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I never update my LiveJournal anymore and it saddens me. It's not like I've got much else to do. Basically, I've been spending the past two weeks relaxing and hanging out with my friends and my brother (who's going back to Flagstaff this weekend to work all summer). My room looks a little tidier than when I first came home, but not by much. My pool is seriously the perfect temperature. I love that. It gets way too soupy near the end of the summer.
Everywhere I go, I see "Now Hiring" signs. When I first came home, I told my dad that I wanted to get a job and he got all weird about it and kept telling me, "I've got plenty of stuff for you to do around the house for me this summer." In other words, I wasn't allowed to get a job. I guess that's okay. One of the main reasons that I wanted to get a job was the huge weight of guilt I felt for costing my parents so much money. I suppose everyone has an unpayable (Word?) debt with their parents, but I figured that it was about time I started helping my parents out. It freaks me out that, when I graduate from college, I'm going to have debt up to my ears from student loans. <-- Okay, random tangent there.
This is what my parents want me to do this summer:
- Scrape, sand, and repaint a deck chair
- Pick all of the grapefruits off of our tree
- Repaint the trunk of the tree (so that it doesn't get sunburned)
- Take care of the pool
- Repair a crack on the garage floor and paint it with some sort of protective coat
- Repaint the upstairs bathroom
- Stain the cabinets in the downstairs bathrooms and the kitchen
- Paint the chimney (at least 20 feet tall)
- Help my mom organize and purge the upstairs closets
Now if that doesn't give me something to do, I don't know what will. I definitely won't be bored. Originally, my dad was going to pay me by the hour for my labor (he was asking me how much my friends make at work). Then I was going to save that money for either study abroad or helping to pay off my student loans. I don't know what the point of it all would be though. The point of me getting a real job was that I would have an income from somewhere else so that I could help my parents. If I'm still getting the money from my dad, then I'm not really making any money because all of my money pretty much comes from my parents in the first place. So I figure I'll just get a job at the school bookstore or something during the year (I didn't get the tutoring job that I signed up for...). Hopefully I won't die. I don't think that I will. The 16 units that I'll have won't be too bad, barely and science and no math. I'll be used to my clubs by next year, so I'll know how to fit them into my schedule.
That "originally" up there is bugging you, isn't it? It probably isn't, actually. Stuff like that usually only bugs me. Well, it served a purpose before I went off on a random tangent. My dad's not going to pay me for working around the house anymore. In exchange, he's going to let me go to Mazatlàn, Mexico again on a mission trip with my church. It was a really impromptu decision. Last Sunday at church, my pastor mentioned the idea of me going (I had gone twice before, so I knew the ropes pretty well), and I sort of backed out of the idea because of all the work that my dad wanted me to do and the money that I wanted for study abroad, etc. Well, throughout the sermon (which had nothing to do with missions), I was thinking about the past two summers in Mazatlàn and the amazing time that I had. It was seriously the most eye-opening experience of my life. I can wait a year or two for study abroad, it's a big decision, and my parents think so as well. It's selfish of me to think that I'm entitled to it anyway. If it happens, it happens, and if not, then I've got my whole life ahead of me to travel. So the first week of July, I'll be in Mazatlàn serving however I can. I've just got to pray that my passport comes in time. There shouldn't be a problem, unless something crazy happens. I mailed it on Wednesday and it takes 20 business days, which is about a month, so I hope that everything works out.
Both of my favorite shows had season finales this week. No more American Idol, no more House. I only have to wait 'til September for House (and I think I can buy the Season 2 DVD then too), but I have to wait a whole semester for American Idol. Woe is me! Whatever will I occupy myself with? I've been watching a lot of ER reruns lately (and the new ones) and I've got to say, I love that show. They've gotten a lot of famous actors now that the old cast trickled off. John Leguizamo (Sp?) is not as good as a crappy doctor, I like him better as Luigi.
Tonight I'm going to see X3 with Daryl and my parents. That should be lots o' fun. So I guess I better go figure out how to make my dinner. I'm having Hawaiian chicken stir-fry (a.k.a. yummy). I've made a commitment to eat healthier this summer. Hopefully it pays off an I can go back to school looking like a new person (or at least just looking better). We'll see what happens. It's surprisingly not that difficult. The only thing that's holding me back is knowing that I've got a ton of friends who don't need to care about what they eat. *Sigh* Such good-looking people, my friends. My other summer goal is to read more. I finally used my Barnes & Noble giftcard today and bought two books: The Picture of Dorian Grey and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. I was going to get The Mists of Avalon, set in the times of King Arthur, but it was few thousand pages and quite pricey. On top of those, I plan to read Catch 22 and The Da Vinci Code (finally). If anyone has any other book ideas, I'd be happy to hear them. But no romance or westerns, please--I don't really like them.
