On Loss

on loss.

Not loss in the sense of death. If that were the case, this wouldn't be slightly entertaining.

But in a way, loss, recently, has come and gone for me. I'm always "losing" money. I make money, too, yes, but i lose it just as efficiently.

last week, my dad was away in New Jersey on business, and it was weird not having him around, probably because he does so much. All the rest of my family was around for that week. Yesterday, Labor Day 2010, my mom and i took my brother to school at Baltimore International College, where he'll be spending a lot of his time for the next year and a half. It's so close that he can come back home infrequently, but it's as though, til next week, we've just traded my dad for my brother.

Probably a loss that, more generally, you can relate to, i lost (for the moment) the higher-paying of my two part-time jobs. I hope they call me again for Christmas and New Years; that's really the big perk to having that job. But i do feel robbed, since i know they weren't going to call me (or the other people at the store with the same plight) to tell them they'd been suspended/let go/"separated".

and it's all very frustrating, but we can learn to trust God's grace more through offensive losses such as these.

Gojira

So, for the past four or five weeks, i've been working, and a lot. I was working during the school year, but this past semester, that only ever added up to 5 hours a week at some times; this month, i had two consecutive 35-hour weeks. Obviously this is entirely normal, but by contrast, it's clearly far above what i've been used to.

I really enjoyed getting a paycheck that completely covered my rent, though. And still, just because i got paid a lot, once, i need to get myself out of the frame of mind of "oh i can afford all this." because i DO have financial responsibilites that i can't neglect. siigh.

anyway, that's really the sum total of what's been going on in my life; i'm trying to save money for a various number of things, etc.

oh. but i will be doing some work on my car this Memorial Day. and I plan on taking plenty of before and after pictures of the work. I'll probably put them here and on facebook.
that is, if I'm successful.... hah.

nard-dog

hah.
yeah, i'm sitting here in front of our dvds of the American version of The Office

I've had a sore throat for about... two days now. well, by the end of today, it'll be two. haha. either way, it's good perspective for me. That is, to be on the other side of the "i'm coming down with something" conversation.
maybe it just feels like it's been a while.

I'm thinking of joining the church where i've been going while at school. I really like everyone, and even if i don't stay in the area after I'm done my degree, it will have probably been a good way for me to serve God in everything I do around here.

sakes alive

well, i missed january.

but it doesn't look like anyone's gonna hemhorrage over THAT.

anyway, i'm looking forward to what God's surely doing in my life.
just so you know.