Life. It has been really really crazy. Not the busy, hectic crazy. Just completely oddball. haha. First of all, I get home from school last month and I am told that my family is moving halfway across the country this summer! Talk about the summer not being what was expected! They gave themselves a little over a month to pack up and will be moving in the next 2 weeks. So right now the house is full of boxes and is looking emptier and emptier. It's um, weird. We moved here when I was 11, so almost exactly ten years ago. While it was hard then, I didn't realize quite all that moving means. It's strange to just pick up, leave everything, and plop down in the middle of somewhere new and try to insert yourself into people's lives. I mean, for me this move doesn't have a big effect. Things will be different, but other people are having a lot harder of a time than I am. So yeah, life here has been quite unpredictable!
I was just talking to a friend and telling her how this summer has been nothing at all like I had hoped or planned. And it really hasn't. I had this nice picture of what the summer would look like. It included having a job, practicing hours and hours and day, spending lots of quality time with my family, and hanging out with my friends a TON. I think I miscalculated how many hours are in a day. Because I don't have a job and I'm doing about half of the rest of the stuff. Fortunately I have been able to spend a lot of time with friends. I have the MOST amazing friends here. I don't know why they are so good to me. And I guess I spend a lot of time with my family too! I've been doing a lot of travel planning too. Although I was hoping to have a job so that I could really throw away money in Europe, I am learning to live on a budget. God has provided I think not a penny more than I absolutely need. Which is to say that God has provided! I am working on a detailed itinerary of what I plan to do for my 4 days in Vienna, including coffee shops to visit and (cheap) restaurants to eat at. And it's amazing how many things you can do for free in Vienna!
Let's see, piano is stressing me out like usual also. It is so hard to keep my focus where it needs to be. I don't play piano to be the best or to impress people. I play piano because I absolutely love music and what music can do. Yes, I want to be good and I want to do well, but if that's what motivates me, I'm in a scary spot. Yeah, sometimes I go to bed feeling a little sick to my stomach about how much I didn't practice. I just need to keep my motivation healthy. I'm also playing for an Episcopal service on July 1st. I'd never been to a sunday episcopal service before last week - it is definitely different than the baptist stuff that I'm used to! There's a lot of pressure on the music leader, basically I could ruin the whole service. AND I am running the choir rehearsal before the service. What?! I feel so unqualified - but I guess I still have the job so it's all ok! I'll have to let you know how it goes.
I tried out some new recipes this week too! I'll share my successes and failures with you in the next post!
I was just talking to a friend and telling her how this summer has been nothing at all like I had hoped or planned. And it really hasn't. I had this nice picture of what the summer would look like. It included having a job, practicing hours and hours and day, spending lots of quality time with my family, and hanging out with my friends a TON. I think I miscalculated how many hours are in a day. Because I don't have a job and I'm doing about half of the rest of the stuff. Fortunately I have been able to spend a lot of time with friends. I have the MOST amazing friends here. I don't know why they are so good to me. And I guess I spend a lot of time with my family too! I've been doing a lot of travel planning too. Although I was hoping to have a job so that I could really throw away money in Europe, I am learning to live on a budget. God has provided I think not a penny more than I absolutely need. Which is to say that God has provided! I am working on a detailed itinerary of what I plan to do for my 4 days in Vienna, including coffee shops to visit and (cheap) restaurants to eat at. And it's amazing how many things you can do for free in Vienna!
Let's see, piano is stressing me out like usual also. It is so hard to keep my focus where it needs to be. I don't play piano to be the best or to impress people. I play piano because I absolutely love music and what music can do. Yes, I want to be good and I want to do well, but if that's what motivates me, I'm in a scary spot. Yeah, sometimes I go to bed feeling a little sick to my stomach about how much I didn't practice. I just need to keep my motivation healthy. I'm also playing for an Episcopal service on July 1st. I'd never been to a sunday episcopal service before last week - it is definitely different than the baptist stuff that I'm used to! There's a lot of pressure on the music leader, basically I could ruin the whole service. AND I am running the choir rehearsal before the service. What?! I feel so unqualified - but I guess I still have the job so it's all ok! I'll have to let you know how it goes.
I tried out some new recipes this week too! I'll share my successes and failures with you in the next post!
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