Busy at work, but I miss my friends on the weekends.

Sometime between me leaving for church this morning and getting back with my groceries afterward my lock broke.  Couldn't get into the house.  I was dreading calling the roommate to tell him I broke the house and he wouldn't be able to get in when he got back from being out of town tonight.

The repair guy is here now fixing it, and I guess we will ultimately be getting a new lock too.

Home Sweet Home.

1. Podium presentation at a national conference
2. Wrote a thesis
3. Defended same thesis
4. Received my Ph.D.
5. Helped plan and organize a national conference
6. Was unemployed for over 3 months
7. Was told by an Ex that he was sure I would be living with a guy by March of next year
8. Traveled half way around the world to two island nations
9. Lost a beloved student and friend
10. Been told my resume looks great, I present myself well, and that several people can't expalin why I was not hired in January
11. Moved with two weeks notice
12. Drove my car through 3 states
13. Visited friends from college and their two adorable kids, twice actually
14. Spent my federal Rebate check on shoes and gas
15. Spent lots of (but not enough) time with my cousin and her two kids, individually and one on one
16. Trailered my car through 9 other states
17. Had the bolts on my trailer shear off, dropping my leaf spring and axel halfway through Nebraska
18. Moved in with a guy (although not in quite the way the Ex was thinking I would)
19. Been told I look too young to be doing what I am doing
20. Been asked what year I am in undergrad
21. Started a new job (today)
22. Gotten plenty of double takes at work (*Clarification* to see if it really was me or if they were seeing things, not to scope me out)
23. Taught my first college class

And finally- 24.  Maybe found my calling?

1) My Niece is in the  Hospital up in Spokane, has been since Monday, she is currently on dialysis.  Could you please keep praying for her?  She is only 2.5 years old and poor kid is not allowed to have solid foods yet.  She got really sick a week and a half ago, then got dehydrated and that resulted in the hospital trips and eventual air lifting to Spokane.

2) Trip is over.  It was an adventure and I will post pictures when I get a chance.  Suffice to say that insurance is a good thing.

I'm going on a little trip.  Prayer for safe travel would be appreciated.  See you on the other side.

Could you all please pray for my niece?  She is only 2 and a half but she is in the hospital with some kind of infection and very dehydrated.  She will be staying overnight tonight.  Could you please pray that her blood tests tell the doctors and nurses what is wrong so they can treat her with the best options they have? 

Thank you,
OCR

I am trying to be patient, to wait and prepare, to meditate and focus.  In reality I feel like screaming, spinning around until I fall down, and laughing until I cry.  Time is moving slowly yet still too fast, as it can only do when something big and important is coming.  I'm not sure I am ready for this, I am not sure I really fully understand what I am getting myself into. 

I am sure however that I made the right choice, and the one that God wanted me to make.

So I wait, I try to be ready, and slowly I have started to realize that I am scared (censored) and also excited out of my mind at the same time and might feel like that for a very long time.

Thanks for the prayers friends- I can feel them.

In 18 days my life will change forever.  I know it has changed forever a bunch of times in my last (almost) 29 years, I mean after you eat your first solid food, take your first bath, or draw your first breath it has changed forever.  Some changes just happen, you don't control them, you don't have any say in them.  Others you control but they are not of the same magnitude like eating your first pineapple, going on your first roller coaster, catching your first fish after going fishing for the first time.  Those changes don't really require much thought or consideration, ok so the roller coaster may for some people, they are not the life changes that people dream of, plan for (generally), or stir up much discussion among friends or family.

I think I am ready for it and all the changes it will bring in my life, but I guess I won't know really until it takes full effect, and that won't happen immediately.  Still aren't the best things worth waiting for?  Isn't everything worth having worth the time and effort you put into getting it?  I have heard God call me to things or places three distinct times in my life now.  Here's hoping I can use this change for the reason He brought it into my life. 

Change/Challenge, I think they are the same thing sometimes. I'll know more in 18 days. 

Until then and even after could you pray for me?  For safety as I make the change and journey, for wisdom, grace, peace, perseverance, and that I would be able to express hope, joy, and God's greatness during this time of change and challenge? 

Thanks,
OCRosie

Wow this week has flown by.  So much still to do.

I am really missing California and my friends right now.  Not where I used to physically live, although I have been thinking about my former roommate a lot, but instead the friends, and fellow students that shared so much with me for so long.

If you are one of those people, please know I miss you, hold your friendship dear, and long to see you again as soon as possible.  I have been thinking maybe New Years?  I would like to spend it with friends someplace I can actually go out and live it up.

Miss you