Day 30 Happy: My new internship
This morning, my friend Angela (we go to school together and spent all of the spring semester working on a magazine that we made completely from scratch) and I started our internship at Graphics Tech in Tampa. We were only there for four hours and spent most of the time talking to the guy who is going to be in charge of us, but I can already tell that I am really going to like it, and that I am going to learn a lot!
I learned that Graphics Tech has a whole bunch of different services to offer to businesses, like social network marketing, website design, and website hosting, just to name a few. Angela and I are going to be working on a marketing campaign that is geared at customers that may need to update their website. If we get customers, and help design their websites, we can even earn commission!
I can't wait to go back tomorrow and learn some more stuff. I already found out that there are some things wrong with the way I write my blog (not the content, but there are ways to make it more likley to come up on google, bing and other search engines). I am going to fix it, but not right now, because Marc and I are going to dinner with some friends and then going to the 12:30 a.m. showing of the new Twilight Saga movie, Eclipse!
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
Our Anniversary (029/365)
Day 29 Happy: Anniversaries!
As of today, my wonderful fiancé and I have been dating for four years.
Marc asked me to be his girlfriend one my very first kayaking experience. We paddled out with a group of our friends to Honeymoon Island (where we will be getting married later this year) and he pulled me aside for a moonlit walk along the beach. We had been seeing each other regularly since Easter, and I had begun to grow impatient, wondering if he he ever intended to ask me to go steady. When we were all alone on the quiet beach, he finally asked me. And we lived happily ever after.
Our anniversary this year has been a quiet one. When we decided to get year passes to Universal Studios so that we could visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, we decided that was our anniversary gift to each other. We both had horrible days at work, and it was just wonderful to come home to each other and the quiet of our little apartment. We did go to the post office and mail out (most of) our wedding invitations, though, and that was wonderful! I can't wait until I start getting RSVPs back in the mail.
Here's to many more anniversaries to come!
As of today, my wonderful fiancé and I have been dating for four years.
Marc and I at a swing dance, when we had just started dating.
Marc asked me to be his girlfriend one my very first kayaking experience. We paddled out with a group of our friends to Honeymoon Island (where we will be getting married later this year) and he pulled me aside for a moonlit walk along the beach. We had been seeing each other regularly since Easter, and I had begun to grow impatient, wondering if he he ever intended to ask me to go steady. When we were all alone on the quiet beach, he finally asked me. And we lived happily ever after.
Our anniversary this year has been a quiet one. When we decided to get year passes to Universal Studios so that we could visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, we decided that was our anniversary gift to each other. We both had horrible days at work, and it was just wonderful to come home to each other and the quiet of our little apartment. We did go to the post office and mail out (most of) our wedding invitations, though, and that was wonderful! I can't wait until I start getting RSVPs back in the mail.
Here's to many more anniversaries to come!
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Etsy (028/365)
Day 28 Happy: Etsy!
Today at work, since I (thank goodness) didn't have any homework due tonight, I played around on one of my favorite websites, Etsy. Not only do they have amazingly beautiful things for sale, but looking at all of the wonderful things that people have made is so inspirational. It made me want to come home and (finally) finish the handmade envelope liners that I am making for our wedding invitations, to give them that little something extra.
Here are my favorite things that I came across on Etsy today:
(click on the sellers name for more info about each product)
Today at work, since I (thank goodness) didn't have any homework due tonight, I played around on one of my favorite websites, Etsy. Not only do they have amazingly beautiful things for sale, but looking at all of the wonderful things that people have made is so inspirational. It made me want to come home and (finally) finish the handmade envelope liners that I am making for our wedding invitations, to give them that little something extra.
Here are my favorite things that I came across on Etsy today:
(click on the sellers name for more info about each product)
Reusable Sandwich/Snack Bags by:
Bird Notes Stationary Set by:
Owl Pillow by:
Alice and Wonderland Handmade Journal by:
The Summer Scarf/Shaw by:
Love Note Keepsake Box by:
Hollowed Book Safe by:
Whale Luggage Tag by:
Decorative Toss Pillow Covers by:
Silk Embroidered Peacock Purse by:
The Daily Prophet Reporter Badge by:
All of these lovely little goodies are definitely on my Etsy wish list! I wish I could buy them all.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Not Eating Animals! (027/365)
Day 27 Happy: Not eating animals!
I never made a conscious decision to be a vegetarian.
The last time I ate meat was over a month ago. I hadn't been eating red meat for close to a year, and was only eating chicken and turkey a couple nights a week anyway. One day, I just decided to stop. I will admit that there was a PETA
pamphlet involved, but that wasn't the reason I decided to stop eating meat. My sister has been a vegetarian for several years now, and I don't really like the taste of meat anyways, so it wasn't really that big of a deal.
