It's Christmas

Today proved to be a busy day but it was well worth all of the running around. I started my day about 30 minutes late. Whoops, dang alarm.

First I had a crazy clerk at the gas station try to get me to give him my credit card. He told me that the computer said it was stolen and that he had to confiscate it. Thank goodness I swiped the card myself and therefore was able to tell the guy that he was crazy and keep my credit card. My mom is convinced that he was trying to trick me into giving up the card. Do I look gullible?

Either way I'm going to go to the bank tomorrow to have them look into this.

Well, after the excitement of the morning I went to my mom's for breakfast and the movie Silverado. Not a Christmas movie I realize but still an old favorite of mine! I love westerns!

After breakfast at mom's house I headed down to the Chop House for Miracle on 19th. We had a great time making a small difference in the lives of people that are less fortunate and it was fun to see some old opening friends.

After Miracle I went to Nicole's mom's for dessert! YUM! That's all I have to say. Well, that and I may not have to eat again for a few days. Oooh and we got to watch a couple of episodes of True Blood. Love the accents, makes me feel like I'm back in Texas.

Now here I sit in bed watching the snow fall and starting to get a little dozy. I think the rum in the egg nog is kicking in. ;)

Merry Christmas!

Follow up

I asked a couple of the other reps at work today and apparently my encounters with people that share random and sometimes inappropriate comments are not an unusual occurrence. Well, at least I know it's not just me. :)

That's Awkward...

As a second job I do promotions for a local rum company. I generally enjoy this. It's a fun job and you get to chat with lots of different people. Every now and then, however, you chat up some perfect stranger and they start to tell you their life story. This wouldn't be so bad if some of these people didn't pull the "overshare".

You are all familiar with this and some of you are guilty of it and some just subjected to it. I've been a party to both. YIKES.

To some degree this helps me in overlooking the incident but occasionally you encounter someone who is apparently unaware of the inappropriateness of the statements they are making. I'm no expert but I would think it unnecessary to discuss the personal habits of your wife or husband with a perfect stranger. I don't know if I make people uncomfortable when I approach them with a $2 off coupon for a bottle of rum or if they generally just say whatever they happen to be thinking. Am I that imposing? Do I need to rethink my sales strategy?

I'm going to test out a theory. I am usually not the only company rep in these stores and tomorrow, if given the opportunity, I'm going to ask the other reps if this is something they encounter as well. If it is then I going to chalk these incidents up to the level of stress people carry around the holidays. If not, maybe its me...

End of the Semester

One final left to go and I'm done! I get 4 weeks off! I need this time to catch my breath. Going full speed for too long now has drained my energy completely. I used to do this. I used to work harder than this and go to school and I was fine.

The conclusion I've come to is that I am getting old.

This isn't a bad thing though. I'm embracing it. I remember when I was younger and my mom would tell me that she loved her gray hairs. I aspire to be the same way.

I am a 29 year old sophomore at Metro State. Many of my classmates are 10 years younger than I am. This makes for an endlessly entertaining learning environment. I just cant believe that the excuses we used to use still work. You'd think that with all the advances in technology, they'd get better excuses.

If there is one thing I've learned in my on and off time as a student its that I am the only one that is going to keep my education on track. So many people here at school assume that they should be given an A in a class just for showing up. Yikes... I shudder to think of what will happen when some of these people realize that they have squandered their possibilities. Okay, I'm preaching now and I'll stop because I realize that everyone is different and my priorities are not the same as everyone else's.

I'm just saying that beer and homework can both be priorities if you work at them.

Well, that was sort of off topic, darn my stream of consciousness. Anyway only one final left and then I can work on some of my other priorities. Like family, friends, the holidays, church and beer!

Where did I go?

So I haven't posted anything in over a year and I feel like quite a slacker. Every time I get on here to read Becca's Blog I wish I had something interesting to post. I look back at the last year and realize that there aren't a lack of interesting things to post so much as I need more time (and perhaps an internet connection) to post. I find that school is taking up an incredible amount of time. I realized that going back full time would, in fact, take up a lot of time, but I really had no idea.

I have never put in this kind of effort toward school. When I was in high school or my early years of college I was rather unmotivated. I didn't know what I wanted to do with my "career" so I just let everything slide. I just wanted to be able to enjoy friends and family and not be completely broke.

I finally got an idea what to do and where to go and so I am busting my butt. I want to graduate in 2011 (only 13 years after my high school graduation) and get going with what the future will bring. I am an Events Management major at Metro State and while a calculated and concise path is not laid out in front of me, I hold great hopes for the future.

At this point I have only marginal experience in events management (I've planned a couple of weddings, done a bit of catering out of my dismally small kitchen, and worked on the nuts and bolts of some smaller private parties) but I hope to build on this through my connections at school.

Somedays I wish that this inspiration had struck me 5 years ago but, alas, you must live life as it comes. I continue to learn valuable lessons everyday and hope that the challenges I face will make me stronger!

Now my goal is to record these experiences. Not that I'm too concerned that the outside world is interested but rather that someday I may want a record of these times.