Tired....I had an AWESOME weekend...what to know why? I did NOTHING. I rarely do that and even rarer that I do not mind it. I mainly played games and talked with friends. I did clean but that is cleaning. I did no homework so guess what I was doing Monday morning. Seriously guess. I slept in...
I did the homework for Monday today and got half of all my studying and homework for this week done in the endless void of time that is three hours between my Tuesday and Thursday classes.
I finished this awesome game called Plants vs Zombies. It is a puzzle strategy game that is really cute and I was sad when I finished it. I also played Sims 3 that you can never win. Overall my favorite game will always be Warcraft III. I like World of Warcraft but I have burned myself out on it. I tried a trial version of World of Goo. It is another cute puzzle game based on physics. I think I will buy it at some point but I need some new clothes before I splurge on games.
The weather has gotten colder and I am glad. I like fall weather and was out yesterday in my sweat shirt burning my lungs on my run. I loved it. I know, I am an insane girl that grew up in Minnesota.
Ugh...up to 3,000 words of 5,000 for my chapter posting...need to finish cleaning my house, have a test in History of Religion tomorrow to study for, work is going to up my hours....figured out I really do not like Sociology. I would gladly take Psychology now and wished I did....umm....thats all I can think of.
Cya later!
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Daily Days
Well, I have gotten into writing a journal more. I used to just write when I had so much going on that I helped myself focus when I wrote it down. In between my math class and English, I have two and a half hours of 'me' time to spend at the college so I am either doing homework, studying, or as of late I have been writing to my flash drive at the cyber lounge. Note, the desk guy is really cute so I go there but there is also the library if it is too full.
I just found out this week about the Taylor Swift/Kanye West thing. Tells you how much I pay attention to the news. I used to watch Colbert Nation all the time but I found that watching any TV lately makes me mellow. I did like that Obama said Kanye was a "Jackass".
I should be paying attention more to what Obama is doing now but I am having a micro-world view right now. Only things I want to focus on are around me. I do focus on the nation and world views every now and again but I find I stress and worry unnecessarily when I do. When the talks of recession came, everything became depressed and everything seemed like a down spiral in politics and then transferred to my everyday life.
Something I learned in massage school is that life needs to be balanced as to how you want it but also burned evenly in each aspect.
This is referring to balancing education, career, relationships, creativity, finance, spiritual (or religious), and fitness. These all can be called different things and divided up differently by others but the idea is there. One way to measure yourself is like our class had a printed out pie drawn with all these parts divided in it. You filled in from the center how fulfilled you are in each aspect. If it was not rounded out then you are recommended to take from one to fill out another. The idea is not so much it be full but that it be round. If it is round then the happier you can become and then the fuller it will get.
I usually take these and suggest to myself ways to encourage more from myself in each.
Education - pursing MLT degree, going to classes
Career - Working at coffee shop to get myself through school to get professional career.
Relationships - work in progress but I am fulfilled with friends and family to not feel burdened
Creativity - I write a 5,000 word chapter every two weeks, I think that counts =) but I also used to knit which is very relaxing if anyone wants to try it.
Finance - It is there, again pursing professional career
Spiritual - Personally I never saw myself as a church goer but I am going to a non-denomination to experience more. Overall, I do self-search and feel free enough to say I am content with this aspect.
Fitness - I walk/jog 3-4 miles a day.
I know when I shift from a student to professional this will all change with it but you get the idea. I would like to know if anyone else has tried something like this or a means of balancing themselves out.
I just found out this week about the Taylor Swift/Kanye West thing. Tells you how much I pay attention to the news. I used to watch Colbert Nation all the time but I found that watching any TV lately makes me mellow. I did like that Obama said Kanye was a "Jackass".
I should be paying attention more to what Obama is doing now but I am having a micro-world view right now. Only things I want to focus on are around me. I do focus on the nation and world views every now and again but I find I stress and worry unnecessarily when I do. When the talks of recession came, everything became depressed and everything seemed like a down spiral in politics and then transferred to my everyday life.
Something I learned in massage school is that life needs to be balanced as to how you want it but also burned evenly in each aspect.
This is referring to balancing education, career, relationships, creativity, finance, spiritual (or religious), and fitness. These all can be called different things and divided up differently by others but the idea is there. One way to measure yourself is like our class had a printed out pie drawn with all these parts divided in it. You filled in from the center how fulfilled you are in each aspect. If it was not rounded out then you are recommended to take from one to fill out another. The idea is not so much it be full but that it be round. If it is round then the happier you can become and then the fuller it will get.
I usually take these and suggest to myself ways to encourage more from myself in each.
Education - pursing MLT degree, going to classes
Career - Working at coffee shop to get myself through school to get professional career.
Relationships - work in progress but I am fulfilled with friends and family to not feel burdened
Creativity - I write a 5,000 word chapter every two weeks, I think that counts =) but I also used to knit which is very relaxing if anyone wants to try it.
Finance - It is there, again pursing professional career
Spiritual - Personally I never saw myself as a church goer but I am going to a non-denomination to experience more. Overall, I do self-search and feel free enough to say I am content with this aspect.
Fitness - I walk/jog 3-4 miles a day.
I know when I shift from a student to professional this will all change with it but you get the idea. I would like to know if anyone else has tried something like this or a means of balancing themselves out.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Interesting Stuff
Well, like many in my class I had a hard time figuring out what my paper would be about but I decided I wanted a more effective vehicle to get to school in that was about as expensive as a scooter but more flexible as far as amount in the vehicle and not at the mercy of the elements.
