Domestic Dimanche: Post-College Dreams and Everything Changes

For a movie about Moms and Daughters, her Dad is pretty freaking awesome!

First of all, Happy Father's Day! To my Dad, my brothers, my grandpas, and all the awesome Dads that I know, I love you and send you all my best wishes!

So I figured I'd give you guys an update on what's been happening with me lately. First big news is that I graduated in May! (Whooo, yeah! Go Sorcha! I knew you could do it!) I now have a degree in English (Well, I will when they mail it to me. I have no idea when that happens...) which is pretty nice. I don't have any pictures for you since I decided not to walk. Sabrael and I went to Renaissance Festival instead which was infinitely more fun than sitting through a bunch of people's names being called.

Since then I've been quasi-unemployed? My job is tied to the university so I can't work if I'm not a student. I get a grace period until August when the next semester starts up again. I was planning to work with my Dad over the summer so I told my job I wouldn't really be around. Except there's all kinds of craziness going on in Hannibal (The river's flooding which always drives away tourist though does practically nothing to us, there's intense construction going on which blocks our building, and there was a large tornado a few weeks ago which people are still trying to clean up after though thankfully none of our buildings were harmed) so he's postponed opening until July. Which means by the time I got this information, schedules had already been made at work and I wasn't on them. So I've had a nice break from working for like a month now.

It's not as nice as you might think. A lot of stuff has happened in that time. I moved for instance. "Moved" though is a word that connotes completion which has not happened. There's still a small mountain of boxes in the middle of the room which I just cannot conceive of places to set their contents. It's slightly maddening. Also, Sab and I have gotten a kitten. We rescued him from a friend of mine who was going to have to give him away. He's fluffy and adorably and occasionally cuddly but he's developed quite a bad biting habit (He's in his carrier at the moment for biting me particularly hard on the face because I was writing this article and not playing with him) which can be difficult to deal with. We've tried almost all advice we've been able to find to get him to stop but nothing works. Spray bottle is next on the list.

Everyone, meet Vashta Nerada: Count the Shadows, or just Vash for short

 So in my time period of joblessness I've had a lot of time for contemplating my future. I've gone back and forth on a lot of future careers I want to have: teacher, librarian, museum educator, etc, but I had an epiphany yesterday. I've always seen these jobs as a means to an end, a way to save up money to do what it is I *really* want to do. I've always wanted to own my own bookshop. I can hear you already (because I've heard it a thousand times before), "In this economy?" "No one buys books any more." "You'll never be able to beat out Barnes and Noble!" But hear me out! I've got some good ideas. I want it to be a bookstore so that I can drag in the type of clientele that would be interested in the other things I will offer. I want to have an auditorium type area where local bands can play, small theater groups can perform, authors can do speaking events, classes on a variety of topics could be offered, movie nights and marathons could happen, and businesses could rent the space for meetings. I'd also want to support local artists and crafters, bring in gaming groups, and establish active book clubs. I think it could work really well as a kind of community space  and a safe space for other book nerds like me to meet people (which is often hard for us) and to have a good time inside of their interests.

So this is what I've decided to start working on. Instead of making this some far off in the future plan that may or may not happen, I want to start studying up, making decisions, learning the trade, and deciding that this will happen. I don't think anything could be more fulfilling than that.

So how about you guys! What's been going on in your lives lately? What have you been working on? What's your big dream either that you're working towards or that you've kind of forgot about? I'd love to hear it!