My Bed is Calling to Me!

I've been sitting here for a couple minutes now, with my eyes only half open, trying to come up with a topic to write about. And then it occurs to me... SLEEP! Sleep is a great topic. At least it seems like it right now. It's possible that I'm being very delusional in my current state. I have been up for a couple hours, but it's hard to tell if I've become any more alert than when I first woke up.

Anyway... Sleep. What an interesting thing to think about. As you grow up it kind of transforms. When you're a baby you do it uncontrollably, and a lot! When you're a toddler you don't want to go to bed, but you end up crashing without really realizing it.

Throughout childhood there are those pesky bed times. You want to stay up and know what the adults are doing and hang out with them. They must be doing something really cool, so they have to put you to bed. If you knew what they were doing they'd have to let you join, and then there would be less fun for them, right? Seemed logical enough at the time.

Then in High School you seem to get a little bit less sleep. Still enough, but less than before. You don't really want to go to bed because there are so many other things you can do, but then it's lights out and you don't want to roll out of bed in the morning.

And then comes college. Sleep becomes a whole different beast once you get to college. And it has it's two extremes. It's either a hindrance or a reward. There are those nights that all you want to do is stay up all night and hang out with your friends. They are so awesome and you're having such a great time. Or there's the boy/girl that you like there too and you don't want to leave for fear that they'll forget about you. You need to catch their eye so you have to stay up.

After a while, sleep becomes a reward. You got all your homework and studying done, you ate (what a glorious thing!), and hung out with friends for a sufficient amount of time. And now... SLEEP! You crawl into your bed and tell it everything will be okay now that you are there,and then lay your head down for an 8 hour snuggle party with your pillow. And it feels soooooo good!

I currently seem to be at a stage in between those two. I love my sleep, and I love hanging out with my friends. But it can be hard to balance the time. All I can say is thank God for weekends when I can sleep in and not feel guilty! And when those pockets of time appear, a good nap is quite wonderful! They are very good bragging material as well.

Sleep:

• is necessary
• is wonderful
  
• is a nuisance
  
• takes up too much time
  
• can be done in groups (siesta fiesta!)
  
• can be rather inconvenient
• gives me the strength to go on
• is a God given time of amazing deep rest

It must be done. There is really no avoiding it. I guess all we can do is try to find the best balance we can and go with it. Unless any of you have some genius idea?

Until next time, with plenty of sleep in between,

~Connie Jo

Tripping Into Life

Now you may be wondering, unless you already know me well enough, why my blog is titled "Tripping Into It". Let me fill you in:

I trip... A LOT!

Mind you, I do go through "tripping phases". Sometime my balance will be really good for a while and then all of a sudden one day I trip 3 times in a row. And then for the next week or month I'll keep doing it. In high school it was so bad that whenever somebody tripped someone would say, "You pulled a Connie!" Even a few of my teachers would say that.

I randomly thought of the title one day and I knew it would give me the ability to talk about whatever I wanted, about everything or anything that I just "happen" upon and feel compelled to talk about. It worked, so I did it. Simple as that.

So one of my worst tripping phases, a bit more recently than high school, was over a year ago. Throughout the "phase", which lasted for probably 4 or 5 months, my friend (and roommates boyfriend) Tyler kept saying I was "falling" for his brother, Ian (and I really did trip a lot around him). Interestingly enough, that statement held a lot of truth in it.

As I started getting to know Ian better I liked him more and more. And then after however long it was, we were dating! I guess tripping actually did something awesome for me. Maybe I was just tripping around him so much that he felt I needed some support. That's probably not the case though. But if it was, I hope it was a bit more than that.

Ian and I kind of just stumbled into each other's lives and it worked out well. So I guess you could say we each "pulled a Connie" right into one another. My tripping problem hasn't completely been cured, but since we started dating it hasn't been nearly as bad. It's been 9 months yesterday since we started dating, and he's been there to support me the whole way through. I've been feeling a lot more stable.

So that's one piece of my life for ya. You now know why I titled my blog the way I did and you know a little about my life. Hopefully I'll be able to write plenty more about many other situations and thoughts in my life that I just happen to "trip" into.

I should be going now though. I'm actually in my class where I'm supposed to be writing my other blog. This is good cover though. If anyone looks at my screen (without reading it of course) they'll just think I'm working on my next blog for class. HAHA! What fools... I have them tricked! ; )

But truly, I need to figure out my next topic. And I only have 2 left to do. Yippy! Thanks for reading. I'll be on my merry way to hopefully trip into my next topic.

~Connie Jo

Am I really doing this?

Blogging: Something I never thought I would do.

My life has been made up of so many wonderful experiences and opportunities. But never in a million years did I think blogging would be one of those opportunities. I just straight out never thought I would do it. It's something that geeks do, right?

I am now actually writing another blog for a grade. I'm taking a class called Digital Marketing Communication this month. It's a really fun and interesting class so far. And throughout the month we are required to write a minimum of 10 blogs about the marketing topic we've chosen. My topic happens to be "Social Media". So yes, I am using social media to talk about social media. Funny how that happens. But I'm really excited about the class and getting to write blogs.

I guess my friends were right, I am a geek. But no worries, I will take on that title with pride and hold my head high even when my friends think I'm weird for writing a blog. I've always enjoyed journaling, and this acts as another outlet that makes me think through things with a different perspective. Rather than writing something that will be only for my eyes and scribbling it all down, this will be for whoever happens upon it. That's both exciting and nerve wrecking.

So, my friends, here I go. Who knows where this will take me or how often I will actually write, but I've started. And if you feel like reading my other blog at all, it's www.thebusinessofsocialmedia.blogspot.com. See you around!

~Connie Jo