Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Life Update #5 | Rant | Motivation

I’ve admittedly missed this too much. Like way too much. But as so you know from my previous posts I was in nursing school for the past few months and by far this is the hardest thing I’ve ever done in relation to school. Like I desperately needed these three weeks off. Desperately.
I still have school to go to during the summer, fall and next spring will be my next semester. Just keep praying for me, will you? Like I need a lot of prayers. Just. So many prayers. You have no idea how completely done I was with this semester. Hopefully during the summer, I will be more used to nursing school and cope with it better. I have two clinical sites that I have to go to so I will be interacting with real people and have them be assigned to me as a patient. I’m interested to see how it’ll go.
While I was going to school I was working at most, two and a half days a week at different public schools as a teacher’s aide. It turns out I am really good with kids, I’ve already been offered two positions to do it full-time. I don’t know I guess I have a lot of patience with elementary school children because for the most part, they really are just beginning to grow as a person. They are just trying to do the most basic things: have food, play with friends, and learn about stuff that interests them.

An accurate description of me during the entire semester. if you know the original artist let me know so I can credit them.
Next thing I have a rant about is consumers, specifically: fast food consumers. As some of you may know, I have a short stint working at a local fast food restaurant where I was a team member. I took a lot of orders at the front, worked the drive food, and handled the fryer. I worked there for several months and I have to say this to customers: please don’t be awful. Like it is a nightmare to serve a customer who has a temper, lacks patience or sympathy for the people serving them. I’ve had to deal with customers doing the most obnoxious things from throwing a milkshake at an employee because the lid was not completely on to another customer ordering food for their family of five and leaving their half-eaten food on the tables and refusing to throw away their food or drinks or trash.
I’ve only brought this up because I went to get a large fries at McDonald’s today because gosh darn it I was craving some for a long time and I had a huge headache today and I was going to get some fries whether it was good for me or not. So I did and I proceeded to wait in line for my large fries for 30 minutes in the drive thru. A long time for fries? Yes. Does that give me the right to start cussing the employees out who have apologized profusely for the wait? Absolutely not. Just be courteous is all I’m asking. And you may never know, those employees are the ones handling your food. I’m not saying it’s right for them to do something to your food but regardless, it happens. Don’t anything that may warrant them to do something.


My "you know better" face
Finally I just need some motivation to, like I said, be “healthier”. In what regards? I guess all the aspects I discussed earlier in my previous post but my primary goal is my physical health. I have not consistently exercised in such a long time. I believe, it’s because I have not quite been able to figure out a schedule where I can fit my thirty minutes of being healthy and my “me” period where I am not working (I’m working full-time currently. Not exactly on vacation.) It’s not hard…I’ve done it before. I’m just lacking the motivation to do so.
I guess things I could do to increase my motivation is just look at other people’s achievements. Seeing what others do to achieve their goals makes me motivated to go ahead and use their strategies to do the same. Meh, I’ll figure it out soon.



Okay, that’s it. Nothing much. I’ve just missed talking to you guys.
Have a good day or evening!

Sincerely,

Jante Fazaldin

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Life Update #4 | I'm Judging You | 2017 Goals

Hey!

It’s 2017 and it is a new year and it has brought me to my attention that I have not been posting on here in like a minute.

Seriously, need to do this on a more regular basis.

I guess I can do a Life Update thing and just keep you posted on certain things that are going on. It’s going to be a stream of conscious thing so I am going to do some bullet points to attempt to have it be more organized.

December happened. Don’t really celebrate the holidays but I was off for two and a half weeks.
I started working again! It’s not fast food this time and I actually enjoy my job. I work with the local school district and the elementary school kids are just so adorable. I tend to have more patience with the younger kids… I definitely think it’s because they are so tiny. 100% believe that is the case.
I am going to start nursing school soon in the next couple of weeks. I’m just so happy to be back in school, I haven’t been doing any sort of formal education in over six months so I’m really glad to be back in the swing of things.

I guess what I can tell you that I’ve been up to, is that I made ONE New Year’s Resolution.

NOW, I really dislike it despise it when people say resolutions are just not worth it and full of crap. It really isn’t. Everyone should have a personal goal that they would want to achieve and the thing is, you don’t have to necessarily fulfill that goal in that same year. It can be a life goal. A ten-year goal. A five-year goal.

New Year’s resolutions are something that can have someone refocus their life goals and if it so happens to be on New Year’s Day so what? Let people live.

Anyways mine is just to be healthy: physically, mentally, socially, and emotionally; just be well-rounded. Not a hard goal to do, and something that I would aim to do. If I feel like I haven’t made it by the end of this year, there’s always next year.

Courtesy of The Huffington Post

Next thing, I have going on is this book I’m listening to called I’m Judging You by Luvvie Ajaye. I’m only an hour into the six and a half hour audiobook but I’m thoroughly enjoying it. It’s witty, funny, but gives everyone the time and place to look at themselves and see what they can do to improve on themselves as a person.

I’m Judging You is basically the perfect book to give to someone who, you know, needs a little bit of help in their lives when it comes to being a decent human being. And sometimes, that includes you. Or me. I’m guilty of being an awful person sometimes. And it’s okay.

For the most part, I think that’s about it. I want to do another Muse of the Day or make another segment of this blog, I don’t know yet. Until next time.

Sincerely,
Jante