Life After School

I've spent most of my youth dreaming of what this time of my life would be like. I'm satisfied to say that it's everything I expected and wanted it to be and yet none of it all at once. The hardest part for me is learning to have spare time again. I just haven't figured out exactly how to utilize it yet. I can't remember how to have hobbies and it's like I'm re-discovering them. I've had either homework or a test to study for for so long that I can't remember what I ever did before that. Even so, it's been more refreshing than I could've dreamed to have this time. To have an overabundance of time.

My job has been going very well! I feel like I'm learning fast and I'm more committed to the training process than I ever have been before because this is the real thing. This is a career I have invested myself in, so I don't just want to be 'good enough,' I want to be excellent. I'll let you know how that goes. ;)

Ionia is very beautiful this time of year. There are so many crop fields right now and they just take my breath away when I drive past them every evening. Lots and lots of wildflowers too. There's this old chapel on the way to the highway that I love so much. I drive past it and think about all the years it must've seen sitting on that lonely corner of road. Someday I'll have to take a picture.

Changing my name legally has been a lot of work, along with figuring out our bank accounts, health insurance, and how in the world Amanda McDonald is going to cash Amanda Jobin's first paycheck next week. Slowly I'm learning though and I can't really complain. It's a little exciting when I sit back and think about it. :)

This weekend is the Ionia Free Fair and I'm so excited!! It's a huge deal around here (maybe the only officially cool thing that happens in this town?) and I'm hoping to have my brother and his girlfriend out to go with us. :D