"Everybody says that change is a good thing..."

What a past two days...

God completely blows me away with how powerful He is.

So a couple of weeks ago my friend, A., had a job offer dropped at her feet. Work was slow at Micom, we were working less hours, three days a week, gas and car expenses add up, etc. So she prayed about it, went in for an interview, took the tests, and then yesterday she found out that she got the job. It's at the same place where her brother works. (My brother works there, too.) I found out last night when she called me. Yesterday was stressful. It started out with me waking up, checking my work email and seeing work waiting for me that my boss had sent me, taking care of that, going for a run, checking and doing more work, VPN-ing in to work and taking care of some things, replying to a letter, eating lunch, going on a walk with Momma for a couple of hours, weeding the flowerbeds with Momma for awhile, coming inside, checking work email and seeing an "call me ASAP" email, calling into work, VPN-ing into work and dealing with some more stuff, trying to study for the ACT, Dani getting here, visiting with her, A. calling and telling me that news.

I was just stressed. A.'s quitting makes huge things change for me. I've prayed about it and talked to my parents about it- I'm going to continue working, but that means I'll be working from home until I get my license, which I'll now be spending my every waking minute in the car practicing. I'll be working without A., who has pretty much become one of my best friends over the past couple of months. Packing by myself, eating by myself, dealing with customers by myself, etc., etc.

So I am s.c.a.r.e.d.

I spent the night worrying about everything concerning work. :'( Dani was incredible and she spent the night encouraging me, giving me hugs, and taking my mind off of the day I was so dreading to arrive.

I was so stressed that I made myself sick. I got sick last night after dinner and wasn't feeling well again until around 10 this morning. My stomach ached and I felt nauseous, dizzy, and shaky. I know... I sound like a complete wimp.

So A. talked to our boss today. I ran away and did stuff in the back while she talked to him. We were both sooo nervous about how he'd take it. Both of us were completely shocked. He handled it soo differently than I thought he would. He basically congratulated A. on getting such a great job and for moving up and was really supportive of her. We were either thinking that he'd be upset, or just in that, "Well, that's life, so we'll make it work" mood that he's in sometimes. He gave her permission to go anytime, he didn't need to have two weeks notice... He wasn't upset in the least.

God is incredible. A. and I were so stressed out about today, and even if it had been a bad outcome, God will always, always, always do the best for us, so it was dumb for us to be so worried.

We went out to lunch and had Chinese. It was nice. :) So today turned out to be a fairly wonderful day and people were happy. God completely blows me away with his mercy and power. Wowie.

:) Here's something funny for you.

Monday I brought in a small candy dish with Starburst jellybeans for me to snack on throughout the day. I came in this morning and I noticed that the jellybeans were spotted and looking different. They were. Someone had eaten my jellybeans and then gone out and gotten new ones and put them in my candy dish.

And they thought that I wouldn't notice.

So Isaac came up, I questioned him, determined that it wasn't him because you can tell when he's lying about something.

I picked up my bowl and walked with my clicky heels to the back. I stopped right in front of Mike and stared him down.

"I don't know anything about that. I didn't do it. It wasn't me."

More staring.

Silence.

Nervous laughing.

"Wal-mart didn't have any, ok?!"

Staring.

Silence.

More nervous laughing.

More nervous laughing.

"Good job apologizing."

And I walked back to my desk.

:) I love the relationships that I have with my boss and co-workers. They make me laugh a lot.

Later I was like, "So did you just take my bowl of jellybeans and put them on your desk and eat them all day? Or did you just keep snitching from my desk?"

"Well, I had one...'Oh man, these are so good!'"

"I know they are. They're Starbursts."

"Ok, today's goal is to find Starburst jellybeans."

:)

Tonight I spent about two and a half hours practicing driving. I parallel parked like 10 times without ever hitting the trashcans, so that's good news. :) It's been raining SO much here and then tonight we found out that rainwater had gotten into our well-thing or something. So our water is contaminated and Daddy and the brothers had to go out and fix it. Unfortunately, I drank some. Then had A. drink some to see if it was just my sick taste buds that were off. We're still here, so we must be ok, huh? Poor A.... I'll have to break the bad news to her tomorrow.

God continues to blow me away, like I've said twelve times already. But I don't think I could ever say it enough. Because he truly does.

Love to you dears,

Elizabeth