Holy smokes. I haven’t written in two months. Two months to the date, actually. Whoops! But, hello there…if you’re still out there.
The last two months have been an emotional roller coaster, to say the very least. A couple of days after I wrote my last post, I got a promotion at work! You are now reading the blog of a Floor Supervisor at Tommy Bahama. This is, however, a glorified job title for pretty much the same job I already had. Except now I have keys to the store and they let me count money and stuff.
Two weeks after I wrote my last post, my grandfather passed away. While my family and I all knew it was coming, there is absolutely nothing that can soften the blow of a loved one’s death. I miss him every single day and I still can’t believe he’s gone.
During this time, I was still taking online classes in order to finish up my degree by December. I managed to pass said online classes despite having to spend some time in Nebraska with my family for my grandfather’s memorial service. So five weeks after my last post, I finished two of the last six classes I need to graduate.
Unfortunately, six weeks after my last post, my grandmother passed away as well. For most of my family, none of them had seen her since my grandfather’s memorial service. I was lucky enough to have gone home a few days before she passed away and I visited her in the rest home. The most heartbreaking thing was, to me, she seemed like she was just fine. And in a matter of three days, she was gone. We all knew she was miserable without my grandfather. For as devastated as we all were (and still are), we knew that it was better that she wasn’t suffering without him anymore.
That brings us to today. I’ve started my last semester in college, I’m working full time, and I’m trying to find time to sleep and have a social life while keeping on top of my reading and school work. Not to mention I’m still dealing with some very real and present residual sadness from losing my grandparents less than a month apart.
Fortunately, I have a pretty amazing support system in Tim, my family, and my friends. I’m not exactly great at asking others for help when I need it, particularly when I’m overwhelmingly sad. The good news is that they all know that, so they do a pretty good job of checking up on me.
So…there’s all that. I apologize for not having kept up with this blog, but frankly, I just didn’t have the time.
However, I don’t want this blog to fall by the wayside. With graduation coming up in a few short months, I have been thinking about all the things that I will miss (and many, many more things that I won’t miss) after I’m out of college. The thing I will miss most is writing. It’s one of my favorite things to do, and once I don’t absolutely have to do it anymore, I don’t just want to stop doing it. I will try my hardest to keep up with this thing, though. Promise!
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