The Idea of Blogging get me Excited!

It's hard for me to keep this up. I have received some great news here recently. I will be moving to St. Thomas for the entire Fall Semester! Initially I was not going to get the position. I kind of shot myself in my own foot.

They told me that they were going to contact me last friday to let me know if I got the position. I am currently at Utah First Credit Union. The Credit Union had offered me a position. I wanted the position with Del Sol more. So after waiting for a long time I email the decision maker and said, "Hey, I have some other opportunities that are getting tired of waiting for an answer. I am hoping to know by today." They then responded by saying something like, "You were one of our top candidates, but it is good that you have some other opportunities. We have been waiting on an answer for a current intern if they want to continue on with us. If you need to tell them we understand. We will still let you know if anything opens up."

Feeling a little defeated I told my family members and friends that I would no longer be going anywhere. I started to make plans to move to Salt Lake and work at Utah First, then they contacted me on Monday, "Have you already committed to something else?" I told them I hadn't and they offered me the internship in St. Thomas. It was really odd because that was the exact thing I had hoped to happen, but I wasn't excited. A lot of things had happened in those few days, with making plans to move, meeting new friends :), getting offered a great position at the Credit Union, and then I was available to work for Ragnar this fall and have them pay for my Fall break Vacation to New York. I began to get excited about all of these things. Then I was offered the position. It was like I was stuck in between a rock and a hard place, but like the total opposite, because both are awesome. So it was more like being stuck between a king size goose feather comforter and a tempurpedic mattress. Both would make me happy. It was just finding out which was more appropriate for this time in my life.

I later was able to speak to the people at the credit union. They have offered me the job for when I come back in January. So parts of the tempurpedic mattress will still exist. I will not be able to do the Ragnar races, and some of my friends may still be around or may start dating people and then I probably won't see them as much. I have just gotten to the point where I am happy with whatever happens. It will all be as it should be. I am excited for the next chapter of my life. The goose feather comforter opportunity will perhaps not come again. I need to enjoy every second of wind boarding, scuba diving, beach lounging, ya know the regular stuff in St. Thomas. 

All who read this are more than welcome to visit. Just give me a call.

Character Strengths

Your Top Strength

Humor and playfulness You like to laugh and tease. Bringing smiles to other people is important to you. You try to see the light side of all situations.

Your Second Strength

Hope, optimism, and future-mindedness You expect the best in the future, and you work to achieve it. You believe that the future is something that you can control.

Your Third Strength

Social intelligence You are aware of the motives and feelings of other people. You know what to do to fit in to different social situations, and you know what to do to put others at ease.

Your Fourth Strength

Judgment, critical thinking, and open-mindedness Thinking things through and examining them from all sides are important aspects of who you are. You do not jump to conclusions, and you rely only on solid evidence to make your decisions. You are able to change your mind.

Your Fifth Strength

Bravery and valor You are a courageous person who does not shrink from threat, challenge, difficulty, or pain. You speak up for what is right even if there is opposition. You act on your convictions. The best way to use these strengths is to make sure they are known on my resume.

Character Strengths(In my opinion)

-Empathetic

-Driven

-Observant

-Funny

-Calm

The number 8

• A note played for one-eighth the duration of a whole note is called an eighth note, or quaver.

• An octave, the interval between two notes with the same letter name (where one has double the frequency of the other), is so called because there are eighth notes on a western scale between the two, including the notes themselves.

• There are eighty-eight (88) keys on a piano.

• Songs with the number eight in their title include the Byrds's Eight Miles High and the
Beatles' Eight Days a Week.

• Dream Theater's eighth album Octavarium contains many different references to the number eight, including the number of songs and various aspects of the music and cover artwork.

I took all of that from a website. WHO CARES! I get so tired of conspiracy theories. There are a lot of coincidences OK! Don't be afraid of the number 8. Dream Theater aren't Gods because they thought about how much eight is in music and put it all over there album. Most of the time I just feel that it is obnoxious.

Truth can stand by itself without any weirdness at all. That is why talking about conspiracy upsets me. Show me true facts and why it is true rather then just making me feel it is weird and creepy. They try to teach that truth is odd. Truth is not odd, truth is solid and understandable.

8-ball

The "Magic 8-ball" is something people call this ---->

This is something that I would not call "magic". My definition of magic is not as follows:

Ma-gic /majik/ (adj): To describe something that angers you and splits friends apart for an evening after what could have been a really fun game. Often leading to split ties and shattered dreams.

Magic is something that is often describing something of awe or amazement, not something that make you want to punch another human being. People pay money to go see magic shows. If magic was the definition I wrote above, magic shows would be something that happened in POW camps.

