Come What May on Saturday

All I am saying right now is do not let Saturday come! Do not let Saturday come! Yet, at the same time it would be nice if tomorrow was Saturday. I just want to know if Target is keeping me or not! Is that too much to ask??? I am freaking out here! I really, really need this job but at the same time if God wants me elsewhere that is fine too; I just want to know already! I can barely sleep at night because I am so stressed and worried that I may not have a job come next week. Money rules the world, that is true, but I so wish life did not have to be this way. I pray that I can somehow trust God to take care of my life, my job, and my future. I have no control over this and no amount of stress will make this process easier, stressing over little things only makes things worse unfortunately. So, I am giving my job and my financial situation to God. Whatever happens this weekend or next week is all in His plan, even if it does not make sense to me.

The Beginning of the End???

Welcome to the New Year & the End of the World! What is your opinion of that matter? Do you really think the world will end this coming December? I personally believe that the world will end the day after just to throw everyone off their rockers, haha. :) No but seriously, I think the idea of the world ending is preposterous! God said in the Bible that we would not know the day or the time that He was to come back to Earth. The fact that we know the Mayan calendar ended on that day is merely just another mystery we may never be able to answer, but I highly doubt that the end of the world will happen on that December day, the 23 or whatever is the date.

Either way, I have set some goals for my life this year which I intend to strive toward and achieve, whether the world ends or not. I do not personally like the sound of "My New Year's Resolution" so I go with my goals for the year. They are optional ideas that I will strive to achieve with no outside pressure from other people, at least that is how I see the concept. So my goals for this 2012 year are this:

1. Read my Bible & Exercise at least 3x a week.
2. Figure out what God wants for my life & strive to achieve whatever that may be.
3. Finally make & finish a scrapbook of our wedding.
4. Actually write a Christmas letter.
5. Be more organized, especially in my room.
6. Blog at least 7x a month.
7. Be a better person in general, a person that I am proud of and would be proud to show off to the world and have my future children call mom.

What are your goals for this year? Whether you accomplish them or not is besides the point; the idea that you are striving toward something is what matters the most. So write up some goals today! Or write them up in February! Or change them each month! What matters is that you make a conscious decision that this year is your year to make a difference and change into that person you have always desired to be, that person hidden deep down inside of you longing to spread its wings and fly. It may seem like a challenge at first but how much sweeter is the triumph when you step onto that mountain peak and can see just how far you have come since the beginning of your journey. So put your past year behind, make some goals, and start your climb to the top today!

Ending a Year & Starting a Year on A Happy Note

December ended on a great note and January started on a great note, so far my year has been good in short. There were 23 of us on Christmas day. It was an amazing time to catch up with family I have not seen in awhile, my cousin and his fiancee have been gone the longest, a looong seven years. It was so great to see them again. They have been in town but I was always busy with school or work and could not make it to San Diego to see him, sad as it was. This Christmas was a family reunion, not the whole family, but a good portion of us, because we all realized my grandparent's health is steadily declining and decided this Christmas needed to be spent with them. Their house is small and it was very noisy, but that just meant being forced to spend more time with each other. I would not have preferred Christmas any other way.

January started off to a great start as my best friend Bekah was back in town for the Christmas season to visit family. She is currently in Iowa at a Nursing school. I showed up to her house on Christmas Eve with a surprise visit just to chat for a few minutes before heading to see my family. Words cannot express the joy and happiness I felt at seeing her again, and it had only been barely five months, unless you count the couple skype dates then it was less, but those were not in person so it is technically different. Man how I love that girl! She knows every secret of my life and the fact that she has not judged me is proof enough to me that she is a friend that is hard to find and definitely one you do not want to lose. We then met for breakfast the Wednesday after Christmas and spent 3 long hours catching up on life. Then on January 10 she came up to LA and stayed the night. I loved seeing her one last time before she went back to Iowa. It was really awesome that she gave up one of her last nights visiting to hangout with me.

So besides my computer being a pain, wondering if I still am going to have a job at the end of January, and trying to figure out where the forest of money trees are, my life is going quite well here in Sunny California.