Since things have been stressing me out lately I decided to make a list of things I like. 22 things that this 22 year old likes.
1) Heineken (not the beer) - my dog that likes to be lazy with me and cuddle when we aren't playing fetch or tug-a-war with his toys.
2) Lazy days on the couch spent watching Netflix.
3) Nicholas Sparks books.
4) Inspiring quotes - they can be a really good pick-me-up and help me gain perspective on things going on in my life. Two of my favorites are listed under the "about me" on my profile.
5) Date nights in.
6) Arizona summer nights spent in the pool with Stella (this time I do mean the beer).
7) The San Francisco 49ers and Sundays spent with my fiance watching the games. Also the new VS NFL line that I am impatiently awaiting. Is it football season yet?
8) My family. Even if they are scattered across the country just a phone call with one of them can often make me feel better. Especially my mom.
9) Looking at friend's FB pics of their adorable children. Sometimes their cute little faces can cheer me up, especially my nieces.
10) 80's movies.
11) San Francisco. Period.
12) Baseball games. Weather it be an A's game or a Diamondbacks game I generally like going to them. I do not, however, like watching them on TV much.
13) Wine nights with girlfriends.. which makes me miss Reno and my friends and book club there.
14) Wedding/Honeymoon planning. Sometimes this makes me more stressed than happy, but sometimes it is really fun.
15) "Mod About You" nail polish by OPI. It is like my go to color.
16) Charming Charlies.
17) Learning/Museums.
18) Writing. In lots of different forms.
19) The beach, which right now I currently miss.
20) Laughter. Comedies. Things that make me laugh.
21) Tennis & Yoga.
22) Christmas time. Almost everything about it. Sleeping next to the Christmas tree, sipping hot cocoa, family, buying gifts for people, stockings, etc.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Seeing the US of A.
I like to travel but I'm afraid of flying. Airplanes give me some serious anxiety, especially take-off, landing and any time there is turbulance. BUT I really want to take a road trip across the U.S. with time to stop and stay in all sorts of places along the way and see ridiculous landmarks like "The Biggest Ball of Yarn." (I'm not sure that this even exists lol).
I've driven across the U.S. before (well I rode while other people drove) when I was younger. My family and I drove from Cali to Florida and back AND we made the drive from Cali to Illinois and back. But since I've been older I haven't done that big of a roadtrip.. I think the biggest was Nevada to Arizona, which took about 13 hours.
Now that I'm older I want to take like a summer-long, or even a month-long, roadtrip all over the U.S. One of the things on my unofficial bucket list is to go to all 50 states. I think I have about 19 of them down, but that leaves quite a few left to see.
Since I'm in AZ, I figure we could drive through New Mexico, Texas & Louisiana (even though I've been to these states before, I want to go again), up through Arkansas or Mississippi to Tennessee and North Carolina and then up the coast from there, through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, etc. all the way to Maine and back down through New York, Pennsylvania, etc.
Now I just have to figure out how to fund the trip, take a month off from responsibilities and find someone to go with me. With our wedding and honeymoon planned for next summer this may have to wait but maybe during law school, or even the summer after, I'll be able to take a summer off and do this. Who's in?
Until Next Time,
Nora
I've driven across the U.S. before (well I rode while other people drove) when I was younger. My family and I drove from Cali to Florida and back AND we made the drive from Cali to Illinois and back. But since I've been older I haven't done that big of a roadtrip.. I think the biggest was Nevada to Arizona, which took about 13 hours.
Now that I'm older I want to take like a summer-long, or even a month-long, roadtrip all over the U.S. One of the things on my unofficial bucket list is to go to all 50 states. I think I have about 19 of them down, but that leaves quite a few left to see.
Since I'm in AZ, I figure we could drive through New Mexico, Texas & Louisiana (even though I've been to these states before, I want to go again), up through Arkansas or Mississippi to Tennessee and North Carolina and then up the coast from there, through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, etc. all the way to Maine and back down through New York, Pennsylvania, etc.
Now I just have to figure out how to fund the trip, take a month off from responsibilities and find someone to go with me. With our wedding and honeymoon planned for next summer this may have to wait but maybe during law school, or even the summer after, I'll be able to take a summer off and do this. Who's in?
Until Next Time,
Nora
Friday, July 22, 2011
80's Movies
I consider myself a pretty big fan of the 80's. The music, the movies, even the fashion... to an extent. Most people who know me well know that I like a lot of 80's movies.. the John Hughes movies like Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 16 Candles, Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club are some of my favorites. I've also seen some of the big box office 80's movies like Top Gun, all of the Back to the Future movies, Batman, Star Wars 4, 5 & 6 and Indiana Jones. Other Tom Cruise movies like Cocktails and Risky Business top the list as well.
