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| w/ the holidays fast approaching all my clients seem more irritable
about their lack of housing and finances making my days of late
slightly stressful....In lieu of this stress, plus the fact that I
don't feel as connected to the whole Millersville crowd as I used to, I
would love to hear some fun and interesting stories about what is going
on in your lives....so comment away
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| So today my boss emails my dept. saying she needs to know the exact
dates we are taking our vacation days for the rest of the year. I was
under the impression that vacation days ran for the fiscal year of July
to July, so I didn't respond as I was planning on saving my precious
vacation days for this summer. Well to make a long story short, it ends
up I only have until 12/31 to use the rest of my vacation days  !
They actually run for the calendar year so when I officially got hired
they prorated my vacation days for the year....then for 2007 (January
2007 - December 2007) I'll have 3 weeks of vacation !!
I had no idea I would get this much time! (My boss says our job is so
emotionally draining that we need all the time off for our mental
health....hey, I'm for that!) This clearly made my day  !!
I have 43 hrs...which equals out to be 5.4 days of vacation time to use
up in the next 7 weeks. These precious days should obviously be used on
the most funest of all occasions. So, if anyone out there knows of
anything fun going on that would be during the week...or is planning on
having something super fun....or wants to plan something fun...please
let me know! 5 whole days....ohhh the possibilities....
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| Contentment has often been fleeting w/ me. It can come and go from one day to the next, one hour to the next, etc. But I gotta say this past week has been great! I’ve continuously been thanking God for many blessings and the contentment and happiness I feel! Work is finally looking up(I had a lot of clients who didn’t seem to be making any progress but lately things have been going fairly well for them!)….it’s Fall; what a wonderful, beautiful season….we went hiking yesterdayand it was simply lovely…even the drive through the countryside getting there was lovely…I’ve spent a lot of time w/ great friends: Philly trip last weekend w/ Vicki, Mary, Tiff B, Kara, and we met up w/ Emily and Kristin: touring downtown Philly, Nifty Fiftys...tree climbing, feeding the ducks and fish, carving pumpkins, seeing Ruth at Sight and Sound (and seeing my friend Steve, who works there, for a little bit), Thurs. night dinner, good conversations, long walks, movies, eating a delicious ham dinner(Thanks Sean!), swimming, Scrabble, hiking, Sequence, obstacle course in the house-house attic…….and of course the fact that I am now dating (that still sounds weird!!) Craig, the most awesome boy ever, probably has something to do w/it!   Yep, Life is GOOD! Praise God! | | |
| Well I’ve been at Tabor 9 months now (I can’t believe it’s
been 9 months!) and this is a short list of what I’ve learned so far:
- Don’t assume anything
- Sometimes all people really need is someone to listen
- It’s important to develop a thick skin: when clients are
mean to me its b/c they’re hurting; it’s not
personal and they’ll most likely forget it in an hour
- It is impossible to get everything done by the end of the
day
-Work should stay at work; don’t internalize things so much that
it affects my personal life
- Life isn’t fair, and I can’t change people’s hurts of the
past
- Everyone needs to feel loved and respected
- I have been blessed far more than I ever realized!
- Every day should start with prayer
- God is full of surprises!
I love my job! When you ask me how I am I probably just say
“busy” and that’s it. Truly, by the time I get home I can’t remember specific
things I’ve accomplished, how many people I’ve helped, and usually what I find
interesting is not interesting to you, or my interesting story will need tons
of background information. I feel like people ask me about my day all the time
and I just can’t explain exactly what I do for 9+ hours everyday…but rest
assured that I am learning new things everyday and I feel extremely good that I
am making a direct difference in some people’s lives. | | |
|  "Lord,
help me to be good...I fully realize that I don't have what it takes
without Your help. Take my selfishness, impatience, and irritability
and turn them into kindness, long-suffering, and the willingness to
bear all things. Take my emotional habits, mindsets, automatic
reactions, rude assumptions, and self-protective stance, and make me
patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and self-controlled. Take the
hardness of my heart and break down the walls with Your battering ram
of revelation. Give me a new heart and work in me Your love, peace, and
joy. I am not able to rise above who I am at this moment. Only You can
transform me."
-Stormie Omartian
This
is a beautiful prayer that captures the essence of how I feel so well I
wanted to share it with everyone.....it comes from the wonderful little
Thomas Kinkade book "Prayers of Hope and Light" which I was given today by Angela, my bestest friend in the entire world! :)
In other news, this is the first time in 22 years I was not with my skisser for our birthday...and it was downright weird.
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