Party of One

Hey blog! I don’t have much to update you on other than the stupid details of my life, so get excited. Theme of the month: I’m single and my life isn’t headed anywhere awesome. Now, don’t assume I’m super Debbie Downer about either of these things. It’s just a theme and I’m trying to work it out.

We had our family vacation a few weeks ago and that was a lot of fun. Mass chaos + sun + goodbyes = Amy’s worst nightmare. But it was good to see everyone and see Forest’s kids one last time. They’ve grown up so much in the last year and are real, operating kids. (I’m a real boy!) Here’s a picture of the some of the oil we enjoyed:

Um, so the best part of being the youngest of 5 kids is that you are the last single one in the family. It’s a spot that earns you the foldout couch with the kids, back seat in a crowded van, a chair at the kids’ table, and out of the making-plans loop because it’s just me, so why would I care what we do. I think it just hit me the second night on the couch with Caleb and Josiah, when Caleb kicked me in the face, that I am single and it’s not working out for me.

You know what else makes me feel really single… buying Just-for-One frozen veggies. I get home and my broccoli and cheese one just has 2 of the 4 single trays. I guess they realized that I wouldn’t make it to the third meal in my lame life. It’s cool, Walmart, just rub it in. Maybe they should just make a “Hey, I live alone!” aisle in the very front of the store for all to see, featuring half loaves of bread, individual vegetables servings, 1/4 gallon milk, 2 scoops of ice cream and small cans of fruits. Hopefully I would run into some of you on that aisle and not feel so alone.

As for the “my life is going nowhere” part -- I think we all know about my job situation, so we don’t have to elaborate. But it’s just added to my life confusion of where I should be and when. So I’ll keep you posted and let you know if I have any great epiphanies about how to be an adult.

Things that cheer me up:

1) I got an old camera from my parents’ house while I was at home. I asked if I could steal it to find out if they make film for it still. It’s a Kodak Brownie Bull’s-Eye and I did find some film for it, one color and one black and white. So it’s loaded with the color and we’re ready to go. It belonged to our grad school mascot and my great-aunt, Aunt Maline.

2) Found out from Melissa yesterday that I got into Artwalk 2010 (September 10-11). Thanks for letting me know, MJ! I’ll be in the same place as last year and evidently they have cleared out the building, so I’ll be in there with 8 other people. I already know someone that has the same address, so that’s cool.

3) I'm starting my Mixed Media art class at Sammy U tonight. I told MJ yesterday that I feel like it's a community college class, and that I WILL start up my own study group and pick on the improv comedy class kids. I just hope we have an Abed in the group. I take that back; I hope I am Abed. I'm kinda nervous about the class, but that's good for me, because it means I'll be doing something outside my comfort zone. You might be saying, "But isn't this your comfort zone?" Yes, but alone. I've never done this in front of or with other people, so we'll see how it goes.

Alright, back to responsible life,

akschell