Once Upon a Time...

Once upon a time in a land far far away called Northeast Minneapolis there lived a 27 year old Seminary student. She gave up trying to find a second part time job for the summer and is living very modestly on what she makes at her office job, which incidentally she found out on Thursday she will be losing in January, probably. On the plus side, she is finding many things to do over the summer to keep her busy. This includes but is not limited to: studying German in order to pass the language exam at the end of the summer, gathering the necessary materials for PhD applications that will be sent out in the fall, doing research for her thesis that she will be working on throughout the coming school year, saving money to return to the Holy Land in January 2010 with Luther Seminary and company, reading for fun, and hanging out with friends and her wonderful boyfriend Jason.

All in all a fun and busy summer.

And now from this point on I will be writing in the first person.

This last weekend I helped move one of my favorite people in the world and her family. The former Sarah Hartung, now Sarah Goldammer was the first person at Luther Seminary my first time around who invited me to do something outside of classes. We went and saw the Harry Potter movie that came out in the fall of 2005 and have been friends ever since. Thank you for taking a chance on me. You have no idea how much you changed my life and I will be forever grateful for it. I am excited to celebrate her ordination with her July 13th.

The people who are supposed to be doing work on the house may actually show up starting tomorrow again. I've gotten so used to them not being there, it will be hard to get back into the groove of getting up earlier than need be and get out of the house by 9 or 9:30 during the week. It will be nice to have them finally finish and get the hell out.

This past weekend has been wonderfully relaxing and I feel rejuvenated. I spent some quality time with my roommate Jen before she left for her travels to Myanmar. I am so glad she gets to go and experience all the awesome things she'll get to experience. I will miss her very much while she is gone, but she will be back in August sometime and I'll get to hear all about it, which I am very much looking forward to.

Last night, Jen, Doug, Dana and I went to the Stone Arch Bridge fireworks show in Minneapolis. It was a really good show and the company was wonderful. It is where I went the day I met Katherine Olson two years ago. I only shed a few tears and being surrounded by friends was great. I still miss you Katherine, but as the old adage goes, time does heal all wounds. Though some will never go away, the hurt will dull over time, to the point where on certain days, a moment of silence and reflection with help get one through the day. Overall a very good day! :)

Let's see, is there anything I haven't covered. Nope. Therefore I will pause for now. Until the next time, may your days be good and God be with you!