Thursday, June 16, 2011

Haven't been posting much here...

I know I haven't been posting much on this blog. I'm kind of at a standstill at this point I guess. I kind of have an opportunity possibly... But I still need to meet with the woman. We've had one phone interview and have talked a very minimal amount through email. But she wants to meet in person. We've yet to schedule this but I'll probably send her my availability tomorrow. She's been out of town the past 2 weeks and said she should be free sometime this week.

Here's hoping to good things.

But anyway... I just suddenly come up with inspiration for this post. Ever have that relative that is the go-getter type when you... well, aren't? I have one of those. She's that "I'm going to conquer the world" spirited type that I wish I was. But I'm not. And I doubt I will ever become that person unless there is a pill for that.

Either way, she's constantly asking me questions that I haven't been prepared for... Because where I got my higher education isn't about having a well defined marketing degree so much as a semi-there business degree. So I know a lot about business... But not marketing. [Which I will discuss in further detail in a different post in the future]

The fact of the matter is... She expects me to know exactly what I want to do with my life because she knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life when she graduated. She expects me to know exactly who I want to work for and what position I want to do. But honestly, I don't have a clue. And I know I'm not alone in that feeling. Lots of people have no clue what they want to do after college.

And it's not for lack of wanting to know what I want to do. I'd like to know too! But I'm a "I need to really experience it before I can really decide if it's what I want to do with the rest of my LIFE!" I'm an experience person over the "read a book and I'll know if I like it" type. And that's hard to do when you've been in school for most of your life. But then again, many places won't even look at you if you don't have a bachelor's degree anymore. It really is a catch 22.

-sigh- I think that's all for this post. If I think of anything else, I'll add it.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Graduation Party

I did not have a high school graduation party. Seemed kind of silly and I didn't feel like planning it [because that is what would have happened]. But now that I have graduated college, I want to have one... For entirely selfish reasons of course.

It's not for the attention or anything like that. I hate being the center of attention but I'll do it for one thing: Money. I'm milking the opportunity when I can because frankly, the next time I'll get a chance to do this would be if I were to get married. And I know that sounds terrible but think about it. I'm a relatively poor college graduate working a part-time job to pay my bills. I don't know when I'll get a job that pays me a decent amount to actually survive on. I don't want to live at home forever. And my bills are about to increase tremendously when I have to repay my student loans. Every cent counts at this point.

And so I'm planning a graduation party and the steps I'm taking to do that:

1. Pick a date and location
This requires a lot of thought and consideration. Obviously, a weekend is the most optimal day because then more of the extended family can attend. I also need a venue big enough to hold the amount of people I intend to invite. Basically, I picked a Saturday that I knew no one else had anything and I'm just gonna have it at my house.

2. Invitations and all the like
This means making the invitations including the list of all the people who are invited to this party. It means sending all this invites out to people and getting to hear back from these people. So naturally, while I put my business e-mail address down, I put the land-line down for the phone number. Cause I can't have a ton of people calling me whenever.

3. Planning the menu.
Since I'm going to be having the party at my [parents'] house, I'm going to need to think about food. We generally make them non-catered affairs. Catering costs more money than it's worth. Sticking with easy things to do, like salads and pasta-y things. Also anything we can make before hand.

4. Set up the house.
For most people, this may not be a tough thing... But we have lots of issues when it comes to our house... Well, more like the people who live in it. My dad is, for lack of a better word, kind of a hoarder. He just... brings home stuff we'll probably never use and we can never throw away anything because of some reason or another. So our down stairs is cluttered with stuff. It isn't as bad as some other places. Like the garage. We have a 2 door garage... And you couldn't even park a moped in there if you wanted to.

That's not to say I'm completely innocent. My room is a disaster zone right now. I'm sorting through millions of papers and all the stuff I've brought home from college [which could be a post of it's own right and I probably will talk about that sometime]. I also have the smallest room to boot.

Hm.... I don't really know if there is anything else I really have to think about. We'll see. I'll add them on later if there is anything else to add to the list.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Planning sucks

I really do try and keep up with my blogs... But sometimes, I'm just lazy and can't find the will to write.

You know what is difficult? Planning a trip with friends. Especially those who are not motivated enough to plan it and basically make me do it. Well, not make me do it but if I want to go on this trip, I need them to bring down costs. I don't know how kids plan things like spring break trips. Unless, of course, money isn't a problem I guess. Oh, and their parents do it for them.

Right now I'm trying to plan a trip to Disney. I haven't been in almost 15 years. I skipped out on my senior trip to Disney so I could afford to go to Spain. And my family isn't made of money. We really don't vacation at all. I couldn't even tell you when my last true vacation was. And by vacation, I mean when I didn't have to worry about anything except finding food and having fun.

But right now, basically picking a date that will work and finding decently priced flights is a challenge. Why you may be wondering... Because my friends fail at communication and are way too busy planning for other stuff really.

First off, we're communicating through facebook. Now, I'm on f-book quite a bit. I leave it up on my computer even if I'm not there. However, none of my friends realize we need to be constantly communicating for this to work. Booking a flight is tough business people. Especially when the last few seats can disappear like that. Already I lost a flight because people simply aren't fast enough in responding. Maybe it's just the business major in me that requires rapid response [awesome alliteration] but seriously. We have less than a month to plan and go on this trip.

Not only that, but one of my friends kind of decided to bail on the trip. It's exhausting to be told something like this with such short notice.

I think I'm just gonna give up soon. They are adults. And even if they are putting it off just because they don't want to go, well. That's when you need to speak up. Seriously.

Screw it all. I'm going down with my mom in December to see Disney at Christmas.

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Edit: Trip has been planned! At least the hotel/flight/travel in general part.