Happy anniversary!

Michelle — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:00:54 +0000

A year ago today, I went on my very first date with Clay. He picked me up and we took the longest time figuring out what to do. We decided to go see a movie, so we went to the theatre to check out times. We decided on seeing Wall-E (… erm, by ‘we decided’, I really mean, I took one look at what was showing and went “Wall-E!”), but we had dinner first at a restaurant across the street (I still recall that I ordered dessert for dinner – key lime pie!). The entire date was awesome, it was a much more comfortable setting to hang out rather than like when we would talk and such at work during last summer. You know, getting to actually spend time together without the worry of someone popping in on us.

The dates that have followed, the time spent together, the little moments that have helped build our relationship over the last year have been really wonderful. And we’ve gone through a lot over the last year. The “I love you’s”, meeting his parents, meeting my friends and sister (who is a massive critic in her own right), fights, happy moments, and just learning.

We know most of each other’s likes and dislikes. He listens to me go on and on about Blythe dolls and which one to get and such. He’s introduced me to video games (I’m more of a casual casual gamer… if I can be defined as one…?) that he picks because he think I’ll like them (and he hasn’t been wrong yet!). Plus he’ll even eat the poor rejected Skittle flavours for me (grape, banana, cherry). And when he receives anything handcrafted by me, he always look so happy that it’s worth the cursing that I do at the yarn while making it (haha). He makes me smile and he makes me laugh and he makes me happy and feel loved. He listens to me vent and he always seems to know what to say when I’m feeling like I’m not being my best.

That isn’t to say that we never argue. We do have our disagreements, over the little and the big things, but we always do talk things through and try to see things from the other person’s point of view. I do think it helps that neither of us stays mad at the other for very long. And I think, despite the disagreements, we do get better with talking to each other and understanding the other person, which helps us to grow in our relationship.

And… I’m not quite sure where I’m going with all of this. I really just felt like writing about us mostly for the warm fuzzy feeling, to be perfectly honest (oh, I’m such a sap sometimes). But umm… Yeah! Warm fuzzy feelings, happy anniversary to Clay and myself.

One day more

Michelle — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:50:10 +0000

One more work day!

As much as I do like working at the company that I work for, this is the longest stretch that I’ve worked there so far. For the first and second year, I worked there for 2 months each year. For my third year there, I worked there for about two months, took 4 weeks off, and then worked for another month. I took a month off because I was taking a summer course (biology – and it was one of the best professors I had ever had at my school). This summer, I opted not to take a summer course (I was having enough trouble finding enough credits to take in the upcoming year!) so I worked for the full summer term period. I started the Monday after my last exam and I’m ending on the Friday right before the school year starts, a total of 19 weeks straight.

I like most of the people that I work with, everyone’s always been very friendly and pretty cheerful. I’ve gotten to know some people very well there and I do like the company and the fact that they’ll let me work full time and take a full 4 weeks off. Everyone’s been really awesome to me for the last 4 summers, so I’m glad that I went back again this year (it also helped that no where else I had applied to wanted me). I do something different every summer, I gain new experience every single summer and that’s what I like about it. I get exposed to so many different things and to different people. For instance, last summer, I juggled 10+ projects for the last while and it was a very time consuming 10+ projects, but I got them done and learned much better time management than I ever had before. This summer, I definitely worked on my communication skills and got better at enforcing things that needed to be enforced in order to get the job done.

I guess what I’m saying is that despite the fact that I will complain about having over a dozen projects on the go or the fact that “all I do” is enter data for a full work day, I still learned something during my stay at the company every year and I learn new practical skills every summer as well. Which, in itself, is so valuable. I am also incredibly thankful to the company that I work for whenever I have to pay for tuition or textbooks, because without the money that I’ve earned over the past four summers, I don’t think I would be as comfortably paying for school and I love the fact that I don’t ‘need’ to work during the school year (I commute to school on a daily basis and this makes it rather impractical, considering I never have ‘good’ class times).

The “End of Summer” lunch happened today and it was really fun. My supervisor and one of the higher-ups were both there today and both of them invited me back for the summer in 2010, so I’ll have to see about that. Hopefully it’ll work out.

So, just one more day. One more day until my ‘summer vacation’ of three days where I will be preparing for school and whatnot. Just one more day.

I think I’m already missing it.

michelleisanemotionalsap – Imaginary Sunshine

Happy anniversary!

One day more