Off and Away

I'm hanging up the blogging for two (maybe three) weeks, as I am headed out for camp tomorrow and I will probably be without technology (and especially Internet acess) for the same amount of time.

It will be my sixth year on staff and my third as Senior staff (which I just love). I'm ready to see the campers that I have watched grow up over the years - it is so amazing to see God working in their lives.

This past week was just nuts and I can't believe it's time to pack up and leave like I have done so many times over the years. My bags are almost packed, but not quite, and I have to get up early to finish and get to church before we leave.

It will definitely be a long day, but it will be worth it. At its end, I will find myself in the midst of the familiar deafening silence that is different each year, in a place where God breaks me differently each year.

Just a little smoother... :)

If you need to get ahold of me for whatever reason, feel free to call and leave a message on my cell phone. I will try and get back to you as soon as I can, but it might take a while (camp runs Monday afternoon through Saturday morning). Hopefully, I'll get to check messages once a day, but those plans can easily change. I'll get back to you ASAP.

I pray you are all growing in the Lord. All my love. I'm out of here!

Mood: Eager Listening to: House sounds (it's 2AM!)
Reading: Psalm 119

Um...

I'm alive, I promise! It's just been a crazy week and I've been finishing up my job hunt, and realizing that I still have to pack and clean the house, and tonight I had accountability with Laura...

Not to mention I'm leaving on Sunday for what could be three weeks... :)

Still tired. Still braindead. Still more to do.

Anyway... Things are good. That's it. 'Night. :)

Mood: Chipper Listening to: Tree63, The Answer to the Question
Reading: L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

The Bane and Blessing of Seasonal Stock Rooms

I spent the last two hours of my shift today in a seasonal stock room full of Christmas ornaments, candles, etc. A whole ton of merchandise crammed into a little shelved, non-ventilated room in the middle of summertime.

Yeah... that was smart.

But it got me more hours after just about everyone left, which is good because I need the money.

It also managed to make me completely braindead after counting certain fixtures 4-5 times to figure out why I couldn't get my numbers to match up (something I haven't really had a problem with until now).

It would be okay if there were only a few items per fixture, but we're talking 70-100 on average with things that have to be moved around (and remembered where they were moved to) and moved back - all while not double-scanning/counting anything.

I officially have the most boring job in the world. And my feet hurt.

And I get to do the same thing tomorrow. Again. Praise God - I am so grateful I have a job, even if it's only temporary (as all things are).

I'm going to go eat dinner now and go to TNL with Laura and John before I come home and (I'm praying) sleep really well until 4:15 tomorrow morning when I have to get up. That would be nice. 'Night.

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So I spent seven hours of my day in a department store with a scanner, scanning individual barcodes and then counting merchandise (to double-check numbers).

How incredibly boring can a job get?

But at least it's a job, even if it's only for four days.

After that, I ate lunch and spent an hour wandering around asking if people were hiring.

Surprise! No one wants to hire anyone for summer work at this point in the summer... they're just looking for permanent people. No luck for me, I guess, but I have a few more days to look.

Then... camp! :)

My feet hurt like crazy and it's good to finally sit down... I might take a nap, too, because I didn't sleep as well as I wanted to last night. Hmm...

Mood: Braindead Listening to: Mae, The Everglow
Reading: A.W. Tozer, God Tells the Man Who Cares

Exhausted at 8pm

Kind of sad, isn't it, that I'm exhausted and it's not even remotely close to my normal bedtime?

I didn't sleep so well last night and got up for church... and I forced myself to not take a nap this afternoon because I have to be up at hours I haven't seen recently for work tomorrow (day one of four doing inventory - whoopee).

So, I guess it's kind of a good thing that I'm exhausted because, hopefully, it will result in my sleeping well until I get up at 4:15am tomorrow. And job-hunting afterward... I'm just a picture of sarcastic glee at the moment.

When I get through this week, I'm headed off to Montrose for 2-3 weeks (still not sure how long I'll be there yet), so I'll be out in the middle of nowhere for a while, worshipping God with campers I've had for the past five years or so. I'm really excited that I'm going to get to go... every year, it's a big thing to find out if we can still go out for a week or two (or three). It'll be good to see my family on the Western Slope and be surrounded by fellowship for a while.

But I'll miss Laura - she was going to go, but she's having knee surgery (again) in the next week or so, so... she no go. :(

The one thing I feel I'm starving for here at home is fellowship. Part of it is my desire to be anti-social after some things that I'm still working through from the end of this past semester, but part of it is just that I don't fit anymore... and part of me has just given up trying.

I'm going to go spend some time at my Savior's feet now... and then I'm going to hit the sack. Sleep... :)

Mood: Tired Listening to: Mae, The Everglow
Reading: L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables