i haven't been adjusting to being back in my home time zone. It's been taking forever for me to fall asleep and it's super hard to get up in the morning. plus, i have a mildly sore throat. i wonder if it would be a cold if it wasn't for my multivitamins. i used to get colds every two months, then emma told me to start taking multivitamins and i haven't had a cold since last november or december. that said, i don't really like the lingering pre-cold i've got going on right now. i'd prefer to either have a cold or not.
so brendan got a job! he wasn't even looking. i can't remember if i wrote much about his job search in may. it was a stressful time for us and one that made me frustrated and disillusioned. however, after about 3 or 4 weeks of that, we switched gears. sometimes actively waiting for something makes it that much more apparent that it hasn't arrived yet. so i figured we just needed a distraction. b needed to find a new routine and if a job came along then great, if not that's fine too. so he spent the summer at rustle, helping to run the store and such. it was a very enriching experience for him and he enjoyed himself very much. then, at the end of the summer his teacher sent him a job posting and told him to apply for it. he was pretty reluctant after having had such a negative time job search in the spring, but after his teacher sent it to him the second time urging him to call, he did and everything has gone smoothly since then. it's funny sometimes how certain things just feel right from the get-go. anyways, he'll be co-facilitating a PAR group (partner assault response) over a 16 week program. i'm super proud of him. this next semester is going to be saturated with social work experiences, i'm sure it will be extremely beneficial and rewarding too.
i don't consider myself a controlling person (but who knows, most controlling people don't). instead i struggle because i frequently dream up a scenario that i think is perfect and have become disappointed when it doesn't work out that way. however, once i've adjusted to that disappointed i'm a-ok with the change. thankfully i've enjoyed many great surprises so i've grown to be quite open to different possibilities. usually my day dreams are based on the current possibilities and how i imagine things unfolding. these day dreams changed as the circumstances change. i've actually found that life is much more interesting and exciting when things don't go according to plan. had brendan got the job i'd hoped he'd get at the end of april we wouldn't have had the valuable and enriching summer we did have. where we let go, we just rolled with it, we made the most of the circumstances, and we learned to trust that everything was going to be ok.
so brendan got a job! he wasn't even looking. i can't remember if i wrote much about his job search in may. it was a stressful time for us and one that made me frustrated and disillusioned. however, after about 3 or 4 weeks of that, we switched gears. sometimes actively waiting for something makes it that much more apparent that it hasn't arrived yet. so i figured we just needed a distraction. b needed to find a new routine and if a job came along then great, if not that's fine too. so he spent the summer at rustle, helping to run the store and such. it was a very enriching experience for him and he enjoyed himself very much. then, at the end of the summer his teacher sent him a job posting and told him to apply for it. he was pretty reluctant after having had such a negative time job search in the spring, but after his teacher sent it to him the second time urging him to call, he did and everything has gone smoothly since then. it's funny sometimes how certain things just feel right from the get-go. anyways, he'll be co-facilitating a PAR group (partner assault response) over a 16 week program. i'm super proud of him. this next semester is going to be saturated with social work experiences, i'm sure it will be extremely beneficial and rewarding too.
i don't consider myself a controlling person (but who knows, most controlling people don't). instead i struggle because i frequently dream up a scenario that i think is perfect and have become disappointed when it doesn't work out that way. however, once i've adjusted to that disappointed i'm a-ok with the change. thankfully i've enjoyed many great surprises so i've grown to be quite open to different possibilities. usually my day dreams are based on the current possibilities and how i imagine things unfolding. these day dreams changed as the circumstances change. i've actually found that life is much more interesting and exciting when things don't go according to plan. had brendan got the job i'd hoped he'd get at the end of april we wouldn't have had the valuable and enriching summer we did have. where we let go, we just rolled with it, we made the most of the circumstances, and we learned to trust that everything was going to be ok.
we all do what we can.
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