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| Sometimes I feel like I'm going to burst because I need to get everything out! Blogging used to be a way for me to feel like I was sharing my feelings without bothering my friends too much. So, I'm back, and I think we should all start blogging again. :)
Here is my latest dilemma....
I have been planning to buy a house in Overland Park this year. I've saved some cash, been pre-approved, and I've been looking at listings through an agent. Sounds great, right?!
Well, it would be if I didn't have a dream that will not be deferred. I've ALWAYS wanted to teach in Japan, and as I'm rapidly approaching my mid-twenties (scary thought), I realized that if I don't do it soon, I probably won't do it at all. I looked on line on Monday at some programs. What I found was that the DODDS program seems like the best bet. If I apply now, I wouldn't be eligible to go until 2010, IF I even get the job.
So...what do I do? Buy the house and worry about what to do with it if I get the job? Or, should I put off buying a house, pay through the nose for an apartment, move a second time, and hope I get this competitive position? I don't know. If I'm truthful about it, I want both.
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| I've started teaching, been doing it since August 17th. These have been some trying times for me because I'm so used to having more free time, or at least having the option to take more free time. Teaching can be really easy if you don't care what kind of job you do. If you want to excel, though, it's really stinking hard and time consuming. With my graduate courses, volleyball extra duty, and Sunday school, my life has been completely taken over. Saturday I usually have cleaning and some kind of family thing to do, with my lesson plans hanging over my head to be written. I also have to plan for Sunday school the next morning. Sunday nights are usually filled with anxiety from the knowledge that my weekend is almost over. It's just hard to relax at all anymore.
Last week I freaked out from stress a couple of times. This week has been a little bit better. There's no way I can get done what I need to by 3:15 everyday, so I have been putting in extra hours. Hopefully, this will all smooth over soon so I can have some semblance of my life back. I bought a PDA/phone on sale this week in hopes that it will help me to organize my life better. It meshes with my outlook calendar at work so I don't have to carry around a planner anymore. Plus, it beeps at me when I have an appointment. If you know me at all, you know I'm not a fan of schedules and timelines, but It's all I can do not to freak out randomly anymore, so, there it is!
Other than work and school things are going pretty well. I'd like for church to be going better, but I'm confident we'll figure something out. I don't get to see my family as much as I'd like to; however, when we do spend time together it's usually awesome.
A lot of my friends are getting married, too. The invitations have been pouring in, and I was invited to three this summer. My very close friend is engaged and about to start the planning process. I'm sure I'll be involved in a lot of the planning, whether I like it or not, lol.
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| How do you know when you love somebody?
According to my cousin: when u sacrifice yorself for them... cuz even when u do u feel good
Ideas?
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| I sart teaching again tomorrow, and there's a giant mountain of work
ahead of me. I'd like to be done soon, but instead I'm just getting
started! AH! Scary.
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| Because I'm about to start teaching high schoolers, it has been
suggested that all of us either remove our blogs/profiles or heavily
secure them. This blog is now set to friends only, so if you want to
read it you have to be my friend. It stinks, but I cant have my
students reading this.
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