An organized desk can definitely freshen your workplace and give you a new perspective on things. Being an artist, maintaining a clean and tidy space is a challenge. However, it is important to remember to clean up your table to keep the creative juices flowing. It may not help much at first, but trust me, it’s better to look at a tidy space than a messy one. Plus, you have another thing to be proud of: YOU CLEANED IT!

My aesthetic is gonna be on point this year

There’s a website where you can learn ASL on your own and it is free and the woman on there, her name is Rochelle Barlow, she runs the site and she actually is a homeschool teacher and teaches ASL. I am passing this on to you guys cause most people on here is open-minded. Well, whoever of y’all reads this will possibly ignore this but if you are a curious george like me and wants to learn ASL she’s your gal. 

Rochelle has a free program called Learn ASL in 31 days, currently I am on day 10ish or 12, (idk I’m on learning my numbers currently) but I believe this site will help people that are either curious about ASL and just wants to learn, or actually is Deaf but can’t afford to going to actual class or something, or just hard of hearing. 

I am truly in love with learning with Rochelle, she isn’t those interpreters that will talk while she signs, (and I’ve searched through Youtube how to sign but the person talking will distract me and I would get confused) and it is all in video which is a good thing. I found her through Youtube, that’s where she has all her videos. Just check out her site. You’ll like it. 

now that i’ve resigned myself to living in my parents house while i finish my degree i’ve spent the last few months trying to make my room a little more like somewhere i actually want to live and work in & i finally feel like i finished this clutterbug space last night i’m v happy  ´ ▽ ` )

Walt Disney Animation Studios’ movies + eras

my parents aren’t teaching me life lessons.

#i need some adults to TEACH ME SHIT ABOUT LIFE

I’m an adult.

Some shit about life, from a bonafide adult:

Do not buy generic brand spaghetti sauce either.

Always check the type of light bulb that goes in lamps. A 60w is not interchangeable with a 40w.

Dollar store batteries work just as well as store brand.

~~Medications~~

Over the counter medications (stuff you can buy right off the shelf no prescription needed) have a name brand and a generic name. ALWAYS buy generic if it’s available it is literally the same thing and way cheaper usually.

Some names to remember when you’re looking for meds!

Acetaminophen = Tylenol

Used to treat pain and reduce fever. Do not take with Ibuprofen.

Ibuprofen = Advil, Midol, Motrin

Used for pain and fever, is an anti-inflammtory. Is good for period cramps because it is an NSAID (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug).

Naproxen = Aleve, Naprosyn

Treats fever, pain, arthritis pain, gout, period cramps, tendinitis, headache, backache, and toothache. Is also an NSAID.

Acetaminophen + Asprin + Caffeine = Excedrin

Usually marketed as “Migraine Relief” as a generic.

Asprin = Bayer

Use for pain, fever, arthritis, and inflammation. Makes you bleed easily so should not be used for periods. Might reduce risk of heart attacks.\

Triple Antibiotic Ointment = Neosporin

Used on cuts, sores, and scrapes to reduce risk of infection and promote healing.

Also a general mutli-vitamin isn’t a bad idea and if you don’t get a lot of fruits or milk/sunshine in your diet you might want to get vitamins C and D specifically for daily use.

if you do accidentally lapse and put dawn in your dishwasher, run it empty and put hair conditioner where the detergent goes. that’ll clean it out (tip given to me by dorm custodian when roommate did the thing).

if you live off ramen, add stuff to it! add veggies you like, don’t use the whole flavor packet to cut down on sodium and msg or don’t use it at all and add your own spices.

if you’re making something with potatoes in it (beans, stew) potatoes are done when you can easily stab a fork through them.

you can microwave a hotdog as long as you put it in a microwave safe container of water. microwaves work by making water molecules vibrate. also, when reheating rice leftovers, add a small amount of water, like maybe a spoonfull, so it doesn’t get hard and crunchy.

the rice cooking advice above is for long grain rice. if you’re making short or medium grain rice, a 1:1 ratio (one cup water for one cup rice) is better, so the rice doesn’t come out too mushy.