I have run into a few bumps in the road along the way though. There are a few types of food that I love (Chinese food, Mexican food) that I generally had meat with (Orange chicken, and turkey tacos!). My fiancé (carnivore) and I have been experimenting with vegetarian ways to make dinners. Some of our inventions have been great successes (vegetarian chili was super delicious, and vegetarian burritos, which are JUST as good as turkey burritos!), and some have been... iffy (like veggie burger, which I think tasted a little odd because it was overcooked, and I don't really like red meat anyways, so why would I like fake red meat? ... I'm trying the veggie chicken patties next).
We also tried to make our own homemade veggie Chinese food, but that was... questionable. Making your own at-home Chinese food is hard anyways, but we have some little changes to make for the next time we try to make it. It honestly hasn't been that big of a deal to cook and eat vegetarian for the last month. Plus, it has saved us a whole bunch of money at the grocery store, as we are now only buying half the amount of meat we used to. (Marc likes that part, too.)
Yay for not eating animals!
I never made a conscious decision to be a vegetarian.
The last time I ate meat was over a month ago. I hadn't been eating red meat for close to a year, and was only eating chicken and turkey a couple nights a week anyway. One day, I just decided to stop. I will admit that there was a PETA
pamphlet involved, but that wasn't the reason I decided to stop eating meat. My sister has been a vegetarian for several years now, and I don't really like the taste of meat anyways, so it wasn't really that big of a deal.I have run into a few bumps in the road along the way though. There are a few types of food that I love (Chinese food, Mexican food) that I generally had meat with (Orange chicken, and turkey tacos!). My fiancé (carnivore) and I have been experimenting with vegetarian ways to make dinners. Some of our inventions have been great successes (vegetarian chili was super delicious, and vegetarian burritos, which are JUST as good as turkey burritos!), and some have been... iffy (like veggie burger, which I think tasted a little odd because it was overcooked, and I don't really like red meat anyways, so why would I like fake red meat? ... I'm trying the veggie chicken patties next).
We also tried to make our own homemade veggie Chinese food, but that was... questionable. Making your own at-home Chinese food is hard anyways, but we have some little changes to make for the next time we try to make it. It honestly hasn't been that big of a deal to cook and eat vegetarian for the last month. Plus, it has saved us a whole bunch of money at the grocery store, as we are now only buying half the amount of meat we used to. (Marc likes that part, too.)
Yay for not eating animals!
Friday, June 25, 2010
Harry Potter World! (026/365)
Day 026 Happy: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (again!)
Redundancy!
Marc and I went back to Harry Potter World (which I call it, as it is easier to say than "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter"... such a mouthful!). This time, he let me use his camera the whole time so that I could get some fun pictures of the theme park. It was awesome to be behind the camera instead of sitting around waiting for Marc to take all the pictures!
It was way less crowded than the last time we went (on opening day) and we actually got to go into all of the shops, eat at the Three Broomsticks, and ride Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. The ride was awesome, one of those simulated ones. And, it was exactly the perfect length... I'm afraid if it would have gone on any longer, I would have vomited! I tend to have a very sensitive tummy when it comes to that sort of ride, you see.
At the Three Broomsticks, Marc had shepherd's pie (which he claimed wasn't nearly as good as mine) with a salad, and I had a kids meal with mac n' cheese, potato wedges and grapes, since they had next to no vegetarian options. We finally got to try Pumpkin Fizz (like Pumpkin Juice, but carbonated) and Butterbeer, which tastes a lot like cream soda, with thick, foamy whipped cream on top.
I'm exhausted, so I'll leave you with some of the pictures that I took from the day.
For more info (and more pictures!), go to my flickr page: www.flickr.com/kelsieelaine
Redundancy!
Marc and I went back to Harry Potter World (which I call it, as it is easier to say than "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter"... such a mouthful!). This time, he let me use his camera the whole time so that I could get some fun pictures of the theme park. It was awesome to be behind the camera instead of sitting around waiting for Marc to take all the pictures!
It was way less crowded than the last time we went (on opening day) and we actually got to go into all of the shops, eat at the Three Broomsticks, and ride Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. The ride was awesome, one of those simulated ones. And, it was exactly the perfect length... I'm afraid if it would have gone on any longer, I would have vomited! I tend to have a very sensitive tummy when it comes to that sort of ride, you see.
At the Three Broomsticks, Marc had shepherd's pie (which he claimed wasn't nearly as good as mine) with a salad, and I had a kids meal with mac n' cheese, potato wedges and grapes, since they had next to no vegetarian options. We finally got to try Pumpkin Fizz (like Pumpkin Juice, but carbonated) and Butterbeer, which tastes a lot like cream soda, with thick, foamy whipped cream on top.
I'm exhausted, so I'll leave you with some of the pictures that I took from the day.
For more info (and more pictures!), go to my flickr page: www.flickr.com/kelsieelaine
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