But my love of 80's movies doesn't stop at the obvious. Can't Buy Me Love, with Patrick Dempsey, is perhaps one of my favorites along with Just One of the Guys, Say Anything and, most recently, Peggy Sue Got Married. I even own St. Elmo's Fire on blu-ray, which I bought after hearing about it (although I wouldn't call it one of my favorites).
I've even seen some of the more kid-friendly 80's movies like Romancing the Stone, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Labyrnth, The Princess Bride, The Little Mermaid, Oliver and Company and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, though some of these I haven't seen in such a long time I feel like I need to see them again. There's also a lot of 80's movies I'm pretty sure I've seen but it's been so many years that I hardly remember them.
Other 80's movies I've seen include Heathers, Xanadu, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Footloose, Stand By Me, The Outsiders and Look Who's Talking.
I even like movies about the 80's, like Take Me Home Tonight and Hot Tub Time Machine. Easy A is also one of my favorite movies and while it's not set in the 80's, I feel it sets out to resemble them.
I think one of the things I like about 80's movies is the cheese factor. At least a lot of the rom coms and chick flicks from the 80's have this always-a-happy-ending motif. They are often laid back and while they may send a message they are (usually) fun to watch.
I recently googled some lists of best 80's movies to give my self an idea of what I'd seen and some new ones I might want to search for on Netflix. After I heard about Peggy Sue Got Married from a friend I figured there must be tons out there I hadn't even heard of.
Looks like I was right! After checking out some lists online and browsing netflix I've found quite a few 80's movies I've never seen, some of which I've been meaning to watch, and a bunch I can't even remember ever hearing of. So what's on my to-watch list? Loverboy, It Could Happen To You, When Harry Met Sally and Dirty Dancing (which I have on blu-ray and haven't watched yet).
What 80's movies do you think I need to add to my list? (Though I don't know if anyone will answer this considering I'm pretty sure my future SIL is the only one who reads it).
Until next time,
Nora
But my love of 80's movies doesn't stop at the obvious. Can't Buy Me Love, with Patrick Dempsey, is perhaps one of my favorites along with Just One of the Guys, Say Anything and, most recently, Peggy Sue Got Married. I even own St. Elmo's Fire on blu-ray, which I bought after hearing about it (although I wouldn't call it one of my favorites).
I've even seen some of the more kid-friendly 80's movies like Romancing the Stone, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Labyrnth, The Princess Bride, The Little Mermaid, Oliver and Company and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, though some of these I haven't seen in such a long time I feel like I need to see them again. There's also a lot of 80's movies I'm pretty sure I've seen but it's been so many years that I hardly remember them.
Other 80's movies I've seen include Heathers, Xanadu, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Footloose, Stand By Me, The Outsiders and Look Who's Talking.
I even like movies about the 80's, like Take Me Home Tonight and Hot Tub Time Machine. Easy A is also one of my favorite movies and while it's not set in the 80's, I feel it sets out to resemble them.
I think one of the things I like about 80's movies is the cheese factor. At least a lot of the rom coms and chick flicks from the 80's have this always-a-happy-ending motif. They are often laid back and while they may send a message they are (usually) fun to watch.
I recently googled some lists of best 80's movies to give my self an idea of what I'd seen and some new ones I might want to search for on Netflix. After I heard about Peggy Sue Got Married from a friend I figured there must be tons out there I hadn't even heard of.
Looks like I was right! After checking out some lists online and browsing netflix I've found quite a few 80's movies I've never seen, some of which I've been meaning to watch, and a bunch I can't even remember ever hearing of. So what's on my to-watch list? Loverboy, It Could Happen To You, When Harry Met Sally and Dirty Dancing (which I have on blu-ray and haven't watched yet).
What 80's movies do you think I need to add to my list? (Though I don't know if anyone will answer this considering I'm pretty sure my future SIL is the only one who reads it).
Until next time,
Nora
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Summer TV
Random Thought: Summer TV doesn't seem too bad this year.
Usually when Fall shows end I feel like they are replaced by a lot of regular-season rejects and summer shows that are worthwhile are often eventually moved to the regular season. However there are actually some summer shows I've been following that are pretty good.
Below is some of my favorite summer programming.
