work, work, work

When it comes to having a job, working hard seems like a top priority to me. A job isn't just some thing you do to pass time or have fun. Although some jobs can be fun, it is always important to work hard and do what you need to do. When I am at my job, I do what I'm supposed to and have fun only when I have time. It really gets on my nerves when my coworkers talk nonstop and don't pay attention to what they are doing. I work at Buffalo Wild Wings and it is important that we bag up people's to-go orders properly. What I don't understand is how a person can be oblivious to the reason they are at work. Another thing we do at my job, is called portioning. We have little cups of ranch, blue cheese, southwest ranch, cocktail, honey mustard, sour cream, and a few others. Our job is to pour the sauces into the little cups. We have a certain amount of cups that we have to portion at the end of our shifts to ensure that there will be enough for the next people's shift. What I don't understand is how people can not do what they are supposed to and not feel bad about it. Does fairness ever come to a person's mind? Or what about work ethics? A business needs certain things in order to work, including different tasks for each worker. Having a good work ethic will get you a lot farther in your career.

Do you know how to hold a baby?

I'm sure everyone has held a baby before, but did you do it correctly? I came to this realization tonight when I was holding my boyfriend's newborn nephew. As I watched the baby's mom hold him, I thought about how careful you have to be. Not everyone realizes this. Some people pick up a baby and figure he or she can hold his or her head up on their own. Not only that, but some people carry their baby around like a baby doll. A real life baby and a baby doll are two completely different things.
Babies are helpless little human beings and need tender loving care more than anything. If you have never held a baby before, just think about the future. Most of you are planning on having children someday and need to be ready. My boyfriend's brother-in-law is not well acquainted with the way of holding a baby. It made me realize how unprepared some parents might be. He propped the baby up on his stomach to sleep, which seemed a little risky. I wasn't sure how well he could breathe.
Babies are little people that look to their caregivers for support and love. The way you hold a baby doesn't seem very important, when in reality it is vital. When holding a baby, make sure that you always support their necks. Babies, especially newborns, don't have the strength to hold their heads up on their own and need help. Also, when handing the baby over to someone else, make sure that they have a firm grasp on the baby. You don't want the baby to end up on the floor or anywhere else they shouldn't be.

wrong title. woops!

So, my last blog is supposed to say week 6. Not week 5.

week 5 blog =)

As a college student, I am finding that having someone, besides myself, read my papers over is a gigantic help. When I was younger, and even up through high school, I figured that after I wrote a rough draft a certain way that I should keep it. I mean, I did do a few changes here and there to my papers, after receiving comments from my teachers, but I never took into consideration that I could always make my papers better.
Now that I am in college, and have many more resources to help me with my papers, I work harder on really changing my rough draft. A rough draft is just a way of getting everything on paper that is in my head. Just because I have all of my thoughts written down, doesn't mean that it is any good. My rough draft is just an overview and plan of how I want to write my paper. Although, if the structure of a paper I write is okay in my rough draft, I can always keep it and just fix my sentence structures and details.
Having someone else look over my papers, gives me an outside view of how well I've written my paper. That person can provide me with different view points and ideas. Even if the person that is looking over my paper likes what I've written so far, it can still encourage me to add on to what I've done to make it that much better. Why not use such an easy tool when the oppurtunity arises? It can't hurt me. It can only help.

Week 5 already?!

I was sitting on my couch the other day, eating barbeque potato chips, when I realized that I was literally becoming a couch potato. I then realized that I was sitting inside my house on a beautiful, sunny day eating chips when I could be outside, enjoying myself while staying healthy at the same time. Why in the world would I choose sitting on the couch? It beat me.

Yes, I am guilty of being a couch potato, but I’m pretty sure everyone is, or has been. I am not realizing how great it is to get out and do things outside more often. Now that I’m a healthier person, I can’t understand why I wanted to sit around on the couch all day. What is it about being lazy that attracts human beings? Why would we want to sit and eat, all day and feel gross, on the inside and out, because of it? Now that I see the light, I don’t understand how anyone can completely ignore being healthy and exercising.

I understand that fatty foods are delicious, but I’m not only talking about food. I’m talking about staying healthy in general. After eating junk food and sitting around the house all day long, how can one feel good about themselves? If I watch the television all day, I feel like I just wasted my day away. Not only that, but I then realize that I ate a ton of junk food while watching TV and I just feel disgusting. What is so hard about eating, at least, some healthy foods each day and getting a little exercise each day? To me, it really is not difficult.

