The Grass is always Greener.....
I asked my Dad today if he thought there was any chance I was close to retirement. Sadly, his answer was no =-(. I am grateful for my job, it has been a blessing. But the idea of retirement seems so damn cool! Too bad I don't have a penny saved for it yet =-/. I walked by a travel agency today so I could glance at the vacation deals that I can now actually afford (for the time being), but have no time to take. Ho hum, ho hum. I now have a whopping 38 hours of vacation time accrued! And I already know how they will be used.
I have a friend who is spending the next academic year in France (living "Paris adjacent," hehe) and teaching. I'm excited for her, although having to find her own housing once she got there proved to be rather overwhelming and she ended up in a place that is pretty darn pricey. But man! A year living in a different country - what an awesome opportunity! I'm somewhat envious of her, because it's not often we get to have life experiences like that. At this point in time I don't think I would want to live out of the country for a year - but four months or so might be nice!
I'm (still) at a point in my life where I don't know what I want. For the longest, longest time my focus has been on trying to find a job that I liked and that was stable and that enabled me to exist, which this one sorta does for the moment. But it's not permanent, and I know in the long run I need something different. I just don't know what is going to make me happy in life. In relation to the whole "big picture" thing. There's lots of little things that make me happy, and those are what I need to learn to focus on, because all of the tiny brush strokes make the painting turn into what it will become. Speaking of paintings - my Dad and I participated in the community mural painting this weekend! It felt so "Gilmore Girls" =-p. I told him he was Lorelei and I was Rory, hehe. He said we needed to talk faster. Anyways - so now there's a painted wall in this city that has our names on it =-). We painted the dirt - hehe! And a couple of other things. That was really cool to participate in, I had wanted to do it before but we had never pursued it. So now we are muralists....or at least paint-where-we're-told-ists ;-p.
I'm just rambling....trying to put off the end of another weekend....in about 15 minutes it will officially be Monday. Blah. Happy Columbus Day....the holiday only the Government gets off. Good night =-).
I have a friend who is spending the next academic year in France (living "Paris adjacent," hehe) and teaching. I'm excited for her, although having to find her own housing once she got there proved to be rather overwhelming and she ended up in a place that is pretty darn pricey. But man! A year living in a different country - what an awesome opportunity! I'm somewhat envious of her, because it's not often we get to have life experiences like that. At this point in time I don't think I would want to live out of the country for a year - but four months or so might be nice!
I'm (still) at a point in my life where I don't know what I want. For the longest, longest time my focus has been on trying to find a job that I liked and that was stable and that enabled me to exist, which this one sorta does for the moment. But it's not permanent, and I know in the long run I need something different. I just don't know what is going to make me happy in life. In relation to the whole "big picture" thing. There's lots of little things that make me happy, and those are what I need to learn to focus on, because all of the tiny brush strokes make the painting turn into what it will become. Speaking of paintings - my Dad and I participated in the community mural painting this weekend! It felt so "Gilmore Girls" =-p. I told him he was Lorelei and I was Rory, hehe. He said we needed to talk faster. Anyways - so now there's a painted wall in this city that has our names on it =-). We painted the dirt - hehe! And a couple of other things. That was really cool to participate in, I had wanted to do it before but we had never pursued it. So now we are muralists....or at least paint-where-we're-told-ists ;-p.
I'm just rambling....trying to put off the end of another weekend....in about 15 minutes it will officially be Monday. Blah. Happy Columbus Day....the holiday only the Government gets off. Good night =-).
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