Besides the fact that this morning I took and failed my first exam of the semester...
Things are finally looking up. My schedule for the next few days looks like this:
Friday 8:30 AM -- Interview with Crowe, Chizek and Co.
Sunday 6:00 PM -- Dinner with my brother, sister-in-law, and her family!!!!
Monday 2:00 PM -- Interview with Dean, Dorton, and Ford (I REALLY want this one!!)
Saturday (9/30) -- Schedule my interview with the Kroger Internal Audit Department
In addition to that, I've actually already had two interviews! Last year it was sooo hard just to get employers to interview me and give me a chance, and now I have so many coming up that I can't keep up with them all! As far as the ones I've already had, I know I didn't get one of them, but that's ok because I didn't have enough time to prepare for it so I knew I didn't do well.... plus I wasn't really interested in the position. The other one was with Accountemps, and once I found out more about the company and what they do (work for other companies to find temporary people to fill in for a few weeks/months), I wasn't interested in that either. But their sister company does the same thing except they help you find permanent positions, and they told me to definitely give them a call as soon as I graduate.
Oh yeah, did I mention that I dropped my second major so I can graduate in December?! I'm sick of school, and I need to be done with it... at least for a while, until I decide if I really am gonna get my 150 hours to become a CPA. I'm so excited about graduating though!!
So in the past year or so I've been really struggling with this whole thing about how everyone says that everything happens for a reason. And I've been searching for answers to questions that I know can't be answered... but for some reason, something we talked about in my management class on Tuesday hit me so hard that I almost started crying right there in class. (And I'm not even PMSing!) The first chapter in the book is all about how you can't have good without bad; you can't have pleasure without pain. It states that "opposites not only can coexist, but can even enhance one another." I know this probably doesn't sound like it has much to do with what's been going on in my life lately, but I have been grasping at whatever I can to try to understand how there could possibly be a reason for the terrible things that have happened. And just for a moment, I felt comfort in this explanation. We lost Frankie just one day after I met Jason - my excitement about one of the happiest days of my life was spoiled when the next day became one of the most horrible days in my life. Then Jason lost his son, probably his closest family member, but since then, he's really making an effort to be closer to us because I think it made him realize the precious value of family. He lost Conner, but now he actually realizes that he has us. The rest of his family has pretty much disowned him because they blame him for Conner's death. I dunno, I'm just really trying to explain everything by saying that at least there have been blessings at the same time as all these misfortunes. There has been lots of bad, but there has also been good. It's better than all bad, right?
I am so excited about seeing Jason and Emily on Sunday though... I wish there was something I could say to ease their pain, but I know there's nothing anyone can say. I'm just glad that they want to see us. I know my nephew dying was an incredibly tragic thing to happen, but I can't help but say that I'm excited about what happens next. It can't get much worse, right? I just think the whole situation has given us all a chance to prove to Jason how much we care and want to be a part of his life - and how we realize that love is unconditional. I talked to him on Saturday, and he told me he loved me. :)
Oh - and Matt and I are seeing each other again, taking things slowly but working on it. Who saw that one coming? Hehe. Third time's the charm, right? I sure hope so...
Friday 8:30 AM -- Interview with Crowe, Chizek and Co.
Sunday 6:00 PM -- Dinner with my brother, sister-in-law, and her family!!!!
Monday 2:00 PM -- Interview with Dean, Dorton, and Ford (I REALLY want this one!!)
Saturday (9/30) -- Schedule my interview with the Kroger Internal Audit Department
In addition to that, I've actually already had two interviews! Last year it was sooo hard just to get employers to interview me and give me a chance, and now I have so many coming up that I can't keep up with them all! As far as the ones I've already had, I know I didn't get one of them, but that's ok because I didn't have enough time to prepare for it so I knew I didn't do well.... plus I wasn't really interested in the position. The other one was with Accountemps, and once I found out more about the company and what they do (work for other companies to find temporary people to fill in for a few weeks/months), I wasn't interested in that either. But their sister company does the same thing except they help you find permanent positions, and they told me to definitely give them a call as soon as I graduate.
Oh yeah, did I mention that I dropped my second major so I can graduate in December?! I'm sick of school, and I need to be done with it... at least for a while, until I decide if I really am gonna get my 150 hours to become a CPA. I'm so excited about graduating though!!
So in the past year or so I've been really struggling with this whole thing about how everyone says that everything happens for a reason. And I've been searching for answers to questions that I know can't be answered... but for some reason, something we talked about in my management class on Tuesday hit me so hard that I almost started crying right there in class. (And I'm not even PMSing!) The first chapter in the book is all about how you can't have good without bad; you can't have pleasure without pain. It states that "opposites not only can coexist, but can even enhance one another." I know this probably doesn't sound like it has much to do with what's been going on in my life lately, but I have been grasping at whatever I can to try to understand how there could possibly be a reason for the terrible things that have happened. And just for a moment, I felt comfort in this explanation. We lost Frankie just one day after I met Jason - my excitement about one of the happiest days of my life was spoiled when the next day became one of the most horrible days in my life. Then Jason lost his son, probably his closest family member, but since then, he's really making an effort to be closer to us because I think it made him realize the precious value of family. He lost Conner, but now he actually realizes that he has us. The rest of his family has pretty much disowned him because they blame him for Conner's death. I dunno, I'm just really trying to explain everything by saying that at least there have been blessings at the same time as all these misfortunes. There has been lots of bad, but there has also been good. It's better than all bad, right?
I am so excited about seeing Jason and Emily on Sunday though... I wish there was something I could say to ease their pain, but I know there's nothing anyone can say. I'm just glad that they want to see us. I know my nephew dying was an incredibly tragic thing to happen, but I can't help but say that I'm excited about what happens next. It can't get much worse, right? I just think the whole situation has given us all a chance to prove to Jason how much we care and want to be a part of his life - and how we realize that love is unconditional. I talked to him on Saturday, and he told me he loved me. :)
Oh - and Matt and I are seeing each other again, taking things slowly but working on it. Who saw that one coming? Hehe. Third time's the charm, right? I sure hope so...