There are so many different steps that a person can take to stay healthy and feel good about themselves. Not just steps, but little steps. I went from eating 0 pieces of fruit a day to eating an apple or banana each day. I even decided to change my snacking habits. Instead of eating almost an entire bag of chips for a snack, I will munch on grapes, or a granola bar. They make me just as full, and make me feel better inside. Just knowing that I’m staying healthy, puts me in a better mood. It really does help. Try it.

school writing vs. my own

I have noticed, that when I write in school, vs. out of school, I do write a little bit differently. I guess, because all throughout my school years I was taught to write a certain way, I continue to write that way in school even to this day. School, especially when we are little, is edited when it comes to teaching information. School normally only wants the students to write about good experiences and things that other students will be able to relate to. When I write on my own, I don’t care if anyone else can relate to me, because I don’t plan on showing my writing to anyone else. Not that I want to write about bad things, but I just think that I hold myself in too much when I write for school. I’m not daring and out there because I’m afraid of what my teachers or other students will think. If I’m writing in my journal I pour every ounce of what I am thinking onto the paper. When I’m writing in school, I hold things in and just write what I think would be best for the paper. Another difference that I have noticed between my school writing and my writing that I do for myself, is the fact that I can completely pick what I want to write about when I’m writing on my own. All throughout high school, I was mainly told what to write about and never got to choose for myself. Although college, is better about letting the students write what they want, I still sometimes feel like what I’m writing is not completely me. When I am writing in my journal, I do not hold back. I write whatever is on my mind at any interval during my writing. Also, in school I have to keep my thoughts organized. In my head, my thoughts are swirling through my head uncontrollably and it is sometimes hard for me to organize them all. In my papers for school, I have to think more about how I want to word things. In my own writings, I can put things wherever I please.

it's your life

It probably gets annoying, hearing about how important it is to keep our environment and our Earth clean huh? Well just take a moment to think about how keeping our planet clean is actually worthwhile. Just think of all the things that your mom nags you about and compare. I know, my mom is always telling me to clean my room, make my bed, do my laundry, do the dishes, and so on. Although it can get on my nerves, I just think about how it will help me in the long run. In comparison, every little thing that we, as human beings, can do four our planet will help in the long run.

How is it that there are so many little things we can do to help our environment, and most people don’t do them? What can possibly be more important than keeping one’s planet healthy? Although you cannot see the results immediately, just think about the future. What if our planet has a breakdown while we are still living? Although it seems improbable, just keep it in mind. Even if nothing were to happen to us in our lifetime, just think about our kids. Most people plan on having children. Our children may be affected by the fact that we don’t take care of our planet.

There are so many little things that you can do to keep the planet clean. It’s not like it’s a big deal to recycle. Keep a recycling bin in your house or in your garage and there you have it. Everyone knows to throw trash in the garbage can, so do the same thing with the recycling bin. Just get used to throwing your plastics and cardboard boxes in the recycling bin and it will become a habit. Another little trick to keeping the planet clean, is to actually throw trash away and not litter. A lot of people end up littering because they are driving in their car and don’t have a trash can handy. Just keep a garbage bag in your car, or even a plastic bag from Wal-Mart. Even if you don’t litter, go around a few days a week and pick up some trash along the streets. It will not take too much of your time and will significantly help the environment. Just think, if everyone were to pick up just a few pieces of trash every day, it would amount to a massive decrease in litter.

writing is life

Writing to most people, is living. It is almost impossible to go a day without writing at all. I know for me, writing is essential. Writing conveys who I am, whether it be writing in class, writing on face book to my friends, writing in a text message, or writing to myself in a journal. Writing is a way of expressing myself to others and even myself. I am the type of person that has many things to do and not enough time to do it all. I like to cram a lot of things in my day, and so I don’t always get the things done that I want to get done. I am the same way in my writing. I always have so much to say, and write about, that I don’t know how to fit it all in to whatever it is that I am writing at the time. Not knowing how to fit everything I want to say into my writing happens in everything I write.

When I am writing for school, I sit in my room for long periods of time just thinking about what I want to say. When I finally feel like I can start writing I type far less than everything I am thinking in my head. It is so strange to me how it happens, but I just can’t get everything I am thinking on to paper. When I am finally done with the entire paper, I read over my work and find many things wrong with my writing. I always feel like I’ve left out too much information. When I try to go back and enter in things that I have forgotten, it seems like I’m trying too hard and end up with incomplete thoughts. I have to be on a roll to get in everything I want to say.

