We Don't Need Sleep to Survive

Let me highlight for you the past three weeks and then expound on it as I see fit.

Week 1:

• Move in to dorm
• Apply for job
• Win Kindle Fire
• Try new church
• Meet new friend
• Get in wreck with friend
• Get PO Box
• Start classes
• Get the job
• Go home to recuperate
• Go to Concert
• Go back to school

Week 2:

• Come home for hurricane Isaac
• Put down my first dog
• Have to come back to school the next morning
• First day of work
• Go back home for Labor Day Weekend

Week 3:

• Uneventful so far and enjoying it!

Week 1:

Moving In
    That was a lot of fun. I spent the day with my parents and I didn't have to carry any of my stuff up four flights of stairs. Yes, that is right! There was an army of guys who helped me and my parents bring my stuff up while I parked my car. This is almost like my first place. It has a weird feeling to it. I feel like I'm suppose to be an adult but I can't quite comprehend that.


Applying for a Job
    When we went out to eat, I applied for a job on our way out. I had no address to put down but the owner let me apply anyway. I must have made an impression for applying the day I moved in.
     At the Jag Fest that night, I saw him and he told me he talked to the manager. He said I had my foot in the door even without an address. What a miracle! After 8 months of tireless and disappointing job searching, I had my foot in the door the day I moved in.

New Church, New Friend,...New Car?

    Before I left for college, my youth pastor set me up with an old student of his who was my age going to South Alabama. I meet her face-to-face that first Sunday when I went to her church. Afterwards, we went out to Tropical Smoothie and since I didn't know my way around she gave me a lift. We had a great time getting to know each other and discover how much alike we are. On our way out however, we got in to a car accident! A first time for both of us, yet another thing in common and this time together. Everyone was fine just bruises and minor burns. I visited Urgent Care at the request of my mother, where the doctor welcomed me to the real world after learning my parents hadn't even left me 24 hours earlier. Speaking of my mom, I called her twice before I realized the speaker in my phone didn't work but she could hear me. Can you imagine her worry? That was a tough text to send once I remembered such a thing was possible. ;)

Next Day Starts Classes...
    What can I say? That day is stressful enough, but I was sore with a heavy backpack to carry around. Thankfully, God spared me a lot of soreness and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

PO Box and Job
That day I got my PO Box and finished my application. I got hired on the spot! Talk about the highs and lows of life. The interview was more of a this is what you need and this is how we do than any interview I had previously had.

....Friday I went home to recuperate, but I was too busy to do that.

Week 2:

Isaac
    I came back to school on Sunday and came back on Monday because of Hurricane Isaac. Yes, my family gives me a hard time about not staying away.

Levi
   I was home Tuesday and Wednesday for the hurricane and the last day I was home I woke up to a blood bath. My dog, Levi, had been sick for sometime, but no one thought it was that serious. We had taken him to many vets who misdiagnosed him numerous times. That day we had to say goodbye and it would not have been so hard if he had acted sick, but that dog was a protector and he never let on to how much pain he was in. Thankfully, God worked it so my whole family could be there.
    If you think of the dog Nanna from Disney's Peter Pan that is what I related Levi to. He was not a cuddle dog, but whenever I seriously need him to be one he was there. He spent many days playing with me outside running around. He spent many nights with me at the age of 13 crying away my puberty problems. He greeted me everyday I walked in the door. He was there for my emotional break down in college. When I told him to teach Gideon how to act, he took me seriously...really seriously. He was a great dog and I always wanted to see how he would treat my kids, but sadly that won't happen. I am thankful though that we were able to spare him a lot of unnecessary pain and that we can keep the good memories of him.
    I was suppose to come back that night, but I waited till the morning to spend more time with my family and avoid the bad weather.

First Work Day
    The very next day, I had to go to my first day of work and God got me through it. It was a lot of fun and I've enjoyed my job ever since.


Oh yeah, I went back home on Saturday Night. And life has been uneventful since.