Summer of inspiration!

 Alright so A LOT has happened (as usual) since my last post. I still suck at blogging I guess. Here's a quick recap.

WE WON NSAC DISTRICTS! AMAZING. amazing. amazing. We got to go to San Diego and compete and meet some really sweet people in advertising. I would have like to have more time to explore San Diego but it was a once in a lifetime thing and I still can't believe its happening!

I ended up drunkenly talking to a chick about a job and a week later she was calling me with a job opportunity! So now I work at Cellular Communications, a premium Verizon Wireless retailer. So thats kinda cool. I sell cell phones and pretend like I know how to fix cell phones (even though I absolutely DO NOT).

After a couple REALLY crazy interviews I ended up getting an internship...and then I got screwed out of it.

School was VERY crazy all the way to the end and I can't believe I survived it.

Then I quit cash wise because I'm sick of it.

So now I have a summer that is WIDE OPEN and I only work 30 hours a week! I literally had no idea what to do with myself the first 3 weeks that school was out. I realized that I have been extremely busy for the last 3 years and that I don’t know what to do with my spare time! I usually just try to catch up on sleep. So I slept. That got boring after a while.

I started an "inspiration file" on my computer and started strolling through blogs and filling that baby up! I have done a couple side projects. Decided that I wanted to draw once a day. Listened to music. I GOT A NOOK! So I have been reading a lot. I went to my cabin over my birthday with my good friend Bollboll. That was great. I have been going out a lot with my Cash Wise crew which has been fabulous. I have kinda been getting back to being my weird self with my very off beat sense of humor. So I am feeling very refreshed and happy with all my spare time! All though I am still kinda looking forward to the school year and getting all crazy again. And having to be creative all the time, even if it is SUPER tiring.

As I have said in earlier posts, nutrition fascinates me. I have been trying desperately to give up sugar. I KNOW that I need to and it's my new years res to give it up for real by the end of the year. Well its really hard. Especially when you like to be drunk from time to time. Okay so anyway I was thinking about how it would make sense to me if people were just supposed to eat what they ate from the beginning. That is probably what our body is designed for right? So I was researching a bit and found this movement of "Paleo Nutrition" which is exactly that! So I have been trying to ease my way into eating the "Paleo way" for the rest of my life. It's been a big obsession of mine as of late.

Just a cool fact that I found out when looking into Paleo that I think explains it all is the fact that we were healthy, tall, had great teeth for the majority of our existence as humans. Cancer, diabetes, autoimmune, and heart disease was not ever an issue until the agricultural revolution! So basically, ever since we started eating grains, rice, and sugar is when our bodies went to shit! And ever since this whole "low fat, high carb, starve yourself" thing has been the response to all these diseases, the problems have gotten worse! So anyway I am now brainwashed into the Paleo way and I think that it is going to keep me alive for longer and feeling great. I want to shout this from the rooftops! Especially to the people I know with these problems. Especially autoimmune. But most people think I'm crazy and that they could never do it. Or that its now "worth it" to stop eating poison. BUT I'm going to do it.

Uuuummmmmmm I think thats all. Here is some stuff from my inspiration file.

change is good right?

WOW what a whirlwind! I have been crazy crazy crazy busy for the past couple weeks and I am really sick of it!

Just a FEW things I have been up to:

I am involved in NSAC (national student advertising competition) which is a big competition where we get a national sponsor (JCPenney) and create a full marketing campaign for them, create a 32 page campaign book, advertisements, and present it to a panel of judges. It is very time consuming and has pretty much taken over my life this year. I was an art director in charge of the 32-page campaign book, which was a huge task. I finished that last week. I have NEVER spent so much time on campus! It was A LOT of work but I had so much fun with my classmates and am really glad I got to work with these awesome people! Next weekend is the big competition. We all go down to Minneapolis and compete against 8 other schools and see how we rank! If we win 1st place we go onto the national competition (we wont). Then we all party together and it is just going to be a BLAST and I can’t wait!

I also had a portfolio review for my art degree. This is basically supposed to weed out the people in the art program who are not working hard enough. Depending on what people you get judging your work, you can really get ripped to shreds at these things. It went pretty well, my people were really nice and said I was on track. It I a WHOLE lot of work for a half hour session that basically told me what I already knew...oh well.

I also have been applying to internships. Internships are really hard to find it seems. I have applied to a couple and have a couple more to apply to...but it is such a hard thing to get a hold of a decent internship. I don’t understand why it is so hard to let someone hire me to work for free! cripe. So it is stressing me out a bunch.

The other night at the bar, I was talking to a friend of a friend about her job at a privately owned verizon wireless store and how she makes a decent amount of money. I have always kind of liked the idea of selling phones and so I told her that I want that job...well she got me an interview with a different store in town. I am nervous to start this job if I get it. It would be a lot to learn and change is scary! PLUS if I actually get an internship, I will be starting two new jobs at once. ugh

Yesterday two of my cash wise buds had a birthday party bus! It was super fun, but everyone was talking about leaving! I basically came to the conclusion that all of my closest friends are moving away this summer and I feel really sad and uneasy about it today!

All of my friends are spreading across the country and leaving me behind with nothing. Another sign of change. Change is really hard sometimes but it usually just ends with me growing and becoming smarter. I just feel like I am going to be really lonely the next couple years. Then I was thinking about how it won’t be any easier once I DO graduate and move to a new job wherever it may be. When will I ever have a foundation of great friends that will stay in the same place ever again? I don’t know. I obviously know that I will make new friends and bla bla bla, but it takes a long time to surround yourself with great people, and then when they all move away at the same time, it is really hard to swallow. SO needless to say I am very nervous about my future, although I think I am making good decisions for myself, and I am happy for my friends who are moving on. I almost wish that I was making a huge change as well so I didn’t feel left behind.

