This time around... I knew how long it'd been since I updated.
My last post was sad and angsty-enough. I wanted my next post to be, "Look I have a job! We're renting a house! Everything's perfect!"
But perfect is no fun, right?
So here we are. Almost halfway through July. I am still (big kid) jobless. My internship has been gracious enough to let me stay on this summer to work since I had nothing else planned. So I've stayed and been applying for jobs like a madman. But still, nothing.
In the middle of June, we realized that we should probably start making plans to get moved. Michael starts grad classes in August and we needed a place to live. So at the end of this month we're moving to Lawrence. A whole 90 miles east. We'll be in the same town as my brother and sister-in-law, and about a half hour away from my little sister and her boyfriend. It's a little smaller than what we're in now, but it'll do and it's a lovely place.
This isn't where I wanted or expected to be. Turning 23 on Friday and not having a full-time paying job in my field. I can list things or make excuses or whatever, but it won't make a difference. I'm fighting frustration, having to keep telling myself that things will work out; something will drop. I just have to keep applying and praying and keeping on. My focus right now is on getting moved. Have to be packed and out of here by the 31st, but can't move into our new place until the 7th. So I'm gonna be spending a week with my parents. I'm sure they're thrilled.
The weddings we photographed this spring went great. I'll go ahead and say I'm much better with the little people... thankfully Michael was there to tell people how to stand and look pretty. Between the two of us, I'm happy with how the pictures all turned out. I have no other photoshoots planned so far, but if anyone wants one... :) We also celebrated Michael's birthday...3 years of marriage (whaaat).. Garrett's 3rd birthday. It's all been awesome.
So this is my update to say: I'm alive. Still jobless. Moving! Taking things as they come. Trying to enjoy life amidst the chaos that is packing and moving.
Leave with a picture of me and Michael from his birthday... We went and saw Next to Normal at the Kauffman Center.
My last post was sad and angsty-enough. I wanted my next post to be, "Look I have a job! We're renting a house! Everything's perfect!"
But perfect is no fun, right?
So here we are. Almost halfway through July. I am still (big kid) jobless. My internship has been gracious enough to let me stay on this summer to work since I had nothing else planned. So I've stayed and been applying for jobs like a madman. But still, nothing.
In the middle of June, we realized that we should probably start making plans to get moved. Michael starts grad classes in August and we needed a place to live. So at the end of this month we're moving to Lawrence. A whole 90 miles east. We'll be in the same town as my brother and sister-in-law, and about a half hour away from my little sister and her boyfriend. It's a little smaller than what we're in now, but it'll do and it's a lovely place.
This isn't where I wanted or expected to be. Turning 23 on Friday and not having a full-time paying job in my field. I can list things or make excuses or whatever, but it won't make a difference. I'm fighting frustration, having to keep telling myself that things will work out; something will drop. I just have to keep applying and praying and keeping on. My focus right now is on getting moved. Have to be packed and out of here by the 31st, but can't move into our new place until the 7th. So I'm gonna be spending a week with my parents. I'm sure they're thrilled.
The weddings we photographed this spring went great. I'll go ahead and say I'm much better with the little people... thankfully Michael was there to tell people how to stand and look pretty. Between the two of us, I'm happy with how the pictures all turned out. I have no other photoshoots planned so far, but if anyone wants one... :) We also celebrated Michael's birthday...3 years of marriage (whaaat).. Garrett's 3rd birthday. It's all been awesome.
So this is my update to say: I'm alive. Still jobless. Moving! Taking things as they come. Trying to enjoy life amidst the chaos that is packing and moving.
Leave with a picture of me and Michael from his birthday... We went and saw Next to Normal at the Kauffman Center.
