Thanks Nicole! (backwards ffbb!!)

Hello! For starters, I am really pumped about being a contributor to this blog. Nicole’s blog is so inspirational to me. After I read a posting I just want to jump out of seat and help someone out. Her ideas are just exploding with positive energy. And I love it.

Basically, what it comes down to, is that positive people rock. It’s really a simple idea, surround yourself with optimistic people and you too will feel slightly lighter.

Today, for me, was exceptionally wonderful. It started off with logging on to Nicole’s Blog and reading the post of her welcoming me on board. I wish I had a camera because the smile on my face was so huge. :D

Then it was off to Spanish Class. Now that class is always a good time because my professor loves YouTube. Today we watched a clip on Latin America cuisine that included grasshoppers. It takes a talent for a teacher to bring humor into a class that would otherwise be dull. That’s another thing I am a big fan of laughter. Well, I like to call it giggling, or chuckling because they are silly words and people tend to smile when they say them.

With class, work, and advising appointments today was an exceptionally busy day for me. All the craziness was well worth it because I am now no longer undeclared! My major is now changed to Communications with emphasis on Communication Studies meaning I get to create my own curriculum. I also had to pick my classes for next semester and it’s going to be a tough semester. I have Spanish II, Business Statics, Writing and Thinking, Using Computers and the class I’m most excited for, Public Speaking!

All right, so I think I’ll wrap this up with a quote from one of my favorite authors Augusten Burroughs. I have read all of his books and he is quite the funny man. I found this quote on the side of my Starbucks cup one day in the summer. I was so excited to see that his words made it to side of my cup, so when I finished drinking it I didn’t throw out the cup. Well I sort of forgot I had the cup in my car and there it sat for about um I’m going guess around the ballpark of 5-6 months. Disgusting, I know. Opps. Well here is the really empowering quote:

The Way I See It #141

I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stumped by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word. ~Augusten Burroughs

So maybe today be that person, who knows what might happen!