I hope that everyone's summer is going well. Leave me comments! :)
Everywhere I go, I see "Now Hiring" signs. When I first came home, I told my dad that I wanted to get a job and he got all weird about it and kept telling me, "I've got plenty of stuff for you to do around the house for me this summer." In other words, I wasn't allowed to get a job. I guess that's okay. One of the main reasons that I wanted to get a job was the huge weight of guilt I felt for costing my parents so much money. I suppose everyone has an unpayable (Word?) debt with their parents, but I figured that it was about time I started helping my parents out. It freaks me out that, when I graduate from college, I'm going to have debt up to my ears from student loans. <-- Okay, random tangent there.
This is what my parents want me to do this summer:
- Scrape, sand, and repaint a deck chair
- Pick all of the grapefruits off of our tree
- Repaint the trunk of the tree (so that it doesn't get sunburned)
- Take care of the pool
- Repair a crack on the garage floor and paint it with some sort of protective coat
- Repaint the upstairs bathroom
- Stain the cabinets in the downstairs bathrooms and the kitchen
- Paint the chimney (at least 20 feet tall)
- Help my mom organize and purge the upstairs closets
Now if that doesn't give me something to do, I don't know what will. I definitely won't be bored. Originally, my dad was going to pay me by the hour for my labor (he was asking me how much my friends make at work). Then I was going to save that money for either study abroad or helping to pay off my student loans. I don't know what the point of it all would be though. The point of me getting a real job was that I would have an income from somewhere else so that I could help my parents. If I'm still getting the money from my dad, then I'm not really making any money because all of my money pretty much comes from my parents in the first place. So I figure I'll just get a job at the school bookstore or something during the year (I didn't get the tutoring job that I signed up for...). Hopefully I won't die. I don't think that I will. The 16 units that I'll have won't be too bad, barely and science and no math. I'll be used to my clubs by next year, so I'll know how to fit them into my schedule.
That "originally" up there is bugging you, isn't it? It probably isn't, actually. Stuff like that usually only bugs me. Well, it served a purpose before I went off on a random tangent. My dad's not going to pay me for working around the house anymore. In exchange, he's going to let me go to Mazatlàn, Mexico again on a mission trip with my church. It was a really impromptu decision. Last Sunday at church, my pastor mentioned the idea of me going (I had gone twice before, so I knew the ropes pretty well), and I sort of backed out of the idea because of all the work that my dad wanted me to do and the money that I wanted for study abroad, etc. Well, throughout the sermon (which had nothing to do with missions), I was thinking about the past two summers in Mazatlàn and the amazing time that I had. It was seriously the most eye-opening experience of my life. I can wait a year or two for study abroad, it's a big decision, and my parents think so as well. It's selfish of me to think that I'm entitled to it anyway. If it happens, it happens, and if not, then I've got my whole life ahead of me to travel. So the first week of July, I'll be in Mazatlàn serving however I can. I've just got to pray that my passport comes in time. There shouldn't be a problem, unless something crazy happens. I mailed it on Wednesday and it takes 20 business days, which is about a month, so I hope that everything works out.
Both of my favorite shows had season finales this week. No more American Idol, no more House. I only have to wait 'til September for House (and I think I can buy the Season 2 DVD then too), but I have to wait a whole semester for American Idol. Woe is me! Whatever will I occupy myself with? I've been watching a lot of ER reruns lately (and the new ones) and I've got to say, I love that show. They've gotten a lot of famous actors now that the old cast trickled off. John Leguizamo (Sp?) is not as good as a crappy doctor, I like him better as Luigi.
Tonight I'm going to see X3 with Daryl and my parents. That should be lots o' fun. So I guess I better go figure out how to make my dinner. I'm having Hawaiian chicken stir-fry (a.k.a. yummy). I've made a commitment to eat healthier this summer. Hopefully it pays off an I can go back to school looking like a new person (or at least just looking better). We'll see what happens. It's surprisingly not that difficult. The only thing that's holding me back is knowing that I've got a ton of friends who don't need to care about what they eat. *Sigh* Such good-looking people, my friends. My other summer goal is to read more. I finally used my Barnes & Noble giftcard today and bought two books: The Picture of Dorian Grey and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. I was going to get The Mists of Avalon, set in the times of King Arthur, but it was few thousand pages and quite pricey. On top of those, I plan to read Catch 22 and The Da Vinci Code (finally). If anyone has any other book ideas, I'd be happy to hear them. But no romance or westerns, please--I don't really like them.
I hope that everyone's summer is going well. Leave me comments! :)