Goodness.
Well.

In vague terms, because I don't feel like going into detail: There was something on my mind that I could not stop thinking about for a couple of days. I told myself it was alright and that it was natural and I probably wouldn't stop thinking about it. It's better now, and while I do think about it from time to time, I'm glad about how I handled it. I think it shows that I'm growing up.

Now on to everything else.

More jobs! Exciting! Earlier today went out to look at a job for a repeat client who works with my mother. I'm doing some more weeding and spreading mulch for her on Wednesday.
A man we know from church is going on vacation for a couple weeks, so tomorrow I'm going over there to talk about mowing the lawn while he and his wife are gone.
I'm going to call another woman (another repeat client, I made around $60 from her last week!) and see if I can get some work in on Thursday.
Friday morning I'm heading down to my aunt's to do some weeding and spread mulch.
Four jobs! Oh man!
Good times. Good times indeed.

Got a new planner today! I splurged a little but I think I'll actually use it more now that it's a nice one. Last year I got a crappy one with spiral binding on the outside that just got all banged up when I threw it in my bag. :/ But this one has a faux leather cover and a snap, pockets and lots of room for notes inside. Woo!

Also got some hair product today. I never knew shopping could be so frustrating. I spent like an hour looking for stuff, which is weird because I haven't bought really anything besides shampoo for my hair in 4 years. Crazy sauce! Hopefully I'll like this stuff because it's like $4. Yay for cheap hair care!

Uhm, one of my best friends just got dreads on Saturday. Haha, we joked that someone in our friend group always has to have dreads. We wanted to get them done on the same day so it'd be funnier, but whatever. I'm looking forward to hers growing and such and maturing (yes that is a term we use in the dreadlock world). They look great now but I know they will look even better in the future!

Uhm that's about it. Mostly good news in my life!

P.S. June ends tomorrow, so expect a July 1st post on how my goals went this month, and continued/new ones for the month of July.

Week five can be found here.

This week's song is
Pinch Me by The Barenaked Ladies.
( Lyrics )

First off, this song reminds me of growing up. It's in that group of songs that I find hard to classify as any specific genre, more songs that remind me of coming of age, of the 90's, of music that everyone likes. It calms me down, I can sing most of the lyrics save the part where he goes a million miles a minute which I never got down.

I think I listened to this song a lot this week for comfort reasons. This week was really rough in terms of academics and health issues, and this song talks a lot about thinking about life. Thinking about something bigger than ourselves. And also just some of the basic comforts of life: running through a sprinkler, driving instead of walking, forgetting about your worries for a second and just going with the flow, if you will.

It's like a dream - you try to remember but it's gone, then ya
Try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn, when ya
Try to see the world beyond your front door.

Part of this seems about the lethargy of my generation, being forced to yawn at world events and world suffering because it's just a generational attitude, that is, 'why should I care?' And also about remembering when you were young, or remembering why you started on your specific life journey in the first place, but like a dream that slips through your fingers you can't quite figure out how you got to your specific place in life.

I'm starting to ooze philosophical mumbo-jumbo so I'm going to cap it.
Basically I love this song, and I hope you have heard it.