Things Change.

Hey hey friends.

I've decided to make some changes.  
Things change. people change. feelings change. Lives change.

Because of this, I have decided to change my blog.

This will be my last post on my beloved "Sugar, Spice, and Brussels sprouts" blog.

Goodbye

Dubai? Texas? Los Angeles?

Hey hey there.

As many of you know, I was recently offered a job in a city just outside of Dubai.  Well it turns out that I was making plans that were never going to work.  I was offered the job: a great position at a school, with decent pay, full medical benefits, housing, utilities, and board completely taken care of.  It was a great opportunity and it was bound to be a wonderful adventure.

On the day that I was offered the job, I also found out that I was accepted into the Aeronautical Science Program at Letourneau University in Longview, Texas.  It's a great program in a field that I really enjoy, and I'm a candidate for a large scholarship which would make going back to school very realistic.

The principle of the school in Dubai wanted me to leave the states right away because they needed to fill the position.  The school year would end in June and then the University in Texas would began in September.  Everything seemed to be working out perfectly! Well until I realized the problem: the problem is that to be eligible for the scholarship, I needed to attend an interview on February 22nd, which would have been 22 days after I left the country.  I tried rescheduling and visiting Texas on my way to Dubai but that was not an option.

All this to say that I had 2 days to make a very important decision.  Two days to decide my future.

I decided to stay put, right where I am, in the states for now - and I am going to Texas in February.  While I'm there I will tour the University, look for possible places of employment, scout out housing areas, talk to my admissions counselor and financial aid counselor, and attend a scholarship interview.  I am hoping that I will be allowed to skip the whole "second degree thing", and go strait into flight training.  Once I have completed my flight training.

Technically speaking, the MA degree that I want does not exists.  There are several schools that will open the program in the Fall of 2014, and who knows, maybe I'll end up at one of those schools getting a super technical aeronautical science masters degree.  Who knows, but I'm not going to make those plans... not yet anyway.
 

Snuffleupagus?

"I know who you are" 

"Snuffleupagus?"

"I have seen you Snuffleupagus"

To that I say, you are wrong.  You saw the person that you wanted to see.  

The reason nothing ever made sense is because I was never

seen as or excepted as the person that I am.

You are actually the only person who cannot see me.  

You cannot or will not or have not seen me.  

I am not your Snuffleupagus. 

Sharing and Subtlety.

Subtlety is not one of my strengths.  

Maybe because I don't like the unseen, the sneaky, or the deceptive. 

I am to much like my mother.  

(Love her to death, although sometimes she drives me batty, but I feel as though it's her right.  She's a great mom and she taught me well.  And hopefully she's teaching me how to drive my future children batty too.)   

Anyway, I take after my mother in this sense.  I don't like lies, deception, or trickery, and there is nothing worse then lying about what happen, or the situation, or the truth.  

If someone has to sneak around to obtain whatever it is that they are after, then they probably shouldn't be doing it and they know it.  

Those moments of sneaky, deceptive behavior can come in many forms.  Sometimes it comes in hearing someone tell and out right lie, or a white lie, or something different all together.   

They can come in a number of other ways, in less important moments that eventually begin to add up.  

Like that moment when you realized that someone ate all of your ice cream, except the last bite.  Or when someone sneaks into your room and steals money out of your piggy bank.  Or someone borrows something that isn't theirs without asking.  Or someone uses something that you gave them to use and then attempts to sell it, as if you couldn't sell it and get the money for it yourself.    

That kind of behavior is sneaky and annoying, and if they thought that you would be alright with it, they would simply ask or do whatever it is in front of you. 

I'm the kind of person that would probably give someone what they wanted if they asked.  Yes, you may have the last of my ice cream.  Or yes, I will give you some coins from my piggy bank.  Or yes, you can borrow my flat iron, or my purse, or my scrapbook scissors, or whatever.  

But I don't like feeling like someone is taking something from me.  Taking something of mine.  Stealing something of mine!  

I don't mind sharing, but when people take things, it can make sharing a burden, when it really should be a joy.