Feel Good Friday!

Isn't it a little strange when you wake up Friday morning and are beaming with happiness? Food tastes a little better, the songs on the radio are a lot easier to sing, and even though you got cut off six times on your drive into work, your'e still upbeat!!!!! The reason is quite simple: IT IS FRIDAY!!!!! I am quite convinced that each Friday we wake up with some extra endorphines that are preparing us for the freedom of the weekend. Most of us spent nearly 40 hours in an office, classroom, or out in the elements working hard, but no worries you are six hours away from the luxurious weekend. So finish off today strong my fellow Aggies and spend some time relaxing and enjoying life during your brief but much needed break!

Something different can make all the difference!

   On my drive into work this morning, I was flipping through the local radio stations here in Las Cruces. On one of the stations, they were playing the new song "Moment 4 Life," and the lyrics "cause everybody dies, but not everybody lives" hit me like a freight train. You see, I love the idea of spontaneity and finding new experiences in my routine, but after hearing this song I realized I wasn't being true to spontaneity AT ALL!!!
   I have a day planner full of events, assignments for school, bills that are due, and even scheduled times to rest! My days and weeks are planned out by the hour! So I have to ask myself, where exactly does my need for impulsiveness fit in to the schedule?  How can we experience life to the fullest and enjoy the world around us if we do the same thing every day? So am I really living my life to its greatest potential, or am I just going through the notions of life?  When I'm 30,40,50, or even 60, I don't want to look back on my life and think "what if", so starting today I am making some life changes!!! Here are a few ideas to help rekickstart my journey back to living a little more spontaneously: On a weekly level
                                                         1.) Try a new restaurant once a week
                                                         2.) Instead of going the gym for spin class, ride my bike to a new place
                                                         3.) Create a new playlist on my Ipod, full of music I don't know


                                                                            On a monthly level
                                                        1.) Drive to a place in New Mexico that I've never been to
                                                        2.)Go to a concert or local event that I've never been
                                                                             

                                                                          On a yearly level
                                                        1.) Go to the airport, go to the ticket counter, ask to buy the cheapest round ticket ticket they have, and fly to whatever city and state that may be, and make the most of the trip!!!!


    In closing,  "living" doesn't mean you have to spend a ton of money just to gain experiences of life, it just means breaking out of the comfort shell and trying new things. Some of the most memorable events in your life can be those that were not planned! So join me on finding new experiences and living our lives to the greatest potential! Any suggestions followers?

~Jodi

Mmmm Doughnuts and Other Things

This morning when I got up I really didn’t want to have the hassle of making breakfast, so I figured I’d pick something up on my way to work. Now you may just be thinking that I drove through McDonalds or something like, BUT…I did not rather I went to this little hole in the wall called Bosa’s. This place is amazing they have burritos, they have menudo, and of course my favorite really really good doughnuts. So as I was thinking about my favorite little doughnut place this morning and what I was going to get, I also thought about today’s blog. If you’re at NMSU for school and you’re living here make the most of it try all the different restaurants and things to take advantage of. Cruces is a great place to explore and have fun in…SO here’s

Hannah’s Top 10 Places to Go See/Eat At When at School at NMSU

1.       Old Mesilla-Cool place to go walk around and see all the little stores presenting some of Mesilla Valley’s best items to get a hold of.

2.       El Comedor (Avenida De Mesilla)-My favorite Mexican Food place, I always order their Burrito Bañado (IT’S AMAZING)

3.       Sunland Park-Go for the horse races and get some nachos at the snack bar “You’ll be glad you did.”

4.       Ski Apache-Up by Ruidoso tons of fun on the slopes awesome people who run it go snowboard or ski doesn’t which one you rip up the mountain with.

5.       Downtown Ruidoso-Awesome shops to go look at…Just make sure that you have allotted plenty of time to just go look because there’s a lot to see.

6.       Elephant Butte Lake-Don’t have a boat? Doesn’t matter take some tubes out on the water and just chill in the sun for a day with buddies it’s that much fun!

7.       Dick’s Café (Valley Dr.)-Hankering for a good greasy burger this place has got it enough said J

8.       Whiskey Dicks (El Paso)-If you want to see some good live Country music to go dance to, a bunch of Country artists are always going to this place to perform and usually those concerts are open to 18 and above.

9.       Ranchway (Valley Dr.)-Cheap Burritos more your style? Order over the phone for pickup or go in for sit down dining $3 burritos that will make you drool.

10.   10 Pin Alley (Amador/Salano)-Cheap fun for you and your friends go knock a few pins for only $10 from 9-Midnight

*Note that these choices are not in any particular order, and Bosa’s is a part of this list as well ;)

Be sure you make you’re college experience worth your while so go out and find some places you like and remember HAVE FUN.

-Aggie Girl Hannah  

Snow Happens

In light of the recent storm events this past week, I’ve noticed a major difference in professors around the campus. On Monday my Animal Metabolism professor seemed panicked and told us that because of our little break we were behind in the syllabus and we would have to hurry through to get caught up. All of us sighed and rolled our eyes, thinking we’re only two days behind…Not a big deal. She obviously thought it was. Now as for other professors they don’t seem to mind…Like my Meat Technology teacher. According to the syllabus we were suppose to have an Exam on Tuesday when I asked if that would still happen he looked at me and asked, “We were suppose to have an exam?” He informed the class later on that the syllabus was etched in stone like the 10 Commandments, and would not change unless an act of God was to come down upon us. When a girl panicked and got her notes out to study he asked her “What is a snow storm?” She sighed with relief and replied “An Act of God.”  Needless to say our test for that class is being pushed back to next week. So this is what I’ve learned this week younger professors need to take note from the more ripened ones and enjoy the little things in life, because you never know when an Act of God is gonna hit. This is Aggie Girl Hannah trying to wrap up last week’s blogging this week.  

