"Homeward bound, I wish i was homeward bound. Home where my thoughts are escapin. Home where my music's playin. Home where my love lies waitin silently for me."-Simon & Garfunkel
I'm obsessed. Dear world, why did you keep Simon from me for so long? He speaks to my heart. When listening I am automatically transported to a happy place: coffee shop, book, and honey vanilla latte with drizzly rainbow in the window or barefeet running through a hill of...no wait I picture us twirling in front of Jesse Hall. I absolutely love those pictures. aww look at me I'm a rainbow lovin hippie haha.
And speaking of Homeward bound...that will be me soon!! As I move into my fourth (if you include my TOMS apt) and final Los Angeles home, I see the end of my Cali stint,at least for now...(always open to possibilities ;)) After much job applying, playing, and beaching it is time for me to return to the land where the angels dance and God blessed with his own hands. Dear Texas, please expect my arrival around the end of may or beginning of June. Dear Julie, Much dancing to be caught up on.
Though my return will not be to Dallas, well hopefully not. Much is pending on a round two of a convo I had yesterday with a fair trade co. in Austin,Texas called Handmade Expressions. The owner came across my resume when I applied for their Marketing Manager opening. He recognized my passion and experience acquired thus far and though it was not enough to meet the MM requirements, he felt that I could be the ideal person for their special projects opening. ohh special projects that just sounds tintillating. The special project, I'll get to that in a sec but first I must say the owner, Manish, is a man after my own heart.
Manish aspires to influence consumer behaviour. He wants consumers-citizens to question businesses about their sustainable practices, to pursue products that are socio-eco conscious, to consume with thought. Lofty goals indeed, but right in line with mine. He seeks to build an educated and active consumer-citizen base.
This is the special project. This would be my challenge. I would be charged with the challenge to build an online community that cultivates consumer education and interaction-to create a social network where people can learn about Fair Trade, Sustainable business practices, can look up and rate shops, find products and events and several other things Manish quickly spit out during our conversation. Definitely a man with a vision and heart for fair trade and the mission this movement embodies.
Least to say, I will definitely be taking this challenge if/when it is officially offered to me. Mmmm I do love the difficult and lofty. Hi Texas here I come. PS: not to get ahead of myself, I still have to hash out so more things this coming Friday with Manish, so big Fair Trade Lone Star juju vibes for Sam please!!
I found this (below) from a post in March when I was really feeling like my life was up in the air and was trying to figure out what all my possibilities could be. It's funny #8 I wasn't going to add, but then I realized I was limiting my life by not including the unexpected. I was limiting it to what I knew, when it's really about what God knows.
March 20th
One of the following could evolve:
1. Receive a job in Los Angeles and can afford my own place, which I move into once Alek is back from Africa.
2. Move to D.C. for the summer or for full time pending on the offers I receive from potential employers-if I receive any at all-and live with Ashleigh
4. Invisible Children decides I am remarkable and hires me on as their Facility and Production Manager, which leads to me moving to Uganda
5. Take on another Part Time job to be able to actually live in a place where I pay rent and continue living in Santa Monica
6. Pack up the bags and head back to Texas
7.Live in San Diego with Ashleigh in her mom’s fiancé’s condo downtown while working 30hrs a wk then spending the rest developing our healthy fast food chain : )
8. A possibility that isn't even comprehensible
It is amazing how God can know what truly is right for you even you think you have found your dream job, dream opportunity. Thank you lord for knowing more than me-for knowing me better than me. Because I just get too confused and too overwhelmed all too often.
In other thoughts, it has been so much fun being girlie and stalky and having fun coffee boy crushes. I'm enjoying all the silly girlie boy-liking-ness I missed out in college. I am fully embracing my singlehood and I like it. Though I do wish the world, cough cough Lord, would bring coffee boy back in my life. Guys it was love at first sight. Me=swept off feet. He is my beautiful man. haha awww I wish yall were here to team stalk him with me. : ) I need to fully utilize your skillz Ames. But nonetheless, I am turning over my dream man-coffee boy-Shawn to fate. Fine no more intentional pushing him back in my life. lol.
Do please update girlies. I love hearin about the silly, mundane, everday crazies that exists in y'all's lives.
