Nice Weather

Nice sunny weather here is a rarity. The weather starts to go downhill around October and goes through April or May.

There will be a smattering of good days in April. You can definitely tell when the nice weather hits, because class sizes get much smaller and if you take short walk down to the lake you can find a good portion of the college students playing hooky.

But now classes are out and I get to go to the beach after work :)

I ended up taking a 2 hour lunch today...it was legit on the fact that I had my normal hour lunch and then ran into my two supervisors and chatted outside for another 45 minutes. Works for me.

The thing about living in a high winter impact climate is that you learn to really really appreciate the sunny warm weather.

Yay for summer!

Things to do

For the longest time after graduation, I wasn't working a full week. On my days off, besides looking for a full-time career, I'd spend most of my time here

For awhile there the thing I looked forward to was new badges or cards to play for. That's when I knew my life was either getting really sad or I was much easier to please than I thought.

Either way it's still a fun site.

Speaking of which, I need to go get the new badges...

Graduation time

It's that season. :) Graduations are happening all over now. Congrats to all of those who have now passed on from college into the real world.

The graduation of my Alma matter was this past Saturday. I attended and was near sniveling the entire time. I knew a few people graduating so it was nice to see those people making the passage that I did last year.

Quite a few are asking the question of "What now?"

My answer: Try to find a job...

Seriously get your butts out there and do the leg work and apply to a gazillion jobs until you can find one. That's the best thing you can do for yourself right now.


have fun... :)

Wandering off...

I've gotten the sense that this blog may have meandered away from the supposed intention of being helpful to college grads or ones to be.

Then I thought about it.

It's supposed to be about life after college. Nobody said that meant it had to be useful or insightful in anyway.

Then I realized that I lead a fairly boring, day in day out kind of life and it really can't be that entertaining to read about.

Today, for example, it's Mom's day. So I gave my mom her present this morning, went to church, came home had lunch. I made her strawberry shortcake and tea then flopped on the couch for most of the rest of the afternoon and watched a marathon of "Whose Wedding is it Anyway?" Which sadly, in between laundry and packing for the next week of puppy sitting that I'm doing, inspired me too browse through wedding dresses and start planning a wedding. A wedding, mind you, that is not on the horizon as of yet.

Moving on.

I heart Amazing Race! The finale was tonight, so of course I needed to watch. Yay! Asian kids for winning! I liked them. :) I was tossed between the brother/sister Asians and the Mom and Deaf son. I thought that they were two of the best teams on the race and would have been happy if one or the other had won.

Now it's iron chef time.

So you see, this is my life. Work and being absorbed by cable tv now that I have it. At least until my mom decides to downgrade to basic cable, in which no more wedding shows or iron chef for me. :(

That is that and if do anything that's actually remotely interesting, I'll be sure to tell all of you about it so that it may inspire your post-college life as well...

Props

I'd like to give a thumbs up to Cake Wrecks for making my mundane, after college life a little bit happier. I heart this blog. :) (and thanks to my boyfriend who introduced me to the blog).

Fun link and mind meandering

My sister sent me this link and I thought it was pretty funny even if the song on loop got to my head after awhile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k


Things have slowed down at work...almost. Commencement is next weekend so there will be some things to do but right now is my time to get things done that was low priority the whole semester. I have a gazillion documents to scan and archive. Which today I found out my copier scans documents. yay! That means I don't need to lug everything over to the library to scan them in.

So with the addition of cable in my household I am loving up the food network. I loved this channel when I was at school and will spend any spare moment watching it. Along with cartoon network, style network, amc, and tcm.

I've also taken up starting to exercise again. With the onslaught of warmer weather my body said "uh...you really aren't in any kind of shape...you know that right?" So I tried some yoga then body toning and my legs are horribly sore. But so it goes.

I've come to the conclusion that life after college is much of the same as it was before college and less fun... :)

After a very long hiatus

I think the hardest thing about right now is being able to balance things.

I find myself working 6 days a week and never really having a day to just have a day off.

Sundays don't count since I'm made to get up and do the church thing with my Mom and after that every other week a slew of family comes up and over and has lunch and stays for a few hours. I've just recently taken to screwing being a "good little hostess" and going about my own business after lunch and clean up. After all, I can only handle so many talks about health and dental issues before it all sounds the same and gets very boring or gross. Take your pick.

The next issue is finding time to be around friends.

Squeezing time in is hard when the only time really available is after work and all I really want to do is sit back and zone out in front of the TV. Especially now that cable has just found it's way to being installed on the grounds where I live (and I now have made it to the 21st century with the glorious switch from dial up to roadrunner). I love my friends and like to hang out with them but I don't always think I'm good company because they get me at the end of the day or week when I'm really tired and just wishing to catch up on sleep. Then factor in that I have about 3 different sets up of friends.

3rd problem, oh messy house. Who seriously wants to clean...ever? I'm cramming in picking up my room and cleaning the bathroom and kitchen between work and friends. Usually I work on it on Wednesday morning when I get to go into my one job a little bit later.

I can honestly say this adult thing gets old very quickly. After the glow of graduating and a new job wears off it hits you pretty hard in the face.

Although, I'm starting to settle in a little bit better. Occasionally, I still find myself ready to just drop everything and try being irresponsible for once. A big jump for me since most of my older co-workers, who have known me for quite a few years, tell me I was born 30. If I didn't have loans to pay off, perhaps I would just pick up and move to a random place in the states and pick my way through part time jobs and seeing the sights while I'm at it. :)