Full Speed Ahead Cap-i-tan!

As expected, this summer is flying by at ridiculous speeds. It is almost the end of June, which means my summer is almost half over already! On the one hand I feel very unaccomplished, but on the other hand I've been so busy I've hardly had time to sleep. Sadly my crazy work schedule has consumed the majority of my time thus far and it has left little time to do anything else. I've tried to get out and about a few times with friends, but it's tricky and inconsistent.

On the upside things will be slowing down significantly at the concert hall, since there will simply not be as many shows going on. However it also appears that I will be taking a summer communications course as well, so that will consume the rest of my time. This year, I'm hoping to apply for a double minor in Applied Mathematics and Astrophysics, so I need to go talk to the academic advisor to make sure I take all the courses I need.

Questions:

I'm not sure I really have any memorable birthdays... Largely because my birthday is always right after the holidays when school is starting again or I'm away on vacation or something. I enjoyed my last birthday, which we went and painted our own ceramic objects ( I painted a gnome).

Are you happy with your life now and where it is currently going? A simple but at the same time, loaded question. :)

Seconds, hours, so many days…

Since I posted late last week and Mondays are my normal day it’s my turn to post a blog again. Nothing much has happened really. I’ve spent a lot of time at the hospital visiting my sister, her boyfriend and their baby, my nephew William. They left the hospital today so from now on I can visit them at their apartment instead.

Other than that I’ve continued my fight to get a new phone and hopefully it will be solved soon because I’ve had to borrow an old phone from my dad for the last two months almost and it’s no fun. Pretty much all I can do with it is call and text, nothing else.

Oh, they finally started airing American Idol on TV here now so even though I’ve seen most of it and especially all of Adam’s clips online I’m gonna follow it now to get myself an opinion of all of the other contestants.

Since I asked the last question I’m not gonna ask a new one today and I’m gonna wait til next week to answer my own when Chris has posted a blog and one more question for me to answer.

You know what you want, but how long can you wait?

I know this is a bit late but I’ve been busy with a lot of stuff, both good and bad. Let’s start with the good things. One of my sisters had a baby boy 2 days ago and he is beyond cute, but that has taken up some time.

(My nephew wearing the clothes I bought for him)

I’ve also just recently found out that I got a B on my last econ final that I didn’t even think I was gonna pass.

Moving on to the bad stuff, my phone has been at the store for service/reparations for the last month and a half. I’ve gotten it back three times but the problem has still been there so it’s now the fourth time it’s in (within this month and a half). So now I’ve gotten tired of it so I’ve enlisted the help of a person that helps consumers when they have problems with things they’ve bought. So now we’ve threatened the store to take this matter to the National Board for Consumer Complaints. Hopefully it will all be solved soon.

Moving on to the question;
Chris: I think charities are good and if I had more money I would support the ones that I believe in. But I would never give money to a charity just because you should if I don’t believe in what they are doing.

New question: Which one of your birthdays do you remember the most and why?

Decisions!

Tonight I was proposed with a very interesting financial offer from my parents. Essentially they would help fund my new car if I agreed to move back in with them for at least a year. I currently have an aging vehicle that is on its last leg. Don't get me wrong, I love my car, but realistically it is getting to the age that it could fail at any moment and is well past its prime.

From a financial perspective it makes logical sense to move back home since I would save a significant amount of money and actually be able to afford things. The other hope is that if I do move back, I would work a lot less during the school year and actually have adequate time for my studies.

This is all for the trade off of my freedom, and the hope that I would actually be able to stand living at home. I'm generally an independent person, and if things could stay that way while living there and they didn't get in my way to much it could be tolerable. But I will certainly need some time to think things over and make some sort of a decision.

I'll skip a question today since I asked the last one.

The condensed answer of my question is that yes I do support charities, but to an extent. I generally only donate or help out specific causes and efforts.

Wholly crap it's June!

I can't believe it's already June. As usual the summer is just flying by. I'll keep this short. My 3 summer jobs are in full swing, and so far I'm quite enjoying all of them. Minds in motion is lots of fun, but I'm having issues keeping up with my required project hours. Largely becuase I am a driver and am constantly out and about doing workshops and shopping for supplies. I have yet to be in the office all week, I've been busy running around town.

I've officially booked the hostel in San Francisco, so everything is going to plan so far! We are currently planning to stay 5 nights in SF. We are not sure of the details for after SF but at least we have that much figured out.

Questions:

I think our education system is rather slack and under funded, at least compared to European schools. We always seem to be a year behind european kids of the same grade level.

I think adam lambert will do well for himself even though he didn't win. He's popular and talented enough to go reasonably far with his singing career.

Chineses remedies are quite interesting and I think they can be very powerful if used properly and effectively. I haven't really subscribed to much of chinese remedies, but I think it's certianly something I would consider using in the future.

Chris is quite a common name so I've seen it on lots of random things. Nothing really major but there is always those keychains and such with my name on it.

New: what do you think of charities? do you think they are worth supporting, do you think we should bother helping out the less fortunate or should they have to fend for themselves?