The Lost Report

During my junior year of college, I took a technical writing class as an elective that kicked my butt. Unbeknownst to me when I registered, this "just for fun" class of mine was a requirement for the engineering and construction management students at Central Michigan (Go Chips!). The class itself wasn't full of technical jargon that I couldn't grasp, it was a general writing class that focused on the technical structures that we would likely encounter in the workplace. I won't tell you how many times I've put the skills I picked up in that class to use (*cough* not once *cough*)...

17 Things I Want My Future Children to Know

As I near my 26^th birthday, I realize that I’m not a child anymore (Don’t worry. I’ve been aware of this for a while, but it always seems to be a point of focus around my birthdays). I understand that I am still very young and have more to learn than I could ever possibly imagine, but over the years I have learned quite a few lessons of my own. I’ve learned things about myself, about other people just trying to find their way like me, about society in general, and about life. It’s this knowledge I want to share with the next generation, with my own future children, with my three amazing nephews and beautiful niece whose innocent smiles divulge no understanding of hate or malice, in the hopes that it will help them when the time comes for them to make their own way in this world.

Instagram Obsession + Awesome = Webstagram

I love Instagram. Seriously. If I could hug all 13 of their brilliant employees, I would do it in a heartbeat. The filters, the social media integration…it’s like they made this beautifully simple yet wildly addicting photo sharing app just for me.

A Pinteresting Conundrum: To Pin or Not to Pin?

Pinterest. Everyone is using it. I often lose hours of my day pinning crafty projects and event planning ideas to my boards that I tell myself I’ll try later - when I have someone else's time and salary to work with – and I love it! You know what I don't love about Pinterest? Product pushing by companies trying to make this social medium into something it's not.

I’ll Be Better, I Promise!

It’s been a while since I have updated, I apologize. Things have been a little crazy and I’ve been feeling a little short on inspiration. But I’m going to do better, I promise! Keep checking back for posts on a more regular basis.

False Threats

Every day someone in my news feed threatens to delete their Facebook account. Every. Single. Day. The excuses given range from too much drama to too many changes, and most recently because of the spam attack causing offensive images to show up in people’s news feeds.

Normally I don’t pay attention to the daily complaints that show up in my feed - time is too precious to me to waste on pointless negativity. For some reason, however, these threats I’ve been seeing really bug me. Why? Because it’s a lie - these people are posting false threats and it’s annoying.

I Don’t Care How She Does It - Olivia Munn

I was diligently reading the new Cosmo yesterday, and came across this article written by actress/comedian Olivia Munn. I’m absolutely smitten with this woman’s outlook on life and felt obliged to share some of her tips. I hope people find this as thoroughly enlightening and entertaining as I did.