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So I wrote a post the other day on my computer but I forgot to post it while I had internet today. I'll try an get it posted this weekend at somepoint. I finally went swimming in the lake! It was so nice it's about 85 degrees by the air was 104 when I was swimming.. Back to work tomorrow through Monday then I get three days off for the fourth. Trying to decide what I'm doing in my next weekend may go on an adventure to mammoth cave np it may go to Nashville who knows. :)

Day 3

Yesterday I did some shopping and finished setting up my camper. Nice easy day just relaxing went for a dip in the lake, read a book and was cooler than everyone back home.
Today I was back at work, nothing really special. Met Deryck who is lead ranger at Nolin. Watched him work on a map for the new mountain biking trail they are opening up Saturday at the state park. Learned how to do playground inspections and believe it or not got to dog creek campground and the state park with out getting lost!
I'm really enjoying work so far. I think I am going to learn a ton!!
Social life right now is pretty much big bang theory an that's it :) tomorrow I'll go up and help Harold at the toll house since he's running the campground alone right now his wife broke her ankle the day before I got here.
Busy weekend ahead but for now here's a picture of my view from my picnic table.

Day 1

Hope this works! Need to do some work I guess

“The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted; it belongs to the brave”

All day today I just felt like I was doing the right thing.  Every time I saw something new I felt like I was going where I was supposed to be going.  And then it hit me right about the time I crossed the border in Kentucky, I took a job in which I don’t really know what I’m doing. In a place I know nothing about where I know no one.  But I still feel like I made the right decision. 

From Sunday night two weeks ago to the following Wednesday when I accepted this position to now I can’t believe this is me on this adventure.  It may be an epic fail due to not planning, not knowing and so many other things but it could be great and I went for it! 

Things I Learned Today

The things I learned while driving for 8 hours!

~ New York is a GIGANTIC state!!!

~ I90 is a really really really long road!

~ Ohio likes to create bump strips in the roads in construction zones.

~ Ohio likes really sharp curves on main highways.

~ Rain near a great lake sucks to drive in!

~ Eight hours of driving alone in a car will make you loose some marbles.

~ I heard Call Me Maybe 10 times ( not including my phone ringing)

~ When driving entering new states makes you feel better about yourself.

~ When you finally see the town you are going to on a sign you jump up and down.

~ When you see the first other vt plate in about 7 hours you get really excited.

I get to do it all over again tomorrow!  

Belonging

“I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group.”~Emily Mortimer

This sense of belonging is a new one and today I finally understood. Seeing people who my world revolved around for years I realized that with them I was myself but I was always trying to be what I thought they wanted me to be not myself.  It’s been a process, like a two year process but I have finally got it. I hope anyways.

I have a great group of friends that accept me for my crazy, sometimes quiet mainly loud talkative, hyper, giggly self. Yes they pick on me ALL the time but I love them for it!  I leave tomorrow on an adventure, while it may not be the one I had originally planned I hope I learn about myself and why I want to stay right where I am.  Kentucky and Europe will be a blast, I will learn so much, see so many things but I get the feeling by the middle of September I will be just as excited to the amazing Green Mountains that I love so much.  They are my home, I may leave for a little bit but I will always be back! 

If life gives you lemons look on the positive side!

Well today was an interesting day!  The trip that I had been planning for months all of a sudden came to halt 3 days before I was leaving.  As much as I want to go on a cross country trip I didn’t want to go alone, it’s too much driving.  I am still going to Europe for 4-6 weeks in August I’m just not sure what I am going to do between now and then.  After having talked to my friend Rachel I am most likely going to spend some time in Boston and go to the cape with her for a bit too.  I want to go to Acadia National Park, Laurie and I may take the kids up for a week of camping or at least a couple of days something.   

I really thought that I could do the trip alone but the more I think about it the more I’m like nope nope nope.  I’m trying to figure out what I am going to do for the month of July right now.  I want it to be an adventure of some kind not sure what yet tho.  I have time, a lot has happened today.  There will always be bumps in the road to figuring out who the heck I am I guess and this was just a bit bigger than I thought I would hit anytime soon. :/