bah humbug
I can't believe Christmas is just a few days away. Crazy.
This past week has climbed it's way up the charts fighting for one of the craziest and worst weeks ever. A lot going on, and a lot of which I do not feel like explaining details on the internet. If you want more details, just ask.
The culmination of my week ended with my grandfather passing away on Thursday. I have not talked with him or seen him in quite some time, and was going to go see him in a week and a half. I think that is the hardest part, I was too late, and he left without me having talked to him in over a year. There was no animosity between us whatsoever, just strange situations regarding other family members. I know that I shouldn't feel guilty and awful because I didn't try harder or make the contact sooner, and everyone tells me that But I still feel awful about it. The funeral was yesterday (Sunday), and it was so hard. I had been keeping myself so busy with so much other stuff that it didn't really hit me until I walked in. This was my father's dad, so that alone made a lot of things difficult. I'm glad I went, but it's still hard to see that side of my family and I usually end up feeling like an outcast. Anyway... enough of this.
I now feel as though I may be catching some sort of plague or something. Hopefully it doesn't get too bad.
There is some good news: School is done for a month. (aww, less than a month officially now. that's sad) I am extremely happy about my grades too.. yay! Maybe sometime I'll get around to celebrating that. :) I have a practicum for next semester as well that I am excited about. I will be working at a Suicide Hotline here in St. Louis. They also take a wide variety of other calls and all. I like that I will get a lot of experience in crisis intervention and think it will be a good practicum.
Random change of subject... I am very proud of myself for something I did tonight while doing laundry, haha. There was some jerk who was extremely rude and mean to me tonight, and I stood my ground and was assertive and he just ended up looking like an ass. Small thing, but I'm still proud of myself haha. I won't bore you with the story, because even though it was somewhat monumental for me (semi telling off a stranger), it's not really all that exciting.
I hope everyone has a good Christmas or any other holiday you may celebrate. By the way, in case anyone who we usually send cards to may be reading this, we may not be able to get our Christmas cards out until after Christmas. Sorry about that, but we will get them out as soon as we can when things calm down.
This past week has climbed it's way up the charts fighting for one of the craziest and worst weeks ever. A lot going on, and a lot of which I do not feel like explaining details on the internet. If you want more details, just ask.
The culmination of my week ended with my grandfather passing away on Thursday. I have not talked with him or seen him in quite some time, and was going to go see him in a week and a half. I think that is the hardest part, I was too late, and he left without me having talked to him in over a year. There was no animosity between us whatsoever, just strange situations regarding other family members. I know that I shouldn't feel guilty and awful because I didn't try harder or make the contact sooner, and everyone tells me that But I still feel awful about it. The funeral was yesterday (Sunday), and it was so hard. I had been keeping myself so busy with so much other stuff that it didn't really hit me until I walked in. This was my father's dad, so that alone made a lot of things difficult. I'm glad I went, but it's still hard to see that side of my family and I usually end up feeling like an outcast. Anyway... enough of this.
I now feel as though I may be catching some sort of plague or something. Hopefully it doesn't get too bad.
There is some good news: School is done for a month. (aww, less than a month officially now. that's sad) I am extremely happy about my grades too.. yay! Maybe sometime I'll get around to celebrating that. :) I have a practicum for next semester as well that I am excited about. I will be working at a Suicide Hotline here in St. Louis. They also take a wide variety of other calls and all. I like that I will get a lot of experience in crisis intervention and think it will be a good practicum.
Random change of subject... I am very proud of myself for something I did tonight while doing laundry, haha. There was some jerk who was extremely rude and mean to me tonight, and I stood my ground and was assertive and he just ended up looking like an ass. Small thing, but I'm still proud of myself haha. I won't bore you with the story, because even though it was somewhat monumental for me (semi telling off a stranger), it's not really all that exciting.
I hope everyone has a good Christmas or any other holiday you may celebrate. By the way, in case anyone who we usually send cards to may be reading this, we may not be able to get our Christmas cards out until after Christmas. Sorry about that, but we will get them out as soon as we can when things calm down.