A Teenage Dream

2012-02-09T08:41:00.002-07:00

Departures is the story of two teen girls, Sierra Jensen and Christy Miller. The book is split into two separate stories, one about each girl. Each girl is at a “What if?” point.

Christy Miller is trying to figure out why her Junior High School friend, Matthew, is suddenly showing so much interest, especially since she ends up on the other side of the country.

Sierra Jensen travels with her friend Jana to their family’s cabin. Jana sets her sights on having her first fling. Sierra, on the other hand, is not so sure about the idea of such a thing.

This book is a great coming of age story. Robin Jones Gunn takes a fresh approach to showing how teenage girls can come upon a situation and gather their feelings and thoughts and come out on top. The girls’ relationship and ties to the Bible as well as their strong upbringing plays a vital role in both stories.

Teenage girls will find a kinship with these characters and find themselves looking to face the unknown with new grace after reading this uplifting book!

I need to find my parachute!

2012-01-04T21:26:00.000-07:00

You know that old age question your teacher or parents ask when you are say, five years of age, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Well, I am going to be 31 in 2 months and I still feel like I do not know how to honestly answer that question.

You would think that a girl who has had more jobs, in many different fields, than you can count on two hands (and if I am really honest you can probably throw in the feet) would be able to narrow it down a bit. Like I said though, you would think.

Dental assisting...went to school for it, hated it. Nursing, yep, been there done that, and I just can not seem to get past the whole people dying thing. Plus, I really, really like old people so I look at them and think of them all as my grandparent and it just hurts my heart. What else have I done....in the real estate realm I was a leasing consultant and I loved that job but my current location does not leave me any options in this arena and after having been out of the biz for 4 years you could say I do not remember a darn thing so scratch that. Retail, well that was a trip in hell that I would rather not take again. The job I happened to like the most was as a barista/bagel slinger back in ye olde high school days. Sadly enough it was the longest job I kept and the most fun.

I had been told by a highly educated man that I should purchase the book "What color is your parachute?" Apparently after reading this quite lengthy book and taking a gagillion quizzes it tells me my color and what I am meant to do with my life. Well if I would ave known that I would have skipped the past 2 degrees (currently on my 3rd....silly me, school is for those that know what they want to do with their lives!) and just bought the book straight out of high school.

I do not have much faith however in a book telling me what I should be when I grow up, if I grow up. I have taken a few (ok, a gagillion) career quizzes, and they all come out the same. I should be a teacher, writer, librarian, curator, archivist, lawyer, artist and all of those jobs that entail either a degree in which takes more money than I have or talent that I can not just drum up out of nowhere.

The funny thing is I landed a gig in the Barista world once again, but I am not sure if I want to take a trip down memory lane. Yes, it was cool and fun when I was 18-22, but at 31 and as a full-time student trying to find myself (aka sitting on the couch and whining on Facebook about how I can not seem to find myself) I am not sure I have the time for said trip. Or, maybe I just feel like a failure. Most likely the whole failure thing has a bit of truth tied to it but you can just forget I said that.

Either way I need to make a choice. Right now my degree is cool. Library Science and Media. Yeah I know, what the heck do you do with that? Well, I can be a librarian. Which may sound totally horrible and granny like to some but I love books almost as much as I love my dogs, oh, and of course my husband, so I figured it was a baby step in the correct direction this time. I can become a research assistant or who knows venture into writing. I just wish I had that aha feeling. That this is me and this is my plan and look, here is my parachute and it's color is.......

But I don't know what color my parachute is, or if I even have one. I am kind of just floating, suspended from a wire waiting to catch the next plane and then land safely on my feet. What fun is it to know ahead of time exactly where life will take you?

I just need to figure out if it is taking me to the coffee shop or not as a consumer or employee in the mean time.

It's All Kosher

A Teenage Dream

I need to find my parachute!