The number 8

It's a homophone! It is probably one of the happiest homophones that exist. Whenever I think that I ate 8 of anything I bet I am in a food coma(I guess because I only eat big things. Not grapes or anything like that).


They are spelled so differently as well. ATE and EIGHT. Ate looks like how it should be spelled and eight looks more like this phonetically eh-I-guh-te. This sounds more like a Native American name. Chief Eight(eh-I-guh-te). I don't know why they couldn't of just had it be a homonym. No one would have every had the number 8 and having eaten in the past mixed up in a sentence. I will illustrate my point.


I ate apples, ate of them(oh no that didn't help my cause). Ate people are zombies(people who are eaten become zombies, this really is a problem). Ok, well I guess we should just never spell out 8. Always just write the number, no matter what the grammatical rule is.

The number 8

Who did the number 8 have to speak with(or sleep with, I don't really know how it works with numbers) to become so important? Early on in the creating process of numbers he wasn't that high on the totem pole. If they needed a number he was the eighth person they would call. When they were first invented numbers, 7 inventions were created before he was. Number one was there go to guy(or I guess "person" to be gender neutral). Early on with numbers I bet 8 wasn't used that much. They either killed one animal or zero animals. Those were the numbers they were sleeping with originally. Now the number 8 has become pretty important.

Not long ago some scientist was like, "Somethings can go on forever". Another scientist was like, "That is totally true man". They both were a little freaked out, then they thought, "We should name it infinity"(because that would be the first thought you would have to name it). Then the other scientist said, "The symbol for infinity should an 8 that is laying down on its side, because here recently the eight has been really nice to me...if you know what I mean". The other scientist didn't know what he meant.

Somehow 8 went from the 8th guy in line to the first, at least in the scientific community. I think it is because of the scientific community's love for the band Three Dog Night. They wrote a song about how "one is the loneliest number" and how "two can be as bad as one, it's the loneliest number since the number one" Since scientist are always over thinking, they tried to find when a number becomes unlonely and the number 8 had the best argument...I guess.

Three Dog Night "One is the Loneliest Number" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ab8BOu4LE

Art Review

The edge of the art we are looking at is the black/brown. I think that the frame with the art became much more interesting, but just the art itself is very boring.

I have painted a few houses. We do a type of antiquing that looks really good on lighter colors. This looks to me like a brown antiquing that is on a black paint. It would darken a room and make a room shrink. Perhaps some people would like this, but not me.

I do see this as a painted wall; with that perspective, it looks as though there is a flaw right in the middle of the wall.

I also feel pretty upset that other people see things in this photo. I feel right.

Breakfast

Last night I looked up a belly burning diet. It is a Low-Carb diet. So in other words, it is a low satisfaction diet.

I woke up this morning, not very excited for breakfast. I usually have the typical college student breakfast, some bargain brand fruit loops and caffeine. This is something that makes me happy. This morning I was thinking about how I needed to eat something "Low-Carb". Not quite as exciting or joyful.

Looking around my kitchen I found that I didn't have to many options. I have a few high fiber muffins that are delicious, but are totally not "Low-effing-Carb". So I pulled out an apple. Most fruit is a part of the diet and most vegetables are as well. Those are the carbs that I can eat(they hardly seem like carbs at all though). As soon as I pulled the apple out, I also pulled out a bag from under the sink. I guess my mind decided that this was going to be lunch today instead of breakfast.

I am still breakfast-less. I pulled the milk out from the refrigerator. I have a multi-vitamin that I take everyday. I have tried just having the vitamin for breakfast, but it makes you feel really sick(I have always thought this is super weird by the way! This could be a whole post by its self. Why would something that they say(and who is they?!) is so healthy for you need to be taken with food; or else you are beside yourself because of how nauseous you are). So I poured a big glass of milk and I pulled out a multi-vitamin. I took the vitamin with the milk. Now I have set myself up for a race. I have to find something to eat before I head out for work or else I will be calling in sick with self inflicted pain.

I am frantic at this point. What can I put in my belly to make sure that it doesn't want to vomit! Now that bran muffin is looking even more appealing. I see that we have bananas. I ripe one from the bunch. I magically see how this produce is also ending up in my lunch bag. This is not good. It seems as though the banana is also not my preemptive pepto.

Before I knew what was happening I was eating my wonderful muffin, full of carbs. It was delicious. I don't know if I had ever been so glad to be eating a muffin. I then remembered my diet, and it was all to easy to push it to the side. It is not the first time I am pushing a diet back. It happens nearly every week. I am a semi-professional diet procrastinator. Ask me anytime for tips.

6 word memoir

Not picky, know what I like.