EMPLOYED!!

ohhh yess!!! the rumors are true. i now have a job and it is so perfect for me! i will be nannying for 2 kids but mainly just one of them. the other is a newborn (11 days old) so he will mostly be with the mother! they are both sooo soo darling. i can't even believe how lucky i am!! and it was an absolutely gorgeous day today to top it all off. (: 

my weekend:

this thursday the girls and i went out and had an excellent evening! it was really quite hilarious. but nothing too out of the ordinary (:

friday i went and saw new in town with tiffany and my sister and her friend. we grabbed dinner and then rushed to the theatre arriving just in time (as usual). it was a really cute movie, i guess the reviews were not so good.. but i enjoyed it! i am not a tough critic but i definitely thought it was comical! i have no desire to see it in theaters again but i wouldn't be opposed to renting it when it comes out. Well after that tiffer and i were both pretty tired so we headed home. 

today was the highlight of the weekend!! simply because i have been looking for a job for such a long time and the one i got is the perfect job all around! i am seriously so excited. it will be a really fun job for me i am sure. tonight i am going over to a friends' little get together which should be excellent! i might call it an early night though because oddly enough i am very tired and want to take full advantage of a good nights sleep!

i love that i just rambled through this entire post. a little uninteresting i am sure!! i hope you all had just as good weekends as meee (: 

LOVE & KISSESS <3

INSOMNIA

okay, i cannot blame tonight on insomnia, because i chose to go out with the girls. but on a typical night such as this, i would still be up at this time. i know i don't have mono because i would have a super soar throat and although i did have a soar throat a couple weeks ago, i got rid of it fast and i definitely don't have any swollen glands and besides that i only sleep a lot because i can't sleep at night, soo yea. i am just a victim to insomnia. tomorrow however, regardless of the lack of sleep i will be getting, i am forcing myself to wake up at a semi-normal hour so that i can get back into that habit before i get my next job (which *crossing my fingers* could be this weekend). 

anyway, i am actually sleepy right now.. so i am giving in and going to bed!!

goodnight, love & kisssess <3

one FINAL thing!!

i almost forgot to say happy birthday to one of my very best friends Emily Wasden!!! I LOVE YOU EM!!! i miss you sooo much and cannot wait to see you in a couple weeks!! 

one more thing!

i got the cutest message from my niece and nephew this morning!! it was something like this:

Alayna: Hi Nicia, I am calling to talk to you, call me back some time, love you

Connor: Hi, love you, buh-bye

I love them so much! i cannot wait to see them & hopefully take them to disneyland this summer!! (crossing my fingers)

love you babies <3

its a beautiful morning.. afternoon (:

hello all, 

it was supposed to snow today and BIG SURPRISE, it didn't. i love the weather men, always keeping us on the edge of our seats. class last night was extremely interesting as usual! in my ethnicity class we watched another section of the WETBACK movie. i feel like i am honestly one of the only people who cries in those films! it is soo hard for me to watch. i just wish that their countries were not in such a bad crisis and there was some way that i could help all of them. out of 1000 immigrants attempting to get to the united states, only 300 survive :-( . it just makes me realize how extremely blessed i am regardless of anything bad that seems to go on in my life. i reeaally want to help those people though. i will find a way someday. 

in my environmentalism class we discussed the happenings of the ladakh film we had watched the prior class period. it was a film that showed the effects of industrialization on societies. in the case of our highly industrialized society, then change has not been so obvious or noticeable, it has happened over a long period of time. for the people of Ladakh, the change has happened over a matter of 20 years. they went from being completely self-sufficient, happy, not having any form of currency, to where we are today. Now they feel as if they need to catch up to all of our 'highly developed' societies. it is so interesting watching how successful and happy their life was before to seeing it now. it is truly humbling. it makes me wonder why money is so important? i mean clearly we need enough to survive, but i have always had this goal to be incredibly rich and make a ton of money for myself. now i realize, that money is paper, it doesn't bring you happiness. material possessions are exactly as they are defined, material. they aren't nearly as important as the relationships you build throughout your life, and the things you can do for other people. i think that if i were to make a lot of money now i would want to give it away to the people who need it the most. i know that is pretty steep to say, because as human beings we are all inherently greedy, and it is a REALLY hard emotion to overcome. i just hope that if i ever do acquire the money that i once longed for, i use it in a good way. of course i have been raised with a love of nice things, so it might be a little difficult. and i do have a slight obsession with clothes, but the idea is that i will be able to budget everything and have enough to sustain myself and my family, and some to donate to people who need it the most. it is fairly easy to say that i would give my money away when i have none. hahaha

my classmates and i were talking about whether we would choose the Ladakh lifestyle or the lifestyle that we currently live in. its sad to me because no matter how inviting the Ladakh lifestyle appears, i don't think i would ever be able to take away all the commodities i have gotten so comfortable with throughout my life. i think that is fairly standard though.

well, i should probably go start my reading for my classes tomorrow! and go apply to more jobs of course. this is honestly the HARDEST time to find a job. no one is hiring, everyone is firing (haha that rhymes). I have personally never had this hard of a time. employers keep calling me telling me how awesome my resume is but that they have no positions available, SOO frustrating! well, i owe my parents 2 months of rent as of now and i am going to continue to put myself into more debt if i don't figure something out soon! if only WaMu hadn't brought back my stomach problems i would not be here right now.

love & kisses <3

there's a first time for everything... and a second..

here i am again... yes i did start another blog back in the day but failed to keep up with it and now i have no idea how to log into it soo i'm starting over! 

here's a little update on life as of now-

i am no longer at utah state, although if you are reading this i am sure you know that. i now attend the University of Washington, and i absolutely love it! i graduate next spring, which is so so soon, i am so unprepared. i am graduating in communications but i have NO idea what i am going to do with it!

this quarter i am taking the most interesting classes. one comm course that is required for my major, then an ethnicity course and an environmentalism course. The latter 2 have made me want to start a charity club even more! some of you already know that i have wanted to do that for a really long time, but now i have actually started the plans! they are all very rough-draft as of now, but hopefully they will be coming together shortly.

as for what i plan to do with my life, i have had plenty of thoughts. i have considered opening a bakery (something i have always wanted to do), composing music to my songs and recording an album, going back to school for interior design (although in my opinion i don't need the professional schooling as i am already excellent), or putting an emphasis on event planning for my major and planning weddings. however, recently i have kind of just been wanting to take a few years off and go help people in third-world countries (my parents would LOVE that...). i guess i have another year to figure all of this out.. no rush right? haha

anyway, back to UW and the move back to seattle:

i love it here. there is something about seattle that i will always love, maybe its just the fact that it feels like home, it is home. i just feel at ease here. anyway, the first couple months of school were a little bit tough, just going through a messy break up, starting over in a new place, basically starting over in life haha you know the usual. i met some amazing girls and guys, and of course already had my friends from high school so i kind of skipped over the whole meeting people stage. i also started focusing a lot more on me for the first time in about 4 years? needless to say, it has been a long road but i can truly say that i have never been happier than i am right now. it is such a good feeling when you realize you made the right decision, especially when it was the most excruciating decision to make. through everything i have gone through over the past little bit i have really seen who my true friends are. i can't say i am surprised with the results, hahah, my best friends have always and will always be there. 

anyway, sorry the grammar and everything in this post sucks it is late and i am sooo tired!! considering i had about 4 hours of sleep last night (not okay.) 

love you all, 

i will give you more updates laterr <3