Adulthood is overrated, I wanna be a kid again

I feel like coming into adulthood was something I'd always wanted. You always want to be grown up when you're a kid. You want to drive and then you just want to be away from home. Now I know what my mother was talking about when she said that life goes by so fast. I still feel like I'm a kid, especially when I go home to see my parents. But I'm not a kid anymore, at least not by societies standards.

I want to go back to the simpler times. I remember when we lived on our farm, I would sit outside on the front porch and I would write. I would write down anything and everything I was thinking. Stories, poems, journal entries. And then I would look around and say that it wasn't going to get any better than this. I miss those times. I crave simplicity.

I no longer want to call myself an adult. I want to go back in time. I want to be back on that front porch with my sunset and my notebook and just breathe it all in one more time. I don't think that I will ever feel that kind of peace again. I think that it has come and gone. If I do experience it again, it won't be for a very long time. And when I do experience it again, I'll remember that porch and my sunset and I'll remember that this is what life should be like. I just want to go back. I want the simple life.

Life please stop with your lessons

Sitting at work, doing paper work and working on the computer. All the sudden darkness. I mean complete and total darkness. I couldn't see five inches in front of my face darkness. We had a power outage at work the other night and we were supposed to have a generator that kicks on, but it malfunctioned somehow. This left us in the dark (and cold) for 45 minutes. It was scary and frustrating, especially because no one could tell me what to do to fix it.

I swear, I'm constantly being tested as a supervisor. The good thing is, that I handle it well. I know how to direct people and take care of things in an emergency. Hopefully other people see that as well.

I'm enjoying my new job. I'm not used to the full time hours yet, but it's nice to have something to do (especially now that I'm graduated.) I officially graduated this past Saturday. I was really excited about that. It was a surreal moment walking across that stage. It was the one and only time I got to meet/see the president of Minnesota State University-Mankato. (Now that's saying something.) I also got to go to Red Lobster. My mom took the family out for dinner to celebrate. It was awesomely delicious.

Everyone at my job is asking me when I'm quitting there to start my career. I keep telling them that I'm not quitting there and that I'm sticking around for awhile. No one believes me either when I tell them that. I guess after I stay for awhile they'll stop asking me. With the economy the way it is, I'll take what I can get and I love this job, so I'll stick with it until I don't love it anymore.

Graduating, New Job, New Chapter

I graduate next Saturday with my bachelor's degree in Public Relations. I'm pretty excited. (I'm not excited that the ceremony is at 9 am.) My family will be here on Friday and staying through Sunday. I'm also excited that I just started my supervisor's job at the Harry Meyering Center. So far the job tasks added aren't too much, but I can see if I don't attend to them that they're going to pile up and then that's going to make it rough.

I didn't think that I would be saying with HMC after I graduated, but with the economy the way that it is, I can't really find anything in the field that I'm graduating in. Seriously, I looked. All the entry level positions are going to people that did have a job and then were let go. They get hired over me because they have the experience and they are willing to take the pay cut just so that they have a job.

I'm sticking with HMC for three reasons, number 1 it's a job and one that I love doing. Number 2, I love my co-workers, they are awesome to work with and finally number 3, I get health insurance. Isn't that sad? I'm excited that I'll have health insurance. Now I definitely feel like an adult. For now, I'm content and that's all I can really ask for. To me contentment is happiness, in a simpler form and I'll take simple any day of the week.