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You have a mind, use it.

Think about what is important- what really is important.

Ideas are great- executing them are even better.

Speak up.

Have your own ideas.

Encourage others.

Balance is good.

Pick your battles.

Fight hard for the important ones.

Be truthful.

Lead- don't boss.

Act smart- because you are.

side note

My new friend I got this weekend...nameless at the moment.

L to the OVE

I just returned from a weekend in Lake Geneva- beatiful town and a beautiful lake might I add. The festivities went down for 2 days for my uncle's wedding. The reception was on a boat that toured lake geneva for 4 hours with about 100 Hayes's on board- and wow- what a party. I never knew my grandma could dance.

I love my family.

Oh Door Co...

...you humor me.

making a living...with jello?

Tomorrow at work we will be slip 'n sliding with jello, playing in kiddie pools of noodles, fingerpainting with pudding, playing tag with hand fulls of finger paint, and having a balloon toss with applesauce - not water. I'm getting paid for an organized food fight.

chaos. crazy. stressfull. fun.work?

my mobile

As my cell phone takes it's last few breaths... and by that i mean multiple keys don't work, turns off whenever it feels like it, failed everycall i tried to make at summerfest this weekend, didn't have service in racine, froze at 7:14am for 40 minutes until it rebooted itself, said "car kit" on the screen for an hour (what is that??), i could go on and on.... i contemplate life without it.

My trusty phone is the first phone i got and has gotten be through 2 1/2 years. It has been dropped countless times, sumbmereged in beer, chucked, thrown, lost, found... basically anything you can think of. My roomate went through 3 phones our freshman year- which rang true with a lot of 3 east ogg girls. But mine made it- and now it's time to say goodbye.

As i reluctantly paid my phone bill today (as i do every month) i thought about having to go to the store this week to get a new phone. Then i thought- how long can i hold off? Then i thought- what if i just don't get a new one.. can i live with out a phone for the summer and then sophomore year??

Every friend i asked thought i was insane. That it was imossible- i still brushed it off thinking i could do it. Then i talked to my rents. Who agreed that it was not a good idea, that i woudln't have a land line at school, bla bla bla... impossible i still wondered?

So i went online and found a blog that was for people who are surviving without cell phones in todays world to talk about it. It was created in Nov. 2005 and no one has posted yet. Either no one has seen this blog- or everyone has a cell phone.

Pathetic kinda- but with all this research today i think i formed my opinion. I prolly could do it...but i don't think i really want to do it. I guess i'm on the bandwagon..and i don't feel like getting off.



did i just rant about my phone? wow.

TGIF

Take me to the Mil... Im in love.

belittled by a painting

As I sat at a table in a local coffee shop today on my lunch break, I found myself glancing frequently up from my book to the huge map that hung on the wall over my table. It was massive and was detailed with different types of coffee grown in different countries around the world. Finally my book was closed on the table and I was just staring at the massive portrait of the world in front of me. An old man came over to me and put his finger on Italy and named off a city I can't remember. Without looking at me he breifly told me he's spent many years there including a few of his war years. He then looked at me and smiled. I told him I haven't really been anywhere yet but hope to be going to south america soon. He then went on to say how learning another language is soo important and that now is the time to go see the world. He walked out the door and left me alone staring at a massive map of the world.

Futbol fan?

A glance from JMOR into the crazed soccer fan world in Buenos Aires..

...A couple of my favorite “are you
SERIOUS?” examples of true soccer fans:

I was shadowing the same doctor that I went to N. Argentina during his
office visits at a hospital. (Another really interesting experience
to compare the hospital and healthcare systems between the 2
countries…) and he was scheduling patients for surgeries to remove
tumors. Seems kind of important, right? So he’s talking to one woman
and says “ok, so we can do Tuesday after 12 because of the soccer
game.” She asked him if he had to do it after the soccer game and he
said very plainly, “Si, la gente puede esperar 2 horas,” or “Yes. The
people can wait 2 hours.” I was shocked! Planning surgeries around a
soccer game?!

One day, there was a game at 4 pm. My laundromat had a sign on the
door that said it was going to be closed from 3:55pm until whenever
the game ended.

During the shootout of Argentina’s last game, all the servers at the
café we were at stopped working and everyone was glued to the tv. One
waiter was closing his eyes, jumping up and down, literally pacing and
holding a wooden cross the size of my forearm tightly to his heart.
He looked so defeated when they lost, and he, like all the Argentines,
looked like he was going to cry...


...crazy crazy crazy!

on a jet plane

I'm booking plane tickets. I've never done this before in my life. I've only ever traveled before with the company of mi familia. THIS IS HUGE FOR ME.

I'm taking on my next project: OC of the Gala- which means? Another Badger in the Big Apple.