Clip of the week!

Also just happens to be Andy Samberg’s latest. Enjoy!

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Right place, right time.

You ever feel so set in your life? Kind of like you just know where you’re going and how you’re getting there? Sounds about right with me.

Lately things have been really starting to happen for me. I found out that I’m going to try to get a new internship this summer because someone whom I look up to kind of suggested I send her a resume (talk about exciting.) I’ve made goals for myself that are happening as I make them. Also, I’ve just been having a great time doing so!

As you may or may not know, I have this love for the Cleveland Indians. Lately I’ve been doing some more work heading in the right direction to end up there someday. My ticket sales class took me down there for a sales workshop last week, I worked at the TRIBE ON TOUR today and this coming Thursday I will be heading down to The Terrace Club for a VIP dinner with sales professionals from all over the country! Things are starting to look up and let’s just say it is all making me very antsy to get out of school and pursue everything I am dreaming of.

Speaking of the Tribe On Tour… What an experience. I love what the team is doing for the fans. First, Snow Days, now this! I didn’t really know what to expect with this whole tour thing; I knew Choo was going to be there along with Matt LaPorta (ooh la la) and some other players and big-namers… but that’s all I expected was some autograph signing. Well… I was a little bit off. First of all, we were at Summit Mall today — place was packed. The team was giving out tons of free merch to their fans — bobble heads, Wahoo Warmers, blankets, shirts, stuffed animals, etc etc… All of the players and head honchos were as friendly as ever, walking around, signing autographs, mingling with fans. It was beautiful to see, really. I love watching fans love the team, really brings back faith in CLE sports. It makes me happy because you hear about all the haters, yeah, you know the ones I am talking about, but then you see these fans flock to support the team. True fans. Today fans were able to take pictures, run through a real broadcast, win prizes, hit baseballs, etc… SO MUCH FUN! I was really proud of the team for doing something like this with the community.

How many more days until Opening Day?!

All of my friends who are already done with school and living their dreams keep telling me to enjoy college and slow down! Don’t you worry, I am enjoying college!

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Just go with it.

Happy Thursday, ladies and gents. Feels like I haven’t sat down and passed on my wisdom (ha.ha.) in quite some time. I guess you can say I have been busy — not just with school or work, but with, well, life.

Things are always happening (thank you, Captain Obvious) and I’m keeping that rather vague on purpose.

Ya know, throughout life you meet so many people and you, at the time, think that you’re happy and that is where you are supposed to be.

For instance, as you may have learned in previous posts, I loved my high school. I loved my friends, I loved my part-time job (YEAH! Johnny Rockets!), I loved where I was– get it? I loved it. I did not want to graduate and leave all behind. Don’t get me wrong; I could NOT wait to move on with my life and grow, but there was just something so comforting in, I guess my childhood? that was trying to hold me back. I even wrote an article for my school newspaper (that even got published in our yearbook) about that next step. Moving on, looking back, not looking back, holding on, etc…

May of 2008 came quickly, and soon I was in my cap and gown and leaving all that I knew behind. I was lucky enough to have had a wide variety of friends from all over the place, so for me, readjusting to new things was not hard at all.

Fast forward to August of that year. I moved out of the comfort and love that I got from everything I had in Cleveland and came down to good ol’ Alliance for college. Although you may have predicted that it was hard for me to leave, it took no time for me to become adjusted here and find my niche. I soon took advantage of all college had to offer; parties, food (yeah, I was no stranger to the freshman 15…or in my case..ehh, let’s just say not 15), friends, activities, classes, etc… The list goes on and on.

As you may or may not know, I am very involved on campus and I have set my foot in a lot of doors that will  help me in my future.

Anyways, I guess what I’m getting at is while you think there is a sense of belonging here, or this is where the whole cliche “I found myself in college” is proven wrong. For the past year or so I’ve felt like something has been missing. For a while there I even thought I was depressed because there was just always something bothering me. Don’t get me wrong, I had these great opportunities. Shit, I even spent my summer interning in the front office for the Cleveland Indians — hello, dream come true! But still, something was just, well, wrong.

I took the responsibility to talk to a higher power to help me pinpoint what exactly was “holding me back” and I guess you can say I’ve figured it out.

(Amongst a few other things) I am so unbelievably anxious for my future. Some people are all worries about where they’ll be in 5, 10, x number of years. Some people never want to leave college. However, I could not have more opposite feelings.

