I will firstly apologize for how badly spaced AND placed these photos are. Weebly is totally the best place to go to design your own website...
My dearest, most faithful audience. I regret to inform that this is the end. Not really. Something way worse. An update on my life. I'm looking up flights to London and busses to Cardiff and I'm having a hard time being happy about it, and here's why: I am so so SO sad about not being a bigger part of Connor's life in the next few years. I watch him grow every single day, and I had a realization about him the other day. I was at my cousin Alyssa's wedding, and I was hesitating to have my second drink because then I might as well have a third and if I did that, I wouldn't be able to responsibly take care of him anymore. So it was the next day that I determined this was a concern because I assume an almost motherly role to him. Where Ava and I always have fun and I have to discipline her more rarely, I've never felt the same way. And of course that made it so much clearer why I'm struggling so much to be excited to start my PhD. While I'm totally not going to pretend that I know what it is to be a mother, the feelings I have toward him are along those lines. He's not my baby...but he kinda is...and I don't want to leave my baby. I finally understand the "let's not talk about Becca leaving" attitude the rest of my family has been assuming because I think about school, and I can't see the arriving-in-Cardiff part in my brain yet, just the leaving-my-family part. But, ya know, all that said, I don't want it to seem like I'm doing something I don't want to do. For one, I can't keep going in Marion like this. I don't have a permanent job, my own place, or a future really at all. My family is wonderful but I wouldn't be happy staying here. What's more, I would be miserable forever if I knew I had an amazing opportunity like this and didn't take it. I want to get my PhD with Cardiff studying storytelling and video games. I want to move back to the UK, and I want to live in a city again. If I could keep up the personal growth I've had in the last year and a half over the time on my PhD course, then I would feel so fulfilled. Oh ya. And Corny. He's cool too.
Ok, guys. Sorry that was heavy. I'll admit that me typing it out for you was also to help me figure out how I felt. And I feel better. YOU ARE THE BEST, OH READER.
Oh my gosh! I almost forgot to tell you! We're about to go on a trip! So first of all, Corny and I are making this trip:
My dearest, most faithful audience. I regret to inform that this is the end. Not really. Something way worse. An update on my life. I'm looking up flights to London and busses to Cardiff and I'm having a hard time being happy about it, and here's why: I am so so SO sad about not being a bigger part of Connor's life in the next few years. I watch him grow every single day, and I had a realization about him the other day. I was at my cousin Alyssa's wedding, and I was hesitating to have my second drink because then I might as well have a third and if I did that, I wouldn't be able to responsibly take care of him anymore. So it was the next day that I determined this was a concern because I assume an almost motherly role to him. Where Ava and I always have fun and I have to discipline her more rarely, I've never felt the same way. And of course that made it so much clearer why I'm struggling so much to be excited to start my PhD. While I'm totally not going to pretend that I know what it is to be a mother, the feelings I have toward him are along those lines. He's not my baby...but he kinda is...and I don't want to leave my baby. I finally understand the "let's not talk about Becca leaving" attitude the rest of my family has been assuming because I think about school, and I can't see the arriving-in-Cardiff part in my brain yet, just the leaving-my-family part. But, ya know, all that said, I don't want it to seem like I'm doing something I don't want to do. For one, I can't keep going in Marion like this. I don't have a permanent job, my own place, or a future really at all. My family is wonderful but I wouldn't be happy staying here. What's more, I would be miserable forever if I knew I had an amazing opportunity like this and didn't take it. I want to get my PhD with Cardiff studying storytelling and video games. I want to move back to the UK, and I want to live in a city again. If I could keep up the personal growth I've had in the last year and a half over the time on my PhD course, then I would feel so fulfilled. Oh ya. And Corny. He's cool too.
Ok, guys. Sorry that was heavy. I'll admit that me typing it out for you was also to help me figure out how I felt. And I feel better. YOU ARE THE BEST, OH READER.
Oh my gosh! I almost forgot to tell you! We're about to go on a trip! So first of all, Corny and I are making this trip:
The places are all for fun except Hilton Head, SC. That's US Nationals fur de Rubiks Cube. Corny is gonna win, but we have to give the other competitors a fair chance, so we're gonna just act normal like "it's anyone's comp, really". I was excited to swim on the beach (the venue is a resort ON THE OCEAN) but then I heard about the recent shark activity in North and South Carolina, so of course I'm even more excited. When it comes to shark attacks in the Compton family, they say the third time's a charm. Or they did until, um...So our last stop is Gatlinburg and that is SO exciting because it's a family vacay-hay! We get Ava the whole week! We rented a cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains and it'll be my family plus Nana. And Carl, but he counts as one of the gurlz by now anyway. OM gosh I am so freaking exiteddddddd. We are gonna lay around and see woods and read books and have family time basically every moment is going to look like it's straight out of a travel brochure. We have a bunch of activities planned, but this post is already really long, so I'll save those for later.
And wrapping up words, thank you, faithful audience etc. Ok bye. Love you, bye.
Why are you still here?
Oh my gosh, don't you have anything better to do?
Seriously, I'm leaving.
And wrapping up words, thank you, faithful audience etc. Ok bye. Love you, bye.
Why are you still here?
Oh my gosh, don't you have anything better to do?
Seriously, I'm leaving.