Final Friday, Final Day!

patience: bearing pains or trials calmly or without complaint

i have a hard time with this one. in this technology age when i can get pretty much everything i want immediately, waiting is just too hard.

there are several things in my life i am waiting on, so close, yet so, so far away. i have a feeling this next stage in my life will be a period of growth in patience and trust. i hope i'm up for the challenge, i guess i'll have to be b/c my whole life is hanging in a suspension that is out of my reach, i can't control it.

The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride. Ecclesiastes 7:8

**speaking of patience, my computer won't allow me to post a picture, so before i lose said patience i'm going to post this thing and be done with it.

Final Thursday...

me at age 3 or 4 i guess at my grandparent's house. my cousin found it and thought it would be fun to bring it to work to show everyone. then leo (bestest coworker friend who likes to make fun of me at every opportunity) thought it was most necessary to scan it, i look forward to seeing what he does to it. he also said i had an evil grin. and yes, those are pound puppies, i have 2 in my hand, you just can't see them b/c they are black! oh to be a kid again!

Final Wednesday...

I think this is in a previous post, but it fits and I love toothpaste for dinner it makes me laugh.

I have nothing profound to say, not that i often have profound things to say...i wish i did.

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. Ps. 28:7

i am just so excited about my life...God is so good and i can't help but praise him even though i have no idea what is going to happen next...i love it!

Final Tuesday....

and i am bored.

what is up with this weather? it's nice and all, but not for december. it doesn't even feel like christmas is next week. i'm kind of ready to bundle up for once. a couple of weeks ago, with temperatures in the 30s and 40s was glorious. even the alps are having snow troubles.

bring on the cold! (and bring on friday too, i can't take this much longer)

Final Monday...

i'm fairly certain i had an outfit like that when i was 3 or 4, but this isn't me. that hair is fabulous though!

Maybe I'll document every single last day of my last week at work. I am super bored.

one of my favorite websites to waste time on: www.foundmagazine.com.

it will make you look at trash on the ground in a whole new way. since discovering this website, i have found some interesting things, such as a balled, slightly ripped ticket to a man for public drunkeness. i can't imagine he paid it since i found it. it was clear from the way it was wadded up that he wasn't too happy about it either. ha!

one thing i don't miss....

finals! no more panic attacks, sleepless nights, information overload, short-term memory loss. i don't miss any of it.

well, now that i think about it, i do miss study sessions such as these. these are some friends of mine still lucky (i say that loosely) enough to have finals (L to R: Aubry, best bear hugger EVER, Rebecca - who is often quoted on my wall, and gerry, who lives in a trailer and is married). they are in the SLC (Student Learning Center for you North Carolina people) and i'm sure there was much fun and little studying. i do miss that, but that's the only part.

'tis the season to have time on my hands!

Relevant

I resigned from my job last week, I'll be officially unemployed next Friday. Am I ok with this? Absolutely! Am I worried about not having a job? Sometimes. But I know I did the right thing. No question, without a doubt.

In my new found or I guess I should say, reinstatement of, boredom at work, I read Relevant Magazine every other day or so. Today I found this article about faith and quitting your job. Amazing!

Here is an excerpt:

" I still don’t know what is next, and am sometimes not exactly sure why I resigned and have to battle my doubt and my mind often but am learning to embrace the difficulties and uncertainties that I face because I can cling to the One who is. He just is. There is something about his “I am-ness” (Exodus 3:14) that gives me the courage to move, that makes my faith real, that wraps me up and holds my hand.

So I quit my job, I did not go back in the fall, and everything is not easy and perfect. Irresponsible? Some would say yes. Immeasurably more? Even though nothing is nailed down, yes. He is showing me the immeasurably more than I could ever ask or imagine in each new day and that is enough foresight. He is enough.

Faith moves. Be encouraged. Let Him move you."

I mean how awesome!? I'm so excited to see what is next, I'm not worried and I'm not even planning (which is huge for me, i love to plan, but God has been laughing in the face of the plans I've made the past few months, so I quit trying.)

Woo Hoo! I'm enjoying the ride called life!

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