I'm a Busy Body

Yesterday was my last day at GTC. Even though I felt like I hadn't made a lot of friends, leaving made me feel like I had made friends with everyone. I baked cupcakes on Wednesday and reminisced about all the good people I worked with, until my feet and my back ached and I was too tired to do a complete clean up. I think cupcakes did help the day go well. No tears. It's hard to say goodbye to good people. Maybe it's just hard to say goodbye. Eric and I celebrated the new beginnings by going to eat at a china buffet, and it was good.

The new plan is to give myself more time, working part time at a craft store stocking shelves and tutoring several evenings while taking classes. Money is probably my biggest concern with this idea. I don't feel like I really splurge all that often, yet my monetary output has gone up since college, when I lived on at least half as much as I've made in the last two years. Of course, I also have lofty ambitions of making it to the gym more regularly--if I'm paying the money, I'm going to go and I'm going to work myself out until I see the results I want. I'm turning it up--Look out!

Classes begin on Monday, and if I get the job at the tutoring center, I will start training hopefully on Tuesday. Oh yeah, and I have the ACT to take for that on Saturday. I really haven't left myself much of a break, so I really hope this works out as planned and I get a little more time from this new and improved version of living. Back to classes though. This semester I will be taking all of the instructional courses, which should be more exciting than the issues course that overwhelmed me with even more problems in our education system that have no answers. What is a girl to do? Well, this girl is going to tough it out and be the best teacher I can.

Speaking of teachers--I was so caught up in all the whirl of my own life changes that I missed my mom's big one. School started yesterday! I can't believe it! Such a short summer that's now over! I think of all the things she did this summer and it's amazing. Her latest thing, finished yesterday by Gretchen I think, was remodeling her bedroom. I can't wait to see it. They refinished all the wood and painted, and the next big thing will be repainting the old orange and green dressers. But she also made great headway with the garage, patio furniture, and... I'm not sure what else right now, but she had a very busy summer.

I still have to clean, finish Debbie work, and the the books I'll need for school. But right now I should eat so I am ready to work. :) Those other chores with just have to wait.