Fantasy Factory is on again! Yay!

Hopefully I will finally have some time to blog more frequently now, and hopefully the next time I will be more up beat about my life.

This kind of turned into a journal entry to help me work through my fears haha, sorry for spelling and grammatical errors!

Bloody Knees

This past weekend my friends and I decided to have fun weekend in Minneapolis to break up this god awful winter we have been having.

It was Molly, her older sister Laura, and myself.

Laura set up the entire weekend on a seemingly airtight schedule. Molly and I are usually very relaxed and often late. Laura is not. So to keep us in line, Laura made set reservations everywhere we went and threatened our livelihood if we messed her plans up.

We were expected at Laura's apartment at 1pm.

Molly drove to the nail salon. She is afraid of everything. EVERYTHING. She claims she is just a very "defensive" driver. I may label her a "delusional" driver. She thinks everyone and everything is out to get her and often does very unpredictable things to avoid accidents. Once we were in the middle lane and a person was driving about the same speed in another lane. Molly screamed and swerved in the other direction. This was the sign that perhaps she was not suited for driving. Thankfully Laura took over driving the rest of the weekend.

Nail appointment was at 1:30pm. I enjoyed it. I also made several very stupid mistakes during the appointment like trying to dip my foot in the wax, but there was a cover on it. There were also massage chairs which I couldn't really figure out. The nail lady took the remote out of my hand a couple times to help me out. Pretty sure she thought I was mentally challenged.

Once our nails were dry Laura started hounding us to get our act together because we needed to check into the hotel by 4pm. Molly and I were wining about food and how we needed to pee and get liqueur. I am sure Laura wanted to slap us. We eventually got our way and got to eat. During the meal we realized that Molly can not multi task in any sense. She can not even chew and walk at the same time.

After the meal Laura was still in hurry to get to the hotel "on time" and she sprinted out to the car. She was wearing flip flops to avoid ruining her pedicure. She tripped and ruined all of her nails on one foot. Her pedicure lasted about 30 min.

Laura set us up with a beautiful room at The Grove Hotel and it was wonderful. We drank and got ready to go out.

We went to Ichiban. 7:30pm. We still had to wait a little while even though we had a reservation which did not please laura. It was wonderful and very expensive. We had 6 shots of sake, a mixed drink, and one glass of wine each. Needless to say we were feeling giggly by the end of dinner. We went back to the hotel to drop off left overs. We tried desperately to take a picture of all three of us in the reflection of the elevator door...failed.

While we were in the room we decided to all take a shot before going to the bars. Laura went pee and it was our responsibility to pour shots. We had all the booze and some plastic cups sitting on the windowsill. Molly knocked over a plastic cup and it somehow shattered the glass top on a table below it! It was safety glass so it was in a million pieces all over the floor! Molly and I looked at each other and said "how the hell did that just happen?!" Laura shouted from the bathroom "what just happened?" and we responded "NOTHING!" (like we were going to clean it all up before she came out of the bathroom)

Laura emerges from the b-room and says that we need to clean it up and hope that they don’t notice. So Molly and I get down on the floor and are scooping up shards of glass. Molly then yells "yay girls night!"

After a while of doing this, my hands are starting to bleed about the same time that Molly's knees start leaving a bloody print on the carpet. She exclaims that she doesn’t understand why her knees are bleeding so much. I tell her to get up so we don’t add any more fines to our room (not to mention the DNA we are leaving behind!). She goes to clean herself up but still manages to get blood on the duvet and more carpet. I get the carpet cleaned and continue to try to clean up the glass. My buzz is wearing off by this time and it was becoming more painful to pick up the glass. We decide to go out and clean the rest up later.

We go to a couple bars. Laura leaves at 12:30am to take a shower and sleep (lame). Molly and I continue to drink and are hassled A LOT to leave at bar close. haha

We get up to the room and essentially pass out.

Molly and I shared a bed and she enjoys to sleep at a diagonal and snore. I had to get up and physically move her over.

We wake up the next morning and the room was completely TRASHED. Our shit was everywhere. Booze and half full glasses of drinks were scattered on every surface. There is glass all over the floor.

Molly was extremely dramatic about her hangover (imagine that) and had to sit down in the shower because she could not bare to stand for that long. we eventually cleaned everything all up and checked out. I was in charge of bringing to the bag of glass out (to get rid of evidence) and I imagined the bag breaking in the lobby...luckily that did not happen.

We then went to a wonderful restaurant called 3 squares and got a fantastic breakfast!

Then we went our separate ways.

Wonderful evening with some fantastic gals. I make fun of them, but all in good fun!

lets do this

Okay.
I am Sophie.
I am a student at MSUM.
I am an aspiring designer.
I also love advertising.
I hate it when people miss use the word "ironic."
I love nutrition.
I am gluten, dairy, and sugar sensitive.
I am constantly trying to master eating properly for my body.
I really need to start exercising again.
I need to finish my resume.
I REALLY need to get an internship this summer.
I want to go on a school program to Scotland next summer.
I often doubt whether or not I am an adequate designer...or if I will ever be.
I am working on a huge campaign project with my class. Will give updates.
I love clothes.
I have a very eclectic taste in music.
I hate the word "random."
I love using a thesaurus.
I love lists.
I love Vmars, The Office, Always Sunny, Arrested, Dexter, Weeds, Grey's and House.
I love bumble and bumble products.