If you know me at all, even as just a follower through my blog or Twitter, you know that I’m all about #DREAMBIG. That is just a term (although coined on “Juno” in a sarcastic tone) I like to live by. Quotes I love are “Don’t settle for less than you deserve” and “There is nothing wrong with wanting more.” Although that sounds kind of greedy, it is supposed to be taken in a sense of just wanting to grow both professionally and just as a person.

From realizing exactly what was holding me back, per se, I have figured out a lot.  After you pinpoint the negatives, you can easily (sometimes it’s easy) overcome them and then find (ignore how cheesy this sounds) true happiness.

If you have picked up on my personality at all through following my Tweets and blogs, you’ve noticed I love public relations, social networking, meeting new people and Cleveland. If a major/minor combo of communication/sport business isn’t a perfect fit, I don’t know what is.

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my future lately and I could not be more excited and enthusiastic about the path I’ve chosen. Heck, I just took a mini field-trip up to Cleveland on Tuesday and I was just ecstatic the whole time. I’m going back up there on Thursday for an amazing opportunity (I’ll fill you in next time, I’m kind of on a mission with this post!) and I can not wait.

I know this post had a lot that had to be said and it wasn’t as clear as I would have liked, but I think you get it. If not, make with it what you want.

Basically, what I’m trying to say is that if you’re unhappy, figure out why, don’t let it hold you back, overcome it and BE HAPPY. Take everything in life as a learning experience.

Oh, and don’t forget…

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Picture this!

Just gonna throw some pics up for you! No writing today 😛

Julie, Andy, myself, Sean and Lisa at Sean’s party for Andy’s birthday!

Lisa and myself at Sean’s party for Andy.

Myself along with Shannon, Misty, Matt and Heather at South Beach for Misty’s 21st!

Sean and I at Andy’s party!

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The Key to Happiness

Pick one!

No but really. This sounds so unbelievably cliche, but here it goes. Surround yourself with people who  make you happy. Surround yourself with those who inspire you. Forget the ones who bring you down; they are so not worth it.

I am lucky enough to have a boyfriend who tells me every day how proud he is of me.

I am lucky enough to go to a school where the faculty actually cares what you’re doing. I have professors who email me to tell me how proud they are of my work. I have professors who call out my good work in class. I even have random faculty members that I have met on different occasions who get so excited when they see me because they can’t wait to hear about my recent accomplishments.

I am lucky enough to have friends who do a great job inspiring me. Whether it is somebody I barely know who gives me heartfelt advice, to someone I know quite well who likes to tell me how proud they are of me, it is people like them who I want to keep around.

I am lucky enough to have a family who, though they may not know exactly what everything is that I am involved with, they still ask questions and are so unbelievably proud. I hear all the time that my grandpa is always bragging about me, that makes me so happy to know.

What I am saying is…

There are people like that in your life. Even if they don’t tell you everyday, their actions speak, well, louder than words. Even if they just listen to you talking about something you did, you know in their hearts they are happy for you.

It is people like them,  my boyfriend, my teachers, my new friends, who really put the smile on my face. I am so thankful to be surrounded by such inspirational people — really takes me where I am going.

We just have to learn how to stop letting people bring you down. Jealousy is ugly on everybody. However, our nemesi (plurals wig me out) are the factors that push us in life.

In conclusion, surround yourself with the people who make you smile and help you grow. If you happen to be around the people who bring you down (FYI, pretty inevitable) find the good in it and let it push you even more.

Be happy.

I’m going to start leaving you with very inspirational and fitting Kelly Cutrone quotes…

“Stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back”

“I believe the choices we make in our lives and the people and places surrounding us increase the volume of our inner voice, decrease it, or annihilate it entirely.”

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Clip of the week!

Something to make you smile 🙂 Good ol’ Boy Meets World!!

Andy Samberg’s newest!

I fall more and more in love with him every week. Enjoy!

No more sexting.

What…a weekend.

Saturday was just one big chill-sesh. Football, Jimmy Johns, friends and sleep. Wonderful.

Saturday night, however, was the exact opposite of chill. The girls and I went out for a night on the town (Alliance, pfft!), cabs and all. Yes, I even yelled, “Cabs are here!” when the taxi arrived at the party to pick us up (talk about leaving in style!). The night was just one big adventure; it usually is that way when Shannon and I go out together.

Today, as the title of this post suggests, was the weirdest day ever.

