Already accomplishing lifetime goals . . .

Hey folks,

 I’m just as elated with my life as ever before , and I love to share the joy, in hopes of starting a happiness infection through the whole wide world 🌎! 😃

I’m still thinking about how awe-some my . . . Well, my everything is right now and the few things I can do to make it all even better.

I’m thinking, as the title of this post may lead you to believe, about all that I’ve accomplished in my life so far. 

I mean, if you would have told me (after I woke up from my coma) that I would be at this point in my life at this time of my life, I would have (along with many doctors and professionals) completely dismissed you as a fool. Sure, I’m over $49,000 in debt, but that’s just a bruise and bruises heal . . . Plus, they make someone’s muscles stronger. 💪🏼          And, anyway,  financial debt is temporary, being indebted to Him is forever.

The only thing that I could possibly do to make life better right now is secure a part time job until I start my full time job after college is over. That’s it! And i don’t know if that’s a good idea because I tend to stick with doing whatever I’m used to and I really don’t want to get used to something, then have to quit and get used to something else.

It’s just, unfortunately, right now (three family members’ Birthdays and Christmas) is when I really wish I had some extra money floating around.         🤔😜😂

But I told my family that I don’t really want presents (🎁) for Christmas (🎄) this year, I want to see them donating money to charities and other impactful things like that.

That’s a major part of my lifetime goals. I love to donate my time/money/energy into less fortunate beings (animals or people) and I just want to inspire that love in my family. 💋🌎💜

Along with any good that I, individually, can do. Of course that impact will keep growing larger and larger with every single action that I take, but I like to see that I’ve done good for another being, whether they realize it or not. In fact, I kind of prefer to not be realized as the one who has done a good deed. Anonymity is my goal. I’m just not very good at it yet. . . It’s a process. 😬

So, yes, I am continually accomplishing my lifetime goals, but they grow more and more numerous with every little goal I accomplish. I always want to do more. I will always want to do more. 

Quite recently, less than a month ago, in fact, I met someone with whom I deeply bonded  almost immediately after we had a brief conversation about our life goals and such. He and I are both kind of ‘free spirits’, but I think me less so. I believe that I am a bit more grounded because of the trauma that I faced six and a half years ago. I just feel that I am a bit more grounded in some ways , but still more of a ‘free spirit’ in others than before and I recognize the necessity of a full time job with exceptional benefits for the family that I hope to have someday. I hope and almost believe that this young man could help me to make that ‘hope’ come true. There are just three things holding me back from jumping into this relationship ‘heart first’.

The three things that make me so hesitant is the fact that this young man has not finished his college degree, but neither has my own father.  What also bothers me is  that he does not have his driver’s license yet because of a series of unfortunate events and circumstances in his past. 

The license can probably be changed or fixed in just a few months and the degree could easily be changed with some online courses and a year or two or three. The only other part of him that I know of so far which makes me hesitant is that he has no full time job at the moment, he is a waiter at one of a small chain of restaurants in his locale. I’m not really sure why he didn’t take up a full time job when he had the opportunity, or why he doesn’t look for one now, but it’s okay. I’m comfortable with being the main provider in a family or relationship. There’s also the part about him not believing in Christ, but I believe that God did not preserve my life for me to be idle. I feel that He wants my beliefs to be stretched out and deepened in doing so. I think having a nonreligious partner will make me grow and become more strong in my faith.

But, that is just one very small, yet somewhat important, aspect of my goals that I foresee myself accomplishing in the near-ish future. I am finishing college!!! I am (hopefully) getting a full time job at a bank!!! I am coming to a point where I almost feel comfortable saying I’m in a relationship!!! I am almost ready to start paying off my student loans!!! I am almost about to start saving up for my move to Europe!!! 

Yes, I’m still living at home (and saving $599 each month by doing so), but I am in a much better emotional and mental place in my life to honestly think about moving on from my parents’ house . . . . . for good. 🙃

Talk about accomplishing my goals fast! 

Needless to say, my friends, I am happy. 

