He Said She Said

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to talk about other people? It happens all the time. Say you want to go get lunch with somebody, what always ends up happening? The conversation turns to a person who is not at the table doesn’t it?

Now I am not saying this is always a bad thing. Sometimes people talk about others in the most positive ways possible such as, “Did you hear that Sally got a full scholarship to UCLA?” That isn’t bad at all right? Where I find the problem is that humans are so great at talking about others but we are not very good at talking TO others.

It is so much easier to bring up things about people that you are impressed with to someone else than to the person you are impressed with. I have found myself time and time again telling somebody how awesome one of my teammates has been playing but I never seem to tell my teammate I am impressed with them to their face. It is even easier to write to them about it or send a text. How come it is so hard to confront a person on even the most positive subjects? I think this topic is one of the main reasons as to why I can be so bitter about technology. Face to face communication seems to be disappearing.

Man I always feel like I am rambling. Thanks for sticking with me J

Women

In my Social Sciences class we talk about values gender and culture. It always seems to me that we are talking about hardships for women and how men get off so easy in many situations. I would have to agree to this to a point, but they make being a girl sound so bad! I don’t really understand I guess because there are only three boys in the class (assuming that all three show up on the same day). Do that many girls really feel this way? Is it common for women to feel like everything is so unfair? I guess I might be different, but it really doesn’t affect me that there has never been a female President or that fewer females than men occupy “positions of power” in some job scenes. 

Men and women are different. We each have our own strengths and weaknesses. It does not mean that women are of lesser value than men. We are just different. Sure, a woman is capable of running our country but as a female myself, I know I would crack under the amount of stress this position holds. I feel like I am going off on a tangent here but it really does bother me how women view others as having an unequal view of them in comparison to men. As people, we enable stereotypes, trends, and ways of thinking. I think we first need to view ourselves as true equals. When we accept ourselves as being absolutely equal to men then maybe we won’t see as many inequalities; instead we will only see differences.

I realize that my way of thinking is different than most. I understand that life for women did used to be very unfair. I am not trying to argue events of the past. I just feel that the current situation for women in the United States is pretty dang similar as the situation for men.

What to Write?

So sometimes I know exactly what I am going to write for my blog posts. Today is not one of those days. I am just hoping the rambling I am about to do turns into something worth reading.

Well, I had my interview to get into the Education Program yesterday. I feel like it went pretty well; I hope the women who interviewed me feel the same way. It is crazy how fast time flies by. It seems like just yesterday I didn’t even know where I wanted to go to college. I truly feel like I am in the right place though. It is funny because so many people think it is really weird that I had to have an interview to get into the Ed. Program because their schools do not make Elementary Education majors do anything like that. I actually think it is great that LC has us do the interviews.

Ok, new subject. I would like to give a shout out to my sister Erin. It is her 23^rd Birthday today. I cannot be home for it which makes me sad. She doesn’t know it yet but I am going home to Spokane, Washington tomorrow to go to her Birthday party. Yes you heard right, her Birthday party haha. She said she feels old so she wanted to have a party. She is having her, a bunch or her friends and some family go play laser tag in downtown Spokane tomorrow night. I am excited! I absolutely love Erin and again it is crazy how time flies. It wasn’t to long ago that Erin and I were racing home frantically on our bikes to try to beat the setting sun.

Happy Birthday Erin!!!!!!

No Sleep

Usually on weekends you catch up on sleep, well at least that is how it usually works out for me. This weekend however, I got basically no sleep. I have always been wound pretty tight when it comes to getting adequate sleep and all of that stuff but I think it was actually very good for me to just live a little bit and stay up until it was basically light outside.

The thing that is cool about staying up late is that nothing is really open. I feel that most people would find a problem in this. What I like about not much being open is that it forces people to talk and bond. You can learn so much about a person in just of couple hours of talking. This weekend I was really shown how great of people I have in my life. It was even pretty sweet to be reminded of that every time I felt tired.  

So I don’t know if you guys know, but I am doing the February challenge where everyday I do something I have never done before. I had no idea that it was going to impact me like it has. I wake up excited everyday plus I am also very happy and energetic. Last night I caught and held a chicken for the first time in my life. I don’t know about you but I think it is pretty sweet that this challenge is making me do something creative with my life.

