February 28th, 2013

Today, I got to see one of my best friends who I hadn't seen for over two months. It's always nice to catch up! We've known each other since 1st grade and through our ups and downs we've still been able to maintain a really nice friendship :)

February 27th, 2013

Today, a really good friend reached out to me. Even though nothing is set in stone, the fact that a friend cares enough to try and help make things work out means a lot to me. :)

February 26th, 2013

Today, I had a very productive day at work. Projection shifts are probably the easiest ones to not be productive with, but I made sure to stay busy and work throughout the shift, and it was really good! The managers appreciated my work and I enjoyed it. Definitely a good day :)

February 25th, 2013

I feel like whenever something big comes into my life, I feel the need to celebrate it in every media way possible. Even though I already posted this on my other blog as well as my Facebook, this is definitely what was worth celebrating today. I got offered a job to teach French in a high school while the teacher is on maternity leave. I got this offer not because I applied or interviewed for it, but because one of my professors recommended me. I didn't realize that stuff like this happened in real life, but I'm eternally grateful for it :)

February 24th, 2013

Today, my mother took me shopping. I had been down about some things earlier today, so it was just in time. There's very little that a shopping trip paid by a parent can cure :P

February 23, 2013

Today, I spent the entire afternoon on a date with a really amazing guy. It was a fantastic first date and I hope it to be the first of many :) One would say that I'm rather smitten right now!

February 22nd, 2013

Three things at work today just absolutely made my night:

1) I got to kick out six teens for insubordination in the theater.
2) I got to change a projector light bulb for the first time
3) I got to be part of taking down a pirate in one of our theaters.

Obviously the third is the most exciting, because pirating in a movie is a federal offense and is punishable by a $250,000 fine and up to 10 years in federal prison. The steps that we're supposed to take include contacting the FBI and detaining the culprit while we wait to hear from the studio to see what actions they want to take. But all three were high points in my night and helped make work just that little bit better :)

February 21st, 2013

Today, my mother made peanut butter cookies. I forget the last time I had homemade peanut butter cookies but MAN are they delicious! I also had leftover peanut butter frosting from when I made brownies so I definitely made a peanut butter frosting sandwich between two peanut butter cookies! It was definitely worth it haha

February 20th, 2013

Today, I made chili for the first time. Of all my years of cooking, and all the years we've made our own chili (at least 8 years if not more), I am fairly convinced that I had never made it before today. And today that all changed. Cool stuff haha

February 19th, 2013

Today, I read a new book. It's not very often that I find time to read at all, let alone have the interest to read a new one, but I did, and it was fantastic :)

February 18th, 2013

Today, I got to do my favorite thing at work: Spend work funds at Walmart! Because I'm a supervisor and over 18 I can run errands for my managers, and yesterday we were so slow that they just told me to take some money, buy some things, and take my time. That's how empty it was yesterday! Gotta love it :)

February 17th, 2013

Today my work shift was a thousand times better than the past two that I've had. I don't know if it was because the managers weren't breathing down my neck, or because we were staffed for it to be busier than it was, or because I got to do a little bit of everything instead of staying in one place the entire night. But whatever the reason, I'm not hating myself a little bit more.

February 16, 2013

Today, I made fudge brownies with homemade peanut butter frosting and they were just completely delicious and I loved it all haha.

February 15th 2013

Today, I felt the relieving power of lotion on deadly dry skin. At work we use a lot of salt on our popcorn, and my hands were cracking because of the dryness the salt was causing. Thanks to several rounds of lavender lotion, my hands no longer sting and they feel soft again! I love it haha

February 14th, 2013

Today, as my last day of adjustment before going back to work, I took it a tad easier than I had the past couple of days. I figured out how to get my wii to connect to the internet wirelessly, and that had been an issue in the past. even though I have no intention to use anything on the internet via the wii, it was still nice to be able to establish what I needed to for a connection.

February 13th, 2013

Today, I remembered the pure joy I get when I just have a yen to cook something. Living on campus means purchasing 95% of my food pre-made, with the exception of using a microwave at points. Today I decided I really wanted biscuits, and I was able to go to the kitchen and make them! It was a fantastic feeling :)

February 12th, 2013

Today, I got granted the ability to have a clean slate. Although I still have a lot of work to do before I get there, the fact that I have been given the ability to start over is something that I do not take for granted, and fully intend to make the most of.