buy a few cans of chicken. wholesale club stores like sam’s, costco, or bj’s tend to carry multipacks for a good price. they’re incredibly useful for when you forget to defrost meat.

buy meat on sale and put it in the freezer. buy vegetables on sale, and put them in the freezer. frozen veggies are often as flavorful and good as fresh ones, keep longer, and often come in microwaveable bags or with microwave directions.

soak ink stains in milk to help get them out or at least lighten them.

soak blood stains in water as soon as possible, with a bit of detergent or stain remover. scrub at them. use cold water, heat binds proteins to fabric. tbh, there’s no real need to change the washer from cold-cold setting unless the thing you’re washing says to wash in warm water.

acetone, found in most nail polish removers, dissolves super glue.

YOU’RE ALL DOING GOD’S WORK BLESS YOU

Takes pictures, have prints made and put them in photo albums. Be IN the pictures, have someone take pictures of you and your friends. Get over not looking perfect in thw picture. Someday that friend might be gone and those pictures might be all you’ll have, you will want to be in them. I made that mistake with my best friend, i always felt weird asking for a picture together… he died of cancer January of 2014 and now i have no pictures of us together. Its my only regret in life.

This is really helpful, thank you all!

I’m the newest of new adults but I’m gonna throw these little tips in there. IF YOU HAVE AN OLD CAR: 

-coolant or water if your car overheats (coolant is preferable cause it won’t hurt the engine in the long run but hey i know money is tight) 

-flashlight in case you break down at night and need to check under the hood and your phone is dead

-SPARE TIRE. 

-jumper cables.you will at some point leave your lights on. you just will. 

AAA or any other road side service is never a bad investment i swear. (try to mooch it off your parents as long as you can though) 

Know how to change a tire. You’re going to need to do it at some point in time and you can’t always rely on someone else to do it for you.

Don’t be afraid to go to your local food bank. They are there for a reason.

Don’t be ashamed to ask for help period. Life is hard, everyone needs help occasionally.

You can put a LOWER wattage bulb in a lamp that says it’s for a higher one, but don’t put a HIGHER wattage bulb in. Also, watts refer to the amount of electricity used. LUMENS refers to the amount of light put out, and can vary quite a bit between brands, even though the wattage is the same. Look for the one with the highest lumens unless you actually want a slightly dimmer bulb in a certain location. Those dollar store batteries? Fine if they’re alkaline. “Heavy-duty” batteries, however, won’t last nearly as long. You can microwave a hot dog and bun simply by wrapping them in a toweling for a minute, less if you don’t want them scalding hot.

Reblogging to save lives.

Two adulting (kitchen-related) tips from me!

1. Buy a roll of parchment paper from the cooking shit aisle. A big roll will last you for-fucking-ever. Pretty much any time you’re using a baking pan you can line it with that stuff and save yourself A: food sticking to the pan and B: it’s a quick rinse and it’s clean.

2. Bread can get fucking expensive, so make your own. A bigass bag of flour and a bag of active dry yeast (store it in the friiiiidge!!!) works out a FUCK of a lot cheaper than buying bread at the store, and you can do so much more with it. Bread, pizza, rolls, cinnibuns, homemade pizza pockets. It seems intimidating but it’s stupid easy.

Seriously. It’s stupid simple to make, and most of the “3 hours” to make it is sitting around surfing the internet or doing whatever the fuck you want while the dough rises. If you have an afternoon free once a week to sit and play video games or surf the net, you have the time to make your own bread on the cheap. Here’s my simple-as-fuck recipe:

Boom. You have bread dough. Here are some baking times and uses for ya:

You can add whatever you want to the dough for some variety, just if it’s dried spices remember you really only need 1-ish tablespoons. I personally like making bread with about 1 tablespoon of dill in the dough. Roll it out flat, sprinkle it with cheddar, roll it into a log, squeeze the ends shut, and bake it like a regular loaf of bread. Cheesy dill bread OMNOMNOM.

*ahem* That got a bit long. But yeah. Bread’s expensive, yo. Save your wallet.

(Also it’s ridiculous amounts of therapeutic to bake, for me anyway)

Being able to bake your own bread is pretty awesome, if you got the time for it. 

