Let's start with I am a recent college graduate. I lived on a wonderfully close knit downtown campus. You know just about everyone and enjoy all your friends down the hall, a few floors away or a block away in a very close building. The hardest thing to get together with your friends would be seeing who would be the one to truck it through the snow to get to the others place. Now I live in an apartment I rent in the outer suburbs of Pittsburgh. I do enjoy the location but friends (the ones I talk to), aren't always willing to truck it all the way out here. I live far.
Let's go to the other new basis of my schedule. I am used to taking 6 classes, usually 1 or 2 online, 2 or 3 at night and 2 or 3 during the day. My weekends consisted of Thursday night, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I never had a class that started earlier than 9:40 AM and my most common class met from 6-10 PM. Now my schedule is get up at 6:30 AM and be in the office until about 4 or 4:30 PM. Let's just say I'm not used to being a morning person in just 2 months. I think it takes longer. I love seeing the daylight, I love enjoying breakfast, these things take time and when I get up at 6:30 AM and hit the snooze, it just doesn't feel like I'm enjoying it. I must stop hitting snooze. It's bad for you to hit snooze anyway. I have heard or read that as well.
The next part of my life what brought me to think of this quote. My job title is a Financial Adviser. I want to help people that are awful with money, don't know what to do with their money, or someone that truly wants help from a financial professional. I studied Business Economics and Finance in school and although it was heavily economically weighted, it is really what I want to do. The company I work for isn't like most Financial Advisers and I enjoy that aspect even more. Yet again, I am still in sales. This is the negativity part of the job. People realize that it is an important topic. People realize that it is a necessity to discuss or prioritize. But somehow people are not wanting to take action. Everyone has a different situation, but there are 2 guarantees in life; Death & Taxes. What I do can help prepare for both and help you save on losing less! I know that sounds crazy but talk to a financial professional and see if they say any different. It's true.
What I'm trying to let you see is that being a post grad is not a walk in the park. You are still figuring out who you are. If you have a job, that is great! I'm so proud of you =). I'm really proud of myself and I deserve to be! You deserve to be proud of yourself too! You did it! WE did it. It doesn't mean we're all fine and dandy though. There is still so much more life to live. We haven't figured it all out and we don't know it all. The only thing I do know is I am the only me out there and I am going to be the best me I possibly can. It may sound silly, but it's not. It's who I am =).
So when I get like this and don't immediately type it all out, I watch this. I'm not being funny, but you can make fun of me for it, I don't care, but it helps me.
Now this Carrot Soup I was really looking forward to. I peeled my carrots, got the pot ready with the broth and other goodies.
I let them all simmer and get warm for 20 minutes just as the recipe says. Then I realized the stove barely got the soup warm and the carrots were still very much uncooked. Just look how many carrots there are! They were cut up by the way, didn't simmer them whole. Maybe I should have? Anyway, I turned the heat up because I have an electric stove so maybe that was effecting how it wasn't getting warm, and let another 20 minutes pass. The carrots seemed to be warmer and I just went ahead and put it all in the blender. Well, the blender didn't puree the carrots as expected. So I put everything back into the pot, covered it for a bit longer, put it back in the blender, and then it actually looked like the blender was working! Then I poured it back into the pot and I don't think it worked so well. I added the rest of the ingredients anyway and then poured half of the soup into the blender again. This was a process of back and forth and I either have too cheap of a blender, wasn't patient enough with the blender or really really just need an immersion blender. Hey everyone, Christmas is right around the corner, put it on my list! Haha, along with a rolling pin, a better blender and a bigger kitchen... Hahaha, I like space to move and If I could cook on more than the tiny little bit of counter I have, that would be kind of cool too. For my next place I will be looking for more space in the kitchen.
Now this picture doesn't look like the soup turned out chunky, but if you look at the side, you can see the chunks I'm talking about... It's ok I still ate it but I should have tried blending it one or three more times... Haha
Now you're all probably wondering how I am blogging 3 days in a row and the answer is I am not able to really work in the office. As I said before, we are moving offices and it wasn't really realized how hard it would be to work without computers and cubicles at once place, but no internet at the other. So I get to study at home and craft in between.
After I took a test at work (and got a 90%!!!), I came home to my little Luna and worked on fusing the quilt together. The adhesive has a warning on the can that says it may cause dizziness so I opened all my windows and made sure to not have any candles burning. The adhesive is also extremely flammable. After all the safety measures, I think it turned out pretty nice. My living room is back to normal and I am awaiting to finish the other side. I'm going to The Strip District tomorrow to have lunch with a friend and I think I'll grab a Steelers shirt or something PGH to put on the college side. Stay tuned! This quilt IS happening.
<3 Carly =)
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