When I write on my own in a journal, or actually just a cheap notebook, I find that I still can’t fit in everything that I want to say. My thinking processes are very detailed and I can never fit in all of the details that are in my head. Even though I know I’m talking to myself in a journal and don’t need to specify things that I already know, I do it anyways. It’s such an odd thing to do. I will be writing about a person that I know, such as a family member and I will end up writing, “…and allison, who is my cousin, and is 18 years old…” and therefore lose quality on the more important details of what I am thinking. Although, the writing I do in my own journal is much more laid back than the writing I do for school.

In all, my thinking is very detailed and complex, and my writing is just bits and pieces of my thought process. I hope to become a better writer, in that I can write out more details.

Blog Week 1

Technology, technology, technology. Internet, advanced machines, and cell phones are all examples of a few pieces of technology equipment the world uses in this day and age. Although the technology in the world is becoming more advanced each and every day, it is astounding to see the age groups, of technology users. Children these days have cell phones and computers at the age of six! It is disturbing to see how young a child can be and own technology such as a cell phone or computer. Cell phones and computers are important to the older generations of this day to communicate in this world. It is unnecessary for young children to own pieces of equipment, like the cell phone or computer. Children these days are growing up way to fast and need a reality check. Children have an imagination that needs to be enhanced, while computers and cell phones take away from the enhancement.
Although the hormones, put in meat these days, are linked to children growing up faster, I think that the technology can also be blamed. I was standing at the counter at Buffalo Wild Wings, where I work, when I spotted a young girl playing the “claw machine.” The little girl had to be around the age of seven. In the very middle of playing the machine, this little girl stopped focusing on what stuffed animal she wanted from inside the machine and started texting on her cell phone. I could not believe my eyes. When I was a child, I did not have a cell phone and I was perfectly fine. In fact, I did not get a cell phone until my junior year of high school. Although people argue that cell phones come in handy during emergencies, I do not see how children are in any more danger today than I was when I was a child. I survived my childhood and most of my high school years without a cell phone, and I think that children today can do the same.
Children need to use their imagination, and by having computers and cell phones as an everyday use, children are using less and less of their imagination. While computers do have a few games that stimulate children’s brains and help them learn, children today are spending way too much time on their computers. Today’s society is all about technology and using computers, but I believe that there is such thing as too young. Children can play outside and learn from reading books instead of searching the internet 24/7. Once children are to a certain age, such as junior high level, they can then begin understanding technology better. Until then, children are fine without advanced technology.

Letter Of Introduction

Bethany Dorich
English 110, Tues/Thurs

Dearest Stephanie,
Although I have many unique qualities, I would like to share just a few things about myself that show my individuality. One thing that makes me who I am is that I play the sport tennis. I consider it a big part of my life. I started playing tennis when I was at a very young age, just for fun. I had seen my brother and dad play tennis and wanted to learn how to play as well. I continued to play tennis as I grew older and was on the tennis team at East Peoria High School. Now that I am out of high school and in college, I just play tennis on occasion for fun. It is such an enjoyable sport for me and keeps me active. If I ever have anything on my mind, I can turn to tennis to ease my mind. When I am out on the court I don’t think about anything else but tennis. Also, tennis is a sport in which I can continue to play, well into my old age. Another thing that goes hand in hand with playing tennis and being active, is the fact that I am an outdoors type of person. I enjoy just about any activity that involves being outside in the sun. I love hiking, going for walks, swimming, kicking a soccer ball around, jumping on a trampoline, or just sitting outside on my deck.
Now that you know a little more about myself, I want to talk about my goals for this year. Knowing that college is an important step in my life, gives me the goal of achieving all A’s and B’s in my college classes. Getting good grades is not about looking good in front of my family or friends, but is my personal goal for myself because I know that I am capable of it. I can do anything as long as I put my mind to it. Another goal of mine for this year is to learn how to manage my time every day of the week. I want to use more of my time for studying rather than wasting time on face book. Not only do I want to have a better feel for time management in my school studies, but also in my personal life. My goal is to learn how to balance family, work, friends, and my boyfriend. I need to fit each category into their own time slot and not overlap. Now that you’ve gotten a better look at who I am, I hope you can continue to see my personality show.
Sincerely,
Bethany Dorich