Happy Birthday Ross!!!

Happy Birthday Bobbie Rose!!!

Ross I know yours was yesterday, but I forgot to write it on here. I still love you though! Love me.

sunday

we TRIED to go to church today.
there is a ministry on campus called His House and as far as i could tell they held sunday services on campus.
we got up and went to the room where it was supposed to be. but...there was no one there. but we tried. so we have done homework-watched football-homework-football-eat-internet.
i did fold some laundry. did some dishes. cleaned the toilet.
i know some one is really jealous of us right now.
here's to hoping you all had more exciting sunday's!

neighbors

creek, creek, creek, clomp, clomp,thump, thump, clomp, creek, clomp. repeat.

this is getting really old.

i just want to make sure i am clear about the post below. i am glad we moved here, and i know this is where we are supposed to be. jason and i are very happy.

courage

sometime this week my dad wrote me an email and at the end of the email he asked a simple question: "how is switching into student mode going?" i think the answer i gave him was a little more than he was looking for. let me share.

being a student is just okay. all of my classes are huge, and believe it or not sometimes i wish i were living in the dorms. obviously that isn't an option but it's so much easier to make friends in the dorms. i think i would miss jason too much though. :) so what i'm trying to say is that it's lonley up here right now. there are many times a week that i wish that i could just come home.

is it really nescessary to know how many electrons are in a atom to be a nurse? do i really need to go through 4 more years of this?

sometimes i think that it would have been easier if we would have stayed home and gone to CC or grand valley and kept a full time job.

but i really do know that if we didn't move and didn't take this leap, we would still be in GR doing the same things, and not moving forward.

i think that in everyone's lives it's a constant struggle to balance what is easier and what is good and what will reap the most benifits in the end. i feel that the biggest payoffs usually come from doing things that aren't always so "easy." and when you do something that is a little scary and not so secure, that is when you get the biggest rewards.

so when i think about wanting to be home or wanting to have friends, i think about how great it will be in the end to have a career that will benifit not only me, but my patients, and my kids, and the rest of my family. all of the good things in life come with a little risk and take a lot of courage.

so do something that takes courage today. do something scary. even if it's a little thing. they don't always have to be big acts of courage, but just think of the rewards. put a smile on your face and maybe some one else will get one too.

what were they thinking?

i was going to enlighten all of you with deep thoughts but this needs to be addressed first.

these boys are jumping off a cliff into lake superior today. i was just taking pictures and i saw them jumping and had to take pictures of the craziness that goes on in the up. the temperature of lake superior today was around 40 degrees. and the temperature in the air was in the 60's. I was cold with a thin sweat shirt on. their jaws were blue. stupid, stupid boys.

i'm employed!!

The laws of my brain are at work in full force....let me explain.

I've been waiting to hear back from an interview i had at a call center/answering service last week. I really wanted this job because it not only pays more than most of the jobs in marquette, but i think that i would really like this job and it would challenge me. (i hate boring jobs) And this morning when i woke up i still hadn't heard from them. I had an interview at Target at 9:00(would you like to put this on your target visa) (gag me) and i kept trying to make up excuses to reschedule or really... just not go. But the way my brain works is that if i didn't go to the target interview i wouldn't get the call center job. and if i did go to the target interview i would get the other job. so long story short. i sat through the dumbest questions you ever have to answer in an interview at target. and when my class got out at 2:30 i had a voice mail saying that i got the job. (the one i wanted)

It's at a place called Range Telecommunications. They have many different kinds of clients, but the majority of them are funeral homes. the call center takes off hour calls and passes the messages along to the right people. they also monitor alarms at schools and banks and houses and temperature monitors in vacation homes in the winter (so pipes don't freeze in the -40 degree temps here) taxi services...etc.

So that is how my brain works in a nut shell, more to come on that later. I have some insights on doing the things that scare us the most, but in the end give us the greatest rewards. tune in.