Testing.. Testing..

So I just discovered this thing called Windows Live Writer.. It lets you write a blog post in a totally different program, then publish it to Blogger.   I’m trying it. :D

Yep, that’s right. I’m a Ravenclaw.

(Mostly, I found a random picture to insert to see if it would work well.)

 

Let’s do this.

Really Good Music.

So... I haven't posted in forever, but.  Here's a list of 10 songs I've been loving recently. :)

1- Uncharted - Sara Bareilles

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2- Everything to Me - David Lehr

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3- My Body - Young the Giant

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4- Chasing Pirates - Norah Jones

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5- Where I Stood - Missy Higgins 

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6- Walking In Memphis - Marc Cohn

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7- Silver Lining - Rilo Kiley

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8- The Gambler - Fun.

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9- The Luckiest - Ben Folds

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(This is not the official music video.)

10-  On My Own - Samantha Barks 

(Eponine in Les Miserables, 25th Anniversary Concert)

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Feelin' Crafty

So.. Recently, I've been feeling crafty.  Rachel and I took a trip to Hobby Lobby, Michael's, and Joann.
(She needed something for her design class, and we finally found it at the last one.)

On the way, however, I finally bought myself a glue gun.  And.. A lot of other things.  And now I've been having fun with them. :)

Here are the results:

Tutorial for the top two here.

(There are two other tutorials first, so look at those, then scroll down. )

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Confessions

• I eat croutons like popcorn.
• I am crazy jealous of Christopher Gorham's wife.
• I work best under pressure. 
• I eat tuna and kraft singles at 2 in the morning when i'm hungry and can't sleep.
• I am a total sucker for totally cheesy romantic stuff. 
• I am obsessed with weddings.  I stay up till 3 in the morning looking at wedding dresses and cakes.
• I am addicted to Sudoku.
• I play Fruit Ninja when I can't sleep, or when I get bored in my Humanities class.
• I actually think Miley Cyrus is funny on the Hannah Montana tv show, of which I have seen almost every episode.
• I really really really want to meet Matthew Inman, because I think he is amazing. (The creator of theoatmeal.)
• One of my life goals is to own every original Iron Man comic.
• Another one of my life goals is to own this and this.
• I spend WAY too much time on Netflix and Hulu.
• I hate running. With a passion. The ONLY time I run is when I am majorly pissed.
• I really really wish I hadn't stopped taking piano lessons. I can only teach myself so much.
• I am a total pack rat. I save everything.
• I am almost always the third wheel. 
• I really want to take Ben Hunt's Pro Web Design Course.
• I want to be a secretary. Just for one summer.
• I sleep with a teddy bear every night. Can't sleep without it.
• I have the full 16-minute version of Rhapsody in Blue on my iPod. And I actually listen to it. The whole thing.

My Motto

My friend Nathan got me thinking about personal mottoes.  After reading his post about Mantras/Mottoes, he asks what his reader's mottoes are.   I was just going to leave a comment, but then decided it would be much too long.  Thus, I came here to write a post about it instead!

First, you need to understand a little bit about my job. I am a Sales Rep for Vector Marketing (In other words, I sell Cutco Kitchen Cutlery.)  However, this company is not just about selling. I attended a summer conference where we learned not only how to sell better, but many important life skills, such as building rapport with customers, and really learning how to talk to and relate to people. At the conference, there were many talks given by Managers, Assistant Managers, and outstanding Sales Reps.  These talks were all recorded, and put on the company website, VectorConnect.  Now, all across the nation, in Vector, every time there is a summer conference, or other event where there are talks given, they are recorded and put on this website.

So, one day I was browsing through the talks, trying to find a short one to listen to while I was getting ready for the day, in the hopes that it would provide some extra motivation and excitement for the day.
I downloaded a 20 minute talk called "My Breakthrough Story" by Geri Azinger.  
*Geri Azinger is one of the TOP Sales Reps in the nation, she sells over $5,000 weekly.* 


Her talk is all about 'breakthrough moments'.  You know what I mean.  That moment when you realize "I can totally do this! I'm gonna go out there and kick butt (in whatever you're trying to do)."
Most often, we sit and wait for those moments to come to us.  But why?? Why not just make our own breakthrough moments?
Thus, my personal motto (a direct quote from the talk), which sits prominently on my desktop on a sticky note so that I see it every time I open my laptop (which is multiple times, daily), is....
"Are you willing to lose the opportunity of a lifetime? Don't wait for your breakthrough moment. Just create one."

This also goes along with something I have been striving for recently, but I think that is going to need it's own post.  So, look forward to a post about Making Pro-active Choices.


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