New and Exciting!!!

Heeyyyyy!!!


Would you look at that, this little blog-y has 2 new followers, well only 2 followers at all. But I'm so excited that they are my best friends at school! They are the sweetest those two!!! 


One of them, her name is Steph, just wrote me a letter which I received today!!! So exciting for this super yucky day outside!!! I absolutely adore getting letters especially from her, because, as with my mind, it jumps from anything and everything to something!!! It makes me so happy to have a wonderful friend like her!!!


As for my other bestie, Laura... Partial bit of our conversation from last night..."If I ever treat my kids badly, you have every right to come over to my house and send me to the loony bin!" Yes, I love her for these comments, because I know that she means it, and will do the same for me too!! :)


Onto other exciting-ness...so now that my class is over, I am finally divulging this huge need of mine. You wonder what this said need would be??? I need to read, all the time. I'm not talking textbooks, love them EWWWW no, I'm talking sink your teeth in, don't stop reading until the wee hours of the night books. So I'm aiming to read 18 books this summer. Yes, you read that correctly, hopefully 18 books will be read in the next 2 months of summer vacation. Is this a little absurd, absolutely. But not, because over Christmas break, which was 28 days, I was able to read 9. So 18 in 2 months, or what used to be 3 before the class ate up half the time, should be no problem!!! So I have now started with the Harry Potter series all over again, I have successfully made it through Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and am almost done with the Chamber of Secrets. So 2 done in 1 week, this could work, since it's crazy enough...


But then again, my schedule next week has me working about 64 hours.....so. it might not be possible to read a lot....we will have to see. 


until next time,
M

Those days...

Here was my post for a couple days ago....as you can tell I forgot to post it. That's what happens when my computer dies at work. sad. but here it is. I will be back tomorrow, hopefully with a much 

You know those days when you just know, have that gut feeling that life is just going to suck for the day??? Driving into work, all I could think about was the fact that today at work was going to suck. I have one of those dumb summer colds that just knocks everything out of you. Life is supposed to be good in the summer, not killing you slowly from the inside out….

Anyways….morning started easily getting ready and feeling like I could take on the day….and then I was stuck driving behind a long line of cars going 25 mph, in a 50 mph zone!!!! Let’s talk about it being excruciating pain for this one, who just so happens to have a pretty good lead foot on her. It was painful to say the least. I get to work and do all of my paperwork which just so happens to only take me 15 minutes rather than the usual 20 minutes (bonus for the day! J), but then comes the rain…..mind you, when working on an air field, with small aircraft, giving tours of a national park, people don’t like rain….they get cranky, and expect you to fix it….yes, just so happens I rescheduled their flight, per their request, and my boss gets mad. Who knew that customers would want to fly in the rain??? I sure didn’t! bah. So the boss is mad, I feel like s***, and there is nobody here. Yay. It’s going to be an absolutely fantastic day!!!

Rant over.

Here is to hoping that your day is far better than mine! 

Class

So I know that it has been forever since I have posted, and that would be due to a little May Term class called Christian Theology that I have been taking. Because I am an education major, with a double in Psychology, it makes it difficult to fit all of the required classes into 4 years...meaning...I have had to take summer courses.

So this whole Christian Theology thing, I go to a Christian college on the North Shore of Massachusetts, and they want all of their students to be "well-rounded"... Of course, I have always thought that this was a crock....little did I know, how much this class would change me. Everyone hates the "common core" classes, because it feels like high school all over again. This class was so different, and made you think in critical ways. It wasn't a high school class, because I didn't just spit back information, I had to think about and formulate my own opinions.

Last week I spent most of my time studying for the final, and writing my last paper, both of which I got decent grades on. But the most important thing, other than the grade, was the fact that I enjoyed what I was learning, and did in fact take information away from this experience.

That's a little bit of rambling....but I wanted to explain why I have been AWOL for so long....

Back tomorrow for a recap of the wedding I went to this weekend! Here's a picture of the ecstatic bride and groom!!!

Weekend Re-Cap....WHAT???

Somehow, I think there was a weekend mixed in with everything that I did....

Saturday

• worked 
• ran all around town to pick up my parents friend
• talked on the phone with my bestie for over an hour
• went out with another bestie
• got attacked by a Colombian man...NOT FUN!!!

