Scorpion Bowls, Grad School and More

Work has been fine.  The company is cool and my co-workers are awesome.  The job itself is okay.  I don't know.  It's not a career.  It's really just a placeholder job to pay the bills until I find something better.  I really need to pay off some bills, bulk up the savings account and find a place to live.

I'm almost 30.  I feel like I should have figured things out by now.  My 10 year high school reunion is in a month, and I really don't have any accomplishments to talk about.  I look at my classmates posts on facebook and I see PhD candidates, teachers, doctors, writers, and world travelers.  I wish I had something to show for the past 10 years.

I went to college, got a bachelor's degree, and worked in a few different jobs that built up my skillset a bit.  That's all well and good, but I wish I had accomplished more.  I thought by now I'd have worked in the same place for a while, and moved up rather than taken on a bunch of random entry level jobs.  I thought I'd have a house by now.  I thought I'd be in a happy, healthy relationship, maybe even a kid on the way.  I thought I'd have a few stamps on my passport by now.  (Canada refuses to stamp, and Mexico doesn't care.)

Oh well.  I'm in my late 20s and I have a supportive family and great friends.  Things like that make me happy.  I went out for scorpion bowls and Chinese food with my co-workers the other night.  That was fun.

I've been thinking about grad school again.  Since I was a junior in college, I've wanted to work in a college. So many college jobs require a Master's in higher education administration.  I wonder if I could find a job in a college that would allow me to travel the world a bit.  That would be the ideal situation.

Every few years or so, I go back to the idea of going back to school and getting my Master's.  It would be a huge undertaking, and quite honestly, a financial burden that I really can't afford right now.  Then I think that to not do something about it would be cheating on my life goals.

I guess it's just something I'll have to think about some more.

Ice Cream is delicious.

One of my childhood friends is home for the summer.  Another is home for just this weekend.  We were trying to decide what to do tonight.  We knew we wanted ice cream, so we decided on Putnam Pantry.  I hadn't been there in years, so it seemed like a good option.  We used to have one in our hometown years and years ago.  That was always the place to have birthday parties.  Well, that and the Ground Round.  Remember when the Ground Round had a pay-what-you-weigh plan for the kids meals?  Good times.

So, Ice Cream was fun.  I love toppings!  My friend wanted to get just a bowl of toppings.  This is the same friend who always asks for extra whipped cream at the Cheesecake Factory.

here's my ice cream.  Pretty, right?