Hey, what’s up?

Hello, dear readers,

Today, I’m just so happy that I don’t even know what to do with myself.

I am 23 and before this year of my life ends, I will have graduated with a bachelor of the arts degree in a foreign language, it’s custom, it’s cultural origins and it’s people, plus I have survived a nearly catastrophic brain injury and not only lived to tell the tale, but I intend to write a book about it for the whole world to see my journey, therefore experiencing it themselves. 

I am looking at beginning a full time job at a bank in my hometown immediately upon graduation to pay off my debts and perhaps save a bit to begin my worldwide real estate-rental business, owning apartment buildings and renting them out to people all around Europe and the Americas. ☺️

There is a very short list of things that aren’t so great in my life;

• I am broke and job-less 
• I am single 
• I am still in college

But, a few of (most) those things will hopefully change soon after I graduate from college IN A FEW WEEKS! 😲 

I’m expecting that the first and last thing of that short list will be different. I’m not in a rush to be in a relationship just yet. I have $40,009.67 of student loans that prohibit me from dragging someone else into my life right now. 

Well, I will still be a few thousand dollars in debt, but I will have a job and I will be well on my way to a better lifestyle than I have right now because I will have a full time job. 😊

At 25 years old, I will receive a small bit of money (less than $15,000) to pay my college debts with, but I most certainly need to find a job that I can have while I write my book . . . and what could be better then working at a bank? It’s a full time job, but there are not too many hours and I will always have Sunday off. 😘🙏🏼🙃

It really does not get much better than this. 😊 I am so unbelievably blessed, it’s hard for me to keep up with!

I have not exactly been promised a position at this bank, but I am still very hopeful that I can fill the open stall at the bank on December 17th. ☺️ I am only so hopeful because the young woman that serves as a placement supervisor for the bank said that she would see what she could do for me once my schedule clears up. 🤔🙏🏼😊

Aghhhhh! I’m just eager for my first step into adulthood. I really hope this bank thing works out. 😊

My life is perfect, except for the debt, my relationship status and where I’m at with my education. 😜 Haha. Most of it is  going to be better in a few weeks. 😉 I am healthy, I am happy, I am blessed.

After I’m done with school, I will be a FREE WOMAN! Out to conquer the world -one day at a time-. 💋🙏🏼👠💪🏼💃🏽

Shout-out

Hey folks!

Today . . . Well, yesterday and part of today, I was at home . . . with no power. It’s going to be about 90 degrees today, and my whole family is going to die of heat exhaustion. 😜

My dear mother once again forgot to pay the electricity bill for too long and we have no water or air conditioning. Fortunately, we have a pool. The pool just doesn’t feel as good to be in without the possibility of getting a shower, or drinking cold water before or after we jump into the water. 

But, the point of this post isn’t to be pitiful and say “woe is me”, the point is to give a shoutout to an English professor at my university that encouraged (forced or required is probably more accurate ) me and the rest of my claasmates to create an online blog . . . that blog just happens to be the one that I’m typing on right now! ☺️  

This post is a shoutout to him, my former advisor, for giving me an outlet to release my frustrations, excitements, fears, feelings and all of my other bottled up emotions out to create more room for dreams and plans to realize or accomplish those dreams. 

This is a shoutout to my former advisor, my friend,  for providing me with a method of making all of my hard work shine through my very being for the rest of the world to see. He has helped me in a myriad of ways, only one of which is getting my work published on a worldwide/ universal forum. 

This post is a big fat thank you to him, though I doubt that he will ever even see it.                                                                       This professor, who was once my advisor, was always a friend and a leader to me in all that we ever talked about. This professor/friend of mine was a very interesting fellow. He used to be a Lutheran minister, after he was in the Marine Corps. after (before? while?) he completed his collegiate education all while he dealt a complicated series of life difficulties including moderately severe medical conditions that he still handles expertly and several family complications.  He also knows and is fluent in over five languages, which boggles my mind seeing as how I’m barely fluent in two! 😜

This marine turned minister turned professor is a rough and tumbly guy, he loves to ride around on his Harley Davidson, plus the whole Marine Corps. thing, but I could see right through it to the sweet teddy bear of a guy that he is. 

