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I’m still figuring all this out (so sue me)

Jody Alarva4 Comments

confused I have not told everyone I know to visit this blog yet. I am still at the stage where I’m figuring things out, and until I have, I will not be linkbuilding, ym-statusing, or anything. Of course I want to debut this blog at its finest and that includes full design and descriptions. And as i am a newbie at this, it’s taking a bit more time to fully comprehend.

As is my new job. I’m a little lost and I’m still finding my way, but I’m love it. I love the excitement of learning new things and the idea that I’m going to be more involved in the inner workings of the office just thrills me. Call me a geek but that’s just how I am. I was like a giddy little nerd nodding away at the things I now needed to absorb. Not that I’m dissing my former job. I loved being an Internet Marketing Specialist (AKA IMS), but this is something I’ve been quite fascinated with for a while and I hope to someday be as able to answer as much questions as Sarah my teammate did earlier today, in the meeting where I was nodding my head not really understanding what was happening around me.

Tucked away in “exile island” I never really noticed how interactive people at the office were. IMS kind of works by itself, we get our work from our team leads who get it from the Search Engine Optimization (aka SEO) team, but everyone else, from the Design team, to the Copywriting team all kind of mush together and coordinate every so often in a week that they’re sort of one collage of a team. I’m kinda sad that the IMS team didn’t work with other teams more often, but why would they need to? They’re kind of self-sufficient and aren’t really dependent on other teams to do their work.

Guess that’s just how things work.

Yes I miss being in the thick of the gaggle that is the IMS team. I was in the middle of the testosterone charged everyday conversation, due to the geographical location of my workstation. It was silly it was weird it was sometimes demeaning but I loved it. Now I have to walk all the way to the other side of the room to hear it, but it’s worth it to get the laughs I get. Even if sometimes it’s at my expense.

And i do realize so far all i’ve posted about is me me me. But until I get all this figured out, I won’t be sharing my usual food reviews, movie reviews, and rantings and ravings about anything.

Thanks

So what’s new?

Jody Alarva6 Comments

hello!
I’m turning over a new leaf.

I have a new job. From a yearlong stint as an Internet Marketing Specialist I find myself facing a whole different terrain. I am now a User Experience Specialist (in training). This is definitely something that’s making me way excited but also ants in my pants nervous at the same time. I still work in the same office, but in a different team, a different workstation.

New lifestyle too. Or at least trying to. In tune with my doctor’s orders, I’m going to start working out. I was told to get back to my usual weight just so she can rule out a few things. I definitely won’t be dieting or anything like that, but I’m gonna move more.

This way I can justify all the food trips I’m gonna go on the near future. I already have a script going on, “I’m not trying to lose weight, I’m doing this for my health. ” Or “Do i look like I can go on a diet?” Or “If you were my friend you’d go get ice cream with me.” (Wait that’s a different script entirely)

Basically it’s still the same old me with a few different upgrades.

I have Ms. Pink SEO to thank for this domain. Even if I did abandon her when I changed jobs, (Haha I kid I kid) she took me under her wing and hosted this blog. I am extremely grateful and hope to live up to the hype.

After 5 years of blogging you’d think I’d know what to do by now, but this is the domain that’s mine all mine and I’m going nuts (happy nuts but still) with all the options. Bear with me on all the changes that gonna come in later when I figure all this out.

Why jodyalarva.com? I figure my food blog became more of a smattering of topics under the sun, I don’t think i can keep up a food blog for long. So this is gonna be a blog about anything and everything I come in contact with. It’ll be your choice of whether I really think or not. Coz in my case, it’s usually the latter. Especially when it comes to certain four letter words… Life. Love. Food. It’s do first, bang your head into the wall for doing that in the heat of the moment later.

So welcome!