Redefining Success

So I think it's safe to say that I've been pretty much failing my blog project (blog-ject?) 
But maybe I haven't failed completely because I mean, I DID go to the zoo last week. :-) 

That's not the point though. I've been really focused on school and life and stuff. I've had a really successful semester. I take that back..I'll tell you how successful it was after finals week. Just kidding. Regardless of what grades I get, I've learned a lot of important things, both for my professional life and personal life. If you will refer to the original bucket list, I think I may, MAY have made some serious progress on one of them....

17. Get better at pinpointing the important things in life.

Let's mark off the zoo, too. 

8. Go to a Zoo

Well maybe #17 isn't completely marked off the list, but I've at least made progress.  There are lots of people in life yelling "You're doing it wrong!" and there are plenty of trolls that will try to get you down.  Yes, "trolls" is a link. No it's not spam. I promise. 

Anyway, the point of this post was to say that maybe I've been slacking on my "bucket list", but I've been doing more important things like learning.  I didn't create this list to restrict myself but rather to engage myself in the goodness of life.  So as long as I'm moving in that direction, that is what I would call success. 

The blog about nothing.

This is the first semester I have felt like a Human Resources Management major, and it's also the first semester I feel like I actually have a really strong grasp on what it means to work in HRM. And what things I would potentially want to do in the field. I mean, I have had some loose ideas since I decided to change my major way back in 2010. But knowing now and knowing then. Whoa. 

I consider last semester the worst semester in my college career(ever). Lucky for me, it was followed up by this semester. I'm having like a serious HRM nerd freak out this semester. I have my first night class (Organizational Behavior) this semester, and I thought I was going to be really annoyed about going to class for 3 hours on Monday nights. I was wrong. The initial going to campus, yes that's hard, but once I'm there. Whoa. Organizational Behavior is actually a class composed of all the weird things that interest me. Seriously, that's what it says in the course catalog. 

With that being said, I feel like I've been really busy. I had my first exam of the semester today. I have lots of reading. I have an online class which requires self-motivation. I have work answering phones, recruiting like a champion, and  all the other random things my job requires. As busy as I have been, I still waste a lot of time. I am beginning to just accept this as part of who I am. 

Hello, I'm Katie and I waste time. I would like to start blogging (more) regularly again, but I'm sure next Friday I'm going to post a blog that starts like this, "Dear readers, sorry for letting you down again and not blogging like a I promised." 

Sometimes I feel like my blogs are just extended Facebook statuses that I decided not to post. So I just leave them in my brain, and they take on a life of their own in the form of my blog. Here, There, or Everywhere, Folks. 

Sleep Patterns

bumpin': I've been playing my piano a lot the past couple of days. So ya know..Mozart, Beethoven, and a few other less recognizable classical composers. I will expand on this thought in the "real" part of the blog because I know you all gloss over this because you don't care what music I listen to.

Hello readers! If you are here, that means you are loyal. I have been absolutely inconsistent in my blog writing. I will not make excuses because I have none, but let me tell you about my winter break.

It's been fabulous. When I'm not making the big bucks at work, I'm sleeping, reading, playing the piano, or playing mind numbing games on my Kindle. I'm OBSESSED with my Kindle.  If you ever had the thought that you need an e-reader or a tablet, let me tell you, you need a Kindle.

I started working on my reading goal finally!! WOO! I read the Hunger Game series in 4 days so I feel like that counts as like 1 book. Right now I'm reading two books, but one I have already read and the other is "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", which is shockingly (so far) exactly like the Disney portrayal. Granted I'm only 7% into it. So those probably count as like 1 book, too.  I'm not getting too greedy with the numbers here because now that I have a Kindle, all I want to do is read.

One of my other fun/creative break activities is loosely related to a bucket list item.  I have the goal of performing musically, in some way, in front of a crowd.  Well, I haven't determined the medium in which this will be executed, but practicing any form of music is a step in the right direction towards this goal.  So I told you I was playing classical music. This might seem strange because I don't regularly listen to classical music.  I actually don't have a single "classical" song on my iPod or maybe even in my iTunes. It's completely different when I'm playing though.  I have sheet music for "Popular" music, Praise & Worship, Movie themes, Christmas, and on and on, but my favorite thing to PLAY is definitely Classical.  It's just better. It's fun. It's challenging. It's expressive.

I've provided a fun little picture of Mozart for you to gaze upon as you ponder my blog.  I always have to have pictures on my blog so I can "pin" them on Pintrest.

Finally, I have been sleeping a TON over break. When I don't work in the morning, I sleep in entirely too late which has put me in a horrible sleep pattern.  I can't sleep at night then I can't get up in the morning.  When I can't sleep at night, I write blogs in my heads. I was blogging away in my head last night. Usually when I wake up the next day I do not blog about those things though. They are usually random.  I try to be structured in my blogs. Try.

See the structure of this blog was the summary of my winter break.  I said structured not interesting.