Because of this challenge I have also met some amazing people. These people are a lot of the reason I did not get as much sleep as usual this weekend. They are also the reason why I am in one of the most amazing things ever as I write this post. I hope everyone has the nerve to be spontaneous at times and maybe give up a couple of hours of sleep to live a little.

The People You'll Meet

Some of the people you meet say hi and others say hey. Then there are the people you meet and actually remember. The ones who didn’t seem to have a box they were confined to after the introductions happened. In many cases these people have become my best friends. Some of these people though I have never talked to since the initial introduction. They have, however, made a mark in my life. Who knows, maybe they don’t even remember me at all; maybe I was just another “hi” or “hey” person to them. But to me, they gave me hope. It is and was a kind of hope that shows me that not everyone is conforming and that there are people out there who are willing to show their true colors.

One hope that I have for myself is that I would not be a “hi” or a “hey person. I want to someone worth meeting. I don’t want to be forgotten; don’t want to sit back and let myself be forgotten. I am even ok with being one of those “hard to remember, yet impossible to forget people.” Sure I make have, do and will make a fool of myself at times, but that is living. I want to live, I want to soak up what this world has for me, I want to make memories (good and bad), and most importantly I want to learn. I want to learn about myself, the world and about others.

One last thing: I don’t want to make subconscious restrictions on who I allow myself to learn from. I want to learn from people from here, from my home town and from others from anywhere and everywhere. I want to learn from children, teens, young adults, adults and the elderly the same. Every single person has taken a different path from me. All I know is my path. I want to venture into the unknown. Undoubtedly, I will get hurt at some points and at other times I will seem like I am on top of the world. I won’t let the fear of getting hurt stop me. If my fear prevails I will only know the path I have chosen and never get to see new scenery. “It takes both sunshine AND rain to make a rainbow.”

AND THE PACKERS WIN!!!!!!!

Super Bowl is such a crazy event. As I was watching the game, I sat in my seat thinking about how this is one of the only events I could think of where masses of people come together to watch something on TV. I mean at the house I went to there was a massive TV upstairs and a projection screen that took up basically the whole wall downstairs. The surround sound could be heard all through the house and let me tell you this is a HUGE house I am talking about. I find it crazy how so many people either buy a TV for Super Bowl (and then return it after the game has ended) or they rent a TV for the big game. This was not the case at the house I went to but it shocks me that people are really that obsessed!

Not only do so many people do it big where technology is concerned when it comes to the Super Bowl, but the food is astonishing as well. The amount of food that was available for consumption tonight could have easily fed a small country for a night. Have you been to any grocery stores lately? They take up whole sections of the store just to advertise “Super Bowl refreshments” or “the perfect Super Bowl snack.” I wish I could go back in time and experience all 45 years of Super Bowl evolution. Think of if people got this excited about presidential elections.

I absolutely love sports. I guess I had never really taken the time to notice how “Big” Super Bowl really is. I am soooooo happy the Packers beat the Steelers. I have two rules as far as professional football is concerned. Rule #1: I cheer for the Seahawks. Rule #2: I cheer for anyone who is playing against the Steelers. It is too bad that the commercials weren’t that good this year but oh well. I would take the Packers winning over amazing commercials anyways.

Green and yellow green and yellow green and yellow J

Celebrate

I don’t know why, but I have always loved the first day of a new month. There is something so exciting in wondering what is to come. I do feel a little strange though because this will be the first Valentine’s Day in a long time that I won’t have an actual date. This seems like a silly thing to think about but I just feel odd being on this side of the fence. I now understand why so many people consider February as “Single Awareness Month.”

My goal for February is to not have any unnecessary allergic reactions. To many this will seem like an extremely odd goal but for me it is a serious issue. I let a candy bar slide the other day thinking I was invincible or something. Let’s just say that I had a big reality check. I am still not all the way accustomed to not being able to just eat whatever I want. I love the spontaneity of trying a new food that I have no idea what is in it. I am not able to do this anymore and just a little thing like that can have a rather large impact on a person’s life. Someday I will write a post on my allergies but that will be a different day.

Today I am just going to be thankful for the new month. I will make today a celebration of goals, hopes, dreams, and the excitement of not knowing what is to come.