For the Moments I Feel Faint

Unbelievably I have been doing a lot of working so far this summer. I am working at The Blue Heron restaurant again in Charles City, I'm still working for the church and babysitting every now and then and lately I've been helping a lady from church with her immense gardens.

The Blue Heron has been great. It was ridiculously busy on Saturday night and I was a little overwhelmed but there may be someone who is going to help me hostess, which would be awesome.

Gardening has also been great and pretty uneventful, except for my first day. Judy and I had weeded and mulched and planted and were watering when I started feeling a little dizzy. I walked toward the golf cart (because apparently golf carts are the only way to garden) and I remember reaching for the side. The next thing I remember is feeling asleep but there was a lot of noise and weird lights. Then I was sitting on the ground, looking over at Judy.

A combination of a lot of direct sun, little food and no water made me faint. But after I threw up I felt fine and have felt fine since. I think I scared Judy a little bit but once she saw I was OK, she seemed OK. Since then I've been wearing a hat, making sure I eat a good meal before going over and carrying around a water bottle.

I've realized that I really do like gardening and working outside. I hope the place I live after college has enough space for me to at least have some flowers and maybe an herb garden, because the other thing I've realized over the summer is that I love to cook.

I was in charge of my cousin Curry one night last week when both of his parents were gone and Grandmama had a dinner to take lots of cakes to. I decided to do some cooking with the rosemary Judy had given me and it was good times. I found a recipe from Rachael Ray for Balsamic and Rosemary Chicken. Good times. Grandmama also gets Taste of Home magazine and has some awesome recipes that I am so ready to try.

Curry and I also played some Battleship. I won.

At church last Sunday we honored our graduates and Majeed, an exchange student from Bahrain who stayed with one of the families from church for the past year and is getting ready to leave next week. We gave the graduates new Bibles that everyone then signed or underlined, etc. We did that for our seniors at CSF (Christian Student Fellowship at UR) and I thought it was a good idea to steal. They were all guys. One is leaving for the Marine Reserves in July, another the Coast Guard in October and the last is working on his step dad's farm. They're good guys whom we are going to miss.

Majeed and Adam

And then there are always cute pictures of the dog.

She likes to stay in the car after a car ride. I know. Weird.

This is how we spend our afternoons.


It's either naps or blogging.

Work

Even thought I don't technically have a full-time, salaried job, the money keeps coming. I started working at the Blue Restaurant again two weeks ago and worked again last night. I've been babysitting rather consistently even thought I babysit for a professor and school is out and I just got a job maintaining a garden for a couple who will be in Europe for a month. Yeah!

Now the only thing I have to do is try and find something while I'm back in California for about six weeks. That should be fun. Or not.

Commencement

The University of Richmond had it's 179th Commencement yesterday. It was a great ceremony that amazingly only took two hours. Of course, there were a lot of things that went on before that such as the Baccalaureate service, a fancy lunch in D-hall and lots of waiting around for the ceremony to actually get started. Josh did a reading at the Baccalaureate service of 1 Corinthians 13 and did so well. He sounded very pastoral. Josh's family was here so I walked around and hung out with them. We had a good time.

And now they're gone and Josh and I begin a long-distance relationship, which kind of sucks but I think we'll be OK. At least we have cell phones, e-mail and Facebook!

Josh and I also went to the first wedding of the summer on Friday. Our friends Brittany and Patrick were married at a small church that her dad pastors. It was a very nice ceremony, including when they gave everyone there communion and I dropped my bread in the juice goblet. Brittany and I will soon be able to commiserate together because Patrick leaves for Army reserve boot camp in about a month. At least we'll have each other.

Now there are only two weddings and two graduations left for the summer. Until then, I plan on doing a whole lot of nothing with a little babysitting, working at the Blue Heron and organizing a mission trip thrown in there.

DONE!

I just turned in the last assignment of my junior year of college.

YES!

You know what this means, don't you? I might actually blog!