Much Love
Sam
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Mud pie Mondays
"This little piggy went to the market. This little piggy went to Starbucks. This little piggy rallied on the street for animal rights. This little piggy stayed home and wrote her dissertation on social media and social movements, while this little piggy ran all the way home wheeeee. *tickle tickle*"
I think that's how the song goes or that is at least how I sang it to the two year old girl I watched on Monday. My friend Darian couldn't make a babysitting sessh, so I covered at the last moment. Figured I could use the extra cash since I didn't work on Easter Sunday. It was a little nerve racking at first...kids...what...baby what do I do with that for FIVE HOURS. But turns out it wasn't that terrible. Watched one episode of Barney-couldn't take anymore than that. **Dear Mom, I am sorry that as a five year old I was obsessed with that must be botoxed induced overly smiley purple dinosaur. And you had to sit through hours and hours and hours of clean-up songs** After purple torture, we colored and played cars. When the rain stopped, we made mud pies and swung. Then nap time. Glorious nap time. Though must say it all wasn't to terrible but def could not do it every day. The next day my friend Darian told me how shocked the mom was that Izzie-the girl-didn't cry when she left because she always cries. They said I have great energy, kid energy and Izzie synced it. uhhh thanks I think. But I guess that's good when that comes in the far far far far far far future.
Easter in LA
I went to church for the first time since I have been in LA on Easter Sunday. The church was called Ecclesia and was on Hollywood Blvd, which was kinda weird because I was just out there 8 hours earlier dancing. I loved the church though! The pastor was young, real and a great speaker. There was no southern baptist heaviness and traditionalness. Also, it was wonderful to see a crowd that looked like me. Young adults no overwhelming amount of high school and middle school kiddies or 50 and up parentals. And it was small, I do love me some small church. I hope to go back. It is just hard because I work Sundays 11-3pm main church going time and I know I was hired specifically for weekends. Hmmmm possibility to look into night church activities.
Over here on the west coast things have been rollin pretty normal. I am all moved into my new home for the next couple of weeks. Its quite quaint. Great view and great cottage cuddles via the golden retriever Mountain. He reminds me of my Travis. I miss him oh so much. BUT there is some very very very exciting news in the works. Last week I interviewed with my two top jobs a.k.a. Sam's dream jobs!! On Monday I had a 10 minute interview with Invisible Children for the Facility and Production Manager position in Uganda then on Friday HandCrafting Justice, an online fair trade retailer, called to briefly speak to be about the Operations and Marketing Manager position I applied for. Finally some bleeps on the job radar!!
Realtime Update:
IC-I should be hearing from IC today about whether I move forward in the process, which would entail an interview with most likely IC Business Ops VP and Missions Director then 2-3 people are selected to interview with the Ugandan Logistics team, so still a ways to go. BUT yesterday, I contacted Tiffany, HR Director who I interviewed with, to follow-up with her because I was supposed to be contacted this past Friday. Gotta say that was the most nerve racking thing I have ever done. I wanted to cry after I got off the phone. The convo went really well though, I stayed calm and got across what I wanted. It def isn't gonna hurt me. *fingers crossed for a very exciting call today*
HCJ-Maureen, the director who interviewed me Friday said she wanted to put me in the pool of candidates that the Board was gonna review. She didn't give me an exact timeline, so I'll probably contact them-email/phone haven't decided yet-at the end of this week or beginning of next. It would be amazing to work with them too!! HCJ is a small FT retailer with lots of room for improvements. I def wouldn't ever call their marketing or product selection uptodate, but no fear thats where I come in : )
They are like many FT companies all about the ethnic shit and ridding too much on that slide. There needs to be a move towards more than a cheesy/unique gift market and to providing substantial products customers need themselves not that they just give to others. **oh and Ams this position is in Queens. Yay for being closer to you. And Julie if I get this job, I think I am going to need you to teach me some of your self defense moves. I'll have to toughen up if I move to Queens, NY.
It is getting exciting guys. I have a feeling April and May are going to be quite interesting months...for all of us-especially since lil Miss Buttmunch will becoming Mrs. Buttmuch quite quite soon.