Pages from my Starbucks x Moleskine 2016 planner: The workload may be too much sometimes but it’s always worth the effort to do because I love what I’m doing and learning everyday.

Pro-Tip

I know most people associate LUSH Cosmetics with white girls and bath bombs but products from this beautiful company have faded my scars and stretch marks, completely gotten rid of my acne, fixed my dry skin problems, thickened my eyelashes, laid my edges, made my hair grow like crazy… I can go on and on. I’ve actually never tried the bath bombs, but their skincare and haircare products work magic.

* Fading Scars / Stretch Marks - ‘Organic Therapy’ Massage Bar * Extra Dry Skin - ‘King of Skin’ In-Shower Body Conditioner, ‘Skin Drink’ Facial Moisturizer, ‘Sultana of Soap’ Bar, ‘Tender is the Night’ Massage Bar, ‘Each’s a Peach’ Massage Bar * Acne - ‘Fresh Farmacy’ Solid Cleanser, ‘Eau Roma’ Toning Water, ‘Full of Grace’ Serum Bar * Thickening Lashes - ‘Eyes Right’ Mascara / Lash Milk * Edges - ‘R&B’ Hair Moisturizer (if you put this on your edges before wrapping your hair, they’ll be relaxer-straight when you wake up, lasts about 12 hours), ‘Dirty’ Hair Styling Cream (cream-based edge control with a matte finish, no more shiny or crunchy edges) * Hair Growth - ‘NEW!’ Shampoo Bar, ‘Retread’ Hair Conditioner

(This is not even a fourth of my LUSH collection, just my Holy Grail products.)

I used to work there. This is right.

also, “silky underwear” is AMAZING for chaffing/chub rub in the summer!!!

Inspirational Illustrations Pay Homage to the Beauty of Nature by Katie Daisy

Oregon-based illustrator Katie Daisy admits to being raised by “birds and warm breezes” in a small town, “where she was brought up among the other wildflowers with roots planted deeply in the natural world.” Deeply impassioned by nature, Daisy’s aim is to interpret the beauty of Mother Earth she has engraved deeply in her velvet bones.

She hopes to convey the message of our surroundings through her adventurous and vibrant illustrations. Composed by watercolor, acrylic, photoshop, the watercolor creations contain messages of inspiration, love of beauty, poetry and nature expressed by the most influential minds in literature, art and humanity.

Adorned with floral patterns, constellations, landscape sceneries, and plants, Daisy’s work is a wildly romantic series, which urges everyone to dream. The small literary excerpts communicate the simple joys of life and the magic found in nature. You can find her entire collection in her Etsy shop.

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11.24.15

some walls of my room

feeling @ home here!

2016/2/10 some new frame ideas for my bullet journal

9.2.16

I get bored sometimes for using fineliners for everythingggg so i decided to go back to the classic blue ballpoint pen and have never been happier!📝

thought I’d share 🌸✨

The Phone Interview

Woohoo! You’ve made it to the phone interview. Congrats! 

The first step is scheduling your phone interview. Most people will immediately do this after passing your WBI, but some people have to wait for an email. When scheduling your phone interview make sure you schedule it for the time that works best for you. If you can’t be up at 9 AM, make sure you don’t schedule your interview for early in the morning. Likewise if you’re not used to staying up late, don’t make your interview at 11 PM. And always, AWAYS, make sure you select the correct time zone. Nothing would be worse then preparing for the interview and then missing it because you scheduled it at 8 PM Pacific time instead of 8 PM Eastern. You can be called 15 minutes before or 15 minutes after your scheduled time and the call will come from a blocked or restricted number. Since the interview can take anywhere from 10 to 45 minutes make sure you have a good 60+ minutes carved out of your day dedicated to your interview. I made my interview for late morning (11:30 AM). It gave me time to sleep in a little bit, but also time to prepare. It prevented me from psyching myself out the entire day waiting for the phone call and after it was done I was much more relaxed.

