Coming a long way just 1 month into summer

So I write this at an interesting time. I am sitting at my desk at my new apartment/condo/house after just getting a B on my EMT quiz, and I am realizing that I should probably get to sleep soon, but I am wide awake eating watermelon-A LOT of watermelon. With this brief stoppage of the nonstop summer, I decided to take a moment to write about the events of the past 4 weeks, and believe me when I say there have been no dull moments.

The week after returning to my empty apartment from my Florida vacation was filled with work. Nonstop work. A couple days of that were combined with NONSTOP cleaning of the apartment because I wanted as much of the security deposit as possible back. Poor college kid haha. After a Uhaul fiasco that would have involved me going to DENVER to get a truck, we just used Garrets tiny truck to make about 12 trips back and forth to move 3 peoples’ stuff across town. Fun stuff.

June finally came and we got moved into our new place. The east side of the tracks is a completely different life! I finally got all the right gang signs and shirt colors down, so life is good now. Haha but seriously, the place is great and is right on the creek and bike path and in a quiet neighborhood. And it is cheaper! All good things, minus the broken refrigerator door.
With June also came the start of my summer courses. Front Range is an interesting place, and EMS is a tough business. The class is 4 hrs/day 4 days/week. Needless to say, I am on my 4th week and struggling to keep my head above water. It is beyond difficult, the teacher is just like Dr. Cox from Scrubs, and I am loving every minute of it. I have learned a ton and really do hope to pass and get my Certification by the end of August and HOPEFULLY get an EMS job afterwards WHILE working on my double major at CSU.

Working 9-5 during the week while going to class from 545-10 M-TH is really hard. Like, REALLY hard. I have a new respect for people who do it all the time and still maintain a family and stuff. I am going crazy being unable to run for 2 hrs a day and not getting hope till late. And there hasn’t been a day when nothing is happening all summer. It’ll all pay off when August rolls around and I get my certification and have the money to pay rent all year. Even if I can’t make it onto the XC team in fall, I will still be doing marathon training. After all, gotta get sub 3:00 (preferably sub 2:45) at Boston in April.

I think the biggest change of the summer has come on the personal front. With 38 hr work weeks, class, running, long term goals, and all the little things, managing a good relationship with Elisa got really tough. We started drifting apart more and more, and then we made the grown up decision that we had our 4 years together and it was time to let go of the every thing we had been clinging on to. We broke up June 9, and there are 0 hard feelings. It was completely mutual, and it was the best decision for the both of us. It was hard, but it was needed. We still talk and hang out and heck, I even bought her and her roommates a dog today. Needless to say, we still are important to each other, only in different ways.

Obviously, summer vacation has been void of the vacation part. Madness at work, struggles with school, and difficulties with life are keeping me on my toes. In the end, I should be set up quite well for the long run, but until then, blog updates will be sparse, and studying will be copious. Until later, long live summer so I can actually enjoy some of it. That means I don’t wanna see snow till actual winter this year, Colorado!