I have a very nice summer job. It doesn't pay a lot, but I don't do a lot, so I guess the trade-off is fairly even. In fact, I am at work right now typing this very blog post on my laptop. No, my place of employment doesn't have wi-fi, but the person who lives in the giant lake house next door does, so I get to "borrow" it from them. of course the signal goes in and out if I close the door to my box (booth), large trucks w/boats pull through, or it gets super windy or rainy. The house is a good distance away. I'm surprise their signal reaches this far at all!
Anyway, I work at the boat launch of a state park. I worked at this park all through college and after, every summer except for last. Why would I work such a low-paying job every summer when I could make more money doing something else? Well, basically I don't want to work during my summer. I want to enjoy it! The money is really not bad. It's well over minimum wage, so it pays a lot more than some other jobs do. And what do I do at work all day? Well, I sit here and play on my computer, I read books, I watch movies, I scrapbook, I talk on my phone, I paint my nails, I clean my car, etc, etc, etc. It's great because I have a lot of study time (for whatever I might like to study at the time), and a lot of time to do the things I would have wanted to do all summer anyway. Occasionally I do get customers...a few a day (I think yesterday I had 6...in 10 hours). It's nice to have them come through, as they break up the monotony of the day for me. ;o)
So needless to say I'm not complaining about my job! Sure I've had to work an insane amount of hours the past few days (12 on Sun, 10 yesterday and 10 today), but at least it's not hard work and generally goes by pretty quickly!
And now in closing, I will post this video of me and Joe singing "Summer Lovin'" from Grease a few months back at karaoke. We make me laugh, so I thought you might like to laugh as well! :-p And, it is summertime! :-D
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Weddings, OCD, and more!
My friend Miranda's wedding is this weekend. My sister is a bridesmaid and I'm singing a couple of songs in the wedding. I'm super excited. Miranda was our neighbor growing up and she and her sister, Beth and I, and our other neighbors Beck & Jess (Melfi) always considered ourselves kind of the E Yates Center Rd. gang. At both Beck & Jess' weddings we had a ton of fun and I have no doubt that this one will be the same.
Today I spent a good portion of the day at Miranda's putting favors together. I wrote out all of the tags (168 "Miranda & Ron June 21, 2008"'s) and then filled/tied/put together about 50 of the actual favors. They looked super cute! I don't know if it's weird or not, but there is something that I absolutely love about repetition. I didn't mind writing the tags or filling the favors at all. I've always been a repetition kind of person. I actually think it would be great to work on an assembly line. I probably have a touch of OCD, but doesn't everybody? :-p
So tomorrow morning I have my second round interview for one of the schools I've applied at. I'm slightly nervous because I don't remember a lot of specific philosophy stuff (like all of the different who's). Hopefully they won't ask me too much of that stuff though. Someone I know who was on the panel for the first round told me that they loved my first interview. I'm crossing my fingers because I would really love to work there...if even only for the next year. We shall see what happens! Prayers are greatly appreciated!
On another random note, I think I'm going to join the gym next week. I'm going to be working at the park again this year...specifically the boat launch and because of that, I'm going to have sedentary 8-hour days. I hardly get very much exercise as it is, but I'm hoping that if I pay for it, that will entice me to go more (not to mention that it will be air conditioned in the gym, as opposed to heat of the summer that will eventually return). I have to wait until I get paid next week, but hopefully I'll stick with it and have fun.
Ok...any time I post on here, basically everything I have to say is random and unrelated. :-p I will try to post again this weekend after the wedding and post lots of pics of us all in our finery. Maybe I'll even do the same next week after my friend Anna's wedding which I'm a bridesmaid and singing in!
Today I spent a good portion of the day at Miranda's putting favors together. I wrote out all of the tags (168 "Miranda & Ron June 21, 2008"'s) and then filled/tied/put together about 50 of the actual favors. They looked super cute! I don't know if it's weird or not, but there is something that I absolutely love about repetition. I didn't mind writing the tags or filling the favors at all. I've always been a repetition kind of person. I actually think it would be great to work on an assembly line. I probably have a touch of OCD, but doesn't everybody? :-p
So tomorrow morning I have my second round interview for one of the schools I've applied at. I'm slightly nervous because I don't remember a lot of specific philosophy stuff (like all of the different who's). Hopefully they won't ask me too much of that stuff though. Someone I know who was on the panel for the first round told me that they loved my first interview. I'm crossing my fingers because I would really love to work there...if even only for the next year. We shall see what happens! Prayers are greatly appreciated!
On another random note, I think I'm going to join the gym next week. I'm going to be working at the park again this year...specifically the boat launch and because of that, I'm going to have sedentary 8-hour days. I hardly get very much exercise as it is, but I'm hoping that if I pay for it, that will entice me to go more (not to mention that it will be air conditioned in the gym, as opposed to heat of the summer that will eventually return). I have to wait until I get paid next week, but hopefully I'll stick with it and have fun.
Ok...any time I post on here, basically everything I have to say is random and unrelated. :-p I will try to post again this weekend after the wedding and post lots of pics of us all in our finery. Maybe I'll even do the same next week after my friend Anna's wedding which I'm a bridesmaid and singing in!
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