2) One of my most recent comment-ers, Karen, just finished sailing around the world for nine months with her husband and his best buddy. You go girl! I spent quite a while reading about their adventures, and you should too. Let's hear it for former Bak-O girls around the world!
3) I have re-learned that I don't do well without a schedule. If you had seen me at the beginning of last week, you would have been depressed. Let's just say I was pretending that I was in Atlanta by not working, staying in my pajamas all day, not going outside, complaining about the weather, etc. By Thursday I had made an hourly schedule that had the very basics (read: get out of bed, shower, put on clothes you could wear in public, eat breakfast, etc.), and it has made all the difference since then.
4) Regarding jobs...Thanks to my friend Sarah, I was able to do a little transcription work from home for the marketing company she works for. I also made contact with another private school in town and will hopefully be visiting again this week and getting on their sub list. Meanwhile, I'm have active accounts with two other temp agencies (the one I got the college job with and a subbing one) and am just waiting to be called to work. I can only harass them so often each week.
So, clearly, despite my best efforts to get a job, any job, and after way too much fretting about money, it's slowly dawning on me that God must have something he wants me to to learn/do/be during this time of waiting. I feel so helpless, which is probably a good thing, because I have been quite self-sufficient and independent since about... four years old. This is the first time in my life that I haven't been able to succeed in the area of work based on my education, achievements, hard work, and tenacity, and it's rather difficult. Rather. Difficult. That's an English way of putting it.
5) I think it's so cool how people find this blog... through friends of friends of friends. I'm so glad that Marilyn, Sandy, and Karen and who knows how many others (especially from Lorie's blog, Kristi's blog, and Abby's blog) have joined us on our adventures.
That's it for now... I'm working on some other posts for this week. Stay warm and upright in Atlanta, people!
3 comments:
wow! thank you for your sweet comment and plug for my sailing blog :-) it was quite the experience and certainly something i had *never* in my wildest dreams imagined that i would do when i was growing up an '08er in Bako! Kudos to you, too, for the journey you are on! i'll keep following along!
Hey! Where's the food?
Seriously, Philippians is a really good read for times like these.
;-)
K10ham
Nicole, that sounds like you, making a schedule for your day, even if it is just things around the house. I know how you feel, before I got the job at Whitefield I felt that way too. God does have a plan, just be patient. And I agree, Philippians ALWAYS helps! :)
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