Sure, it started out normal… Sleep in, get Dunkin’ Donuts, reminisce about last night, yada yada yada… Then things took a turn.

As I’m laying in bed, I receive a picture message from a number I did not recognize. It was a big ass, sorry to be so blunt, lol, it just makes the story better. Imagine my surprise. I figure it’s just one of those chain-jokes and I just didn’t have my friend’s number in my phone. I replied with, “Um, who is this?!” and, while expecting an answer like “Jim! Sorry I got a new phone!” I got “OH MY GOD I AM SO SORRY! I DIALED THE WRONG NUMBER” Umm… Hello. I was a victim of wrong-number-sexting. So, I didn’t wanna not respond and make them nervous, so I said, “Oh, that’s awkward! lol,” ya know, hoping they’d realize I wasn’t offended. They texted back AGAIN saying “OMG! SMH! I am soooo sorry!” As if that wasn’t enough, the chick even called me a few minutes later to apologize again. Talk about hilarious. It took a few minutes for me to realize how funny it really was. Awkward! Poor thing. Lesson learned: No more sexting. Well, if you’re gonna do it, MAKE SURE YOU TYPE IN THE RIGHT NUMBER.

Next I went to edit my page for the newspaper. My inner-perfectionist came out of it’s hiding place because it took me over 2 and a half hours to make my page fit my standards. A job well done! I am doing a weekly column called “The road to success,” with little steps each week on how to better yourself as a worker. If you have any suggestions, please leave them in a comment!

So, as my weird day continues, I’m on my way to WRMU for our retreat when I stop and get gas at Sheetz. As I’m pumping my gas, this drunk, scary townie comes up and starts begging me for money and cigarettes while yelling and slurring at me. I was actually scared for my life. I noticed him earlier talking to every girl at different pumps but it didn’t seem like anything at first. He kept getting really close to me and I was seriously debating running inside but I didn’t wanna leave my car. He even moved in so close to “fist pump” and I feel like all the soap in the world couldn’t clean my hand. I kept looking at the numbers on the gas pump waiting until it was done because I was going to run inside and have the workers call the police or something; I’m not exaggerating when I say this dude was a creep! Luckily, a Sheetz worker was just getting to work and pulled in the parking lot right then and there because he came over to save me and he ended up calling the police on his own. What… a day.

Our WRMU shin-dig was next and we just spent a few hours at the station eating, hangin out and getting some work done. The long day is finally over and I am tired as hell. Thank God for MLK Day being tomorrow because I get the day off, again! What a college kid I am, drinking water and blogging while everyone else is drinking beer and playing pong. Pfft.

I like weird days like today because they make for good stories 🙂

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Turn around bright eyes

First week = fabulous.

I couldn’t be more excited.

As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs, last semester was a drag! However, this semester turned around and it couldn’t really get any better!

In my last post, I summed up what was only the first day of the spring semester. If you couldn’t tell, it was a pretty positive post. Well, the rest of the week only went up.

Tuesday I had my ticket sales class (Kudos to me for FINALLY not scheduling a 7:45am class!) and I loved it. I get to kind of work with the Indians (so obviously right there I’m automatically obsessed) and I even get to take a field trip down there next week for a ticket sales workshop. How exciting 🙂

The rest of the week was filled with meetings, classes, work and other random happenings but I loved every minute of it.

Us directors at WRMU had our first meeting of the semester on Tuesday. We gave our station manager his Christmas gift, which was a calendar filled with all kinds of pictures of WRMU from the past year or so, and he was crazy about it. We discussed some plans for the semester and everything seems to be going great. The only downer is our Sports Director, Jesse, is venturing off to DC this semester so he won’t be around for the next 15 weeks… sadface.

Our first radio show of the semester was Tuesday night from 10-12… If you’re new to this blog and are unfamiliar, my best friend and I have a radio show every Tuesday night on WRMU… “Late Night Jams with Shan & Sam.” Our format is called “The I-Pod Shuffle” because we play, well, anything and everything. I’ll post a link on Tuesday so you can tune in!

Wednesday we had our first AWS meeting which was kind of just a cluster of ideas for upcoming events, and then after that I met with Rachel to discuss my presidency for PRSSA! We went over the basics and I learned a lot about the organizations and within the next two weeks we’re going to start up again for the semester.

