An interesting day...

God is so funny sometimes. But in his humor, he gives blessings. The whole time I have been recovering from my surgery everyone that I hang out with has been sick. I kept praying that God would keep me well, at least until my stomach could handle the stress of sneezing and stuff. He did keep me from it.... until Tuesday. I woke up feeling like poo and it just got worse. Up to this point, the longest that I had gone to work since my surgery (2 months, I might add) was for 3 hours. Tuesday, I was scheduled for 10. Ouch. I went to my first job, and they sent me home after 4 hours. I went to my second job, and they sent me home after 4 hours. Apparently I looked as bad as I felt. Then yesterday was not much better. Sick, sick, sick. I hate being sick. I am a misrable sick person. I whine and complain and cry like a little kid, so I usually try to avoid people for fear that they will soon hate the sight of me. Oh, but God is good. I found someone that refuses to get sick of me. It's nice.

I've never wanted to go to Asia. At least not East Asia. Central Asia, sure, but not East. Yesterday at Youth I was talking to a wonderful Japanese girl. She told me about home, taught me a little Japenese, and we began to build a friendship. Then, for the first time in my life, I wanted to go to Japan.... funny how God works isn't it? I like him.

A million things to love about Rachel Powell

Ah, my dear roomie. I do love her. Don't you all? Of course you do...

• She's a Jesus freak!
  
• Rach has lived with me longer than anyone else... and still likes me
• She's way cute
  
• I'm perfectly content to just lay in bed and stare at the ceiling with her
• She wasn't bitter that the doctor made me sit on my butt while she did the housework
• Her brother is cute.... oh wait, she doesn't have a brother :-)
• She doesn't make fun of me when I talk to my teddy bears
• She buys me stuff that I don't know I want
• Did I mention that she is crazy enough to live with me for a freak'n long time???
• It's fun to play the guitar and sing with Rachel
• She massages my feet when I can hardly stand up
• She worries about me way more than I ever will
• She likes most of my favorite movies
• Rach has this amazing little book that tells you 14,000 things to be happy about
• She sings in the shower.... oops, did I say that?
• She loves her kids at school... and her neices and nephews.... and pretty much anyone under 3 feet tall
• She signs with me so people get nice and confused
• She can have an entire conversation using only movie quotes
• She tickles me... not that I like that of course
• She has lots of fun candles
• Everything reminds her of a song
• She's tall enough to reach things that I can't
• She loves me no matter what
  

Back to work???

Well, it is coming time to go back to work. Yes, I can feel it coming, but I'm trying to ignore it as much as possible. The truth is that I worked 6 hours this week and that small amout of time wore me out. I think I have 5 hours scheduled for this week. Eventually I'm going to have to go back to the church to work, but it stresses me out so much sometimes that I honestly don't think it would be good for me. Alas, I'll have to face the music someday soon. So, according to my calendar, I've been off work for ..... 6 weeks now, so technically, I'm good for another 2 if I need them. I've been told time and again not to rush back too soon.... I don't think that will be a problem.