Thursday, June 11, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Something to talk about
My mom taught us how to make dumplings...
And here are some pictures from our annual Walk and Wag fundraiser for the Huron Valley Humane Society:
The Ricardo situation is frustrating, I'm not sure if I've been okay talking about it until now. Basically, I'm sure that they rescinded my offer because someone said "we can't make an exception for this intern". So, loyalty down the drain and all the relationships I've built with people who don't work at Ricardo anymore, my attitude now is "you've pissed me off, don't come back to me again and drag me along". Turns out, they let go of their marketing manager and the VP of Bus Dev/Marketing, now they need marketing help, and they're looking to hire me back as a contract employee. Make no mistake, if I do this, it's because I need the money but will not be taken advantage of.
It's a long story but it looks like there is a prospective job for me working for a very wealthy older couple this year - basically, I'll be house sitting, doing housework, doing yardwork, running errands, etc. for them at their summer home in Charlevoix (about 4 hours north) on Lake Michigan. I basically have my own mini apartment on one floor of their house (with kitchen, couple of beds, bathroom, couch, TV, walk out to backyard) and I get to stay there for "free". They are also covering my food and paying me a decent amount of money each week. It is basically like a vacation but I am just doing chores I would normally do at home. And get this, the man who owns the house who I have been corresponding with is Richard Golden, aka from the commercials "Hi, I'm Richard Golden from DOC Eyewear here to tell you about sexy specs". I feel like only Michigan people know who I'm talking about. Well him and his family sold DOC awhile ago and he started a new company called See Eyewear (there is one on State St. in Ann Arbor), which I think has an interesting marketing objective.
And here are some pictures from our annual Walk and Wag fundraiser for the Huron Valley Humane Society:
The Ricardo situation is frustrating, I'm not sure if I've been okay talking about it until now. Basically, I'm sure that they rescinded my offer because someone said "we can't make an exception for this intern". So, loyalty down the drain and all the relationships I've built with people who don't work at Ricardo anymore, my attitude now is "you've pissed me off, don't come back to me again and drag me along". Turns out, they let go of their marketing manager and the VP of Bus Dev/Marketing, now they need marketing help, and they're looking to hire me back as a contract employee. Make no mistake, if I do this, it's because I need the money but will not be taken advantage of.
It's a long story but it looks like there is a prospective job for me working for a very wealthy older couple this year - basically, I'll be house sitting, doing housework, doing yardwork, running errands, etc. for them at their summer home in Charlevoix (about 4 hours north) on Lake Michigan. I basically have my own mini apartment on one floor of their house (with kitchen, couple of beds, bathroom, couch, TV, walk out to backyard) and I get to stay there for "free". They are also covering my food and paying me a decent amount of money each week. It is basically like a vacation but I am just doing chores I would normally do at home. And get this, the man who owns the house who I have been corresponding with is Richard Golden, aka from the commercials "Hi, I'm Richard Golden from DOC Eyewear here to tell you about sexy specs". I feel like only Michigan people know who I'm talking about. Well him and his family sold DOC awhile ago and he started a new company called See Eyewear (there is one on State St. in Ann Arbor), which I think has an interesting marketing objective.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
T-shirts and more T-shirts
In the process of moving back home and unpacking again, I decided to clean out my closet and my wardrobe. I packed all clothes that don't fit or that I don't wear anymore into a few bags to donate to charity. I can't believe the collections of shirts I found! Kind of nostalgic to find so many shirts related to so many past events in my life, I almost had a hard time putting these shirts in the "getting rid of" pile. I still have the bag of shirts just incase I change my mind and think of something I can do with them to keep them.
Tons of K-state shirts
From when I was dating Kyle in high school and he graduated and went to Kansas State University. He started giving me his old K-State shirts that didn't fit him anymore and then bought me a few for Christmas presents and things like that.
Tons of robotics shirts
The orange and watermelon tie dye shirt that our team won an award for "best team T-shirt" the year before I joined the team, the horrible ugly orange and black camo shirts that we wore one year (I think one of the teachers picked that one), and the plain black and orange shirt with "Tamster" written on the back of it and "548" written on the sleeve. I also have two bright orange robotics shirts from the Team 862 Plymouth-Canton team Bosch started sponsoring right after I graduated.
S.T.E.P.S. girls robotics camp shirt
I went to a girls engineering camp for a week during a summer in high school. There were different "teams" of girls who had different colors and mine was a peach shirt. Some of the groups became kind of "cliquey" so a couple of the girls in my peach group and I started hanging out with the yellow shirt girls. We called ourselves "the peaches" because we thought we were "peach on the outside, yellow on the inside" (the yellow is so we could identify ourselves to the yellow girls group). I also found a tie dye shirt we all got to make with signatures of all the girls from the camp.
Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix Bosch clean diesel shirt
The first year I went to Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix (I think two years ago... 2007), I brought Bryan and we went in the Bosch tent to take a picture together. They were handing out these shirts but they were XXL which was apparently the only size they had left! I wouldn't mind wearing an XXL as a PJ shirt but it is extremely wide.
Dummies shirt
Back when I was in robotics, Josh somehow got Dummies to sponsor our team (they make the yellow and black books that are "_____ for Dummies"). The sponsored our team by giving us a whole library of "_____ for Dummies" books, giving us keychains as giveaways at competitions, and giving us Dummies shirts. Again, it's just too big of a shirt.