Sunday

• out to breakfast with the fam
• grocery shopping
• cut wood
• biked 5.5 miles
• went swimming...kinda...it was cold OKAY?!?!?!
• cooked dinner
• "tried" to do homework, while watching Indiana Jones

I don't know about you, but that was a lot to squeeze into 48 hours...and now it is Monday....(side note: can we put a moratorium on using that word....it's almost, practically, kinda, could be a curse word...especially around these here parts). 

But now I am off to work again, to keep the office running....oh the joys of being the only woman to ever enter those hallowed halls :) 

Have a great starting day to your week!!!! (See what I did there??? Not using that awful word!!!)

Bop-It. T-Shirts. Fog. Airplanes. Flowers.

I have the best job in the world. I get to hang out all day on an airfield. Now that would sound pretty boring, especially on a rainy, cold, foggy day, when we couldn't fly a flight all morning. Yes, it does sound rather boring. But when 15 minutes comes along and 5 grown men are all fighting about playing bop-it, who gets to water the flowers, who can out arm wrestle another, one would be reminded that it is just time to have some fun! These are the days that I love my job!!! The free plane rides don't hurt either...

On other notes....today I received a wonderful package from my dear, sweet friend, Steph. Granted, the book was for a class, so that wasn't all that fun, but her letter was the best!!! It makes me miss the days of Starbucks runs during the 20 minutes between classes, and the music blasting in her car!!!! Those are the days that I can't wait to return to!!! 

book, letter, and a neato burrito craft!!!

---please excuse the blurriness, I now realize that my brother touched my lens last night....off to go try and clean it off....whoops!

Well that little munchkin...

That little munchkin would be my little brother, who isn't so little anymore. He is 6 years old and finishing Kindergarten next week! I can't believe he is getting so big. We have been through so much in the past 6, almost 7 years. 

He was born when I entered my freshman year of high school, talk about getting looks from people like I was applying to be on "16 and Pregnant". He grew up with my high school sweetheart, expecting him to be in my life together. Then we had a huge transition to go through when I went to college, and a huge transition every summer. 

He has been the most adorable kid I have ever met, and as much as I want to punch him in the face on some days, I wouldn't trade him for the world!!! He is my bubby, my munchkin!!!

Reasons

I thought it would be pertinent to write about why this blog is named as such. So here goes on the best explanation I could possibly try and sum up in one post. 


The future. The single word that comes into my mind is "Scary". As I have grown up and gone off to college 500 miles away from home, I have realized how self-sufficient I have become. I don't think it's just a me thing, but the future just scares me, having the weight of the world on my shoulders. I have always prided myself on the ability to be self-sufficient, but that is because I have always had an idea of what I need to do. School tends to give you that type of structure. I think the biggest thing now, is not knowing, or having a plan after I graduate. I have a vague idea of what I'm going to do, only because it is my major, but I don't know where I will be teaching, if I will be teaching, how I might be making money to live on. All of these things are important things to figure out. 

Jesus Calming the Storm

I know that I have a Great God above me who will take care of all of my needs, because He has done so well in the past! I have had so many plans, plans to marry, plans for grad school, heck even plans on when I'm going for coffee, that have been changed for other reasons. My latest plan was for grad school, and that has been changed because of a wonderful trip to the Dominican Republic. I taught a few people English there and fell so in love with the teaching aspect again, and have since veered off the path to grad school and focused more on my teaching abilities. 


But what does all of this mean? Am I really going to be a teacher? Where am I going to teach? What am I going to be teaching? Will I be in the Dominican, back in Maine, around school? So many questions, so many leaps of faith to take as I move through this final year at school. 


Tough stuff? Deep Stuff? Well, that's why this blog is here! So just in case I start losing my mind from worry, I can take some time to relax in the blog world. This journey will be filled with plenty of laughter, smiles and all together just a good time. 


I'll leave you with some of the wonderful photos from the trip to the Dominican :)

The boys love basketball!

The construction workers at the work site

A fair trade chocolate co-op

Well, this would be the first blog post ever. Other than having made a blog for an education class, I have never written a blog post. Crazy things happen when you start to grow up and remember that your memory just isn't as good as it used to be. 

This will be a wonderful place to keep memories, and keep myself sane as I toil through senior year of college on the North Shore of Massachusetts, and walk off into the big world. There shall be lots of memories this summer and school year. So many new adventures to be taking with some of my best friends, as well as so much learning. I look forward to sharing these as the days come. 

And because I have been taught that every post needs a picture....here is a picture of me and two of the most wonderful people in the world. I look forward to many more pictures and adventures with them!

And with that, let the memories begin...