distracted, school, job

Today has just been the craziest week. After getting my TONS of stuff unpacked when arriving at school on Sunday, I played Dutch Blitz with Bio Buddy and D-MAY. I literally had 2 plastic tubs of clothes, 3 bags of groceries, 3 bags of stuff, and my music books and laptop. It was insane. A lot of things about this week were insane. I have NEVER been so distracted or scatterbrained before as I have been this week! It is SO BAAAAD!

So school started again on Monday. I have class from 7:50am - chapel, then class from after chapel til 12:20pm, a break for lunch, then class again at 2pm. So basically I am booked. But the BEST thing happened this week! So you know how I was looking for a job last semester? I tried hard. Went to 2 interviews. Applied a BUNCH of places. But no luck.

Then here I go, Tuesday after noon I walk into the facility services office to ask if I might have an application (expecting them to say go apply online). You see, Italy works there and said 3 people quit! So there were openings. It was a definte God thing...I walked in and after waiting for the boss to get done becoming distracted by finding her keys (15 min later) she sat down in front of me and was like, "so when can you start?"

I was so taken aback in pleasure that I told her I could start Thursday and agreed to 15 hours a week. After talking it over with my mom and Italy I decided that was too much and asked to go down to 10 or 12. It took a lot of confusingness and my schedule was changed twice before I even started working 2 days later, but now I am back to 13 hours a week. Bleh. Going to try it though. If it proves to be too much, I shall just have to ask to reschedule again.

I am SO very grateful to my Jesus for giving me this job. Last semester I was so stressed about EVERYTHING, including finding a job. And to see how God had this one waiting for me EXACTLY when I needed it is just an eye opener to remind me it is all in his hands. :) SIGH. If I only woulda had faith that God would bring about what I need at just the right time! Since I work evenings, this job wouldn't have worked at all last semester what with bio study sessions and all. I couldn't have handled it. Now I think it shall be much much better. God truly knows best. Isn't he just the BESTEST EVER IN THE UNIVERSE?!?!?! :D :D :D I love Jesus so much.

Chapel started having praise and worship songs before the speaker starts each day. Its been fun dancing to them with Italy! O Happy Day is a fun song with hand motions. LOL.

About distractions - I was confused over the scheduled work hours, missed a email about a SAC meeting I was supposed to go to, missed meeting TeeHee for Oasis cause I forgot my phone was charging in my room and I went to Bible study  (which was bad since I invited her to go! alfkjaodria) left my keys in my room twice and once in a friend's room...SIGH and a few other things. Just SO SO distracted and scatterbrained. This has GOT to stop. SO bad.

I have being fairly productive during down time between classes and work. I shall have to keep that up if I am going to stay on track this semester. Scared for all the math in chemistry though! Very concerned that I shall not make it. But I'm going to keep pushing on! No matter how hard, I know God shall help me pull through. Cling to Him my friends, and have faith. You might not and probably do not see His plans for you now. You know not what they shall turn out to be in the long run. But He wants good things for you!

Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

So do not give up hope or become stressed - place it all in the Lord's hands and have faith that He shall pull your through. You didn't think it was your own doing that you made it through last semester did you? Cause it wasn't. :)

Love you my friends.


Psalm 118:13
I was pushed back and about to fall, but the LORD helped me.

Want to Chew?

"It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives..."

I love this quote! I don't know who said it, but it is so so true.

For quite a silly example, yesterday I really missed chewing. Chewing?! Yes, chewing. When you cannot even fit earbuds into your ears, you know your face is swollen. I basically CAN'T chew cause my mouth is stiff. I never realized what a blessing it is to be able to chew until now...when it is very hard to do so. Imagine if you didn't have any teeth! And had to eat a soft diet all the time... *shudders* Thank you God for giving me all my teeth...and then some! ;)
No joke, I am truly thankful to my savior Jesus for aiding me in such a quick recovery! I haven't felt sick a'tall! Besides some minor soreness and swelling (and ocassional salt-water rinsing...LOL) I have been perfectly normal. If you consider me normal that is...ha!

Then again, I wonder if it really is entirely true. There is some truth to all lies, so then is there some lie to all truths? Perhaps that is what we call 'exceptions' ? IDK.
No lie comes from truth though, no matter what parallels we might find in it to the truth...

1 John 2:21
"I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth."

 But it seems that regarding spirtual matters, sometimes you DO know that there is something missing before you have got it. YET you wouldn't really know the entirety of what it is you are missing until you actually have it, now would you? It is just that God puts in our hearts a knowledge for the supernatural. A knowing, deep down, that there is more than what you can see. Why do you think magic is such a popular subject with the secular world? (and Christian realm as well...I personally love Narnia and Alagaësia) Humans know that there is a spiritual realm as well as a physical one. People might even confess they believe in other worlds. Well, are not heaven and hell, in a way, other worlds? They are not here on earth for sure! (though rumor has it hell is located in the center of the earth...creepy stuff) That is, they are not something we know and live in at the moment...yes? IDK, I don't wanna confuse myself more. Ephesians 6:12              

ANYWAYS,
Grace and peace to you my friends! May you have a good week whether this starts a new semester or ends your fall break, remember to always eat pizza with pickled prunes. Cuts down on the heartburn!
hahaha, JK
remember to always find time for Jesus! He is the true blessing.

