Wow i'm a terrible person

It has been so long since i've posted. I know. I really have a huge list of stupid excuses and things but i'll spare you. Just know that I'm sorry and I'm going to get back on track. I guess I needed a several month break...yeah idiot me.

Anyway, so Life. There are so many weird things that happen in life I think. You can divide life into so many sections! For instance: Childhood, school years, teen years, post-graduation-weird-starting-a-new-job-summer, college years, first few years of being a "real adult" things like that.

 So right now in what you could call the "transition stage" of my life. I'm working at a grocery store, which is a pretty new job, and I'm in-between school and...school. I've graduated high school and I'll be starting Cosmetology school in October. So this summer has been very strange and different for me. I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that I won't be home-schooled ever again. It's sad actually, because I'm going to really miss being home with my family every day. I know...hard to believe ;) 

So yeah, this summer has been long. (And also really, really short but I'm not going to get into that.) 

• I graduated high school. WHAT? PLEASE TELL ME HOW THAT EVEN HAPPENED. How could I graduate, like for real? I'm not very smart...
• I've gone on a mission trip called The Hartford Project, which deserves at least two posts all to itself but I honestly can't form any significant thoughts right now. 
• I got a job. That was a huge thing because now I'm one of those annoying people who has to say "I'm not sure if I can come to your party because I might have to work." Somehow, before I had a job, I felt like I would never have to do that. How do I convince myself of these stupid things? I have no idea.  
• I got accepted to The International Institute of Cosmetology in Wethersfield. The name makes it sound really highfalutin but It isn't insane like that or anything :) I'm so excited to go there. 
• I went on a family vacation to Maine and we had approximately 117 extended family members there. It was probably the best week of my life. I am honestly pretty depressed to be home because the cousins that we bonded with and hung out with and surfed with and ate candy with for 10 days...won't be with us for an  entire year, or possibly longer. I miss them so much.

•  I realized that in one year (and a couple months) I will be graduated from school and will have to get a job and start supporting myself like a "real adult" which is crazy because usually kids have FOUR YEARS OF SCHOOL!

So altogether this summer has been a transition to becoming more of an adult, and figuring out my future, and basically It has changed me in SO many uncountable, and mostly inexplicable ways. I very often feel overwhelmed by everything, just everything and I just say "life, what the heck? Chill out. Stop going on for a little bit so I can figure this all out." But alas, that can't actually happen...

To my friends reading this,

PLEASE DO THIS OH MY GOODNESS

Not really haha! I do have unlimited texting but that might get pretty annoying. You can text me once a week or every few days though :)

My closing thoughts on the topic of life are as follows: 

• Sometimes we think life sucks, but God made it, so it obviously doesn't always suck. 
•  When life gets confusing hold on to the things that you know will always be there for you. Your friends, family and God. 
• When crazy stuff happens and all you can really say is "what the heck just happened?", the best thing to do is remember that yeah, stuff is crazy but whatever. Who really cares?

Yeah things are really weird sometimes.

 I just saw this and I don't understand what's going on

XO Charlotte