I want to say good-bye to my twenties...

Today is the last day I can say I'm in my twenties. Ten years have gone by in a flash and luckily they were full of many once in a lifetime experiences that I will cherish forever. I graduated college, got my first job, ran a marathon, met and married my husband, watched friends and family get hitched, adopted my first puppy dog, completed graduate school, became an aunt, started hobbies that I love, became a vegetarian and made many new friends.
How busy has this ten years been? I would love to sit and have a conversation with that 20 year old me. If she could see where we are now, she would be proud that she could still recognize herself even with that ten years of new found wisdom. Those roots that were being grounded have began to grow and I am trying to be a person that I would have wanted to be at 20 or even 10.

I can't wait to see what the next ten years will have in store for me. Tonight I will go to sleep 29 and tomorrow I'll wake up 30!

I want a schedule...

This non schedule life is driving me crazy!! I'm a teacher- I'm used to knowing what is going on from 8:00 to 8:15 and every other minute of the day. In my "normal" life I even know what time I'm going to use the bathroom! I have designated days devoted to cleaning, laundry, and going to the grocery. The summer job thing is all crazy and it's making me feel crazy! I know it's all summer vacation time, but is it really that difficult to give me specific dates and times and locations of where I'm supposed to be?

I was all worried about not having enough to do and now I am jam packed. It took forever to get real information from people which made me feel like I was type A, OCD, loone (kinda like my husband, haha). Once they gave me dates & actual details, everything was overlapping and making me stressssed!! But I've got it figured out now and I will be busy until the day school gets back in. Seriously! There goes my "helpful down time." My calendar is getting filled up and my schedule is back to the way I like it, good crazy busy. Yay for due dates and lunch hours!!

I want to be helpful....

With summer vacation apon us, although I am working, I do have some down time on random days- Such as today, Thursday. With my jam packed schedule of laundry, a little yoga, and a possible trip to the dmv, I have plenty of time to help someone out. That lucky person today is my hubs. For him today, I will ease his weekend masterpiece that he works on so perfectly........ I have cut the grass. And as you can see by the picture, I didn't do too bad either- there are pretty lines and everything! Hopefully he will spend the time I've saved him on something he enjoys doing and not doing work!!

So on this down time this summer (which probably isn't going to last much longer when all this part time stuff kicks in) instead of watching television or wandering around stores, I will try to find a way to help someone out. Yesterday was the pup, today the hubs, tomorrow....we'll see!

I want a fun summer job....

Most people would think that when June comes around, all teachers think, "Yay! No summer work!" For me though, if I didn't work, I would drive myself and everyone I know crazy following them around trying to entertain myself.

In my beginning years I waited tables and tutored then I moved on to summer school and nannying and then last year I worked in an office. Office life was hard for me and by the end of the summer I had enough cubicle life to last me a life time. So this year I decided to find something fun to do. Last weekend I had training for a fun outside job with zip lines and canopy tours- I've found a job to hang in nature with people who love it like I do. Awesome!!

I want to take on the morning....

I love morning! It's quiet and peaceful and there are so many possibilities for the day. I have had the perfect mornings this weekend. First of all, it was beautiful out and so that puts me in a good mood automatically. Yesterday morning, all before 10:30, I took the pup for walk , went to yoga, and picked up my gocery box from the local farms. Great, great, and great! Today was a run, a walk with the pup again, and a yummy breakfast! And now I even have time to relax a bit before the rest of the day begins.

I need to start finding this appreciation of the beauty if morning even on work days. Starting my day off this way not only gets me prepared for the day, but those few hours brings a calming to my day which will hopefully follow through the next 12 hours as well.