update

hope everyone had a good labor day weekend. sadly for me this labor day wasn't too different, it marked the end of summer, but i'm not back in my classroom. my first day of school would have been last wednesday if i was teaching this year and it is weird that i'm not. it is finally starting to feel real that i'm not teaching, and i hate it. i loved what i was doing last year and i hate that i probably won't be teaching for a year until next september. i feel like so many of the things i want to do are on hold for a year. without a stable job i can't move out on my own and i hate the fact i'm 25 and i don't have a job and that i'm living at home. but everything happens for a reason, so i'm just waiting to figure out what fun will happen next. i'm probably going to be doing a lot of subbing this year but i'm looking into taking a little trip to europe this spring. i miss ireland like crazy (i can't believe it has been 5 years since i first went there and studied abroad) and there are still a million places i want to go in europe, so i'm thinking about taking a 3ish week trip in feb/march because when else will i have time to go on a multiweek vacation and i'm young and i have nothing holding me back.

the game plan right now. i'm home this week. and pretty busy. hiking in the gap with becca, planning for a college sorority recruitment that i'm the recruitment advisor for and i'm not going to be here for, a date with an awesome guy, doing something fun with erin, and packing and doing a bunch of errands. 

packing... i was hired for a few sessions with the program i worked last summer (2009) in washington dc. so i'll be down there working with high school students on leadership and the us government for a few weeks. i'm kinda upset i was only hired for 2 of the 6 sessions, but whatever. the thing i am excited about is patricia, mj and i will be together! my 2 favs from summer 2009 and i are back working together. sooooo excited for that! we've all kept in pretty good contact, i've seen each of them twice since that summer and went out to kansas to see patricia. so it is going to be kinda redic. i can't wait. so that starts next monday. and then this weekend is my little's bachelorette party in baltimore! yay! so exited for that! 

and i'm also SUPER excited about these boots. omg, drool. they are from lands end and i can't wait to get them! luckily they were on sale (yay 25% off and free shipping) because i am slightly crazy to not have a job but spend $125 on gorgeous boots. what can i say, i love shoes. buuut i have to wait a few weeks because sadly they are on backorder until september 20th.                                                                                             ummm, oh yea. a date this week. since i've been home i've gone out a few times with a really awesome guy. he lives locally (and can i just say how awesome that is, i've never dated anyone who lives 20 minutes away, my last few bf's have lived at least an hour away) so we've hung out a lot since we first met. he's cooked me dinner, i've met his sisters, we've hung out at his house and yesterday with 2 of his friends we went to a scandinavian festival - which was so much fun! so this is something nice in my life right now. but i will say i was gchatting with patricia last week about him and she joked, at least he isn't an only child and i said i've moved on from only children who live in pennsylvania to engineers who own houses. which is funny because ross & matt were both only children who lived in pennsylvania and matt and the new boy are both engineers and have recently bought houses. i apparently like to keep traits in common in guys i like. 

and so still lots of unknowns in my life but i'm dealing with it the best i can. trying to have fun and not be so upset about not having a job. i'm excited about dc and enjoying the coming fall.

how was your weekend?