Look! A Blog Post! :)

Hello All!

Of course I am posting this blog because I am procrastinating...hehe. But there is an alternate purpose that I promise to explain once I get to the end of this post. 

Here's what's going on here in Denver:

It's February...already. Where the heck has the time gone? I am still working the same two part-time jobs as last year: Afterschool Facilitator for the Drop-in Programs at Mi Casa Neighborhood Center at North High School and Barista-ing at Downpours Coffee. I may have the same two jobs but they are so much different than last year. 

At Mi Casa, I have started a Career Exploration club where I use my endless contacts/customers at Downpours Coffee to volunteer an afternoon to talk about their career to get the students thinking about "what's next". Attendance in the space has been OUTRAGEOUS which is wonderfully exciting...and incredibly overwhelming. Because of this, we finally hired another Afterschool Facilitator to help us out! She will start running programs in about a week and a half! Hallelujah. 

At Downpours, I'm finally getting a little bit of my desire to "do good" fulfilled. I coordinated the first ever Downpours Coffee Food Drive right before the holidays. And I'm hoping to get a little park clean-up set up for our customers and their families to volunteer and feel like they're making a difference in their community. If there is one thing I have learned about asking my customers to volunteer at Mi Casa...it is that most people WANT to give back to their community, they're just not likely to search it out themselves. I've had about ten customers volunteer at Mi Casa...and about 50 participate in the Food Drive. It'll be awesome to see how many say "yes" to help the community in a different way in the next few months. It is a challenge and a project that I am creating for myself...and I find it thrilling. 

OH YEAH. You know what else is going on in Denver? The freaking Broncos are in the Superbowl. I have been avidly watching football this year...so I actually feel like I kind of care. I have never lived in a place where the team has gone to the Superbowl. I am totally feeding into the hype. I just bought a horrendously orange Broncos shirt to wear in support of my city. I am pumped for Sunday. 

Other exciting tidbits:

• I am trying to attend at least one Spanish Speaking Happy Hour per month (one is tonight)
• I took a beginner Bachata dance class last week...and hope to make it a more regular activity. I love that my friends are interested in these things :)
• My solo apartment is still awesome and adorable and I love it
• I have my keyboard all set up with a sustain pedal and stand and chair so I have been singing for pleasure significantly more these days
• I will be crafting with two of the wonderful friends I've made since moving to Denver tomorrow
• I am on the job search...as always. No more of this double-part-time-job nonsense next year...I am going full-time baby

And that last bullet point is why I am writing this post. A) I am totally procrastinating on my search because looking for work and then editing resumes and writing cover letters has to be the most tedious and exhausting thing that a human ever has to do. But more importantly, B) I think I want to apply to more communications based positions and everyone I have talked to said that writing is becoming a somewhat archaic skill and I should definitely push that skill when I am applying to those positions. Truth be told, I haven't written for pleasure in a really long time. So...this post is really to shake off the dust and help me remember how much I really enjoy written word. 

Hopefully this job search will get me back on the writing horse. It's a shame I have been away for so long. Fingers crossed to more writing and a successful job search! Cheers!

And Go Broncos!