I didn't plan on being in DeKalb this week. My mother took it upon herself to "volunteer" me for a "job" for some family friends of ours. She asked me about it when I was away last weekend, but I'm pretty sure by the time she asked me, she made it seem like I'd do it, so I knew I was pretty much stuck.
So, I'm here, in DeKalb house sitting until Saturday. I don't mind doing it, I'm getting paid and it's been really cool since I have a few good friends out here. Basically, I'm getting paid to hang out with my friends. Can't see as how that's worthy of complaints. The only thing I have issue with is the way in which I got this job. I wish the request had come straight to me and not through my mother. I'm not blaming the person I'm house-sitting for; it probably seemed totally natural to him to check with my mother about my availability. My issue with the situation is this: couldn't my mom have said, "We'll, maybe you should call Kate and check with her?" instead of arranging the whole thing for me? Am I 14? Really!
All gripes aside, I've really enjoyed the time to connect with my friends and even just to have some time out of the house. I realized in the one night and half of a day that I spent there in the last week, that it's time to start looking seriously into getting a job and my own place. I might not be feeling 100% yet, but I can pretty much tell that being in that house isn't going to make me get better any sooner. I have felt so much better being away from home this last week that it's actually refreshing. I just need to find something to do for employment and figure out where to live. Any ideas? Let me know.
I've been thinking about more entertaining blog topics, and soon I should post some more thought provoking material. I know you all love hearing about my daily life so much, therefore I won't cut that out entirely.
Back in college, in 2004 when blogging was hardly even a thing yet, I was here. Blogging before blogging meant anything to anyone. You can look in the archives for my past writings, but it was much more like a journal in the past. When we started fundraising, I messed around with the idea of launching something new for this new phase of our journey but actually hated that idea. I am a sum of all of my life and so much of it is here already. So I'm keeping it here. At least for now.
My main focus these days is blogging about our newest journey into the bizarre and wonderful world of gestational surrogacy. Posts dated 2013 and forward will trend heavily toward that journey. I don't promise everything I write will be about though. There might be other things that sneak in occasionally.
Please come along our journey with us. As the saying goes, "The more, the merrier!"
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