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Name: Elizabeth
Birthday: 11/13/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: Learning about life. The triune God. people. Enjoying nature. Singing. Good conversation. Coffee. Rain. The Bible and other good books. Peace and Quiet. The arts. Learning. Grace and Truth.
Expertise: Needing Grace. Taking myself too seriously.
Occupation: Social Work - Foster Care
Industry: Other
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Member Since:
11/10/2002
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| Finally settling in, and the holidays. :)Still in Kokomo.
Things are changing at work, including major management personnel shifts. So far it's making things better.
I'm giving it six months, but I'm already seeing changes in my life making me not want to leave as much.
I'm making friends outside work through a small group at church.
I'm testifying at a TPR hearing on Monday, and I've known these kids over a year. It feels like I make a difference when I get to build relationships with kids and then testify in court to make recommendations about their family status for the future.
I still stink at keeping in touch.
I've decided this year I'm being proactive about my holiday plans instead of being stuck wondering where I'm gonna be for Thanksgiving/Christmas. My goal would be to see each parent once during the holiday season (Thanksgiving through New Years), and I'd like to be with my brothers for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. But this year I've decided to tell mom how the holidays always make me feel weird and unsettled because I never know if mom/John will be visiting John's family for either Thanksgiving or Christmas. And I never know of Dad/Julie will be visiting Julie's family for either Thanksgiving or Christmas. And I never know if Jon or Dave have gigs on either Thanksgiving or Christmas. (I always feel like it's possible I'd have no one to spend the holidays with, and that terrifies and depresses me every single year.) So... this year I am making a plan. From now on, I'm trying to settle this by having Thanksgiving be mom's holiday every year and Christmas be dad's holiday every year. And if that means dad has to come out to Cincinnati or Chicago because Jon/Dave have Christmas gigs there, then that's fine. :)
I'm feeling good about this. I'm taking control so I don't get all depressed and melancholy during the holidays. And if it doesn't work out perfectly, at least now my mom knows how I feel about it. And I'm sure I'd always be welcome in Cincinnati for either holiday no matter what. :) I love my family. I just wish there was a home to go back to with all of them so we wouldn't have to plan all this stuff all the time. It's stressful!
I need to plan something for New Years. Maybe by then I'll be close enough with friends here to make plans/have a party? | | |
| Other than unchangeable issues that will never go away that drive me absolutely insane if I dwell on them, these trips out to visit dad and Julie are nice.
Plus, I get quality time with one of the best brothers in the world. And we can counsel each other back to normalcy on the 14-hour road trip back home. :)
I have some of the best family in the world. | | |
| at dad's again.
I started reading Harry Potter. Finally. and, of course, I love it just like I knew I would.
Drinking great coffee, watching rain fall on the water through the trees. It's beautiful. No one is in a hurry for any reason.
We sleep in, enjoy lazy mornings of reading, drinking coffee, listening to music together, and chatting.
Then, we decide to go out on the boat or go shopping downtown.
Come home, eat dinner, and enjoy wine and s'mores by a campfire on the back patio, laughing at each other, telling stories, and making up silly, non-sequitor stories by adding words one by one around the circle.
Talk about a restful vacation!
(Of course, there's no talk about anything deep or real. It's all niceties, ridiculous silliness, or snapping at each other. But that's just the way it is. And it could be a lot worse.)
These are good days. :) | | |
| So plans for moving are starting to look organized in my head. Which is exciting. Now the pieces just need to all come together at the same time. - We'll see how that goes. :) | | |
| When updating a resume, how does one decide whose advice to take about the dos and don't of resume writing?
Also, I am bad at making new friends. - I'm pretty shy and introverted when I have the freedom to be. I'm not a huge fan of small talk, and most of the time I think the little chatter that makes up conversation about trivial things is so... trivial. I'd rather fill the silence with really good music or not fill it at all.
And I'm a social worker. ?
And when I'm engaged in a good conversation about real things with friends, I can sometimes go overboard in expressing my deep feelings and ramble into excessive emotional introspection, which I assume gets old for my listeners. But I've got some awesome friends who listen anyway. I guess that's what friends do for each other.
Played my horn today for a few minutes. In between episodes of House.
Getting kinda lonely over here. Today I'm grateful for Kate. :) and Krista.
Happy Fourth of July, world!
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