number 13
the 13th sign of summer...i get way more ambitious...well i've fingured out what my impossible goal is for the summer...except it's not as impossible as past ambitions. so this scholarship i found in my guidance office has expired...4 months ago..basterds! getting me all excited for nothing. but while it may be too late for that particular scholarship there has to be some other way to get flight lessons...even if i have to foot the bill..ouch!...can you say there goes my hope for fixing up my pick up truck?! but i look at it like this...i've got other cars i can drive for summer so fixing my own would be nice but why should i pass an opportunity like this. so since my job doesnt start til June i have time now to get part time work to cover some expenses i have now and to save for this huge bill i may have to pay. today i am going to do something i NEVER wanted to do...i'm going to try to get a job at a grocery store..in brunswick...part time...ahhh! its like working fast food..it's another job i never wanted. but i figure i can work a lot since it's only 10 minutes from my house...and i can get there every evening. if i save most of it i could cover some of my flight lessons..i would hope as a birthday present my folks would fork up the other half. my summer job is good to go...i'll be making so much money that it's not even going to be funny. an hours wage will be anywhere between 10-15 bucks an hour..and its full time. it's just getting license to fly takes awhile to get so i'd like to start as soon as possible...i'm even going to try to see if they are still looking thru applications for this scholarship..they prolly wont except mine late..and why should they..but i figure it's worth a try..anything.
Last night i sat down and talked to my mom about all of this and how badly i want to do this...she's really supportive..and she knows i'd do it regardless i'd just have to wait longer...the only thing i was worried about was my dad..seeing as how he's so protective of me and hardly ever lets me do anything i want...he doesnt even like me dating! i was almost willing to bet my life that i would hear a long lecture when i told him what i wanted...but he just sat there for a few minutes..he didnt say anything..i thought he didnt hear me..i was about to say it again..and then i heard him breath in..and i was like oh great here comes the lecture of how unsafe this is...but i was completely wrong..he said i should do it if i really wanted to..and that he was going to support my choice. later i asked my mom why he didnt do what i had expected him to do and she told me that before he got drafted into Vietnam he wanted to study aeronautics and work with planes and such. i never knew that. heck it woulda saved me a lot of worrying if someone had told me that. so now i'm getting really excited! geez they flip out when i ask for a peircing but if i want to fly they're like oh ok. hum. they dont make any sense.
anyway, i really hope this works out. the only way it wouldnt is if i dont apply myself..this is one of those projects where the only person you can blame for now following thru is yourself. but i figure i want this bad enough that i'll stick with it. i wonder what i could do with airplanes...there is the air force..which has always been a thought in the back of my head...but if i didnt want something so 'dangerous' what else is there?
Last night i sat down and talked to my mom about all of this and how badly i want to do this...she's really supportive..and she knows i'd do it regardless i'd just have to wait longer...the only thing i was worried about was my dad..seeing as how he's so protective of me and hardly ever lets me do anything i want...he doesnt even like me dating! i was almost willing to bet my life that i would hear a long lecture when i told him what i wanted...but he just sat there for a few minutes..he didnt say anything..i thought he didnt hear me..i was about to say it again..and then i heard him breath in..and i was like oh great here comes the lecture of how unsafe this is...but i was completely wrong..he said i should do it if i really wanted to..and that he was going to support my choice. later i asked my mom why he didnt do what i had expected him to do and she told me that before he got drafted into Vietnam he wanted to study aeronautics and work with planes and such. i never knew that. heck it woulda saved me a lot of worrying if someone had told me that. so now i'm getting really excited! geez they flip out when i ask for a peircing but if i want to fly they're like oh ok. hum. they dont make any sense.
anyway, i really hope this works out. the only way it wouldnt is if i dont apply myself..this is one of those projects where the only person you can blame for now following thru is yourself. but i figure i want this bad enough that i'll stick with it. i wonder what i could do with airplanes...there is the air force..which has always been a thought in the back of my head...but if i didnt want something so 'dangerous' what else is there?