So, I wrote to Chevrolet who is coming out with a new vehicle, the Volt, that I was very impressed with but I wanted something more 2 seater and just basic day to day use and not family-travel ready.
I was impressed by the design from Aptera but they are a new company and do not have the means to go nationwide, so I figure get an established big company to invest.
I really do not know alot about cars but I became interested from my interest with "practical eco-friendly" ideas.
The idea of going back to nature and being all "native american" does look great but I know myself enough that I could never stay sane without a computer and thus the "practical".
So, I wrote to Chevrolet who is coming out with a new vehicle, the Volt, that I was very impressed with but I wanted something more 2 seater and just basic day to day use and not family-travel ready.
I was impressed by the design from Aptera but they are a new company and do not have the means to go nationwide, so I figure get an established big company to invest.
I really do not know alot about cars but I became interested from my interest with "practical eco-friendly" ideas.
The idea of going back to nature and being all "native american" does look great but I know myself enough that I could never stay sane without a computer and thus the "practical".
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Pipher Quote
"Many writers silence themselves by thinking."
I like this quote as it is the ideal that got me writing. I always had thoughts roaming in my head about stories but I never took the time to write them down. I am a pacer in that I can get really worked up into a story unfolding in my head and just pace as it explodes in my mind. I surprise myself at how detailed I can be and how I think about all of it at once.
One day, I just opened my Word document page and forced myself to stop pacing and just write. Before I knew it I had wrote five pages without much thought. I might stop every now and then to pace and get back in my comfort zone of just thinking about it when I am stuck. It is still hard to catch myself now and again to write my thoughts out before those thoughts continue so far ahead I forgot how I started.
Really it is just a matter of starting to write your thoughts out and it has become more and more natural every time I do it.
Maybe one day there will be a device that can take our thoughts and type them out but that is not a talent that writers are needed for. I used to think it was too hard to write out a detailed scene but it is how you put it and the key ideas that matter to the reader and they will take it from there.
I like this quote as it is the ideal that got me writing. I always had thoughts roaming in my head about stories but I never took the time to write them down. I am a pacer in that I can get really worked up into a story unfolding in my head and just pace as it explodes in my mind. I surprise myself at how detailed I can be and how I think about all of it at once.
One day, I just opened my Word document page and forced myself to stop pacing and just write. Before I knew it I had wrote five pages without much thought. I might stop every now and then to pace and get back in my comfort zone of just thinking about it when I am stuck. It is still hard to catch myself now and again to write my thoughts out before those thoughts continue so far ahead I forgot how I started.
Really it is just a matter of starting to write your thoughts out and it has become more and more natural every time I do it.
Maybe one day there will be a device that can take our thoughts and type them out but that is not a talent that writers are needed for. I used to think it was too hard to write out a detailed scene but it is how you put it and the key ideas that matter to the reader and they will take it from there.
Medical Laboratory Technician
Well, I switched my major, hopefully for the last time. I liked nursing but it did not quite sit well with me. As I mentioned in an earlier blog, I enjoy the more sciencie aspects of career choices. I do respect nurses but I altered my objective abit. I am now going for Medical Laboratory Technician.
I think it will be something more to my tastes, but as far as graduating the counciler I went to see was a bit unclear. I think I will end up going back a little later to another counciler.
I will be taking a half course in Medical Terminology in October to help in my classes and to get a job at a hospital, to get my foot in the door.
I think it will be something more to my tastes, but as far as graduating the counciler I went to see was a bit unclear. I think I will end up going back a little later to another counciler.
I will be taking a half course in Medical Terminology in October to help in my classes and to get a job at a hospital, to get my foot in the door.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Reason for name
The reason for the name Nigale's Place is actually off a name of my character in my story. Nigale is actually short for Nightingale, a song bird that is pictured on the main page. I like the name but I have already been associated as "Norvely" in a lot of my online association. I came up with it partially by random name generator in a game and because the name is very close to "Novelty" meaning new or unusual so I went with it and came up with Norvely.
The character, Nigale, in my story is becaming more and more complex and ideas for the character and the story often fittle through my head every day. She is meant for ideas that I believe in. She is portrayed as innocent, as we all start out, and later infuses an ideal for "ancient science" or earlier noble beliefs. She is eventually to play the part of a more "religious" character while the secondary main character, Norvely, is meant as more the scientific or "western science" ideals.
One day after I finish writing for this fanfic, I hope to have gained enough knowledge on writing to start work on a fully publishing book. The perspective from the reviewers in this relaxed setting has taught me alot on what is actually remembered at the end and what catches their attention. What is remembered throughout the story and how much typing is needed to restate what happened. Overall, I think I am putting too much into it but this is for fun. So detail is excessed.
The character, Nigale, in my story is becaming more and more complex and ideas for the character and the story often fittle through my head every day. She is meant for ideas that I believe in. She is portrayed as innocent, as we all start out, and later infuses an ideal for "ancient science" or earlier noble beliefs. She is eventually to play the part of a more "religious" character while the secondary main character, Norvely, is meant as more the scientific or "western science" ideals.
One day after I finish writing for this fanfic, I hope to have gained enough knowledge on writing to start work on a fully publishing book. The perspective from the reviewers in this relaxed setting has taught me alot on what is actually remembered at the end and what catches their attention. What is remembered throughout the story and how much typing is needed to restate what happened. Overall, I think I am putting too much into it but this is for fun. So detail is excessed.
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