So a quick update on where I'm at right now. Life is crazy, and where I'm at now, I never would have pictured even just three months ago.
At this very moment I'm in Fort Worth again, albeit for only 12 more hours, but I came down to visit my friends. I made a promise last semester that I would come, and while they only have a half of a week of school left, I made it!
So the last post I had was dated January 17th. Feels like ages ago, but the next day would begin a chain of events that would put me where I am right now.
January 18th. I started talking with this guy. Why? Because my mother asked me about the guys at church and I told her there was only one that I would be somewhat interested in getting to know. So what does she do? She opens her mouth and speaks to his dad. His dad mentions me to him, and sure enough the next night he adds me as a friend on facebook, and the following night we start talking. By the end of the night I had a date planned for that Saturday. What I later found out was the truth: my mom had betrayed my confidence. I was pretty upset. I questioned whether or not he only asked me to go out because he felt obliged or his dad had told him to ask me. But we went out anyway. And it went really well, to the effect that even today, three months later, we're still together.
Job hunting is a nightmare. Why will no one give anyone a break? Everyone wants anywhere from 2-5 years of experience. I just graduated. How am I going to have experience if I was just released into the working world? So I was working at the same restaurant until March, yes, with someone who tried to make my life a living hell. (Thank You Jesus for sustaining me. I don't know how I would have done it without You!) I started working at an accountant's office for tax season processing returns and doing some bookkeeping. Not the most interesting job in the world, in fact, aside from processing I probably did more explaining of technological things and the internet/computer than I did anything else. Please, if you're reading this and don't know how to do attachments in emails or google things you have questions on, TAKE A CLASS. Don't burden your employees with insignificant tasks that distract from the work that they really want to finish. So while not using my brain to even 5% of its potential, I was able to keep busy up until the end of tax season. But what about a career?
I can't afford to go back to school. I just don't have the money, and I'm not willing to take out a whole bunch of loans again. No way. Not when I just finished paying off my undergraduate loans and had to purchase a new car (which I also did--Black 2006 Nissan Altima 2.5SL--Love it!) with $12000 owed to my parents, which is now only $9000, praise Jesus! But while desiring to go to graduate school to get my MBA in Accounting, there is no way I would have been able to afford it, and I definitely don't want to be a waitress forever, not with a college degree anyway.
So, (drumroll please) I enlisted in the Army National Guard. Yes I am probably insane. I don't think I would have had the guts to do it if my boyfriend wasn't in it and helped me along with the process. And before you start thinking anything, he did not pressure me to do it; I came up to him to ask him about it. So I went through MEPS and this past weekend was my first drill. I love it. Already. I don't care if they kick my butt. I'll have life insurance, health insurance, education paid for at any state school, job training, experience. They take care of their own. It really was the only open door. It does mean that I could be sent overseas, but I know that, and it's about 95% certain that I will be deployed. I don't have a problem with that. I signed up for the Army. I know what that means. Maybe not every detail, but the major things, yes.
So these are the recent changes: I'm seeing someone, I enlisted in the National Guard, I will not be substitute teaching, and I'm trying to go to graduate school for my MBA. Definitely not where I thought I'd be when I graduated high school, but God has been good and He's opened up the strangest doors. That's about it for now, I have friends to see =)