In order to prep for your phone interview my biggest suggestion is research, research, research. There are plenty of practice questions floating around the web (you can find some of them here!) as well as answers to the questions. While looking at the answers can be helpful I highly recommend coming up with your own. Your responses will sound more sincere and authentic rather then a generic response you just regurgitated. Another way to prepare is to watch actual interviews online. If you head over to YouTube and search “DCP interviews” tons of people have recorded their phone interviews. If you’re stressed out about the process watching someone else go through it might help. I liked to watch a few because it not only gave me an idea about the process, but helped me think of ideas on how to answer certain questions.

Some people like to make giant “cheat sheets” of all the possible questions and answers while others like to go in blind. I chose to go somewhere in the middle (Here’s all my stuff, waiting for my phone call - please ignore destroyed my tablecloth)

On the right side of the notes were all specific role questions that I thought I would need a little help with if they asked. I included little bullet points instead of a whole paragraph so I wouldn’t be able to read off it. On the left hand side are notes all about basic interview questions such as what are your strengths and weaknesses? In the middle was my response to “why do you want to do the Disney College Program?” I didn’t end up reading off the page, but it was nice to see right before my interview.

Here are my 3 of my biggest tips going into the Phone Interview. 1) If you choose to use paper notes, tape them down to a surface. Your interviewer will be able to hear all that rustling and you can come off as unprepared and unprofessional. 2) Use a white board! When your interviewer tells you his or her name you’re going to want to write it down and I found that a whiteboard makes way less noise then crinkling paper. I also wrote my questions down on the bottom and found it useful that everything I needed was in one space. 3) This is the greatest piece of advice I heard before my phone interview and I am sososo happy that I did. Be able to incorporate why you want to the DCP into an answer because they may not ask you. I was not asked why I wanted to do the Program and a large majority of people I talked to told me the same thing. This is your opportunity to tell them why you want to live, learn, and earn with the company. Include that you want to take Disney classes, that you’re interested in potential internships, and ultimately a future there. Disney likes to hire within and the phone interview is the only chance that you get to tell them that you want that opportunity. When my interviewer asked how the DCP could help me professionally that’s when I was able to work in my answer.

Now, it’s finally time for your interview! Make sure you’re in a quiet place with great cell reception. I scheduled my interview for 11:30 AM, but the call came at 11:41 AM. Pick up the phone with a smile and stay calm! Your phone interview will start off with your interview introducing themselves. Write down their name! As I mentioned earlier this is one of the reasons have a whiteboard is the so useful. You’ll be able to use their name when saying goodbye and thanking them for the interview. It adds a personal touch, sounds professional, and shows how invested you are in this opportunity by addressing them by name. Next your interviewer will ask you if it’s a good time to talk (hint - say yes!) and proceed with some basic, standard job interview questions along with some specific Disney College Program ones! Be aware that even if you answer a question that hasn’t already been asked yet in a response for another question, you might still get asked that question again. My interviewer, Christy, told me that we would only take 10-15 minutes, but my interview ended up lasting around 27 minutes long.  The main thing I found strange about my interview was that it never focused on any specific role. I tried to incorporate my interest in merchandise or attractions as much as possible in the answers for other questions to ensure that I was able to express my interests in certain roles even though I wasn’t asked.

Now you’re almost at the finish line! Once your interviewer is done asking their questions they’ll ask you if you have any for them. Make sure to have two or three questions prepared. My three questions were: 1) I wear glasses most of the time and have a small horse and carriage logo on the side about ¾ of an inch. Do you think this fits with the Disney Look? 2) Did you do the Disney College Program? If not, how did you get started with the company? 3) How would taking Disney classes or participating in VoluntEARS work into the work week?

And just like that it’s over! You’ll say goodbye, thank them, wish them well and then face another! My interviewer told me I would most likely hear back by the end of late October, but the very final date to hear back was November 13th. Don’t worry if you think your phone interview isn’t perfect! Almost immediately after I picked up the phone all you could hear was intense static. I moved around my location (unable to see me notes), profusely apologized and continued on with my interview. I ended up being accepted a little over three weeks later.

“Why worry? If you’ve done the very best that you can, worrying won’t make it any better” -Walt Disney

Good luck to all of you!!!

Check out my post about my application timeline, including my acceptance date here! Checkout my post about how to spend your time waiting for a response here! Check out my post on what to do if you’re accepted here! Check out my post on what do if you’re NLIC’d here!