I love yall. Update Update I need some reads. I miss my weekly life columns.
"This little piggy went to the market. This little piggy went to Starbucks. This little piggy rallied on the street for animal rights. This little piggy stayed home and wrote her dissertation on social media and social movements, while this little piggy ran all the way home wheeeee. *tickle tickle*"
I think that's how the song goes or that is at least how I sang it to the two year old girl I watched on Monday. My friend Darian couldn't make a babysitting sessh, so I covered at the last moment. Figured I could use the extra cash since I didn't work on Easter Sunday. It was a little nerve racking at first...kids...what...baby what do I do with that for FIVE HOURS. But turns out it wasn't that terrible. Watched one episode of Barney-couldn't take anymore than that. **Dear Mom, I am sorry that as a five year old I was obsessed with that must be botoxed induced overly smiley purple dinosaur. And you had to sit through hours and hours and hours of clean-up songs** After purple torture, we colored and played cars. When the rain stopped, we made mud pies and swung. Then nap time. Glorious nap time. Though must say it all wasn't to terrible but def could not do it every day. The next day my friend Darian told me how shocked the mom was that Izzie-the girl-didn't cry when she left because she always cries. They said I have great energy, kid energy and Izzie synced it. uhhh thanks I think. But I guess that's good when that comes in the far far far far far far future.
Easter in LA
I went to church for the first time since I have been in LA on Easter Sunday. The church was called Ecclesia and was on Hollywood Blvd, which was kinda weird because I was just out there 8 hours earlier dancing. I loved the church though! The pastor was young, real and a great speaker. There was no southern baptist heaviness and traditionalness. Also, it was wonderful to see a crowd that looked like me. Young adults no overwhelming amount of high school and middle school kiddies or 50 and up parentals. And it was small, I do love me some small church. I hope to go back. It is just hard because I work Sundays 11-3pm main church going time and I know I was hired specifically for weekends. Hmmmm possibility to look into night church activities.
Over here on the west coast things have been rollin pretty normal. I am all moved into my new home for the next couple of weeks. Its quite quaint. Great view and great cottage cuddles via the golden retriever Mountain. He reminds me of my Travis. I miss him oh so much. BUT there is some very very very exciting news in the works. Last week I interviewed with my two top jobs a.k.a. Sam's dream jobs!! On Monday I had a 10 minute interview with Invisible Children for the Facility and Production Manager position in Uganda then on Friday HandCrafting Justice, an online fair trade retailer, called to briefly speak to be about the Operations and Marketing Manager position I applied for. Finally some bleeps on the job radar!!
Realtime Update:
IC-I should be hearing from IC today about whether I move forward in the process, which would entail an interview with most likely IC Business Ops VP and Missions Director then 2-3 people are selected to interview with the Ugandan Logistics team, so still a ways to go. BUT yesterday, I contacted Tiffany, HR Director who I interviewed with, to follow-up with her because I was supposed to be contacted this past Friday. Gotta say that was the most nerve racking thing I have ever done. I wanted to cry after I got off the phone. The convo went really well though, I stayed calm and got across what I wanted. It def isn't gonna hurt me. *fingers crossed for a very exciting call today*
HCJ-Maureen, the director who interviewed me Friday said she wanted to put me in the pool of candidates that the Board was gonna review. She didn't give me an exact timeline, so I'll probably contact them-email/phone haven't decided yet-at the end of this week or beginning of next. It would be amazing to work with them too!! HCJ is a small FT retailer with lots of room for improvements. I def wouldn't ever call their marketing or product selection uptodate, but no fear thats where I come in : )
They are like many FT companies all about the ethnic shit and ridding too much on that slide. There needs to be a move towards more than a cheesy/unique gift market and to providing substantial products customers need themselves not that they just give to others. **oh and Ams this position is in Queens. Yay for being closer to you. And Julie if I get this job, I think I am going to need you to teach me some of your self defense moves. I'll have to toughen up if I move to Queens, NY.
It is getting exciting guys. I have a feeling April and May are going to be quite interesting months...for all of us-especially since lil Miss Buttmunch will becoming Mrs. Buttmuch quite quite soon.
I love yall. Update Update I need some reads. I miss my weekly life columns.
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