And Grown up Life Begins

So I finished my internship at ccr&r-- thank the Lord! on August 7th and by August 21st I was hired by the YMCA as a Site Supervisor at Gilbert Elementary's BASE (before & after school care.) I started when school started-- the 27th of August... I think. Meh. I have an assistant; Ben. He's a good guy... 19 years old. The kids love him... he was there last year. I also volunteer in mom's kinder class except not at present 'cause I'm sick. My boss did tell me that this would probably be a very sick year for me. *sigh*

Joel's employed in Kent as an Accountant for Food Services of America... he's too far away. Hopefully the long distance relationship will change within the next 9 months or so. We'll see what God has planned. I get to see him semi regularly, but definitely not often enough. Oh and I got him sick when I was in Seattle this past weekend; poor guy. :(

It's so weird not to go to school. I LOVE the no homework parts, but I miss people and the AMAZING schedule you get as a college student. I miss living at the Rock with 11 crazy girls and Joel a ten minute walk away (instead of a 2.5 hour drive). I miss seeing God work on campus through Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. I miss the "relaxed" lifestyle with not as many worries and complexities. But you got to grow up sometime... so I guess this is it. Now on to life's next great adventure... as for what that is; I think we'll all find out together. :)

Blessings from Heaven

God has blessed me beyond belief. Everything in my life isn't going smoothly, but that's okay because I know God is good all the time and all the time God is good. I have an internship at Catholic Family and Child Services this summer. I have NO IDEA what happens next, but that's okay.... for now. ;D What I'm really blessed by are my amazing support networks.... family, friends and my boyfriend. Intervarsity is another amazing support network as is my house full of crazy women of God. They are all there for me in my times of need... even when I'm about to cry from stress....but in my happy times... like when they tell me I should do homework and I ask them what homework is.... =D I am content... peaceful....my future is in God's hands.... thankfully. =) I couldn't ask for more.

About my home church....

I just found out the youth pastor's leaving on the heels of the associate pastor, children's director, and pastor all in a little over a year. Oh and the music director left two years ago... I think. It's hard to keep track. Are you freaking kidding me? Seriously. And the not so funny part is the same thing happened when I was 15. The associate pastor left followed by the pastor and youth pastor as well as the children's director. So we now, at present have a pastor, secretary, children's intern and music director. Period. All in less than 10 years. And to top it off there isn't any money because people are leaving the church (wonder why) and no one wants to give. How 'bout that? It pretty much pisses me off. The reason for all the upheaval is centered around scandal of one type or another, if you boil it down, that is. At least this time around. Last time around it was around relationships between the leaders of the church.

The begining of the end

The beginning of my last second week of class has arrived. For everyone else. I do not have class on Mondays. Cool, no? =) Never going to happen ever again so I aim to enjoy it. By doing homework. Sadness BUT I didn't do any during the weekend. And at least I'm going to do it in a nice warm place which would not be my house because warm and my house are like oil and water. But it's all good 'cause I have 6 blankets AND a comforter.

My classes are as follows:
Tue/Thur
Spanish 102
HD 300
SOC 332
SOC 351
break
HD 497

Wed/Fri
Spanish 102

PS- Human Development (HD)= major
Sociology (SOC)= minor
Spanish= random class I'm auditing for fun


My mom & dad are visiting this coming weekend! It twill be fun fo sho since they have yet to do just that this school year. =)