Money!!!

So as a college graduate I do not have a lot of money. I have been doing pretty good over the summer, but with student loans on the horizon I am starting to realize that the party is over.

I have to actually become an adult. Reality is around the corner and I need to actually budget. Well what I really need to do it find another job. I will not be able to live with the income that I am bringing in when my student loan bills start coming in.

Money can feel like a necessary evil. It is impossible to live a life in society without some form of income, but there are so many different ways you can go about that. Money can become everything, which I do not want. But I do want it to be a result of something that I really enjoy doing. Working with kids is something that I love, and I am not sure what to do for a part-time job. I could waitress, I could put in applications everywhere, but I feel as though some of the best results have happened because I have waited. I have not just jumped, but I have thought, contemplated and waited for the best move. Maybe not always the most financially rewarding, but rewarding in a way that is so much more transcendent.

I have been thinking about different ways that I can make extra money on my terms, using some of my gifts or interests in such a way that I can create a little income. One thing that I have thought about is being a personal shopper. Maybe go into a few different retirement homes and ask if at any time anyone would need a new outfit for some sort of special occasion.

I guess in some ways I don't want to be conventional, but I also wonder if I can afford to develop this, or if I need to just find something quick and painless.

As a recent university graduate, I am not sure if I can be picky with my jobs, but I also sometimes feel as though I have paid my dues with cleaning toilets, literally many toilets, and I guess I want to do something that I enjoy.

Maybe I have pride, maybe I just want to use my interests to make money.

We shall find out what is in store next!

Until then...

Finished Product

Here is my finished scarf!

It may look a bit weird, but with a nice pea-coat it is really cute!!! I am excited to wear it when it gets really cold outside!

A Door Fetish

While I was exploring I found some awesome doors, not sure what it is but I really like doors.

Exploring

So I had an idea to walk around my downtown on a Sunday afternoon. Then I ended up at a new cafe which I loved.

I started snapping pictures and this is what I came up with!!

so far...

So it has been a few weeks since I started with these kindergartners and I have realized, well I knew this before but it has been reinforced, that kids especially young kids are very blunt.

You know if they either like what you are wearing or if you made a huge mistake with that skirt/blouse combo. They will make very clear if your new haircut is fabulous or not. Or if you just decide to style your hair a little bit different, say curly, that day, they will let you know very quickly if it makes the cut. I wore my hair curly a few days ago, and the moment I sat down at the desk, I hear your hair is crazy. And then I say, was that very nice and they say no. I then said, to this little boy, what if I told you your hair was crazy. And the boy proceeds to say my hair is short it doesn't get crazy. Touche.

Well I also find it very funny when these children say things that are very grown up. For example this one kid who is sometimes quite difficult makes the comment my eye really hurts and I am beginning to feel like no one cares. It was hilarious and quite matter-a-fact.

I am for sure sick of saying stop hitting, kicking, biting and please stand in line quietly, stop touching each other hands to yourself.

Until then!

A job.

So I have a job. It was definitely coming down to the wire. I am not sure if this was the plan all along or if God was thinking well I better give her something to do. But I am a...drum roll please....a Kindergarten aide. lol It is pretty much full time and I am making just as much as I would be if I was substitute teaching. So all in all not a bad gig.

These kids are great though. I mean they are difficult. There are 16 boys and 4 girls and the boys have a lot of energy. Two of the boys are 4 which means they have a shorter attention span and are a little more immature, which seems weird to say when I am referring to 5 year olds.

They are also very funny. They say some of the funniest things. For example one of my kids talking about a cocoon and saying raccoon, seriously thinking that it was raccoon.

Then one kid was talking about how he had a canker sore on his tongue and all the kids were wondering what he was saying. tingle toes on your tongue. tangled on your tongue. Then one kids finally goes oh cankasaur. He totally thought he got it.

They keep life interesting yes they do!!

irony

So I am almost done with my summer job and I have nothing really lined up yet for after this ends. I am trying to not freak out, but sometimes I realize that I need to be a grown up now, where I pay for my own car insurance, cell phone bill, chiropractor appointment and so on. I am still living a very charmed life. I will be having a rude awakening when I decide to finally cut the umbilical cord, so to speak.

I began reading One Day by David Nicholls and the book picks up when these two main characters graduate from university. Then for years to come they are either gallivanting around the world or working dead end jobs at Loco Caliente, a Mexican restaurant in England (irony). How they both were settling and not living up to their potential. It really made me think about my life and where I want to be in a few years. The sad thing was that I thought I could see myself forgetting about my dreams and settling into anything, that pays. Well I am definitely lining myself up for that outcome. I am so not proactive and I just wait around for things to happen. Life will continue to pass me by if I let it. People who are living their dreams rarely wait for it, they go out and seize it.

Well here is to seizing it, at home, because I am not going anywhere soon...