So its 2011...and almost February. Man time flies when you’re having fun...and working HARD. I’m sitting on the couch listening to the rain begin to fall and watching soccer in my Ryan Giggs Manchester United shirt since we play later this evening. It was hot this morning and think I might have even got sun burnt washing my car…the first feeling of summer I’ve had in a long time.
So November came and went by and yes, I did reach my 50 000 words from my nanowrimo! Here's the winners "badge" just to prove it. I think this novel is better than my first attempt as I’ve learnt…but I decided I didn’t like the ending so will work on it again now and then.
December was hectic! Too many goodbyes for my liking and then finishing up work before going on holiday. I had a great holiday in Mossel Bay with my brother and his family and am really thankful to the Lord for pulling it all together after I had kindof accepted that I wasn’t going to go away because of expensive flights...but in the end I only had to pay for a one way flight as I drove down with my brother which was nice. I spent Christmas with them which I hadn’t planned but sometimes the unplanned things are good.
January has been, dare I say it, an amazing month of experiencing joy, excitement, anxiousness, and now towards the end, that horrible feeling of being overwhelmed and stressed...but even amidst that, its been amazing and its all thanks to God. I don’t know how, I don’t know why, but I'm just thankful for His faithfulness, love and grace for me.
I've just come out of two weeks of training on one of TWR's systems called BOS. Now I think that if I had known when I was asked to consider working on it how BIG...actually more like HUGE...this program was and how much information I would have to learn, I probably would have said NO! It's been a rough, tiring two weeks with information overload which has caused, some days, doubt, stress and that horrible overwhelming feeling that doesn’t go down well when I’m tired...but as I sit here and write this, I wouldn’t change it for anything and am actually excited about the challenge. This was a silent prayer answered (not BOS, but wanting to do something else within TWR) and even though I still wonder at times if I'm right for the job or overwhelmed at what needs to be done, I believe that God has a purpose behind this and that He's taking me down this path for a reason. It hasn’t been easy, I kinda had other plans down another path....but I think the fact that I have this amazing feeling and joy inside is because I know and believe that God's plan is better for me (even though I don’t understand it yet).
So I am TOTALLY stoked to find out how God is going to blow me away this year. I thought I would end this blog with my favourite picture I took during the month of January at the Lion and Rhino Park. Blessings friends.
