then had to walk through giant, wet wild flowers. I stared at the ground the whole time. It wasn't the little crickets that bothered me (of which there must have been billions! The grass appeared to move on its own and it wasn't windy!), it was the big spiders I knew must be lurking behind every weed I pushed out of the way. I tried my best not to spin around in circles looking for spiders to be crawling up my back or on my legs. I tried very hard to stay calm and look like I always stomp my way through tall grass in the middle of a fall hurricane remnant. I am not looking forward to any more of these science labs.
9/12/2008
Rainy Days and Monday Always Get Me Down
Ok, well, it's Friday and I'm not really that sad about the rain because it's the weekend! And we got paid today! I really didn't get as much as I wanted in my paycheck and I had to pay a hefty library fine. Woops. I'm going to be short when it comes time to pay my school tuition. I need another source of income. T and I never started selling t-shirts on Etsy. I thought about making and selling jewelry but everyone does that, so would I get any attention? My friend, S, said that my jewelry is cuter than anyone else's on Etsy and I could probably do really well. It could get me a little extra money. I could pay on credit debt and put some away for savings if I made enough. What do I have to lose by joining Etsy as a seller? I wonder if there is a fee...
I have a lab for my class tomorrow. We're going to see the wetlands in our area for 2 hours. 2 hours! What is there to see for that long!? This is not my kind of science. It's supposed to rain all weekend so the wetlands will be wetter and I don't have any rainboots. Oh well. After that, T and I are going to a produce market nearby. I meant to go there all summer but they only accept cash and I never carry cash. Plus they're only open until 6:00 and I get out of work at 5:30 every day. It just wasn't meant to be...or I was really lazy on Saturdays when I could've gotten some cash out and gone. So, we're going there for the first time this summer/fall and I'm going to get some nectarines and raspberries (still in season!), broccoli, squash, and cauliflower. I'm going to freeze some so that I can have fresh, local produce all winter. I'm excited for that. I'm going to find some recipes for cauliflower so it's not so plain and weird. My mom always just steamed them and we ate them with salt. I need more variety in my food.
AND in an effort to eat more "organically," I'm going to start making my own wheat bread. I found a seemingly perfect recipe online with many, many tips and tricks from the author for the perfect sandwich, wheat bread. T hates when I stand in the bread aisle at the grocery store screaming "Everything has too much sodium!" so this seems to be a good alternative to that. I'll post the link to the recipe if it works out. I'm not sure if I'll buy everything to make it this weekend or in a couple weeks when I, hopefully, get a better paycheck. I will be Miss Suzy Homemaker if it kills me!
Have a fabulous weekend!
I have a lab for my class tomorrow. We're going to see the wetlands in our area for 2 hours. 2 hours! What is there to see for that long!? This is not my kind of science. It's supposed to rain all weekend so the wetlands will be wetter and I don't have any rainboots. Oh well. After that, T and I are going to a produce market nearby. I meant to go there all summer but they only accept cash and I never carry cash. Plus they're only open until 6:00 and I get out of work at 5:30 every day. It just wasn't meant to be...or I was really lazy on Saturdays when I could've gotten some cash out and gone. So, we're going there for the first time this summer/fall and I'm going to get some nectarines and raspberries (still in season!), broccoli, squash, and cauliflower. I'm going to freeze some so that I can have fresh, local produce all winter. I'm excited for that. I'm going to find some recipes for cauliflower so it's not so plain and weird. My mom always just steamed them and we ate them with salt. I need more variety in my food.
AND in an effort to eat more "organically," I'm going to start making my own wheat bread. I found a seemingly perfect recipe online with many, many tips and tricks from the author for the perfect sandwich, wheat bread. T hates when I stand in the bread aisle at the grocery store screaming "Everything has too much sodium!" so this seems to be a good alternative to that. I'll post the link to the recipe if it works out. I'm not sure if I'll buy everything to make it this weekend or in a couple weeks when I, hopefully, get a better paycheck. I will be Miss Suzy Homemaker if it kills me!
Have a fabulous weekend!
9/04/2008
Nighttime Ponderings
I've been so tired the last couple of days. I have a cold which came out of nowhere. A few people at work have the same thing. So, by the time I get home from work or class (depending on which day it is), I'm ready to collapse onto the couch in front of the TV. I usually don't even have enough energy to eat something, which I'm sure doesn't help a cold. Well, maybe it does. Isn't the saying, "Starve a cold; feed a fever?"
