Where did the Summer Go?

Where did the summer go? I certainly don't feel like I've even had a summer! I feel like I've just stayed on the go, haven't slowed down, and I haven't accomplished crap. Yeah that pretty much covers it...

As far as updates go...

School -- I'm still in summer school until the end of August. I also have until the end of August to finish up work on my two incomplete classes and my one summer class..I'm coming along, just slowly...Hopefully my grades pop back up to honors range and all will be well with that. I'm also going to TRY and student teach this Spring. Meaning I'd have to go to summer school to finish some theory classes, but I would graduate in the summer and have my full teaching certificate for the 2010-2011 school year.

Job -- yeah, I still don't have one. period. I'm not happy, I'm rather miffed about it all. Oh well, not much I can do, except what I've been doing - putting in resume after resume and hoping someone will call. I'm willing to take crap employment until I find something else, but I can't seem to do that either. argh......

House situation -- well this has improved somewhat...My mom kicked my cousin and his pot addiction out of the house for good. This has been a tremendous improvement overall in the household. There are fewer arguments (as in I think we've had 1 in the past 3 weeks). Things are actually getting done around the house, and the stress level has greatly decreased. All of this is good news. On the flip side, however, we're still looking for a place of our own. It's kinda old living with your mother/mother in law. We have very little privacy, constant interuptions (when I'm occupied with school work and other activities ;) ), and constant questions about where we're going and what we're doing...It gets old. Hopefully we'll be able to do something this fall, before the housing rebate goes bye bye..

Nathan's job -- not so hot. He got let go from LexMark b/c they chose not to renew his contract that was up July 6. In the mean time, he's gone back to Pizza Hut, until he can find an IT/Computer job. It's not awesome, but I'm grateful for it, nonetheless.

We did manage to make it to Kings Island this summer (week ago Wednesday) and had a blast! Took the munchkin and my cousin's child (never again on him) and had fun. My cousin's son was a total brat all day long. He wouldn't stop asking the same questions over and over and over again. Nathan kept asking for duct tape! haha! Munchkin was going nuts, but she managed.

No news on the baby front. No baby on the way, but no time really to try for baby either. Reality is that we aren't stable enough (read: no place of our own, me not working) to really have a baby right now anyway. God is totally in control, and I know that. It's just REALLY hard to accept when all our church friends are having kids, cousins have kids, etc and we're not. We keep getting asked, and I keep coming up with creative answers, but to be honest, it's getting really really old. For the moment, I have the munchkin (who, thankfully, is a great! distraction!), although she keeps wanting to know when we're going to have one! But I can usually distract her attention to something else, so that's a blessing. I'm looking forward to losing some weight, and getting back in to see my IF specialist -- I'm ready to get this show on the road :)

Camp was AWESOME! I can't put into words how awesome it was, but it was a great week. So much came out of camp, and while we didn't have any to make decisions (they had all made decisions prior to camp), it was great for our kids, and even more so, great for Nathan and I. I'm so blessed to have gone, and I totally stand by my opinions from the spring - I gave it to God, and God gave it back to me. He was waiting for me to hand over my desire to go, and I became obedient - upon doing so, he rewarded my obedience with what I desired. All was good :) A great time was had by all, and I'm so thankful :)

Yep yep, so I guess that's really all...I have another post to make, but will probably save it for tomorrow, as I do need to work on my homework just a bit. I need to get everything done so that all I have left is my thesis for next week. That's my goal - I'm already partially there - I just have my chapter summaries and 2 papers to write (although my papers can be the same 1 paper, since it's going to two different teachers). Then all I have left is my final exam for my one class and my thesis. Yep that's my goal -- by Sunday to have everything but my final exam and my thesis done, so that next week I can work my behind off on my thesis. Good goal to have...now I just need to achieve it :)

I'll be back tomorrow or Wednesday with a post about some of the blogger drama...If you've come to my blog from , I'll have my take on it soon enough...This is simply an update post for my friends and followers, since I've been out of the blog loop for about 6 weeks!

No prayer requests at the moment, unless you count the job situation. I'm also going to blog about something I've been led to do, but it's still a couple of years off :), but that's for another day and another post :)

Blessings :)

~Melissa :)