A list of goodness

1. Happy Hump Day
2. I'm officially done with training at work
3. Chuck town this weekend
4. Apartment viewing this weekend (And the first time to see it since I found out I will actually be living there!!)
5. I'm moving a load of stuff to the apartment
6. Valentine's day was chill and relaxing (I didn't have to work at the last minute!!)
7. Got off work early today (10 hours as opposed to 11--it's the little things!)
8. Strawberry banana smoothies after a long day of work make my day awesome!

News!

Last week I found out that I have been accepted to the MUSC PA Class of 2014! The Lord is good to me!!! That's all I can say. I knew all along that this may not be in His plan for me but my constant comfort was clear evidence of His hand throughout this whole process! From the internship I had at the school to different steps of my application, I've been assured that His will was for me to take the next step in the process. At one point I so feared failure that I considered not applying for this year, but the Lord's calling was clear.
I'm extremely excited about being a Physician Assistant, but first being a PA student!! I can't wait to dive into Gross Anatomy and lowcountry living. The Lord has blessed me above and beyond!
More to come soon--for now, I'm enjoying the Upstate and being a working woman!!

A work week

Here is a sample work week:
Monday 9 am-8:30 pm
Tuesday 6:30 am-5:30 pm
Wednesday 6:00 am-5:30 pm
Thursday 6:45 am-5:15 pm
Friday 8:00 am-5:00 pm

Add in 45 minutes drive time on either side and you have an officially crazy week!!!
The next week I have one day where I get off a drive at 11pm and have to be back at work to start another drive at 6:15 am the next morning---things are heating up and this is going to be interesting!!

It's Wednesday.

Technically, hump day. 

BUT who has two thumbs and has to work on Saturday??

You guessed it--me!! 

3 more days until REST!

The Only Thing I'm Absolute About. . .

. . . Is no absolutes!!!

I say that because I am beginning to realize that I'm not an "absolutes" type of girl. I'm not black and white. There's no one thing I'm interested in. There's no one tried and true thing that I always do in certain situations. There is no one thing that absolutely always gets a laugh out of me. And so on.

I'm just now beginning to realize what a complicated personality I have. It makes it hard for people to get to know me and, I'm sure, some could think I'm flighty because my brain is constantly working and challenging my own decisions so I often change my mind and opinion on different issues. I'm a little like an onion (Shrek reference) . . . But I hope I'm a little more savory to the palate than an onion. Maybe a 7 layer dip? Or an everlasting gobstopper?

I like everlasting gobstopper---let's go with it!!

Just Another Day At the Office

Currently, I'm a phlebotomist by trade. I stick a (pretty darn big) needle in a person's arm and get a unit of blood from them that is then centrifuged and broken down into components and, within 24 hours, being transfused into 3 blessed people whose bodies' desperately need assistance fighting the physiological battles they are facing. If I'm doing my job well, you (as the donor) should hardly feel that needle. So today that's what I did--I stuck people, and tried my durndest to do it well.
The job is super experience for what I hope is to come in my life, but my favorite part of the day is interacting with donors. Today I was asked all sorts of questions about the process, about the physiology of the process, etc. Questions from "Is my blood blue inside me?" to "How old are you?" (haha) to "Are you going to run those tubes and see if I have herpes or something?" Yes, I've been doing this job 3 weeks and I've already heard some crazy things--I can't wait to see what's to come!
We were at a high school today and I just loved interacting with the students. They were inquisitive and funny and encouraging all in one! But, by far, my favorite part of the whole thing is teaching others to love physiology and the craziness of our bodies' design. Teaching the students that happened to sit on my bed all about clotting and how the blood clots so that "we can walk around with openings to the outside and not 'drain out'" is a really, really fun thing. Being able to tell an inquisitive girl that I don't have "to do anything to her" to make that hole stop bleeding and that I'm just going to let her body do that work is such a fun thing to do. I hope that they catch just a little of my awe at the sheer wonder of our bodies!

Loose Ends

This week I've been very agitated and restless because I'm waiting on the Lord [not the "Lord, which path should I take?" kind-of waiting, but the "Lord, open a door. There's nothing here apart from your plan" kind-of waiting.] When I informed my mother of this she pointed out to me that I'd "rather have a 'absolute no' today and go ahead and deal with any fall-out there may be with a negative outcome than have a 'yes' in a week." People, it's truth. It may seem stupid when you read it but I would rather get the answer I don't want, right this moment and tie up the loose ends on my emotions than sit "hanging loose" for a week or so and get the answer I've always desired.
I'm a finisher. I want to check a task off the list and be done with it for good. I don't like to dawdle. I don't like to dwell. It's occasionally not healthy. Case in point: now.
So, I'm waiting. And the Lord is teaching me. And, for this moment, I'm calm and resting in his flawless plan for my life (no promises for 10 minutes from now, though!). I'm reminding myself that I'm so short-sighted that I desire the wrong things, and if I wait with patience and earnestly seek His will then He will guide me where He wants me to go!