Friday Food for Thought

Happy Friday! I have more posts in the works. But I am going to continue to bring you a little Friday cheer just in time for the workday! Here are some of my favorite moments of the past week.
...It may have been such a memorable week that I have more than the normal five!


1. Jimmy Kimmel Video. Of course

Courtesy: Jimmy Kimmel Live!
This has been a favorite of me and my friends for the last few years. Our favorite may or may not have been four or five years ago when the kid turns and goes "You sneeeeaaaaky mom." However I still enjoy every year when these continue to come out! Did you know that this year he played the same trick on his two year old daughter? Ruthless, and hysterical.

2. Cubs and The Onion

Courtesy: the Onion

I don't know if you noticed this week, but history was made. Now while I root for an underdog as much as anyone else, and this was a phenomenal game. I think my favorite thing is the article that came out on the Onion. Millions of Drunk Cubs Fans Rioting In Heaven Following World Series Win. It's funny and memorable.

3. First week of working at Target

If you want another quick funny read, a man documented his favorite moments from his first week at target and they are solid gold. I wish more of humanity were like kimpossibooty who posted it.

4. Beauty and the Beast

Courtesy: of Entertainment Weekly
I don't know if you are obsessing over the live action Beauty and the Beast, probably not. No sane human probably is. However, it is literally filling all of my desires. Not only do I get Emma Watson as Belle, the perfect person and who I had been dreaming to be Belle for, longer than we know this movie was going to be possible. We also get Dan Stevens as Beast/Adam. Yes I'm a Downton Abbey fan. Another great fact? Emma was just as excited as I am, but you can read more about that here, and check out all of the photos that were recently released here.

5. Go Vote.

Courtesy:Dwight Burdette (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

I don't care who you vote for. I don't care what is important to you. I don't care if you think this is a trap. I don't. What I do care is that you vote. If you hate both Presidential big party candidates. Don't vote for them. I still want you to but that's neither here nor there. You make a huge difference at your local level. I'll probably do a huge post on this on Monday, so I can give you more facts about millenials and voting.

Now I don't know if you read The Skimm. You should, I also get The New York Times and the BBC delivered to my inbox, but the Skimm does the best job of actually explaining what is going on. They have an entire page for voting, and how to get more informed. Please Please go see it here. And if you have ANY questions about voting or how to get ready for it. Comment, email me. I promise to respond. Because this is so so so important.

Dessert: Yes you get dessert this early in the morning!

Wyoming Win

Yes not only did Wyoming beat Boise for the first time ever, we are ranked and in the leagues to go to a 'bohl' game ;) It truly has been an amazing week. Now go enjoy the rest of dessert!

Wonder Woman

This needs no more words except: About darn time!

Jobs and Interviews

Today I had my first interview, it was a phone interview which made it a little better and also worse. Better because I didn't have to dress up and they weren't able to see me nervously pace and worse because there was a very quiet woman in the back and every time she talked the phone would cut out, every single time. I was so nervous because this was my first interview and now I know that I really need to do my homework.

Coming from a small town in Wyoming, I never really had to interview and the only time I did was with someone I've known since I was small, runs the high school church group, and is my nephew's Godfather. Not exactly nerve wracking. When I was applying for the Air Force Academy I did have to go through interviews, but I was prepared for almost every question and after three interviews I felt like a pro. Interviews are scary but they don't have to be.

 I'd pinned several things on Pinterest about interviews and what to do, but I really didn't take them seriously and I didn't read them well enough. They tell you to rehearse some things and be ready with certain questions, for example I got asked what my weakness was, a terrifying thing to share with a group of people who you are potentially going to work with, but find some way to show that you have been trying to fix your weakness and that you know how to fix that. Also I seriously recommend having certain questions ready for when they ask you at the end if there is anything you want to as, it shows that you are more serious about working there.

This was a total fluke, I had originally applied because I wanted some working experience and a little cash while I'm at school. I looked through several of the student listed jobs that had been posted and saw varying level of commitment, skill, and time in different jobs. I applied for two I thought would be easy enough to work on while at school and then hoped I'd get some kind of notice within the next two weeks. I got a phone call four days later, but this was for a similar job in a different area. I leaped at the chance. Hopefully by tomorrow I will be able to see if it was worth it.

Jobs aren't for everyone and some people need two to pay their way through college. Every situation is different and I encourage someone to see how much time they really can dedicate to what they are looking at. One must be logical and look at how that will hold up against school. It may be to difficult for some, while others like me need more than just one thing going on to really get the best results out of themselves.

My best tips are do your homework, know what the job requires, how you will be required to work (alone, group setting), and basic interview questions. They normally always end with a goofy question, try to be creative I wasn't ready at all for mine and had an odd answer. Again have a few really good questions for the interviewers.

All my best wishes towards nailing that interview, hope this helped.

-WyoBelle

Go out and DO something

One of the most important things to learn about college and everything after, is that most often you are in a brand new area. That's a great thing it's a fresh start, however, because it's new not everyone is willing to go find the fun things to do.

 I can tell you I spent way to much time in my dorm freshmen year. We have this amazing park area just up the interstate about ten minutes, everyone calls it Vedauwoo (Vee-dah-voo). At Vedauwoo you have all sorts of difficulty level hiking trails and these great big bolders EVERYWHERE, its amazing. I didn't end up going to Vedauwoo until this summer when I went back to Laramie to visit friends, I loved it.

So get up and find great things to do, you will always have better memories of going and doing things than sitting in your dorm/apartment all the time. This summer I lived with my grandparents in Evanston for an internship opportunity. I still didn't get out as much as I wanted to but we would go to the Farmer's Markets on thursdays, go out to dinner, meet up with my grandma's bridge club ladies, and this last week we went to the Uinta county fair. 

It's August, which means fair time in Wyoming. It's a great way to go see what a lot of the local youth do all summer long. I love fair it's a blast, and just this past wednesday was pig wrestling. One of my grandmas friends, who told us that she was 68 not 21, decided that she wanted to pig wrestle before she dies and this was the year. It was so funny. My friends and I think we might do it next year. It was a really great time and it raises money for the local 4H and FFA. 

I can't wait till next weekend, it's the Lincoln county fair and for the past few years my family has been making it up to Afton do go watch.

Hope your July went well, its August and school is just around the corner.

- WyoBelle