Well the beginning of the week was actually somewhat crummy. It drifted from "meh" to actually not so good, then back to really good again. It's funny how life does that sometimes.
Anyways, some of my favorite parts of this past week are as follows...(and are in no particular order of significance)
I saw Ryan after 3 years! I was nervous for all sorts of reasons, mostly because it's always scary to see people I haven't seen in awhile. I feel so scared that I'll fall back into how I used to be (a little more shy, emotional, a little less friendly) and so I get incredibly worried that seeing them will somehow make me regress, but fortunately that wasn't the case with seeing Ryan! It's so awesome that I get to work with him the next month!
Today I got to know a lot of our neighbors because my mom and step-dad threw a little BBQ for our neighbors. Boy, are they all so nice! And it was fun to get to know all of them!
I nannied for Krissa and it was my last week doing two days in a row, which is good because it's VERY difficult to work 14 hours a day (nannying, then working at Golden Spoon), a couple days in a row, on only 5 hours of sleep a night. My first day this week that I nannied for her, I was incredibly exhausted and not being super positive about it, but the next day flew by faster and the little cute baby and I went on another long walk down to the Scripps Ranch stores and I got myself an Odwalla at the grocery store. Oh, and the day before on our daily walk, I got this delicious spicy teryaki chicken type stuff that was so good! I love taking walks in the hot hot sun. It makes me feel like I'm soaking in vitamin D and getting more tan by the minute. And the baby loves those walks!
In what little time I do have with my family, it's always so great. I love them so much. I can't think of any specific examples from this past week, but I know that I'm always happy to be around them!
Another great thing is that I found some more great songs! That's always a highlight of my week it seems haha
Hayden showed this song below to me and I love it! The Trainas and I have very similar taste in music, haha. I love that family!
Ugh, sooooooooo good. Music is the best.
And another great thing about life lately is that I'm continuing to feel like I'm maturing into who I am supposed to become! I have a lot of work to do, but I'm feeling almost completely like my true, happiest self, and that is definitely something to be happy about!
Some downsides to this week were finding out that I need a root canal, finding out that my passport photo wasn't taken correctly and has to be taken again (in what little time I have left before I go to Alaska), and not feeling like myself during the beginning of the week (probably from over working and PMSing haha). But everything is good now, and I MUST REMEMBER that I don't have to be super happy all the time for life to be good. It's okay to just feel mellow and content sometimes. I think that I sometimes think that I have to feel AWESOME and ECSTATIC every second for life to be going great, but that's just not possible and not how life is. Some days are just gonna feel mellow and content and some times are going to be sucky, and that's okay!
Another downside, as I've already mentioned, is that things are too good. Which I'm not sure that I should count as a downside...Yeah, pretty sure that doesn't count as a downside, but honestly, I'm so concerned about leaving where I'm at to go to Alaska! Actually, I shouldn't say that I'm so concerned because I'm only slightly concerned sometimes and then I always end up feeling peace about going. It's funny that something so crazy sounding can bring me peace. I won't be getting an education there, or finding someone to marry, so I'm wondering why it feels so right. But I think it's just something I need to do in order to grow and have a little adventure in my life. And make money of course! Not everything has to be geared towards education, marriage, or church stuff haha! I'm not exactly sure why I feel so much peace about it yet but maybe it's just something I'll discover is a great adventure and something that will make me happy, and that in itself is reason enough to go!
And below is a little something I found on Pinterest that describes the epitome of my summer (or whatever season I've been in, but it feels like summer the past few weeks), which is that I am in love with palm trees, this wonderful weather, and life in general!
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