Oh how I love flying kites and playing some guitar!
It seems like it's been forever since I wrote on here last. A lot has happened in the past week. Friday night a friend came up and stayed with me, which was fun! Saturday I had new foster parent training at the internship, then Saturday night I hung out with Ash for a while, then Trent. Sunday Steph came and stayed at our place which is always a good time. We just kinda hung around the apartment because we're all poor. Trent came over for a while. Nothing too exciting. Yesterday I spent most of the day working on one of my research papers and got a good portion of it done before Trent and Drew came over last night.I do have to say that I'm having a blah week. Don't get me wrong I've had lots of fun with all of these people, but it's been hard to be focused because of stuff weighing on my mind. I'm having a rough time with some stuff right now, but I'm trying to just look to God. Doesn't it drive you nuts when you just want to be alone, but everyone else thinks that they have to "fix" you? Sometimes I don't want to be fixed, you know? I want to be able to take something to God and trust that He will be with me without others. It's good to do that. Maybe I just wear my heart on my sleeve too much... something that perhaps I should be working on.
Anyway, on the upside I've been playing guitar a ton more which is always great. I go through droughts, but when they end all I want to do is play and write. It's great. I've been trying to teach Trent guitar and usually when I teach someone I end up not wanting to play because I get sick of it, but this time is different. I'm actually having fun and enjoying myself.
Funny story time... last week it was super windy and what is more fun on a windy day than flying a kite?? Nothing! So I decided that I had to find a kite. We went to Walmart and the people practically laughed at me because they are out of season. But was I going to give up that easy? Nope! I bought the stuff I thought I needed to build a kite. It couldn't be that hard right? So with my dowel rods, string, tape, and a garbage bag Trent, me, and ashley built a kite. Trent and I secured the bag on with tape and off we went to Matter Park to try and get it to fly. Needless to say it never got more than 3 feet off the ground... UNTIL this crazy guy started running towards us saying that he could help because he is a kite designer. A kite designer? What the heck?! So this guy helped us tie our string differently and added some weight to the tail and the kite actually flew! For about 5 seconds. (hey it was better than the first couple of tries!) All in all it was a very funny time. And Ashley thought it was going to be dumb. Being spontaneous is fun and I highly recommend it to all!
I've decided that I need to be having fun and doing random things like that now. In five months I'm going to be out of school (hopefully) and into the real world where I'm going to have to be serious for the rest of my life. So why not fly a kite? Why not go to Walmart and goof around and buy a Christmas CD in November? Why not be weird and goofy??
So anyways... another thing really quickly. Be supportive of your friends. Even if they talk about the same thing all the freaking time. You never know how deeply something could be affecting them and by blowing it off you could potentially be hurting them worse. Being a good friend sometimes means hearing the same junk over and over. Sometimes it just means that you offer an ear even when they don't really want to talk about it.
That's it from me. I gotta cut out early... I got some stuff I gotta do. (this is a quote from School of Rock, if you didn't know... you should!)
posted by Moving Forward @ 8:20 PM
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