Everyone around me thinks that I'm going crazy. Maybe, Maybe. :D
Short and sweet update (I think):
My sister has decided she's moving out to Cali in a few months after she graduates. That's pretty cool, I guess. I just hope she's not going out there just because David got the job offer and she'll follow him like a lost puppy...but I'm not sure. She seems like she's ready for a change, anyway. Hopfully this is the right one.
My brother (while we're talking family, here) is still successfully living on his own as far as I know. I think I've seen him twice since she got booted from school and moved out. Maybe this time will be better for him. Let's hope so.
Dad, Scott, and Brian are all doing fine from what I hear. Scott comes over more often now for whatever reason. but I'm not complaining...I sorta like having the family come over and visit. Danielle started her first year of Home schooling (by her mother, god help her) and Tom started the 5th grade. He told me last time we went to the movies that he had a big crush on this girl Caitlin and he bought her a gold necklace for valentines day last year. CUTE!
I'm doing fine, myself. All the employees from the bakeshop on all the shifts got together last night for a "team building exercise" aka a drinking social. The exec pastry chef was there, the two exec chefs of restaurants & banquets were there, the director of food & beverage was there...plus all the crew. Roughly 20 people? It was all right. It got better once we all went to Blue Martini and danced. It was really wierd seeing everyone out of uniform and in regular clothes. I don't think a single person recognized me when I walked in the door. Haha, figures.
I've hit sort of a stand-still with saving money lately. They are cutting down on OT at work (which is where the bulk of my money comes from, obviously) so now I'm getting like 420 DD a week instead of like 550. :/ But I'm not complaining...it's just that I've had to pay for the dentist visit (200 :(), car work, and random one time shit this month. So my savings hasn't gone up much. :( I'm trying though, I really am. It didn't help that I was out of work for 4 days either while I was super sick with no paid sick days.
Getting there, though. I'm saving for the Wyoming trip next summer for my first paid vacation! I have big plans for it...there's a unch of places I want to see in that part of the country. Speaking of travelling, I've finally gotten myself a large-scale map, laminated so i can marker on it, to hang on my wall of the US and the world. My plan is to pin point on the US map first which sites I want to see and where I want to go. In another color I'm going to chart where I've been. :) It's something I've wanted to do for a long time, just so I have an organized plan and visual thing so I can actually make this travelling business a reality (instead of just day dreaming about it all day). I've also bought some books of natural "wonders" in the US, the world, and some other specialty books. I bought one about Florida so I can start with weekend trips while it's slow in the summer. Eric and I have already been camping a few times, down to Coral Gables to see some farmland, the everglades to canoe, and some parks to explore. We want to keep it relatively cheap so we can keep saving. That's what has kept us from going to the keys or something for a weekend. Pretty soon though. The Breakers gives us a few serious discounts with some nice hotels in the keys, so we've been talking about doing that. Or we might just camp again. We'll see.
Sometimes it feels like everyone is travelling except for me, though. And I get nervous and restless. I don't know how I'm going to anchor myself in West Palm for the next two years while I'm at the Breakers, but hopefully some incentive comes up so I can do so with a little more ease. Right now it's like I'm a hampster on a wheel getting aggravated that it's not going any place. IDK. My BFF Jill?
Jess moved away to college, Nicole is in NYC for college, Sam is moving, Kim is going to RI, my old roommates are in Miami, but they never come up to visit and I never hav the time to go down and visit them. Sometimes it just feels like I'm running in place, yanno? But if I think about it too much I go a little crazy. And no one likes crazy. So I just bury myself in travellers books and dog ear which places I'm going to see and when I could do it.
I have a funny feeling that I'm going to move out of state, too. After I'm done with school and I'm ready to move in from the Breakers and such. All I know is that living in Michigan for four months was one of the best experiences of my life, so I can't even imagine what being able to stay in a whole new region of the country would be like. I'll probably move to the northeast. Maybe New Hampshire. :)
But that's a long ways away I suppose. Who knows.