So, as you know, the snow has been a-fallin’…. Well, this may or may not surprise you, but I slipped approximately 3 times on Wednesday, resulting in a pulled muscle/pinched nerve in my back. Um, can you say OUCH!? Yeah, as you can imagine, outside of work@WRMU and class on Thursday, I spent basically the whole day in bed with a heating pad and Advil. It is now Saturday morning and it still hurts. What gives?

Friday was a great day. Not only was it great because, well, it was Friday, but it was just a good day all around. It was the wrap-up to a good week, everyone was in a great mood, I had a date coming up at night with Sean, and everything else was just great. Shannon and I walked out of our Advanced PR class to find Sean’s best friend Andy cleaning the giant fish tank in our science building, and he let me go up there with him and pet the fish. Random? Then after that, Kelly and I went to Marc’s and got some cute leather jackets (that were originally from Target!) and they were 2 for $5! Bargain!

My date night with Sean consisted of stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut with  Cheesy Bread from Little Caesar’s, Throwback Pepsi, Anchorman and Honey I Shrunk The Kids. Sometimes, those laid-back date nights are the best.

Let me tell you, left over stuffed crust pizza makes a great breakfast 😉

Sorry I am lacking juicy stories for the week! I’ll try to stir up something for my next post!

P.S. Check out @LaBellaCupcakes on Twitter! A follower of mine/I’m a follower; great person!  But I just saw them on the morning news! Kudos!

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Spring semester begins…

Wow, I sure am energetic and happy for a Monday afternoon. Maybe because I know that in approximately 30 minutes I will be cuddled up in my bed for an afternoon nap (I love college) or maybe it is because I had a great first day back.

Rewind a few months: First semester SUCKED. I knew from day one that it was going to be horrible. The syllabi/syllabuses  (I’ve never had to write that out; Google gave me both options) were so overwhelming, my schedule was maxed out and I was stressed every day.

However, day one of this semester gave me some ease because I am not the least bit overwhelmed, in fact, I am really excited. My day started off with Business and Technical Writing, and, as you may know, I truly enjoy writing so that won’t bother me a bit. I also have had this professor for a previous class (Got an A, thank you) and I like her a lot. It was  a nice surprise to see that Shannon is in that class with me too, who knew? I’m also excited because I have a few other friends in there too.

Second was a class that is designed for juniors in the communication department and it’s called Communication Theories and it’s just pretty in depth learning about, well, communication. Well, seeing as that is my major I think it’s a good fit.

I then have a philosophy class which, well, when I signed up for it I was really excited because philosophy happens to be a topic I enjoy. However, the professor seems to be a total bore; I zoned out for 50 minutes today while he went over our syllabus, but at least it’ll be interesting stuff to read about.

Next is what I think will be my favorite class, Advanced Public Relations; right up my alley! We’re going to be in groups for the whole semester and create a firm and work with local area businesses as their, well, PR Firms. As if I am not on PR overload as it is! Keep it comin’!

I am going to wait a week or two to start with our PRSSA meetings; there are a few things I have to do yet, plus I want everyone else to settle in with their schedules. I hate when organizations schedule meetings the first week back (not to mention the first day! I have three tonight! UGH! Would have been 4 if I scheduled PRSSA!)

Tonight Sean’s coming over for dinner and then I have Studio M Television meeting, followed by Dynamo Editors and then the Dynamo staff… Remember the Monday-Night-Line Up? I’m debating whether or not to move PRSSA to another day. Either be convenient and have it all on the same night so we can just get it out of the way or make people come out in the cold twice a week? Decisions, decisions.

I am foreseeing a good turnout for PRSSA this semester because my Advanced PR professor encouraged our class to all join and some people seemed very excited. #dreambig, my friend.

Tomorrow I only have one class and it is Sales and Marketing of Sports — yes! We actually get to work with the Indians and do ticket sales! I am pumped.

Speaking of the Indians, The Fun Bunch has some appearances at the end of the month at different malls around the area! I am so excited! So I’ll give you more details as it comes closer and you should definitely come visit me if you’re near by.

Speaking of the Fun Bunch… well, two things. 1- we got a new sponsor, yeee. 2- we figured out housing situations for next year and I am going to be living with two of my friends from the good ol’ FB. YAY! Don’t get me wrong, I’m gonna miss the girls I live with now but I hope hope hope we stay close!

Anyhoo, I hope you’re all having as fabulous of a day as I am! Let’s just hope this happiness continues!

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