Anyway, I went to a couple of geology classes and while the teacher is painfully boring and quiet, I find it a little interesting. Granted we're at the very beginning of the class where we learn about how the Universe, our solar system, and Earth were all formed and I don't necessarily agree with everything the scientists have come up with but it's fascinating nonetheless. I am also absolutely thrilled by maps, globes, tectonic plates...is that weird? We did start talking about rocks last night which was a little paralyzing with dullness. I hope this isn't how the entire semester will be now that we've actually gotten into the geological part.
What science is more about maps? That's what I want. Maybe geology will get into it later on.
I left the school last night in some kind of serene state of mind. It was mostly dark, with a little orange and pink to the south and I could see the sillouhette of an airplane passing through. With the dark trees framing the skyline, it was just really amazing. I wished I had a camera so I could share it with someone. I couldn't stop staring up but then I would realize that I was walking and I should pay attention lest I trip over a piece of broken sidewalk or run into another person. It was so quiet outside that any small sound was magnified several times. Even the sound of someone else's keys jangling 50 feet ahead sounded like they were standing right beside me. For some reason, fall and winter are so incredibly quiet at night; maybe there aren't as many animals and birds around to make noise? Whatever the reason, these are my favorite seasons to be outside at night. It's the most peace a person will ever find. The best time for thinking and realizing who you are and what you're about. I plan to spend many a night outside in the dark, clearing my mind and materializing where I've been and where I'm going; who I really am; what I really want; how I will get to where I want to be. Whenever I do this, I'm really looking forward to sharing it with you. Maybe anyone who reads this can try it too and we'll all share our experiences. It could be a fun/rewarding exercise, yes?
Anyway, I went to a couple of geology classes and while the teacher is painfully boring and quiet, I find it a little interesting. Granted we're at the very beginning of the class where we learn about how the Universe, our solar system, and Earth were all formed and I don't necessarily agree with everything the scientists have come up with but it's fascinating nonetheless. I am also absolutely thrilled by maps, globes, tectonic plates...is that weird? We did start talking about rocks last night which was a little paralyzing with dullness. I hope this isn't how the entire semester will be now that we've actually gotten into the geological part.
What science is more about maps? That's what I want. Maybe geology will get into it later on.
I left the school last night in some kind of serene state of mind. It was mostly dark, with a little orange and pink to the south and I could see the sillouhette of an airplane passing through. With the dark trees framing the skyline, it was just really amazing. I wished I had a camera so I could share it with someone. I couldn't stop staring up but then I would realize that I was walking and I should pay attention lest I trip over a piece of broken sidewalk or run into another person. It was so quiet outside that any small sound was magnified several times. Even the sound of someone else's keys jangling 50 feet ahead sounded like they were standing right beside me. For some reason, fall and winter are so incredibly quiet at night; maybe there aren't as many animals and birds around to make noise? Whatever the reason, these are my favorite seasons to be outside at night. It's the most peace a person will ever find. The best time for thinking and realizing who you are and what you're about. I plan to spend many a night outside in the dark, clearing my mind and materializing where I've been and where I'm going; who I really am; what I really want; how I will get to where I want to be. Whenever I do this, I'm really looking forward to sharing it with you. Maybe anyone who reads this can try it too and we'll all share our experiences. It could be a fun/rewarding exercise, yes?
8/25/2008
First Day of Fall/Summer
First day of the fall semester today. I don't know how I feel about it. Actually, I do. I'm very sad. I can't just go home and ride my bike if I want or go straight to T's and do nothing there. Lazy summer days are coming to an end and I'm going to be rushing to classes, rushing to get homework done and staying indoors much more. It's even kind of chilly and breezy out today as if to remind me that my summer "vacation" is over. I rejected that by wearing a skirt, bright yellow t-shirt, and flip flops today. And a pony tail. I'm all summer and sunshine.
Well, like I said, it's the first day of the fall semester today. I'm only 3 classes away from my Associate of Arts (with a major in nothing)! I have no idea what I will do with my Associates degree once I have it. I think I'm just going to go right back and get my Associate of Arts in Hospitality. I should just go for it now instead of wasting my time on the degree I'm working toward, but I've been working on it for 7 years. I just want to say I have a degree. So, I have a geology class tonight. Snore. Study of rocks. I might find something interesting about it, and if I do, I'll let you know.
I know there are usually summer plans, but what about fall? Do you have any fall plans?
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