Smorgasbord

I know that I have been severely slacking but I will make up for it here.....

Kayla left me and it made me sad, we were having such a great time, but all good things must come to an end sometime, but I'm not losing sleep over it because I know that soon we will reconvene. As for the whole flight attendant thing which I believe at first started as sort of a joke, but we have both looked into and have found it to be a viable option as well as an interesting one. Don't worry though I am going to pursue my real passion first after school which is being a sportscaster, if I can land a job doing that soon after school I would be ecstatic.

Two days after Kayla left I drove 3 and a half hours to a whole other world, Houston, and yes that's in Texas and yes that's where I am living but if you've ever been to Austin then travel to Houston it really is another world. Houston has about 6 million people living there, a little less than 5 million more than Austin and I thought Austin was big. Anyway, I drove to Houston because Grandma Kitchel, Annie, and Lexi were there for a JRA convention. After getting lost in downtown I finally made it to the hotel got on the elevator to the 15th floor, got off the elevator to find Grandma and Lexi there, and I smiled real big at them, and Grandma just kind of gave me a blank look before saying, "Oh oh look who it is Lexi." Apparently I don't look the same or Grandma forgot what I looked like. ha She hadn't seen me with my new haircut, and over the course of the two days I was with them she worked wonders for my self esteem, telling me how pretty I was. :) It was so awesome to see some family, although it felt weird that I was seeing them in Texas. Annie was also able to meet up with an old college friend and he took us out to eat and showed us around which was lovely. We also went to this really cool aquarium place that had all sorts of fish and it was really fun for Lexi, well for all of us. They flew out on Sunday so I headed back to Austin.

My internship just keeps getting better and better too, as if that's possible, well it is. I just keep getting deeper and deeper into what this kind of job entails and I fall in love with it all over again. This is something that I love doing and love doing well. It's not work to me, it's just fun. I get to watch sports at work, record what happens and meet famous people, it's ideal, and the people I work with are awesome. I would really like to get on at FOX 7 after I graduate, but there are lots of stations in downtown Austin where I could get my feet wet, it's just so exciting to think that in less than a year my life will change completely, but at the same time, it's scary. I haven't ever really been one to back down from something, and I trust that God has some amazing things in store for me, so for now I'm keeping my arms wide open and accepting whatever comes my way.

I thought I would end with a little dose of reality I have gotten recently, while I have missed all those dear to me back home, they are never further than phone call or plane ride home, but this week means it's fair time, and for the first time since I can remember I am missing the fair which just seems so weird to me, and for the first time since being here, I miss Indiana/Walton. But that's the way it goes sometimes, it happens.

Ain't the Leaving Kind

Texas in my mind is still the greatest place on Earth, but it's even better when you have a friend to share in the awesomeness with. Kayla got here on Monday and we have been hitting it pretty hard. We have been shopping on the "Drag" which is on UT's campus, floating down the Guadalupe, watched the bats, and even ventured to 6th street watched Kayla get a tattoo. It hase been great having her here, and I hope I have convinced her to move her, because that is my intention. I forgot how great she and I were at formulating ideas, seeing as how we go to school in separate states it's been awhile since we have been able to throw some ideas around. Here are a few that we have mutually decided upon.

1. We want to move to Austin...when we have money.
2. We want to be flight attendants after college to make money while living back home. (see 1)
3. We want to live in a downtown loft.


Those are like the top three we were able to come up with I'd say. I really wish, and I think I can speak on Kayla's behalf that we were finished with school and we could just do all of this now and not have to leave, but that's neither realisitic, and is much too formidable at this point to come to fruition, but one day in the very near future I see myself and perhaps (hopefully, fingers crossed) Kayla.