Prego!

So, my girlfriend got some exciting news today and took me out to the best lunch ever. We went to Prego in Irvine and had chianti, ice tea, bread with vinegar and olive oil, a calamari appetizer, yummy entrees and creme brulee for dessert!!

It has seriously been a glorious three days of free meals and it's not over yet! Tonight my work friends are taking me out to happy hour at El Torito Grill to celebrate my freedom from corporate hell!! WEEEEEE!!!!

33 Hours Left

Well, friends, the countdown is on. I have 33 hours left at my corporate job. And then the fun of 2 weeks vacation begins. Next week, I have the entire week off and I plan to sit at the Starbucks cafe at Barnes and Noble perusing all the books I have not read this year as a result of working too hard for too little pay. And the following week I have an advising appointment, but then my mom and I are off for some luxurious spa R &R. We are going to Las Rocas resort in Baja. I can't wait. And then the studying begins...and hopefully the moving. I don't think I will last the commute out to the 215, so I need to move.

What's going on in your neck of the woods?

I Got A Golden Ticket!

I am in friends! I got a call today that I have been accepted at Loma Linda University for a Master's in Social Work beginning this fall (2005)!

Go me!

Six Wishes

This morning was pretty stressful at work. I know it was because at one point I asked my co-worker, "Can you actually die of stress?" She replies, "Yes, you are more susceptible to disease, heart attack, etc." So later on I am sitting at my desk and the edge of my left eyelid starts to twitch and immediately I'm thinking, I've GOT to switch to decaf. And then I rub my eye to get it to stop twitching and 3 eyelashes fall out. It was like they were wiggling their way out. Is all my hair going to fall out too?, I think. And then a few minutes later, the same spot wiggles again and 3 more eyelashes fall out. So I guess in lieu of my bad day, I get six wishes. I am currently saving the 6 on my desk and plan to blow away one wish every hour until quitting time.

Wish #1: Lord, please let me get into grad school....

the Waiting is the Hardest Part

Well, it has been a season of waiting. Waiting for the return, waiting for a letter from graduate school, waiting for the next phase of my life to start, waiting for God to speak. I feel as though I have been without water or some other vital nutrient for the last month or so. It's one of those things where it's really hard until it gets even harder, and everytime you think you just can't go one step further, somehow you do. And I just keep wondering if it will ever end. I am not by nature a patient person, and so I know this season is meant to build character. But I have learned that when you're actually building character, you don't know it at the time. At the time, at this time for me, it just feels like an anvil is pressing me down into the cement sidewalk, slowly, heavily and inevitably. As the Girl Scouts song went: you can't go over it, you can't go under it, you can't go around it, you've gotta go through it. There is no other way. Just one foot in front of the other...and it's not fun or glamorous. It's hard.