Chilled Dreams and Cold Winter Days

          It’s cold winter days like today when I look back on the dreams I had when I was little and smile. When I was in Elementary school there were so many things I wanted to do I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer, a teacher, a professional barrel racer, and last but not least…I wanted to be a Meteorologist. Now at that time I woke up and ran into the living room just to watch the weather report, I went to school where we were studying clouds and weather currents, and Twister was my favorite movie! There was just something about weather that infatuated me and I wanted to be one of those crazy people who followed it. As I got older there was more and more pressure on me to figure out some sort of path to work toward (something that was actually realistic). So obviously the professional barrel racer and Olympic swimmer were kind of out of my reach, but becoming a teacher is pretty obtainable…BUT I discovered that becoming a teacher wasn’t really what I wanted either. Now as many of us know many dreams become lost in time only to be forgotten. When I got out of high school I had this dream of becoming a track vet for racehorses, well life threw me some curve balls and I discovered that studying veterinary medicine wasn’t really what I wanted to get into either. However, getting into the racetrack industry was something I was truly passionate about and interested in. You may be reading this thinking that I’m jumping from one topic to another, but I swear there is a point to this blog entry. The 6^th Annual Career Connections event is being held at the Las Cruces Convention Center through tomorrow February 2^nd. No matter if you are an lower classman or you’re about to graduate it’s worth it to attend these professional employment events to maybe find out what you want to do with the rest of your life or even just to see what’s out there waiting for you! The career I choose will have to be something I’m interested in, but it also will have to be obtainable. To this day I’m still obsessed with meteorology and how weather patterns work, but the path I’m going down fits more of who I am as a person. So here’s your NMSU weather report for the rest of the week… There’s a 30% chance of precipitation either in the form of rain or snow the rest of tonight with a low of 18^o. Tomorrow there’s a prediction of Snow Flurries throughout the day the high getting to about 25^o and a low of 5^o tomorrow night. Through the weekend expect sunny skies and warmer temperatures after the clouds move out early Thursday. So in closing find something you’re passionate about, but never forget those little kid dreams… AND also be sure to bundle up the rest of the week. J



This is Aggie Girl Hannah (your meteorologist) back for another great week of blogging.

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Winter Storm Warning in Effect Through Wednesday 

(Be Sure To Keep Warm)

Modern Day Cowboy pt.2

....I find my baby waiting for me at the same place I had put her to pasture. I check my pockets and find that I have few dollars in my pocket, which is enough. I mount my steel hellion. Connect my ipod up to the stereo and choose the playlist marked ‘METAL WARRIOR’. I turn up the Judas Priest and head out the gate.

I head down the highway with the rock turned up to AWESOME! I always have my buddies Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, ACDC, Ted Nugent and Bob Seger by my side keepin’ me awake. I pull over to the local corner market to get some liquid tonic before I keep on going down the open road. While other kids my age are somewhere in a lecture hall or writing class, I’m chatting it up with some truckers at the corner market.

I drive all day just to get back home, down to Texas. I am cautious not to run into any of my bounty hunters or old flames.  I loot the local markets and check out the local girls at the edge of Texas before the sun starts to fade away. I get back on my steel hellion and head back on the highway.

As the wheel in the sky fades away, I drive up to a highway diner. I order a burger with all the fixings and fries. I am surrounded by other weary travelers. I pull out a chair and sit at a table near a window. I look out to the highway.  Sometimes when you’re alone all you do is think. The stars start to pop out across the black of night.

I can see my steel horse resting nearby. I don’t know where I’m going only God knows where I’ve been. I’m a young gun, a candle in the wind, a modern day cowboy. I’m a cowboy on a steel horse I ride. I’m wanted Dead or Alive.

Modern Day Cowboy

                I wake up in the morning and I raise my weary head. I feel like I’ve got an old coat for a pillow and the earth was last night’s bed.  The sun starts to peak through the dorm curtains. I’m a guy who likes to start workin’ in the early mornin’. I’ve got to get a move on if I want to make it to my destination by nightfall.

                I get out of my bed and check an open box of pop tarts; it looks like I have a package left un-open. I fix me a cold breakfast of pop-tarts and a cup of OJ (the same breakfast I have been eatin’ for months). As I devour the meek scraps of my breakfast I try to remember the last time I had a warm breakfast with all the fixings’. I recon I may stop by the local diner sometime soon if I make it out of this week alive.

                I throw some water on my face. I put on some beat up jeans and boots. I pull out a Dallas Cowboys shirt from my unpacked bag. I like to keep myself ready to depart camp at anytime. I’m a Texan, a Texas boy born and raised. I rode up here and setup my camp here in New Mexico because I am a devil on the run.

                I pack a sack with things I will need for the day. I leave my camp and walk out to the University campus. The small town of New Mexico State University is already booming with life. I am surrounded by new faces. Citizens and towns folks who will not judge me for the crimes I had committed.  The people up here are kind and helpful. I take a walk down to one of my classes.

                The Wheel in the sky burns bright. There ain’t any cloud out beyond the blue sky. I start to forget about walking to class and decide to head out to the highway. I start to walk back up to my camp where my steel horse awaits, my dark charcoal colored steel horse...