Summer?

It's obviously been a long time since I blogged; almost 2 months. A lot of the same has been happening up here in A-town, mostly work. I have been working extra for the past month at the hospital, which is good for the paycheck but bad for everything else. Working 4 nights a week leaves little time to do anything else during the 7-day week, since 5 of those days are spent sleeping to be able to work 4 nights. After 5 weeks of doing this I have decided its time for a job change. I have applied for a day shift job and have an interview next Monday morning. It's too hard to be apart from David for over 100 hours a week every week, especially when you consider that there are only 168 hours in a week. So I am making a change for the good of our marriage. I don't really feel like we can build a solid foundation on 40% of time spent together. Some people can, but we can't. So thats where that stands. I'll update after the interview on Monday.
With all this working going on I almost forgot that its summer. And then I got a little sad. This is the first summer I haven't been on vacation. I guess everyone thinks that since I'm not in school and I'm married I have to make my own plans for vacation. Well we see how far I got on that one. It just seems like normal life right now, not summer. Nothing stopped or got put on hold for a few months; summer just started while we were at work. I mean really, how significant is summer if you aren't in school or don't have kids who are in school, or don't work in youth ministry? Not very. I guess I have just been spoiled my whole life, especially the glorious 5 years in MBY. My summers were pretty much planned for me, I just packed my bags and went wherever they took me. Now I have to be in charge of my own summer vacation, which I guess I didn't realize until halfway through July. Next summer I intend to do a better job.
On a higher note, David and I did go down to Hazlehurst for 3 days for a break from work. And my mom and sister and I are going to Amelia for a weekend in August. I am thankful for the short breaks; they have somehow redeemed my lack of planning. Nevertheless, I have already begun getting ideas for next summer. I won't be making this mistake more than once. Happy rest of the summer!