1) Pretty Little Liars (one of my favorite shows anytime of the year)
2) The Secret Life of an American Teenager
3) Teen Mom/16 & Pregnant
4) The Challenge: Rivals
5) The Bachelorette
6) Love in the Wild
7) America's Got Talent (though I haven't been following this so closely this summer)
Also there are the summer shows still coming up including Project Runway (another favorite), a new ABC Family show called The Lying Game that I want to see and Bachelor Pad, which I don't usually watch but since I got into the Bachelor and the Bachelorette I kinda wanna check it out. I also wanted to watch the Glee Project show but I didn't end up doing that. Whoops!
Anyway, this was pretty random but whatever. I've also been checking out Fall shows coming out and it looks like tons of good ones! At least ones that I want to check out. Maybe I'll post a list of some of the good looking ones later. I think my fiance is getting skeptical of getting into new shows during their first season since Mercy, Trauma, Life Unexpected and Mad Love were all canceled.
Until next time,
Nora
Usually when Fall shows end I feel like they are replaced by a lot of regular-season rejects and summer shows that are worthwhile are often eventually moved to the regular season. However there are actually some summer shows I've been following that are pretty good.
Below is some of my favorite summer programming.
1) Pretty Little Liars (one of my favorite shows anytime of the year)
2) The Secret Life of an American Teenager
3) Teen Mom/16 & Pregnant
4) The Challenge: Rivals
5) The Bachelorette
6) Love in the Wild
7) America's Got Talent (though I haven't been following this so closely this summer)
Also there are the summer shows still coming up including Project Runway (another favorite), a new ABC Family show called The Lying Game that I want to see and Bachelor Pad, which I don't usually watch but since I got into the Bachelor and the Bachelorette I kinda wanna check it out. I also wanted to watch the Glee Project show but I didn't end up doing that. Whoops!
Anyway, this was pretty random but whatever. I've also been checking out Fall shows coming out and it looks like tons of good ones! At least ones that I want to check out. Maybe I'll post a list of some of the good looking ones later. I think my fiance is getting skeptical of getting into new shows during their first season since Mercy, Trauma, Life Unexpected and Mad Love were all canceled.
Until next time,
Nora
Friday, July 15, 2011
First Post
Unemployment does not sit well with me.
Ever since I have been old enough to work I have almost constantly had a job, or three. So when I got fired, except I don't know if you can really get fired from being a freelancer, I didn't really know what to do with all of my free time. That was almost 2 months ago and I am still unemployed. So, I decided to start a blog, about anything and everything, to help me fill the days and take breaks from applying to companies that I'll probably never hear back from, online.
I graduated last August, almost an entire year ago, and I have held multiple odds and ends jobs since then. Nothing I've really gotten settled into or could call a "career job." I'm 22 years old and sometimes, I feel like I'm having a mid life crisis.
Unemployment has made me consider a lot of things. What's my next move? What do I want to do with my life? So far, I still don't know, but I considered what I like.
I finally came to the conclusion that I would go back to school... law school. So while I am studying for the LSATs, planning my wedding/honeymoon, looking for work and pondering how the hell I got in this position I figured I would start a blog. I also made an agreement with my awesome future SIL (that's sister-in-law) that I would start a book. But that is a slower process so I'll start here.
One thing I've learned for sure, when you are ready to graduate and the country is currently in a recession, consider double-majoring or going for your PhD. You'll save time on paying back your student loans and won't have to face the depressing job market.
Until next time,
Nora
Ever since I have been old enough to work I have almost constantly had a job, or three. So when I got fired, except I don't know if you can really get fired from being a freelancer, I didn't really know what to do with all of my free time. That was almost 2 months ago and I am still unemployed. So, I decided to start a blog, about anything and everything, to help me fill the days and take breaks from applying to companies that I'll probably never hear back from, online.
I graduated last August, almost an entire year ago, and I have held multiple odds and ends jobs since then. Nothing I've really gotten settled into or could call a "career job." I'm 22 years old and sometimes, I feel like I'm having a mid life crisis.
Unemployment has made me consider a lot of things. What's my next move? What do I want to do with my life? So far, I still don't know, but I considered what I like.
I finally came to the conclusion that I would go back to school... law school. So while I am studying for the LSATs, planning my wedding/honeymoon, looking for work and pondering how the hell I got in this position I figured I would start a blog. I also made an agreement with my awesome future SIL (that's sister-in-law) that I would start a book. But that is a slower process so I'll start here.
One thing I've learned for sure, when you are ready to graduate and the country is currently in a recession, consider double-majoring or going for your PhD. You'll save time on paying back your student loans and won't have to face the depressing job market.
Until next time,
Nora
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