Here goes: random facts about me you may not have known.

1. I am Catholic. Kidding! I bet you knew that already 🙂

2. I had tubes put in my ears twice when I was a toddler and I have vivid memories from both times (to that nurse: the knock out gas was totally NOT bubble gum flavored)

3. I dislike most rom-coms and am not a huge TV fan

4. I loved being in musicals and dreamed of being a Broadway star in my tween years. My Pooh Bear journal is living proof of this interesting time in my life when I was semi-obsessed with this.

5. I am always the one to have a camera ready and take pictures at events

6. I’ve never been to the east coast area except for the March for Life in D.C. twice. Someday I’d like to explore over there, but I have no dreams of traveling the world.

7. American Sign Language was the main one I learned in high school. Thankfully taking it at a junior college counted for college credit here, so I don’t have to take any more language classes. Whoohoo! Good thing because language is not my forte.

8. I am always more productive and motivated when I wear tennis shoes.

9. I love blogging late at night when it’s quiet, but it’s WAY too easy to all of a sudden look up and it be 1:30am. That hurts the next morning 🙂

10. I end lots of sentences with exclamation points or smiley faces 🙂

11. A couple years ago I accidentally stabbed myself in the palm of my left hand and thankfully have no serious repercussions from it.

12. I don’t like to paint my fingernails.

13. Someday I want to learn how to coupon enough to save a significant amount of money. But don’t worry. I’m not going to be on the extreme couponing show.

14. I very rarely get sick and don’t remember the last time I took medicine.

15. Someday I want to go zip-lining.

 

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In no particular order, here are some of my favorite things:

1. Nice people. They rock. ‘Nuf said. Whether you are opening a door, writing a note, taking time to do something thoughtful, or whatever – I appreciate you.

2. Babies. Surprise, surprise! Babies just give me so much hope. And their smiles and laughs are the best. You never know who they are going to become, and they love you unconditionally. Yes, I have a whole Pinterest board for their sweet chubby faces 🙂

3. Sunshine. Add a little sun to any day and it’s automatically at least 63.547% better. Maybe it’s the California in me, but sun just brings a smile to my face and a spring to my step.

4. Nutella. Does this even need an explanation?

5. The day after an awesome workout. Sweating along to awesome music is fun, but the next day is even better as you feel yourself getting stronger.

And there you have 5 random things that I enjoy.

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This is a post I’ve been thinking about for a long time. After not being sure if I would actually write about, I figured it fit well with the prompt, so here you go: a hard lesson.

Last semester I took a principles of macroeconomics class which, you might have heard me say before, was really hard.

The first day of class I was completely lost. I had never studied economics before, so it was a completely foreign thing that my professor just jumped into gung ho. The book is hard enough to read, class lectures were a whole other story, but when you got to the tests it was different than both. I won’t go into a lot of details, but the teaching style really clashed with my learning style, and I was not helped to succeed in this class when I sought help.

When I got the first test back, I almost couldn’t believe it. It was the worst grade I’ve gotten to this day in college. At the same time I got my first accounting test back which hadn’t gone as well as I thought it would. *sigh*

I met with my teacher and was reassured in knowing he grades on improvement and I just needed to work hard to improve and it would be okay. The second test went MUCH better and whew! That was a relief. The third one wasn’t as good, though. It was getting harder. I started meeting with my teacher every single day before class to go over the reading and address any questions I had. I worked my tail off. The last test before the final went better. And then came the Wall Street Journal project where we had to asses the economy through research and tell where it’s going. I worked really hard with my partner on that and we got full credit. Then came the final.

I studied for that thing hard. I was SO done with this class and just wanted to put it behind me.

But it turns out that I didn’t do well enough overall.

So I have to re-take the class.

At some point last semester I had a mini crisis moment where I completely rethought my life and asked myself if this is really what I want to be doing. This is so hard, after all. And I was so done with classes that were on subjects I’m not specifically going to be working in. I prayed and cried about it, because it was just so frustrating. Even when I tried really hard (which lets face it wasn’t 100% of the time), there are some subjects I am simply not good at.

It felt like I was a failure.

But I know that I am not a failure. I just wasn’t made to be an economist. The things I was made to do? I’m really good at those things. I realized that it’s not the end of the world if I’m not a straight A student. As long as I work hard to learn and do my best, the grade I end up with is what it is. Part of my struggle with this class is that I do not feel that my grade was justified, and I still think the class was insane to be taught as a “principles”  class which is supposed to be very basic.

Right now I’m in the principles of microeconomics class with a different teacher and it’s better. But it’s still really hard. As far as I know my macro teacher is the only one to offer it here, so I’m looking into taking it over the summer close to home.

This class will always have a bad little place in my memory, but it made me trust in God’s plan for me a little more. Sure, I have to take this class and get a better grade. But God is bigger than grades. It’s going to work out okay.

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