Poor Girl in a Corporate World

Hello everyone! Let me preface this post with this-this blog post is not really a novella. I am just trying to be creative with my titles. This post may not have fun pictures in it (unless I can find some), I just have to tell you something I learned today. So let me begin... I had a one on one with my manager today. Usually, these are pretty good, but I feel this one was a bit of a game changer for me and my boss and our relationship - it only took about four years! We were discussing something I can improve on and then she started to praise me... well give me positive feedback. "I know all the things you do and I don't always tell you, but you are really fantastic and are an asset"... Then enter the waterworks, I am serious. I was so embarrassed and ashamed that I cried in front of my boss (who is the director of the department may I add). But here is where it comes from - I haven't had a TRUE verbal compliment from her in a very long time. I don't n...

Let me start this blog post with a little side conversation. I love self exploration journals, self help blogs/podcasts/books, and I love helping people! SO with that being said - let me help you out for a moment. Here are some self help books/journals that I have found so far  to be extremely helpful! Click here to learn more and purchase! Click here to learn more and purchase! Click here to learn more and purchase! Click here to learn more and to buy! I am always constantly finding new things to read, I actually have two other books on my docket to read on these subjects that I will write about later.  OK... so now the real topic: TOXIC PEOPLE So how does the first part of my post and the main topic correlate? Well simple. I was writing in the "52 Lists for Happiness" book tonight, and one of the questions is: "List the best choices you have made in your life". Mine goes as such: Going to Europe Graduating from Colleg...

Let me talk about podcasts... If you have been living under a rock - podcasts are a thing. I am pretty sure that they have been around since the birth of the iPod.  So why am I talking about podcasts? Well I have never really been one for listening to podcasts up until this year. Some of you (my -4 readers) may have your hesitations about them too.  Here were some of mine: "Ugh I don't want to listen to people talking all the time". "Music is life!" "I don't even know what to listen to!" Well as I have gotten older - I find myself listening to "good music" which is the same stuff I listened to in college and way before. I found myself in a time warp. It was either my old school college rap, boy bands, techno, and all that. I like alternative rock, but this new stuff like Taylor Swift is killing me.  So I started listening to books on audio, and when I did not have money to purchase another book on audio or fi...

Lately I have been contemplating the number one question we all have. It happens to everyone and various stages in our lives. WHO AM I?  You know the basics: I am - Adriana, Single, LDS, Master's Student, I like to read and write, I love my family and my friends.  A very generic Twitter "about me" - identify yourself in 160 words or less.  But who are you deep down, what do you like to do?  I am Adriana, and I am Single, LDS, and a Master's Student trying to further my career, date, and also obtain new hobbies like writing and developing new interests. I belong to a book club where I get to read extensively and broaden my genres of books, and I also am attempting to write a book and perhaps publish it on Amazon's publishing page. That is a more in depth about me.  As we go on through our lives we always want to change the mold.  I think about my parents. Here they are in their 60's and deciding that they want to change their f...

This last week I went on my first vacation in a while. I have taken time off to help out with family things, and have taken a day here or there, but not a FULL week off from work in a LONG time. Well I did this past week, and I went to California with my friends Annah and Kayla. We went to the beach, Disneyland, and bummed around a museum and a cool shopping district. But let me tell you why this trip was so special - it taught me some things I needed to know about myself, about my friendships, and about my mental health! This is my favorite picture I took the entire trip, it explains how I felt the entire length of the trip - HAPPY and relaxed, free to be myself. Let me start off by saying - I am myself pretty much most of the day, but this trip let me do things on my own time with my own ways. 1. I is kind, I is smart, and I is important! I love this quote from  The Help . Self love - it is something that is becoming more accepted each day. I have always struggled w...

There will be spoilers in the blog post, please refrain from reading if you don't want to know anything. Today I saw Beauty and the Beast, the live action one with Emma Watson. It was fantastic, whimsical, and purely romantic. It was everything I was waiting for, excited about, and more. Emma's voice wasn't Disney Princess quality; however, SHE CAN SING! That is all that matters. Apparently there were some concerns with this movie that I A) don't care about and B) they are "much ado about nothing". For Example: Le Fou is the first openly gay character by Disney. WHAT!? I am in complete shock... just kidding. WHO CARES! If you have seen the musical and the cartoon version ... it is a little bit obvious isn't it? He is singing a song about a man, and admiring him in a very "I love you so much please turn gay for me" way. He is French, and the French can be a little bit flamboyant and that is what makes them truly fun people (trust...