summer life

This post is brought to you by request of Katie Rogers. Apologies for my lack of blogging lately.

Well.. school is out and it is summer once again. I was hoping to have some plans set in place before updating, but I'm finding out more and more every day that life pretty much likes to go the opposite of what I had planned for myself. So here I am.. still on operation find a job. Consider yourself fortunate if you've found employment for the summer. In the past week and a half I've been to at least 15 places in Huntington and Fort Wayne, but it keeps coming back to people aren't looking to hire summer help and with my class load and volleyball this fall my schedule is just not going to allow me to keep a job. So this has been frustrating and discouraging, but I'm trusting God has a plan here and just taking it one rejection at a time haha. I'm sure there's something I'm supposed to be learning through this process and I'll be sure to let you know what it is when I figure it out. In the meantime I'll be doing work for the farm... mowing.. painting a house.. the usual. And actually I enjoy that kind of work and they compensate me well for my time, but I just still have my heart on something different. I just want to be around people this summer... I go crazy spending that many hours by myself day after day haha. So that's my job update. I'm currently living with my sister Danielle in Huntington. It's a great setup for me because it's a nice place and I'm close enough to still feel like I'm around home for the summer but I also still get my independence haha. And it's nice living 2 minutes from campus so I still have a place to go workout everyday. Volleyball... it's kind of a love/hate thing in my life right now. Coach has us running 15 miles a week and lifting 3 days so that's been good discipline for me and honestly I enjoy that kind of thing. But I've also been getting together with coach once a week to work on passing and such and that's what has been interesting haha. Apparently after 13 years of playing the game all of my fundamentals are wrong. I understand the logic behind the new ways of doing things I'm being taught and I definitely appreciate the time that they're investing in working with me but it's like I have to completely reteach myself all of these skills after years of doing it a certain way so that becomes quite the frustration. But when it comes game time it's still volleyball and I still love it with everything I have.

I apologize for any lack of optimism expressed in this post.. It's just one of those seasons in my life where I'm being tested against disappointment. Clearly, I am not doing well with my test haha but I am sure trying!

To end on a brighter note though, here is a list of ten happy things about my summer thus far lol..
1. Bachelorette is back! Show em how it's done Allie!
2. I finally got into this Glee craze and it's so good!
3. Caramel coconut latte at Mocha Lounge
4. Getting better at handling rejection lol
5. Sunshine and brown skin! finally!
6. Sex and the city 2 comes out this week!! I've been waiting all my life!
7. We have a new lawn mower...?
8. I think my hair is finally growing.
9. My laptop, ipod, straightener, and hair dryer have all broken in the past two weeks. oh wait.. happy things...
10. I think I just needed to stop at 8.

Friends, I love you all a lot. I hope all is going well for you. Wooo Summer 2010!