How did I get here?

" I may not have gone where I intended to, but I think I ended up where I needed to be."~ Douglas Adams.

Today was the day my first ski season on a ski patroller was supposed to end.  That however was not the case.  We have two weeks left in the season still! This last year has been amazing!! I don't know if I will ever have another year like it! 

I keep saying that I am not the person I was a year ago and it's true but I'm also not the person I was 6 months ago.  Or he'll even 3 weeks ago I feel like sometimes.  I have figured out who I am and who I want to be more importantly.  To think that 4 months ago I was convinced that I was only going to be a patroller for one year that's if I made it home everyday without having quit like I considered so many time.  

And now I think I have a great job one that I love and am excited to come back to next year.  Which brings me to this summer... What I am I going to do.  I had accepted a position in Kentucky again this summer but the pay was a stipend and now that I'm trying to be an adult( scary I know!) that ended up not cutting it due to some financial issues.  

Drum roll please!!!! I am staying in Vermont! All summer!  I will working at Camp Plymouth State Park as a park attendant, I will also be in charge of the concession stand as part of this job.  I am so happy to be staying in Vermont!! As much as I love traveling I also love Vermont especially in the summer.  I still hope to visit Kentucky and would love to visit one of my friends I met while I was overseas last summer!! Time will tell of that happens but I'm working towards getting my current dream job.  

I am not sure how I got here but I am sure glad for the bumpy, painful and occasional down right awful road I've taken cause I am extremely happy! 

Yahooooo!

Life is what you make of it and apparently I have finally figured that out.  I am loving my job, have an amazing group of friends, a great boyfriend and the best family you could ever ask for.  Pretty much since I figured out that I actually wanted to use my degree I have been stressing about finding a job this summer.  Convinced that I would never get anything I have proven myself wrong!  It’s not exactly what I want but I have two interviews for Internships.  One is working on a team of six people interviewing visitors to USACE sights and the other is doing Environmental Education in New York City.  I would love either position and of course there are paying positions I would love to get more but it’s a start. 

This last week has been filled with some crazy ups and downs, long story short: a family emergency in my boyfriends family meant that I got to meet them all about two hours are officially starting to date, that whole getting a boyfriend thing and then finding out I got not one but two interviews in three days.  It’s been a great week and hopefully just keeps getting better! 

Off to Boston tomorrow with four kids and five adults hitting up the aquarium and children’s museum.  It should be a blast!  Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

P.S. I have just shy of 60 ski days!