Summer That Was

Well I'm back up in Santa Barbara, which can mean only one thing-- School's about to start. Although it doesn't quite feel like that yet, because every morning I wake up to eat breakfast on a balcony with a beautiful ocean view. I watch the few people that are getting started on their day and observe the surprising amount of hummingbirds and bumble bees we have flying around a tree next to our house. Yeah life's quite rough here, I'm gonna just barely scrape by I think.

My summer back in San Diego was great, I really missed the comforts that Home had to offer. I read the Shack -which I will try to reread before school starts up- and started looking for jobs when I got home. It was quite an epic adventure finding work, let me tell you. I worked as a manual laborer for a couple days, and other than that I was striking out. I had two interviews with a Vans store and 'just barely missed the cut' and an embarrassing one at Sammy's Pizza that lasted all of two minutes since I never had eaten there before. Haha. But after waiting, I finally picked up a job working at a dog kennel. My sister worked there and told me they were hiring, so I jumped at the chance with desperation. Then a couple weeks later I picked up a second job at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club. So on days when I had both jobs I worked over 13 hours a day! But it definitely helped to make up for the time I lost not working.

The coolest moment I had this Summer has to be when the four of us made our monthly visit to Disneyland. We stayed for a couple days at the Paradise Pier Hotel and it had a great view of the park. We ate at the Blue Bayou restaurant and it was exquisite! All in all, I'm so glad I was able to make the adjustment of living at Home again and I'm so thankful for my family... which is something I'll never take for granted.

There's so much more I could write, but I'll hold off or else this blog will be ridiculously long. Hopefully I'll be on here soon.

Cheers