A hard few days.

Being an adult is hard.

Let me rephrase that-- being a 22 year old woman in the workplace is extremely hard.

The reason I haven't blogged in so long is because I've been having a tough time at work.  Nothing too terrible, but issues with people respecting me-- people having trouble following my lead-- these are issues that have been plaguing me for the past few days.

I typed out two specific events in the past few days that have especially bothered me, but who knows who reads this blog? I ended up deleting the paragraphs, as you can see. There's always an issue with being public with your feelings and I constantly feel like I'm having to censor myself on my own blog.

Anyway, just in case, I'll leave the instances out.

But it's hard, really hard, to feel like even after a year in a workplace, no one listens to or respects you.  I blame my age, I try to assert myself, but what else can I do?

#frustrated.

Working in radio has its benefits!

Like, for example, the fact that I get exposed to new bands before they're really anything.

I'm really lucky to be included in things like music meetings since, even though I'm not on air unless I'm covering for someone who's out, I'm still in the demographic for most of the radio stations.  Which means...oh, yeah....I get some good shit thrown my way.

I wanted to cover some of my favorite stuff in this blog because lately we have gotten some amazing stuff on the air.  Keep in mind, I work for four different genres of stations: alternative, country, pop, and variety (80s, 90s, and today).  There's gonna be some variety, all right.

Personally, I lean towards alt music, but I definitely have to be able to listen to all of our genres in this industry.  Honestly, it's not that hard-- there's good stuff everywhere.

SOOOO....without further ado, here are my favorites of the week/month.

Finish Ticket: Color

I don't think we're playing this on air yet, but I know it's a band we're keeping our eye on.  They're amazing, and honestly, the lead singer is my yuppie dream.  Shelby, our afternoon DJ, sent this to me this morning, so I can't take any credit for finding these guys.


Robert DeLong: Jealousy

We are definitely playing this, I can tell you that much.  It's so catchy.  It's so FREAKING CATCHY.


Joywave: Destruction

God, I love weird-ass musicians.  This music video is awesome, and the song is quite badass...who knew whistling could work so well in a song?

Maren Morris: My Church

Because ladies are KILLING IT in country music right now and I had to share this song that I belt in the car on my way home from work.


Brothers Osborne: 21 Summer

I have been in love with TJ Osborne ever since I met him at a radio event and he asked me if I was 'hanging out later'.  It's the most arrogant story I have and I use it....too much.  But I love him, and I wish I had been hanging out rather than going to Voodoo Donuts because I was hungry.  This song is amazing and makes your shoulders shake and I love it.

That's all for right now...I'm so lucky to work in this industry and I love the situations it provides.  Let's cheers to more opportunities to get hit on by The Brothers Osborne!!

Hidden Pictures in My Office Computer

I've had a very exciting few days.

First of all, the guy that lives in my apartment now sent me pictures of the living room so that I can start planning furniture.  IT'S JUST HOW I REMEMBER IT.  MAYBE CUTER.

Second of all....well, this part's not very exciting.

I was rifling through my stuff that I saved on my office computer and actually found quite a few interesting things.  This is funny considering that I've now been at this specific job for almost exactly a year, and I've been working in this building for a little bit longer than that.  Over that year, I've saved some pretty weird stuff.

Yeah.  That one's very relevant...

This whole slew of pictures actually super represents my time at Townsquare Media so far, so I wanted to share them all.  LET'S GO!

This was my first-ever Greeley Stampede, where I took pictures on top of an RV to get the best shot.  I'll do anything for the perfect shot....

Here's one of my Halloween costumes from last year.  Can you guess?

We wanted to support the Broncos at the Super Bowl with a fun group shot this year, and Susan (who took the picture) loved the fact that the big ice block looked like the mountain range.

A group shot at my first-ever awards show, the CBAs, a few weeks ago.  I'm clearly having a ball (or had too much wine?).  There's also a better shot of my dress down below.

Here's one we took today-- and they almost didn't let me be in it since I'm normally behind the camera.  Hey, my hair looked good and I wore my Ireland t-shirt-- I want in!!

And then, you know.  There's this.

Happy almost one year, me!