Life's a beach!

   I try my best not to rub it in, but I do have a pretty awesome lifestyle right now. It's currently 2:30pm on a Tuesday and I'm hanging out at Starbucks after a morning of lunch and Target shopping in Myrtle Beach. I considered some beach time and still might head out there later. My life is revolving around my internship and whatever else I want to do.
    Yesterday was my first day at my internship and it was great! The supervisor there is nice and full of useful information. The rest of the staff are sweet and friendly. My opportunities to work with kids/youth will be unending because I am the only person at the site that wants to focus on young people. Also, they may have an opportunity for me to do a part time paid position for some extra money while I'm down here! The internship process has been SUCH a pain in the butt that it makes me very happy to see how well God has worked this out.
   More obnoxious for some to hear is that due to the smaller amount of time I need for my practicum portion of my internship I don't need to work a full 40 hour week. So my schedule is that I work Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays....Sweet deal!
   So forgive me while I get excited about the opportunities that are currently in my lap. I'm going to be happy, I'm going to share photos and mention my free time activities. My life will not be perfect (especially since I'm not bringing in any money until I find a good part time job) and my internship won't be easy, but I will be excited because for the first time in my life I'm doing what I love to do. If my happiness annoys you...don't read my blog, don't friend me on Facebook, don't follow me on Twitter or Instagram and you sure as heck better not get ill with me and then ask to visit!
   I hope that if you had spent years working towards a goal and when you were finally attaining that goal it was more than you ever imagined, I would be happy for you too! So be happy for me, keep quiet if you arent, or take your rain to someone else's parade.

HAPPY TUESDAY Y'ALL!!

 

Clearly We Aren't Irish Enough...

So there is definitely some Irish in my family, but God doesn't care. Things happen when and how He wants them to and we just need to suck it up and know that He knows best. But honestly, March sucks for our family. One of my grandfathers died in that month. In 2007 my mom's mom died on the 17th and a few hours after her funeral on the 21st my dad's mom passed away. In another March my mom was diagnosed with an abnormal tumor that required a major surgery.
So I guess it shouldn't have been a surprised when this March decided not to be awesome either. On March 13th I was laying in my bedroom at about 6:30am when I heard the house phone ring, which is very unusual. I listened as my parents answered the phone and hung up but nobody jumped up to do anything so I assumed all was okay. Then about five minutes later I heard someone in the hall and asked what the call was about. My dad stepped in my doorway and said "your Uncle Chuck died". I was so confused I responded with "are you serious?" Obviously he wouldn't joke about his brother dying. Although we still aren't certain what happened, we know that he fell down the stairs into his basement and died of blunt force trauma. That week and those since have been different. Even though I didn't see Uncle Chuck weekly, life feels like its a little off.
Since his death we've also learned that one of my cousins (not Chuck's son) is having a recurrence of his lymphoma and also that my aunt (uncle chucks ex-wife) has six months to live.
So say a prayer for our family as we learn to adjust to this new way of life. Pray for my cousin as he goes through intense chemo that began this week. Pray for my other cousin who just lost his dad, is losing his mom, and is having to explain it all to his young daughter. Pray for my aunt as she watches her numbered days go by and the "good days" get fewer and fewer.