I am graduating in December of this calendar year and I would love the ability to stick around my college town to spend more time with my friend/ former advisor. But, I need to get myself to Ireland. So, all of my efforts will be in that until I get there. 😘🇨🇮☘

Alright, this post was intended to be entirely about my friend/ former advisor and it’s becoming too much about me, so I’ll leave it at this; he’s an amazing guy and a good challenging professor. 😊 

Pais

Bonjour, tout le monde! ❤

J’aime français! ❤

I wish that I could write a whole post in another language. . . Maybe next year.  I’m not quite that skilled in the French Language.  Until then, I’ll just keep practicing my French, and attempting to improve my literacy. That’s a long stressful road. But, I am more than willing to take on that challenge. In fact, I would love to learn Arabic and German, Greek, Portuguese, among a number of other languages. The best way to learn a language, they say, is to be in the culture of said language, so I must do a lot of traveling to learn all of these wonderful languages. ❤

I am a traveler at heart. I am a lost soul, searching for the perfect spot to spend my life. I just hope that when my ‘friend’ finally decides to become more that my friend, that he will be able to hold me down (to one geographical location) somewhere in Europe, or on the coastline. ❤

Oh, how I love the beach! ❤

Today is a Thursday, so I attended three classes today. I had an early morning class (9 am) then at 11:30, my ‘friend’ and I had lunch, then he came with me to my class, where we sat and he tickled me until other students started coming in and he had to leave. The other students then gave me the Spanish inquisition’s worth of questions about my relationship with him.  :p

Well, I care for him, and I believe that he cares for me. I just don’t know if he realizes that just yet. . . . I’m still working on it with him. :p

His room mates love me. I think that his parents like me and I am fairly certain that my parents like him enough. I know that my Dad likes him.  A lot. I think my cousins will like him. He is a very smart young man, and he’s common-sense-wise enough to keep me happy. 🙂
I don’t feel like I’m compromising with him, I just think he doesn’t realize how wonderful our relationship has the potential to be. . . As I’ve said, I’m still working on him. 😉

After that, for my ‘Rhetoric of Professional Writing’ class, we waited for 15 minutes for the supposed substitute professor to come in. . . .Which never happened, so we all left.

Yep, call us irresponsible. Call us bad students. I’m sorry Dr. M. There was nothing for us to do, really. We all know where the class is headed, however ambiguous the syllabus is. :p

So, we all went our separate ways.

Me? I went to go longue in the building I generally have to rush to right after that class. I mentally prepared myself for Biology. It must have worked because I came home and took the quiz to receive a %100!! 😀

YAY ME!!  😀 ❤

This semester has some good people in it. ❤

I have met so many people this semester that I think will end up helping me in some way in my career in the not-so-distant future. ❤

As it is a Thursday, today usually would be a day that I spend at meetings until 8:30, but my first meeting is not technically mandatory (as I am only a writer, not an editor), so I did not attend.  The second meeting is Gospel Choir, which I had planned to attend for some video for my class project. But it was cancelled. So, I could not acquire the video anyway.

Hmm. I do not have any idea why the rehearsal was cancelled. I’ll just have to wait until next week to get some footage. :p

Bah, humbug. Oh well. Life goes on, I suppose.

Is it problematic that it’s not even 7 pm here in this time zone, and I am absolutely exhausted?

Hmm, I don’t know what to do about that. :p

I only have one class tomorrow, it’s at 2:00 pm, and I’m actually kinda hoping that it gets cancelled due to the crazy snowstorm that is supposedly going to hit my part of the world in a few hours. :p

The question is: “Should I go to sleep now, and worry about the consequences later [whenever I wake up] , or should I force my body to remain awake for three more hours?

I think that I’m going to sleep now, and deal with reprimands of that later.

Jusqu’à prochaine temps.

~Aly Mae XoXo ❤