Here's to Another Good Year

Here's to another year in this wonderful world! 

2012 was a year of immense learning and growing as a women and as a leader. It was also one of great heartache and great joy.  This is definitely not a year I am going to forget anytime soon and I look forward to what the next year will bring.

This is 2012 for Grace in pictures.

January:

 Welcomed some wonderful women into our sisterhood.
  

My Alphie became a hit sensation!
  

February:

Attended DLC in our own District V and got to know some
 great women from Alpha Gamma Chapter at Mizzou!

Also, this little baby kitten joined my life.

March:

Initiated my first group of women as President
(sorry no photo) and volunteered with our new Deltas at
Ronald McDonald House in Kansas City

April:

Gamma Nu Chapter hosted RMH week and Change a Child's Life.

Also, I got to sing on stage with Graham Colton!  Best April ever!

May:

Attended Black Diamond with my lovely sisters!

Then I got to see some pretty great women graduate.

June:

Celebrated a great 21st birthday.

And I started Human Physiology as my summer course which was my favorite class yet!

July:

July: Marked another off my bucket list.
Read about it here: Glow Run 5k

Most importantly, I attended Leadership Seminar on behalf of my chapter.

I met and was able to dine with a wonderful past 

International Grand Council President: Mrs. Goddard!
A very humbling experience.

August:

 Had to say goodbye to Miss Wall as she
headed off to her adventure in the cold North.

Served on the greatest Orientation Team ever.

September:

Planned and implemented the Gala Silent Auction for the
Harriman-Jewell Series with the help of these wonderful women.

In the same week I also served on Homecoming Court for William Jewell.

October:

Attended Mallard Ball with this man and celebrated our 2 and a half year!

Then Celebrated Halloween with ice cream and my dear friend AuBree.

November:

Gamma Nu Chapter hosted RMH week with a
Powderpuff Tournament and Pop Tab Poker.

FINALLY got to meet my dear Long Distance Diamond Sister (second from the left) and spent some time with my dear friend, Taylor, who moved to Wyoming.
Oh, and not mention my favorite Mr. Graham Colton!

Ended the month of November with Lighting of the Quad, my favorite tradition!

December:

 LOVE Christmas and this large Santa in Semple Hall!

Ended the year with a bang by a trip to Florida for Christmas!

The year of 2012 was a great year but I believe 2013 will be even greater!

You live and you learn

A week or so ago at my internship I finished with about 80+ letters to be sent to all different companies and organizations.  I had been able to copy and paste the letter and change only a couple of the words to fit the organization.  Unfortunately, I could not really do this for all of the addresses that needed to go at the top of the letters so I entered 80+ addresses manual (not an exaggeration either) for a good 10 hours (again not an exaggeration).  After this was finished and the margins were all perfected and the letters were finally printed, I showed them to people in the office because I was clearly very proud of all of my hard work and time invested.  

Logically, the next step would be to print envelops for all of the letters but I was unsure how to go about this portion.  I asked for help on how to print on envelops and it was in that moment I learned about the greatness of a mail merger. 

We created a new document for the mail merger in about 5 minutes and merged the envelopes with this document in less time.  The 10 hours I had spent on the before mentioned letters would have taken about 30 minutes (tops) to do with this new little trick I learned. 

At the time I only felt silly for not knowing about something so simple but then my boss told me a story about her time as an intern.  She was asked to make 50 copies of a packet with about 50 pages in it, so she went to the copy machine and placed the first paper in and made 50 copies.  She then did this for the rest of the packet and started putting the packets together like we did in elementary school: one by one.  Her boss came along and taught her how to collate in a rather harsh manner and that day she too learned a lesson. 

I have learned and will have that skill set for the future.  Now it just makes a funny story when people ask me what I do at my internship!

Found this note my father wrote and at the bottom it says
"If it doesn't challenge you.  It will never change you."  #lovethatquote

Email can be tricky sometimes... all the time

Internship for the summer- CHECK!


As of this past week I am the official Gala intern for the Harriman-Jewell Series for this summer until the Gala occurs in late September.  This has been a position that I have always looked up to and desired but never really thought was attainable.  


Well now that's going to be my life for a little while... Here we go!


For a little more information about my favorite job ever (we have a rockin' season next year):


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