That's all, I guess. Sometimes I wish I had a crystal ball.
My sister has decided she's moving out to Cali in a few months after she graduates. That's pretty cool, I guess. I just hope she's not going out there just because David got the job offer and she'll follow him like a lost puppy...but I'm not sure. She seems like she's ready for a change, anyway. Hopfully this is the right one.
My brother (while we're talking family, here) is still successfully living on his own as far as I know. I think I've seen him twice since she got booted from school and moved out. Maybe this time will be better for him. Let's hope so.
Dad, Scott, and Brian are all doing fine from what I hear. Scott comes over more often now for whatever reason. but I'm not complaining...I sorta like having the family come over and visit. Danielle started her first year of Home schooling (by her mother, god help her) and Tom started the 5th grade. He told me last time we went to the movies that he had a big crush on this girl Caitlin and he bought her a gold necklace for valentines day last year. CUTE!
I'm doing fine, myself. All the employees from the bakeshop on all the shifts got together last night for a "team building exercise" aka a drinking social. The exec pastry chef was there, the two exec chefs of restaurants & banquets were there, the director of food & beverage was there...plus all the crew. Roughly 20 people? It was all right. It got better once we all went to Blue Martini and danced. It was really wierd seeing everyone out of uniform and in regular clothes. I don't think a single person recognized me when I walked in the door. Haha, figures.
I've hit sort of a stand-still with saving money lately. They are cutting down on OT at work (which is where the bulk of my money comes from, obviously) so now I'm getting like 420 DD a week instead of like 550. :/ But I'm not complaining...it's just that I've had to pay for the dentist visit (200 :(), car work, and random one time shit this month. So my savings hasn't gone up much. :( I'm trying though, I really am. It didn't help that I was out of work for 4 days either while I was super sick with no paid sick days.
Getting there, though. I'm saving for the Wyoming trip next summer for my first paid vacation! I have big plans for it...there's a unch of places I want to see in that part of the country. Speaking of travelling, I've finally gotten myself a large-scale map, laminated so i can marker on it, to hang on my wall of the US and the world. My plan is to pin point on the US map first which sites I want to see and where I want to go. In another color I'm going to chart where I've been. :) It's something I've wanted to do for a long time, just so I have an organized plan and visual thing so I can actually make this travelling business a reality (instead of just day dreaming about it all day). I've also bought some books of natural "wonders" in the US, the world, and some other specialty books. I bought one about Florida so I can start with weekend trips while it's slow in the summer. Eric and I have already been camping a few times, down to Coral Gables to see some farmland, the everglades to canoe, and some parks to explore. We want to keep it relatively cheap so we can keep saving. That's what has kept us from going to the keys or something for a weekend. Pretty soon though. The Breakers gives us a few serious discounts with some nice hotels in the keys, so we've been talking about doing that. Or we might just camp again. We'll see.
Sometimes it feels like everyone is travelling except for me, though. And I get nervous and restless. I don't know how I'm going to anchor myself in West Palm for the next two years while I'm at the Breakers, but hopefully some incentive comes up so I can do so with a little more ease. Right now it's like I'm a hampster on a wheel getting aggravated that it's not going any place. IDK. My BFF Jill?
Jess moved away to college, Nicole is in NYC for college, Sam is moving, Kim is going to RI, my old roommates are in Miami, but they never come up to visit and I never hav the time to go down and visit them. Sometimes it just feels like I'm running in place, yanno? But if I think about it too much I go a little crazy. And no one likes crazy. So I just bury myself in travellers books and dog ear which places I'm going to see and when I could do it.
I have a funny feeling that I'm going to move out of state, too. After I'm done with school and I'm ready to move in from the Breakers and such. All I know is that living in Michigan for four months was one of the best experiences of my life, so I can't even imagine what being able to stay in a whole new region of the country would be like. I'll probably move to the northeast. Maybe New Hampshire. :)
But that's a long ways away I suppose. Who knows.
That's all, I guess. Sometimes I wish I had a crystal ball.