Return of the Blog! Again!!!

A recap of this weekend will suffice as it is pretty indicative of my life right now.

Life is good. It would be pretty difficult to top everything that is going on right now. :)

Side note: I am currently watching The Walking Dead on Netflix and I love anything and everything zombie related.

Back to the main story...This weekend was something.
Friday night consisted of another wonderful date with a wonderful woman at Clyde's in Chinatown. Then we went on a nice constitutional walk. Back track. 1st date was supposed to be just tea, but ended up being epic at the Taste of DC festival. Thanks for the blessing, God. 2nd date was sandwiches and a perfect carrot cake dessert on the steps of the portrait gallery.

SO! It was Hoco weekend and for anyone who went to CUA, you know that no weekend is bigger for alumni. Tailgating on Saturday was good bro time and catch up time. Casey, Joe, Rob, Matt A, and Matt S + Wegman's sausages and burgers + Leah, Luffy, Kate, Katie W, and Jillian + a couple brews + an epic football score at the expense of my knee = a great start.

The party really got started when we met up with the ladies and Jonathan. Seeing Kara, Jules, and Coll is always a time full of laughter and rap and pop culture references. Don't get me wrong. There were a million people that I saw Saturday at the game, but there was a reason that it took us about an hour to walk from Mil North to the Duf (no exaggeration).

I went home and had dinner with my family at Uno's because my birthday is next week and my brother works on weekends for the most part. Family time is always a good retreat. Practiced my Jerk at Lowe's as my brother picked up some tools btw.

Then back to CUA events. Times + Club Swerve. Club Swerve does still exist, even if there are stupid video games in the way. I picked up Leah and Jen and then we got it started. Good thing the DJ played Live Your Life by T.I. Wouldn't have been as baller without some T.I. So many friendly faces - Kelli Mac, Bonner, Greg, Mark and Dan, Emma, Andrew Fin, Mikey C, and so on. Real people, real love, real ish.
Of course, Nick and Craig, their ladies, Tom and Kyle, and I tore it up on the dance flo yo.

Today (Sunday) was out of the ordinary and a perfect Sunday/way to start off the week. Jackie and I went to Butler's Orchard and had a very memorable day. We had BBQ for lunch, avoided bees that wanted the pumpkin pie, went down a huge slide, went on a hay ride, and picked a great pumpkin - Harold.
Thank you Mark Koury for the idea.

I know this may be slightly incoherent in terms of the organization, but gotta teach tomorrow.

Song of the moment (there are many): Strange Clouds - B.o.B

NEW POST!

After talking with Hannah O,

I remembered I haven't even posted here in forever.
Literally. Well maybe not forever (Colleen lol), but certainly months.

Hey all, I'm alive and well.

I am now working at a Catholic grade school in Virginia. I started as an aide, and am going to be a counselor-in-training in the Fall. The staff is really supportive and the kids are great, although a handful. I worked the last 2 1/2 weeks of the school year there, so now I am on Summer break for 2 months.

I am also taking classes in July at Trinity to get my certification so that I can teach at this school in the following year. The 2 classes are over the span of 2 weeks.

Not only do I enjoy the job, but it also allows me to continue coaching.
I am now the Head Coach of the Women's Team and the Assistant Head Coach. Very Exciting.
We closed out a beautiful season at National's and am looking forward to another strong year next year. I have big shoes to fill, but I am excited to take this step forward.

I also just put a deposit down on a room I am renting in Virginia, close to where I coach. Sweet.

Looking back on this full year after graduation, it has been a time of ups and downs. Mostly, I was unhappy and dissatisfied with my life as a manager in retail and with my school loans. I was struggling with paying the bills and finding something fulfilling to do. Coaching was exciting, but couldn't pay the bills alone. It took me a while to trust.

Once I started believing everything would come together, it did. Wow.

I will now be able to pay the bills and live my life. Interesting how it all comes about, right?

I know that I could not have gotten out of the rut (unhappy with work, etc), if I did not have good friends. I was blessed to have them in my time of need, and I am blessed to have them (you) now.

I'm currently jamming to "Got Your Back" by T.I. and Keri Hilson and I am looking forward to Robert and Letty's wedding in August.

I will also try to be better at posting here.

Thanks for reading.
Thank you for seeing me through.

See you next time.