February 11th, 2013

Today, I got to go over to Mrs. Palumbo's house. She showed me her studio, we sat down for tea (she called it tea, even though it was just apple cider haha) and we had a nice talk about everything that had gone on in the past week or so. I also got to meet her cat, who is also named Emma! It was nice to see her and know that she supports me 100% no matter what happens :)

February 10th, 2013

Today, I ran into a friend that I met when I was an Academic Peer Mentor. He was just a little freshman moving in through the Accelerate Program, and my co-apm and him got along extremely well. Today, he's a junior, an RA, a very involved member of his fraternity, and is running on a Student Government Association slate as the treasurer. Sometimes it's nice to see someone blossom from their very first steps on campus :)

February 9th, 2013

Today, I convinced a friend to buy the book "Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. It's a book (as well as a blog and documentary) about "a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything". It's extremely interesting, a little conspiracy theorist-y, but I think my friend will enjoy it :)

February 8th, 2013

Today, I was in the best mood I had been in for almost a week, and for the life of me I have no idea why. But today I sought joy out in the fact that a guy I consider to be a very close friend doesn't know my real first name. I feel like it comes out with everyone at some point or another, and randomly made mention that my first name wasn't Emma and he thought it was Emily, and I just started laughing because he didn't know! I feel like Rumpelstiltskin by not telling him, but it seriously made my life haha

February 7th, 2013

Today, it felt amazing out! The one thing I love about going from winter to spring is any sign of warmth feels a thousand times better than whatever was considered cold. In October when it's 47 degrees, I have to wear a jacket or a sweater to stay warm. Yesterday when it was 47 degrees, after being below freezing for a few months, I had a 3/4 length sleeve shirt and thin shrug on. And I was sweating haha. I'm pretty sure most if not all midwestern states embody this image:

February 6th, 2013

Today I got a small joy out of seeing all the snow melt. I'm definitely ready for spring haha

February 5th, 2013

There are some days where some happiness can be found, but that happiness is paired with guilt because you feel that you shouldn't be happy. That's very close to where I am right now, but I am desperate to make sure that I still find something to be happy about, no matter how small it is. So today, I got to see how lucky I really am. I have some amazing friends and family members that want to make sure I'm ok. I had one friend, who I haven't communicated with in a few years even, reach out to me. As much as I dislike being in a position to need a support system, I am very blessed to have one so strong.

February 4th, 2013

So, today two things happened today that were pretty small but fairly celebratory. The first happened at school, because I realized that using hand sanitizer on a white board will clean it much quicker than an old eraser. It was bugging me that when I erased the board I could still see what I had written, so the hand sanitizer helped with that.

The other thing is that on the new episode of How I Met Your Mother, where Bob Saget is the narrator of the main character. The plot of this particular episode had one of the supporting characters obsess over a Canadian, and one of the ones they thought she was obsessing over was Dave Coulier. Bob and Dave were on Full House together, and on the episode Dave did one of the bits that his character on full house, Joey, always did (cut, it, out!) and Bob said as the narrator that he always loved that bit. They were referencing Full House! I loved that show growing up! It was a great moment haha

February 3rd, 2013

Today, I got to go shopping with my mother. In the summer whenever we're not working or at school, us girls of the family love to just spend the day out and about. All year when I would come home from school mom says we're going to go shopping but because of how our schedules work out we never have. Until today, and it was great to just be out and about with her. Every Sunday comes by and I don't want to leave her or the rest of my family. I love how close we are :)

February 2nd, 2013

Today, I got an amazing home cooked meal. My dad tried a new recipe: garlic lemon double stuffed chicken breast. We had it with mashed potatoes and stuffing and cottage cheese and salad and MAN was it amazingly delicious! I definitely missed that when I'm at school.

February 1st, 2013

Today, I came home. I know that sounds crazy ridiculous to post (even for a blog called Celebrate the Small Things) but sometimes...you just need to come home. So I did :)