an update:

these days i am learning and learning. just like always.

j likes his job. they give him more and more responsibility at work. now we are hoping for a pay raise that will go along with it.

i like my job. but i am going to work on a different unit of the hospital. same great manager. its for observation patients (low risk chest pain, minor surgeries, etc.) not quite outpatient, but usually the patients are only in the hospital for 24-48 hours. it will be busy, but it should be a lot of fun. 

i have been working as the "team leader" on my unit, which is NOT fun. it is so much more stressful than usual. i have regressed to the sick-to-my-stomach feeling when i go to work. i am only supposed to do it as a back-up, but that has been the last 3 days that i have worked. but, i am learning alot, and i really hate the politics of nursing.

i am getting closer to actually being involved in the counseling at church. i am going to start with some premarital counseling, which is so very exciting, because i LOVED our premarital counseling. i start my next class in October and its the methods of counseling class. very excited for the information, but not the stress of the class. still awaiting my grades from my last one.

i am on a Bible reading plan that enables me to read the Bible in 4 months. its been 10 days so far, and its been so good. but there is so much in Exodus, Leviticus that confuses me.  i also have been thinking about Christ's ministry--it lasted around 3 years, so they say. that is a little less that j and i have been married. and interesting thought. due to those 3 years, his ministry basically turned the world upside down! and it doesn't really feel like we have been married all that long. hmm . . . my thought for the day.

thankful: that we only have one car because we can. 

The weather is back to normal. No more long days of rain.

I am (unfortunately) spending my day inside, working on a paper for my class. Hopefully, I will be done with my assignments by Thursday. Then 1, whole, wonderful month of reading anything my heart desires. September will be freedom. I start my next class in October.

J's brother, Tim, and Sasha and their baby will be coming to visit in a week. I'm so excited. J took several days off work, so we are going to go hiking and camping and exploring the mountains. It will be lovely to avoid Denver for the DNC.

I am listening to Nickel Creek, and enjoying solitude, and eating leftover chicken and potatoes, and drinking water from my awesome camelback water bottle.  

and Tim Keller is my new hero. and that's that.