Ephesians 1:3
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ."

Wisdom Teeth and a Happy New Year!!

 First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Enjoy God's abundance in this new year of 2011. Seek Him Always and You SHALL Find.

Yesterday, as mentioned before, my 4 wisdom teeth were removed.

My question is why in the world do we need these extra 4 molars?? If all we humans do is remove them, what even is their point?

A friend speculated a truly odd reason...that they are to be used for the purpose of aging. As when you age a horse by their teeth. (I was like, WHAT?! you are just plain weird my friend...) I don't understand it, but ok then.

So I got 'em out. Don't remember a thing that happened during the procedure or immediately after it. I choose to be put under. Seemed better to me that way.

My first recognition was waking up sitting on a bench in a recovery room with my mom calling my name and asking how I was. She asked me questions, which my mouth full of gauze tried to answer. LOL. I was so out of it still that I faded in and out when trying to text on her phone my answers, and it took me 10 min. just to say one word...TED! haha
I wanted to know if he could understand my mutterings. Somehow I didn't recall that he was not there. ha, WOW that anesthesia really throws ya for a loop!
So I faded in and out of consciousness/memory, desperately trying to remember and listen to the nurse's instructions. Good thing mom was there!

Went home and attempted to sleep. Failed though. Too noisy and light out. I cannot sleep when it is light. Bleh.
Felt totally fine, besides being hungry cause liquids do NOT fill me up. Walked around, up and down the stairs, made myself soup, then sat on the computer all day. I don't quite understand it, but I have absolutely NO nausea or drowsiness or dizziness because of it. Even my face isn't that swollen!

The most annoying thing out of the day was not being able to get my earbuds to stay put because of the swelling. Haha! I just wish I could go sledding now...but NO exercise or bending over are the instructions. Lame socks.

Was freaked out a bit last night when the doc called to make sure I was ok. I told him I was not taking the pain meds, and he replied that I would wake in the night screaming in discomfort (once the numbness wears off) if I did not go get the prescriptions filled right away. I calmly thanked him for his concern and hung up. HA! Like I am going to pay money for prescription vicadin when I can just use over-the-counter ibuprofen. Silly doctors. It is hardly even achy.

So my new years eve consisted of icing my face and "taking it easy" by sitting on the couch on the internet, listening to audio books. (If you have never heard the purple cow poem, google it. HILARIOUS!) What fun. Meh. But I am not complaining, because I know I am doing exceedingly well compared to how some of my friends were when they got theirs out! My dad was hospitalized cause he got an infection. Yikes. Bad news.

I count it all to my Jesus though that I am doing so well. I honestly just wanna go run around! Tired already of being stuck in the house. Thank you all my friends for your prayers! I can for sure feel them at their work.

I bask now in my Lord's abundance. Is he not the bestest?! :D

Jeremiah 33:6
“‘Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security.

My Savior Gives Us The Freshest Start Of Them All!

So I actually haven't reflected at all about this past year. You see, I had my wisdom teeth out on the 31st. FUN TIMES. It actually wasn't that bad. Better than the only other appointment (2 days before Christmas!). Sides, I never do much for new years anyhoo. I really liked a quote a friend put on her facebook wall yesterday...

"I don't need a new year for a new start. I got that in my savior!"

SO true. Why do we make such a big deal out of a new year causing a fresh start? IDK. When Jesus came into my life, I was given an incredible blessing of a fresh start. Somehow, the calendar change just doesn't cut it. But nonetheless, I have enjoyed my year of 2010 and am looking forward to 2011.

2010 - the year I made the BEST of friends! Both from my homeschool graduating class AND from college.
2010 - the year I (again) re-learned that I need to put God BEFORE my schoolwork. No matter how stressed I may be about it, God is always always always more important.
2010 - the year I disappointed my parents by leaving home and going to college.
2010 - year I lost a couple of my best friends. Both due to their (and my) fickleness, and their moving away. :\
2010 - my personal fav, the year I finally ditched creepy boy! LOL, the benefits of moving away...wah hoo.


Anyways, there were the best of times in 2010. I loved it. Probably my most favoritest year ever yet. Brought a lot of emotional stress there at the end with the whole bio and chem classes doing poorly thing. Overall though, I acheived B's in everything. Though my perfectionist self accounts that as a fail, I am trying to convince myself that is actually not that bad for a first semester.

AND next year/semester is going to be even better! My only resolution is that I wanna continue putting God before anything else, and that I want to get to know my roomies better. We get along alright, but I haven't made any effort a'tall to truly become their friend. SO that is where I shall start as soon as I get back 'home.' I have two homes now. :)

I am planning on doing a lot more seeking and finding of my Lord Jesus this season of my life. What better time then when going insane in college? LOL. I love it.


Remember my friends, it is not the change of year that gives you a fresh start - that can only be found in Jesus. Seek. Him. Always.

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” - 2 Corinthians 5:17