An Anything and Everything Post (It's about time...)

Where to begin.

This week… has been so incredibly busy, and it’s only Tuesday.  But I guess I’m referring to last week…Last week is where most of the “busy” lies anyways…

This past week I volunteered at my church after work for VBS.  My crew was a bundle of fun (that’s half sarcastic) but it was an enjoyable time.  I have to say though… I remember when I was little and attending VBS… it was so much better then.  I dunno if it’s because of budgets or something… but I feel like my generation (if you will) got so much more out of it.  I learned so much when I was at VBS.. some core things I’ve learned about the Bible and whatnot…I learned it all there.  And I wish the kids I worked with this past week could have an experience like that.  

Work is busy.  And was busy.  Last week, our office manager was out on vacation.  She manages like, everything for the real estate team, and at points we felt like we’d die without her.  She’s back now, though… and everything seems to be running smoothly again.  (Not like it wasn’t when she was gone.. I mean, I guess you could say we were a wagon running on 3 wheels instead of 4 without her.  You can do it, but it’s still kinda hard).  In a way, it’s like I’ve kinda moved up in my little position I had going.  I went from mainly doing random things with the database and cleaning the office to actually mailing things and getting in touch with people and doing some advertising.  Going into the job, I thought I would be blogging a lot.  Well, I wasn’t.  At first.  And that’s started to change now! :D  Since last week, I’ve been in charge of fixing up old websites associated with the business and making them look purty… since no one had done that in a whiiiiiiiiile.  And since I feel like I’m one of the most technology-savvy people there, I can help them with this stuff.  I mean, J’s waaay better than me in that category, so hopefully, when he was there he helped with stuff like that… but anyways.  I guess I feel somewhat more important now.  Yay self-esteem boost!

In other news, I’ve been trying to get school stuff done.  I’ve made more progress with my history projects…. But it’s just so boring  you know?  It’s not really my subject… and even the stuff that is  up my alley, I’m not finding the motivation to do it.  Sigh.  Whyyy assign things in summer?  It causes so much unnecessary internal conflict!  Yeesh. 

In other other news, my older brother is currently gone for a month at my grandparent’s house.  With the puppies.  (Well. I call them puppies… Tasha’s a crochety grandma doga and Travis is middle age)  My grandparents normally watch the dogs when we’re on vacation because kenneling is so darned expensive (and also really hard on Tasha’s anxiety problems…)

Annnnnnnd that brings me to the other, other other news.  I’m going to the beach again.  This Friday.  This time, with the fam…  Should be barrels of fun. (Again, half sarcastic.)  I mean, don’t get me wrong—there’s something to be said for quality time with the family.  But we’re going to be allllll together in a condominium for two weeks.  Sometimes it’s not fun.  I’ve got 14 (more or less) years of experience.  So that’ll be fun.  And I know it will be, for the most part, it’s just that sometimes it gets a bit stressful, is all.  

Annnd it looks like now we’ve reached the sort of down part of the post… I’d love to say that my life is wonderful all the time and nothing ever happens, but that simply isn’t true.  

The past few weeks have also been really stressful and heavy on my soul.  Okay, that may be a bit extreme, but I am slightly worn out.  Mentally.  And while a lot of it doesn’t necessarily have to do with me, it’s still in my head and my heart…

 I found out not that long ago that a friend of my boyfriend’s mom killed herself… I never knew her, but from the sound of it she was a really nice person…

I find out a week-ish ago that my boyfriend’s mom is having heart surgery.  She’s going under today, and I’m just praying that things turn out all right…it’s hard to sit in the car and watch as someone tells someone else “Just remember that I love you”.  It’s enough to wrench your heart a little… Or a lot…

I’ve known for a while now that my dad is being let go… Again.  I can only hope that whatever interview he had a couple days ago turns into something good…

I myself haven’t been feeling alright lately… It’s just these swings between normal and ugh and I can’t take it anymore.  If I knew what was wrong, I’d fix it…

So there you have it.  A little unexpected heart dump…

I’ve been thinking recently… sometimes it seems all I ever post here is just what I do day-to-day.  Is that boring?  I dunno, you guys read my stuff… Hopefully you’re not bored…   I should try to come up with more meaningful things to post about, like stuff that’s happening in our world and what the meaning of life is.  (well, okay I don’t think I’d be quite qualified to answer what the meaning of life is… )

 (…The answer is 42, btw)

But yeah.  I think… I tried to make a feature a while ago… that alphabet thing?

Not gonna lie, it’s kinda long.  Sometimes it takes longer to do than I intend.  So I just might be on the look-out for more features to make this somewhat of a more meaningful blog.  I mean, it is meaningful to me, but I’d love it if it could reach out and touch other people too, you know? And not just be stuck here in StephanieUniverse…. Like the world revolves around me or something.  Plus, perhaps it’ll add more structure to my already sporadic-y blogginess.  

Whew.

I all that ranting/rambling can sure make a girl hungry.  

xoxo