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Maybe It's Good to Be Alone

Hey there, I'm a little excited, two blogs in one week! All too often, I find that I'm parceling out every single hour of my day to this task, or this meeting, or just plain vegging out on the computer and getting my daily dose of social media and "ooh-ing" and "ahh-ing" over pinterest and cute animal videos. I am constantly engaged in everything: School, RA work, wedding tasks, job applications, social media, friends, etc. With all of this, I really don't get to take the time to think things through. I just am constantly on auto-pilot going through the motions necessary to keep me on top of all of the things to do so I don't fall behind. I don't really get to process things unless I'm talking with Karl about everything or how my day was. I've lost that critical thinker inside of me. I used to weigh the pros and cons, lay my decisions before the Lord, heavy with prayer and contemplation. I used to find such deep meaning and justification...

Monday Morning

Hi there, So, as you can tell, my goal of writing on my blog once a week isn't working out too great. Doing everything is especially hard when there is a bright and glorious sun outside and shining. This last week was lovely. One of my classes was cancelled all week, but I felt bad because the professor was out sick. I've been getting to play soccer with Karl in our Soccer 1 class, I've been playing DnD with my friends the last two weeks, I've been playing frisbee occasionally with the nice weather. This last week I had a job offer that was on the table for a project management position up in Seattle, but due to Karl and I not quite knowing what environment we needed just yet, I had to decline the position at this time, but the door is still open to it if we decide that is where we need to be, given that the position is still open. With this offer, we had a lot of discussion about what is needed for both of us in the jobs I'm applying for, and though it was initiall...