Monday, December 13, 2010

Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 120

Today's Daily 5:
  1. Waking smoothly (no bad dreams for a change)
  2. Wearing my favorite white blouse
  3. Colossians 2 in The Message
  4. 1 year, 120 days of making these lists
  5. mentally planning the christmas cards I'm going to make at some point this week
  6. a natural health treatment
  7. marking a few things off my list for the day/week
  8. drinking tea from the mug I hand-painted on an excursion to a paint your own pottery shop with a friend a few weeks ago
  9. curling up in a warm bed
  10. that when a breaker flipped in my bedroom tonight, it was still early and I could find help to flip it back, since that was a new problem!

Reverb 10: Day 13 - Action (What's Next?)

Today's Reverb 10 prompt:

December 13 – Action

When it comes to aspirations, it’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. What’s your next step?

(Author: Scott Belsky)


What's next? If that isn't a loaded question in my life these days, I don't know what is.

The answer is, I mostly still don't know.

I know that I will be a nursing student at some point in the future. What I don't know is if that will be in 4 weeks, or more like 9 months. (Wait lists are a somewhat nerve racking thing, and in this case we're praying for a miracle spot in the program to open up sometime before January 6th or so.)

I know with some degree of certainty that whether or not I'm accepted into the nursing program, I will be enrolled in classes at the local university come January. I know that I will either be in the nursing program, or that I will be taking 2-3 as yet undetermined classes to pull up my GPA and make the next application to the nursing program a smoother process.

I know that my living situation needs to change, but I also know that my living situation is contingent upon my job and income situation, which is contingent upon finding out what exactly my school situation will be come January!

Clear as mud, right?

The short answer to "what's next?" is "I don't really know."

And so I continue to wait and watch and pray. Some days more patiently than others!

Full Days Ahead

I'm thinking this week is going to be a little bit wild.

The Toy Shoppe program that I'm working for actually opens this week, and there are a whole lot of last minute details to take care of before that happens.

I've booked several evenings as well, with social events or health appointments, and am anticipating a few longer days of work than usual as we get things underway.

The days promise to be full!

That said, I'm anticipating them eagerly, knowing that they will carry surprises, and most likely joy.

See you tonight for the daily 5 and reverb 10 posts!