On our way back up

I’m feeling a little bit better today than I did yesterday, and I felt a little better yesterday than I did the day before. I think some would call this progress.

I have had so much on my mind these past couple of weeks. Applications to teaching positions, finding out about the profession, finding out about OTHER professions, plus being sick, it’s all just crashing on me at once, and I’m just completely weakened by it.

Christine, Halfawake, Erin, thank you so much for your comments. I appreciate the advice. Yes, I find blogging therapeutic, I will look into the inspirational quotes website, and Erin, I learned to never take a book recommendation from you again! I’m joking. I’ll check out your book rec. I like inspirational stories, they really lift you up. It’s like when you see those depression drug commercials: I see the people on the screen moping around and not feeling like doing anything, and I feel like taking them by the hand and taking them out for a walk or just to do SOMETHING. The ads definitely make me want to take action, not take medication 😉 If you got how this relates to inspirational stories, I’ll give you a medal.

I’m happy to report that I have 2 weeks left of school. Isn’t that unbelievable? I will finish Summer I on June 30th, and then I’ll just have a week-long intensive class on the last week of July, and it’s finito. No more school for me. For goodness sake, I have been in school longer than I have been married. It’s definitely time to graduate and get on with my life. I look forward to having evenings off. Ahh, that’ll be the life.

Here are some things I’m looking forward to:

• Trip to Orlando next week (yeeeaahhh)
• Trip to Austin in 2 weeks (gonna go see my babies! — niece & nephew)
• Finishing school (as mentioned above)
• Getting bored so I can think of fun things to fill my time with, for instance:
  • Acting (I used to be quite good in my prime)
  • Singing (not AWESOME at it, I just love doing it)
  • Teaching Spanish to friends and Brian
  • Reading books / Join a bookclub
  • Writing more
  • Exercising (it’s time to start using that gym membership)
  • Seeing friends more
  • Something else I haven’t come up with yet

Those are just some things I think about. However, there is no escaping a very hard truth: finishing school will NOT solve all of my problems. I’ll still be back here blogging about what to do with my life and how confused I am. I’m starting to think I’ll need “settle down and stop thinking so much” medication… OR I’ll have to figure out how to control my hyperactive mind.

A friend asked me recently if I had ever met anybody who jumped from idea to idea as quickly as I did, and someone who actually took action on it, the way I do. I do have one friend who doesn’t know what to do with her life and sometimes takes some kind of action to find out. But she’s probably 50% as obsessed as I am. Am I really alone out there? Is there anybody else out there who would like to take crazy classes with me, or change careers with me? Mmmm.

This is quite enough rambling I think…

♫ Listening to: Taylor Swift – White Horse ♫

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