UofM-Dearborn shirt
I got this shirt in a box in the mail that said "Congratulations! you've been accepted to the University of Michinga - Dearborn!" of course they wanted to send a "one size fits all" so they sent an XXL.
Youth group shirts
Found a short sleeve yellow CSM (Center for Student Missions) shirt and a long sleeve black CSM shirt from the Tennessee missions trip I went on when I was... 14 I think? A shirt that Anna made for VBS in 2002 that is red with a lady bug on it and says "Buggin" which was our slogan for the "Bugs Life" theme we had that year. I found a team shirt from the 2002 flag football competition. Our team was "Touchdown Jesus" and it's black with bright green lettering and says "Touchdown Jesus Toilet Bowl XXL 2002". A shirt from ATF that is black and says "dead man walking" on the front and "dead to sin, alive to Jesus" on the back. And a soft, yellow shirt that Anna decorated for the Babe Seminar crew.
Hershey's chocolate shirt
I vaguely remember this shirt being a gift... I think Dusan bought me this shirt from visiting the Hershey's factory that has a picture of a Hershey's bar and the caption "you never forget your first love". The shirt is, again, in XXL.
A tie-dye purple shirt
My mom bought this for me when her, Tim, and I visited San Diego a loooong time ago. We were on a boardwalk and there was a little tent selling tie-dye stuff, so I insisted on this purple shirt and a multi-colored tie-dye scrunchy.
Red hang ten shirt
My Aunt Joyce bought this for me in Taiwan awhile back. There was a sale rack and it was like buy one get one free, I think, so I got this one and a yellow one. I don't know where the yellow one is though.
Tons of K-state shirts
From when I was dating Kyle in high school and he graduated and went to Kansas State University. He started giving me his old K-State shirts that didn't fit him anymore and then bought me a few for Christmas presents and things like that.
Tons of robotics shirts
The orange and watermelon tie dye shirt that our team won an award for "best team T-shirt" the year before I joined the team, the horrible ugly orange and black camo shirts that we wore one year (I think one of the teachers picked that one), and the plain black and orange shirt with "Tamster" written on the back of it and "548" written on the sleeve. I also have two bright orange robotics shirts from the Team 862 Plymouth-Canton team Bosch started sponsoring right after I graduated.
S.T.E.P.S. girls robotics camp shirt
I went to a girls engineering camp for a week during a summer in high school. There were different "teams" of girls who had different colors and mine was a peach shirt. Some of the groups became kind of "cliquey" so a couple of the girls in my peach group and I started hanging out with the yellow shirt girls. We called ourselves "the peaches" because we thought we were "peach on the outside, yellow on the inside" (the yellow is so we could identify ourselves to the yellow girls group). I also found a tie dye shirt we all got to make with signatures of all the girls from the camp.
Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix Bosch clean diesel shirt
The first year I went to Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix (I think two years ago... 2007), I brought Bryan and we went in the Bosch tent to take a picture together. They were handing out these shirts but they were XXL which was apparently the only size they had left! I wouldn't mind wearing an XXL as a PJ shirt but it is extremely wide.
Dummies shirt
Back when I was in robotics, Josh somehow got Dummies to sponsor our team (they make the yellow and black books that are "_____ for Dummies"). The sponsored our team by giving us a whole library of "_____ for Dummies" books, giving us keychains as giveaways at competitions, and giving us Dummies shirts. Again, it's just too big of a shirt.
UofM-Dearborn shirt
I got this shirt in a box in the mail that said "Congratulations! you've been accepted to the University of Michinga - Dearborn!" of course they wanted to send a "one size fits all" so they sent an XXL.
Youth group shirts
Found a short sleeve yellow CSM (Center for Student Missions) shirt and a long sleeve black CSM shirt from the Tennessee missions trip I went on when I was... 14 I think? A shirt that Anna made for VBS in 2002 that is red with a lady bug on it and says "Buggin" which was our slogan for the "Bugs Life" theme we had that year. I found a team shirt from the 2002 flag football competition. Our team was "Touchdown Jesus" and it's black with bright green lettering and says "Touchdown Jesus Toilet Bowl XXL 2002". A shirt from ATF that is black and says "dead man walking" on the front and "dead to sin, alive to Jesus" on the back. And a soft, yellow shirt that Anna decorated for the Babe Seminar crew.
Hershey's chocolate shirt
I vaguely remember this shirt being a gift... I think Dusan bought me this shirt from visiting the Hershey's factory that has a picture of a Hershey's bar and the caption "you never forget your first love". The shirt is, again, in XXL.
A tie-dye purple shirt
My mom bought this for me when her, Tim, and I visited San Diego a loooong time ago. We were on a boardwalk and there was a little tent selling tie-dye stuff, so I insisted on this purple shirt and a multi-colored tie-dye scrunchy.
Red hang ten shirt
My Aunt Joyce bought this for me in Taiwan awhile back. There was a sale rack and it was like buy one get one free, I think, so I got this one and a yellow one. I don't know where the yellow one is though.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Anything other than what I've been trying to be
If you're going to call someone else out on his/her problems, you better be just as willing to admit your own!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
AGHHH back to square one
Apparently I lost a job today that I had not yet started working at. You'd think they would've thought of that before hiring me? Or did someone miss the memo on that? I should tag this one "stupidheads".
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