"Amish in the dark"
Today I am leaving to go see my grandfather in the mountains of Virginia. I am so excited because I haven't really been around him much since my grandmother passed away in February. He has been such a huge part of my life and it will be interesting to see what its like just hanging out with just him and not with grandma.
One of my favorite stories about him is when he took me and my friends to see Amish in the dark! Did you know that Amish really like to hang out in the dark? Anyways me and my friends went to visit my grandparents for the weekend and on Saturday night they took us all out to eat at their favorite Chinese restaurant called, "Charlie's" which is another story in itself. So after our exotic meal at Charlie's my friends start talking about wanting to see Amish people because they had never seen any and there is a settlement about 20 miles north of my Grandparent's house. Well my grandfather overheard all this talk about wanting to see Amish and he looked at his watch, and decided we are going now!
At this point I have to mention its around 7:30 pm in the summer and starting to get dark, using my fabulous physics skills which factor in my grandfather's driving habits equals getting over to Amish country around 8:30 pm. We think this is a joke, no joke we are going to see those Amish. So we drive and drive and drive to where the Amish live. Of course its dark and of coarse Amish have no electricity so we are basically looking at complete dark houses and anything that moves in the dark. Needless to say we saw no Amish that night but I bet they saw us!
To this day I love visiting that Amish settlement, but only if its dark! Is there any other way to see Amish?

What's your life's ambition?
For the first time in my life I am interviewing people. Yes silly Shelby is actually being a grown-up and interviewing people for an assistants position. Do I feel incredibly dumb: Yes. Do I feel like I am still 14 again: Yes. For some reason I haven't and probably will never grasp the concept that I am maybe an adult now and have a gasp, career.
I guess the reason I feel so foolish interviewing people is my personal hatred of all interviews, resumes and the whole job search in general. I have been very blessed with my current job situation in that I didn't have to go through an extreme amount of silly interviewing and in my opinion worthless questions about my goals and dreams.
I did attempt about a year and a half ago to go on a job interview for an ad agency. The agency ran out of a lady's house. I guess I didn't really prepare for an interview with the ENTIRE company so I was blown away when I walked up the stairs and there is a desk full of people just ready to hear you answer their horrible questions. For the record I hate those questions like, "where do you see yourself in 10 years?, What are your career goals?, What are your strengths?" Who cares bottom line can you show up on time every day and work?? Yes there are proper answers that you should give and yes 99% of the correct answer will be BS. I know I should have prepared, I know I should have given them what they wanted to hear, instead I was honest, uncomfortable and said the completely wrong things.
After sitting at the head of a table full of ad women for about 30 minutes, I acquired what I like to call dizzy head. I was so tired of talking about my "dreams" my "goals" that I totally didn't even ask them about what the job actually was. So as I was leaving I got to know the women a little better and they seemed less intimidating.
So go to today, I am trying my hardest to not make these people feel intimidated (as if I could ever be that way) or ask them if their life's goals are to be around metal and look at metal and yes love the metal. I am just trying my best and I think my dad said if I tried my best then no one could say I did a bad job.....