Hope Still Flies

• We got moved out to Lawrence a month ago. I still haven't unpacked everything, but our new place is great and homey. And I'm loving Lawrence as a town (shhh don't tell).
• Michael started his master's work a few weeks ago, and he's doing great. Working hard with staying up with classes while working 25-30 hours a week. He's Superman.
• I was home doing nothing but cleaning and watching Chuck for about 3 weeks. Super bored.
• Thanks to a family friend, I started some part time work this week. It's for a little company and it's only 3 hours or so a day (with a 40 minute drive there, 40 minute drive back) but I'm loving it. The people are great and it's something to get me out of the house.
• The career fair at K-State is in about 2 weeks. Prayers that one of the companies I talk to decides they want to hire me full-time.
• I took up running in my downtime this summer, but I'm super frustrated with how slow going building my endurance is. Keeping at it, though.
• Um. Fall show premieres start in a couple weeks. :)

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. 



 

Life update:

It's flying by.

Go figure, right? It's been another month. But it really just feels like yesterday when I updated. I always say I'm busy. I always seem busy, but there's a lot more homework and projects and whatnot going on right now. Add in job searching and I'm just totally stressed out 6 out of the 7 days. Thankfully, this week it doesn't look like I have much to do, and I plan on really working on the job search and trying to get ahead on homework.

Not to mention I signed up to run a 5k 2 weeks from yesterday. And I am sooo not in shape. Gotta keep running. Sometime. More often. Anyway.

Gage turned 10 on the 8th. I can't get over it. I love these 4 kids so much, it's ridiculous.


The Sugarland concert Sarah and I went to was good... not nearly enough attention was given to SB. She was amazing, as always. I can't wait to see her in concert again. Sadly, though, I had to sell my SYTYCD tickets. Just too much going on to drive 6 hours there and 6 hours back. 

Other than that, it's school, internship, work. Sleep, occasionally. Seeing Michael for a couple hours before I sleep. Photography when I get a second. Trying to remember as much as I can about this last year, and enjoy it before I'm tossed into the real world.

For now... dinner is ready. It's starting to get cold outside. Stew tonight.

It's been a month since I updated?!

Oopsies.

Well, since I'm avoiding homework, I might as well give a quick update... School is in full force, which this semester also includes beginning to look for jobs and everything. I am better at that whole process than I used to be, but still not great.

I also started an internship! It's with a little place in town that is sort of through the college. I basically help the chemical engineer in charge there with his projects. It's going great so far, and it's going to be a great experience. The people seem to be really nice, too. That's always a plus.

I couldn't just quit Hastings all together, because I love working in the cafe too much. So I'm down to two days a week, which seems to be perfect. I love it.

Last weekend, Michael and I went to KC to watch the US Women's National soccer team play Canada at the new Livestrong stadium. The stadium was pretty impressive... I got us front row seats, so we were right on the pitch. It was so cool being that close to all of them. Afterwards we got trapped and so we got a few autographs. The girls that came over were really nice and tried to get as many signatures in before they had to run back to the team. Here's a pic of two of my favorites during the game... (And I got Ali Krieger's autograph.)


Let's see... coming up, Sarah and I are going to the Sara Bareilles/Sugarland concert in Wichita... and then the week after that I'm forcing Michael to go to St. Louis with me to see the So You Think You Can Dance tour. Heh. He'll enjoy (parts) of it, I'm sure.

I'm still doing photography on the side... it's a great stress reliever for me. I took 4 month pictures of Eli on Friday, I'm taking pictures of a coworker's son today, and then Sarah's best friend's daughter's 9 month pictures tomorrow night. Kids are awesome.

Is it me, or does everyone on blogger seem to be pregnant right now??? It's just like all of a sudden everyone was expecting. I love seeing everyone's updates. :) (Definitely not pregnant here... no worries, dear family.)

Tomorrow Michael's taking the GRE in Wichita... so prayers for safe travels and that he doesn't panic like I do on tests would be awesome.

Okay, okay... I need to go do homework before I go play soccer with Sarah.

Here is where I'll say it won't be a month before I update again... but we all know how well that's worked in the past...