My Summer in a Nutshell

There were very boring lonely parts of my summer... but as I reminisced about the last few months I realized that I did a lot and I had a lot of fun.

June- I went to Minnesota for a week. I hung out with all my buddies and went to a wedding in WI. Then I flew to NY/CT and hung out with Jessie (my sister) and her family. My brother was there as well. We had a blast...but it was super sad when I had to say goodbye to Jessie, Rob, Sidon, Adia, Roan, and Tidus. I am going to miss them a lot...I am hoping to save up money so I can visit them in Jordan within the next year!

July- I went to Texas for a week and hung out with my cousins and aunt. We had so much fun. We basically went to every thrift store in a 25 mile radius and I bought a whole new wardrobe for super-dee-dooper-dee cheap! Just an FYI...Texas is waaaay more hot than Missisippi...woooweee...I thought I was going to melt!

August- I went to Connecticut to celebrate Joel's mom's 50th birthday! I was a grump because I was not feeling well at all the entire time. We went to his mom's camp...it was nice but I was surprised at how super cold it was for August. I flew back on a Sunday..went to the ER (cause I had a bladder infection)..and the next morning had to wake up at 5:15 to start my new job. I've been working and enjoying it ever since.

So there's my summer in a nutshell...I am happy that I am blessed to be able to travel so much so that I can see all the people who are special to me...I am a lucky/blessed girl!

Telephone

We've all played the game telephone at some point in our lives; where one person whispers a message in the ear of the person next to them...who does the same and down the line the message goes getting twisted and turned all the while. I've played the game before but never until now did I really experience it happen in real life.

I was talking to a friend from New York. She said "I heard your sister and her family had to come back from Jordan because your bro-in law's father is very ill" and "they might not be able to get back into the country for some reason and may have to move back to the states". Half of me was mad that Jessica, my sister, might actually be in the states but I heard it through a friend who heard it from a friend who was a former roommate of my bro-in-law's sister...instead of from my own family telling me. Then another part of was thinking this can't be true, but how in the heck can a story get so far from reality?

I called my parents, I emailed my sister (instead of calling, because it is seven hours later in Jordan) and lastly I emailed my bro-in-laws sister. It turns out the only part of the story that is true is that my bro-in-laws dad is sick...but where did the rest of the story come from? Here I was getting all worried that my sister and her family wouldn't be allowed to move back to Jordan when they know that it is their life goal to do so...and then part of me is thinking...Yeeha my sister will at least be in the same country as me...and all these feelings well up in me...and somehow it was all just a big game of telephone.