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Engagement!

Happy day! We're engaged!

So, I’m going to the beach tomorrow with two girls my age! I’m quite excited. I was at their house for most of the day today. It was really enjoyable. Too bad we didn’t do this six weeks ago.

I have to reshoot the skate club because we taped over their footage at camp…not a good move. So, I’m not really looking forward to that, but at least I won’t be sitting a home bored.

My next two days are looking pretty good, the beach tomorrow, lunch with the young staffers here and packing on Thursday. Then I’m off to Virginia and back home!! How exciting. How lovely it will be to get back. And strange. I’m quite exciting.

I was planning for At the Well today. I really enjoy it. Okay, I’m going now. Bye.

Three days to departure.

Is it bad that I'm counting down like this? No, Caryn's counting down in Spain. I'm normal. Caryn...

I'm tired of people not understanding me. I'm tired of feeling like an outsider with my family and tired of being questioned for every decision I make. I guess my life is completely out of the ordinary. And since unusual things often seem bad, I probably look a little peculiar. I feel like everyone thinks my life is foolish when it seems perfectly wonderful to me. I know I'm making the right decisions. Why doesn't anyone else? I'm having a hard time learning to be an adult in my decision making - separating my decisions from what other's say about them. My Dad said that I should seek wise counsel (which I often to do a fault), but that I get to decide who that wise counsel is. I suppose that if someone who doesn't understand me at all tells me what to do I shouldn't necessarily take it with much weight simply because they're older than I am. Ah me I feel alone.

What a self-pitying little post.