It's been FAR too long I am aware, but in between madly completing topics for my studies I thought I'd take a break and write a little :D
The last couple of months have been madness in the Tough household! Toy sale has come and gone and I am pretty confident we can all agree that we're happier in it's GOING than we are in its arrival! We survived, just, and all is back to somewhat normalcy after 10 days of TERROR! Now there is a periodic lull while we contemplate another Christmas season...more madness I am assured, but that is to be expected. Our holiday to NZ fast approaches, only a couple of months to go now, and my semester accordingly has been broken up into two main areas....what I can get done BEFORE going away, and what we need to madly do AFTER I come back! I have promised several people that I will NOT be taking textbooks away with me and I intend on keeping that promise, not for them but for myself as this IS our honeymoon after all!
Graduate program applications are also underway, with two still yet to happen, one in the works, and one already at interview stage. The hardest thing for me right now is not knowing what is going to happen to us, or even which STATE we could be living in this time next year! It's all so up in the air, and I struggle with that being characteristically a fairly organised, stable, goal driven person. Ambiguity and vagueness drive me CRAZY so it seems God in kind is handing it to me by the BUCKETLOAD...perhaps to teach me a lesson? And maybe that lesson is I DONT have to know everything! But, regardless we press on. Tax time is rolling in too, and pending my actually getting my statements together we'll be getting on it pretty quickly, as we're dead keen on using that money towards certain goals we want to achieve (money for moving house and a Nintendo Wii come to mind!) I figure with all the Christmas work we'll be getting the moving costs are in the bag, specially if my graduate program employer helps out (sometimes they do and sometimes they dont!) So Brad's return SHOULD cover a Wii, very exciting for me especially because I am saving to get Wii fit :D
I have been working hard with Youth services here in town, volunteering my time whenever I can doing whatever I can to further my chances at getting employment post grad. Lots of meetings, and lots of time has been spent shadowing the youth worker here to try and nut out what she does and to get some experience in that kind of environment. I am hoping to get in on the ground floor of a project aimed at preventing binge drinking, and in the meantime I want to meet the ladies from headspace, and make some networking contacts. Pam is also going to help me put together a letter of introduction, to send to places that don't offer graduate programs such as headspace, in the hope that perhaps I can get in somewhere there also. Anything I can do to better my chances at work! There is NO WAY come hell or high water am I staying at Big W, most definately big W warwick anyways.
It has not been explicitely spoken, but I feel like Brad and I are both feeling the pull to move...we know its a possibility at the end of this year anyways, but lately we've both felt like regardless we're ready to move on. I feel more disconnected from our community, less involved in stuff I used to be, and more ready to make new friends and see some more of this country! Which state we'll end up in is anyone's guess right now, with Qld, NSW and the ACT all on the cards at this point. Heck, if we like it maybe I'll go for a job in NZ LOL It's like standing on a precipce, not really knowing whether the bottom is two steps or two miles away, and not knowing whether ur going to step off tomorrow or next week! LOL Whatever happens, God is with us, and as much as I want to dictate what we're going to do, or where we're going to be, the truth is God's way will prevail, and we'll go where we're sent, and be planted where we're planted. My favourite phrase at the moment is "God has a plan....I just wish he'd let me in on it!!!!"
Until next time! :P
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