Summer :)
so last time i posted was the beginning of the spring semester which has now come and gone...school went well as usual...got better grades than i thought (5-a's, 1-b) i was okay with the b though because it was in medieval political philosophy and who gets an A in that kind of class anyway?! lol i am now done with philosophy for the rest of my life (PRAISE GOD!!) i am also done w/ all of my theology credits (i took my last theo class in summer intercession) and next year i have like barelly any classes to take since ive taken so many summer classes. In the fall i have my field seminar (2credits), bio lecture and bio lab (3 credits), theory II (3 credits) and my field placement which is working at a social work site (4 credits) overall im only taking a total of 12 credits but it turns out to really only like 4 in-class things two of which i only will be meeting once a week so its not so bad. then for spring semester i have even less! i have my field seminar (2credits), field placement (4 credits), experimental pysch lecture and lab (3 credits) and research paper (1 credit) so i only have a total of 10 for the spring which is exciting im sure that it will be more stressful than i am predicting though because of my field site
i have to work at least 20hours a week in my field site which i picked Beechacres Parenting Center...i am super excited i will be on the CPST team (Community Psychiatric Supportive Treatment team) and i get my own caseload of 6 different cases i get to work with the pyschiatric diagnosis for my clients and do home and school visits, i also will be working largely as a resource advocate connecting the clients w/ the necessary resources and programs while also helping facilitate groups on different things such as anger management, socialization skills for children, etc. i am really excited becuase i always wanted to work with some sort of family preservation type of work and i think this will be it plus i get some mental health aspects which i enjoy also but my placement coordinator at beechacres has warned me that once i have my own caseload it is very time demanding and i will be doing exactly what the other social workers are doing so i need to make sure that i can handle the workload, i know ill be okay because i am so organized and good at multi-tasking but this will be a completely different ballgame and it will be a new set of struggles but it will be fun im sure
its so weird to think that i am a senior in college, i need to start researching grad schools for next year i am thinking UC's MSW program probably i dont know what its going to be like to NOT be a student the next like 11 months are going to be a completely new experience for me, in the next 11 months i will have: graduated college, finished working in a real social work agency as a social worker, be applying/getting my social work license, be MARRIED!!!, have gone on my honeymoon, be accepted into grad school and possibly buying a house....that is INSANE and somewhat scary to think...i cant wait to be married and finish school but at the same time its a big life change for me and its not really a change that i can prepare for
as for wedding stuff, i have all the big fun things planned now it is just mundane detail work that i have left to do before the wedding. i ordered my invitations and am waiting to get those, we still have to make up directions and maps and info about hotel accomodations to include with our invitaitons, i have to hand address and stuff all 150 invitations (we have a guest list of 265 with 150 invitations going out), i have to follow up w/ the hotel places to make sure the rooms are reserved, i have my practice hair and makeup trial on july 21st, we have to pick all the music for the ceremony and give a list of music for the DJ/Band, i have to make the programs which i am doing myself (which is going to suck but oh well), schedule our engagement photography session, and a few other things and thats all just for the month of june!! there is more to do for july and august but i need to get this stuff done before i can do anything else.
I moved into a new apartment, a 2 bedroom in Ft.Thomas (literally up the road from where i was before), and its HUGE its something ridiculous like 1200 sq ft. and its 2 bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms, i like having the extra bedroom and all the room for storing stuff, its much less cramped and packed in but at the same time ive been moved in since friday and i feel like weird...donnie and i are not only not having sex (havent slept together since last july!!!) but we decided to not spend the night together anymore either so i sleep alone every night, and its just bizarre and i feel mildly uncomfortable in my own house, like i look around and all my stuff is so spaced out that i feel like im in somebody else's house...dont really know how to describe it other than weird...i miss spending the night w/ donnie things are really different now...well first off dave and meg got married on may 10th!! it was a great wedding, so much fun but a ton of work (they did everything themselves which meant alot of work for the wedding party and family) but it was great but its weird now becuase donnie had to move out of the bramble house (obvs. hes not going to live w/ a married dave and meg) so he moved in w/ his sister kate and her husband joe and i have all his bedroom furniture and bed and stuff at my place (kate and joe have a guest bedroom that donnie is staying in thats fully furnished) and i have been spending alot less time w/ meg which is weird because we used to hang out all the time, its strange when we do go over to the bramble house cuz its not the same w/ donnie gone and meg has gotten rid of alot of the ratty furniture and is starting to paint...its just weird donnie and i have spent all 4 years of our relationship spending time at that house, its where we first met, its just weird and now i am spending alot more time by myself in my apt becuase donnie works all the time and since we dont spend the night together he tends to go home earlier (just cuz he needs to get ready for work the next day) and i guess i just am sick of spending so much time by myself in this huge ass apt that doesnt even feel like my own im sure in a few weeks it will but its just hard right now
my friend mel is moving in w/ me for july and aug anyway so i will have a roommate soon too so that will be fun, i decided not to get a summer job becuase of the hecticness of wedding planning and i have so many events already planned this summer i would be requesting off so much it just would be horribly complicated. ive been babysitting still and a lot more recently so thats good w/ the money it helps alot and i dont really go out as much at all so im not spending any money...i have my first bridal shower on june 14th so thats exciting...i had a mini-bachelorette party because jessi (my maid of honor) is going to be in germany all summer (until the like day before the wedding) so she wanted to throw me a bachelorette party before she left, it was a blast! i am sad she is going to be missing my showers and stuff but oh well...i want to have another bachelorette party right before the wedding...well it will be more a girls night out before the wedding becuase some of my friends i wanted to come to the bachelorette party werent 21 yet so that sucked but by aug they will be so i def. want to plan a girls night out! thats it for now...this post is forever long but i probably wont post again until im married :-)