Vertigo

Yesterday millions of children started back to school with their new school uniforms, book bags and notebooks. My nephew, Jake, is one of the few that don’t start until Wednesday I believe…so he’d better enjoy his last day of summer. He starts 1st grade this year, I can’t believe how fast he is growing up, I remember the day he was born! ahhhh the memories. I have to be a proud aunt for a second and show you a picture of him because he’s just SOOO cute–oh wait, I don’t have one here b/c I’m at work–I’ll have to show you another time. Anyway, millions of kids, teens and college students went back to school yesterday, including me. For any of those who don’t know, yes I’m back in school (and no, I’m not crazy)…I’m just getting my degree again! I have an associates degree in Respiratory care and I’m completing my Bachelor’s degree in Respiratory care from Midwestern state university. I am basically repeating my main respiratory classes b/c i have to have residency credit at Midwestern to graduate from there, and then I have to take some of the core classes that I didn’t need for my associates degree like government, history and stupid courses like that. I am supposed to graduate in May (if all goes as planned, which never seems to happen) and then I might get a teaching certificate or go onto a masters degree, who knows. Anyway, I am taking 3 classes this semster, working full time (in Dallas so it turns into a 10 hour day) and then fitting life in there. It’s going to be a busy semester….I have 2 classes that are going to be very very time consuming and I have to study because I’m trying to make an A in all my classes so I can graduate Summa Cum laude, if I make an A from here on out, I should be able to do it. I am taking Microbiology this semster and it is a very hard course, but I like science so if I spend time studying, I will hopefully do okay. But that takes time away from my other 2 classes so I have to balance my time between those 3 courses and fit time in to actually have a life with my husband and not totally neglect my dog. Let’s just say little things I do will be cut from life right now…I know I’ll have to miss some small group nights to study and maybe other things but in my opinion, it’s worth it because after may it’s all over with and then I can relax. It might be crazy around casa de blundell for a while!

Jonathan tagged me to answer 5 things I’ll never tire of so here it goes:
1-sno cones
2-snowboarding
3-Friends (the show)
4-learning about Christ
5-visiting New York (I changed this one from what I told him)

So yesterday I was on my way to work doing great, I wasn’t running late, making great time, and then boom–Highway 35 is shut down…traffic was standing still and not moving. You see all the people making their own exit ramps in the grass on the side of the highway and people making their own lane on the shoulder…rudeness. I was just sitting there so I called Jonathan to get an alternate route to work. This was just past interstate 20 on I35 so I still had a ways to go to get to Children’s. Anyway, I continued to sit there for about 30 minutes and went maybe 10 feet. I said forget this, and I became one of those rude people I don’t like who make their own exit ramp on the grass ;). I’ve never done this and thought I never would, now I probably will never do this again but at the time it was a VERY very good idea. I thought, I have a good, high SUV and these little cars are making it so here I go and I went….less than 10 seconds later I was on my way to work taking the back roads. I bet you though I was going to say I got a ticket or rolled my Xterra or something, didn’t you! Well, I didn’t and it all turned out ok. I told Jonathan that this wasn’t helping his case to stay in Waxahachie…Since living in Waxahachie (only 4 months), I35 has been shut down 2 times while on my way to work and this is the only way to get there until I get to Dallas then I can take back roads. So at this rate 35 should be shut down about 6 times a year, GREAT!! So why anyone would choose to live off 35 or make 35 their sole route to work is beyond me….I love what I do, maybe not where I work so much, but it’s the only place I can do what I do so I’m not going anywhere….people ask why I don’t just work at Baylor Waxahachie or Methodist or somewhere closer and I say, “it’s not pediatrics” I don’t work with adults, they gross me out and give me attitude! I only put up with tudes from kiddos, not adults. Now if Baylor waxahachie ever had a pediatric hospital added onto it and I would only work with the kids and no adults, then I’d go there….but I don’t see that happening anytime soon, if ever. Well, I guess that’s enough rambling for now.

The Encounter Co-ed softball team had a victory last night–we won our game 11 to 1, yeah! I had a good hit which landed me on 1st base but I could have gone to 2nd if I didn’t want to play it safe. I was on 3rd base at one point ready to run home and SHOULD have had a run but as I was running to home, the 3rd base coach decided to tell me not to go (I could have) and then as I tried to stop, he put out his arm so I wouldn’t fall and the ref called an “interferance” and called me out! DUMMY! O’well, it was fun overall, it’s fun when you actually get to play. I guess the coach of our team doesn’t know I can play (not that I am great by any means but I mean come on I can catch a dang ball and throw–and I can hit by golly!!). Instead I get to sit out the entire game except for one inning in RIGHT field–no action there except watching the dragonfly fly around..and I only got to bat once….I should have been able to bat twice, but a competetive little go-getter had to leave the 1st base bag too soon and as I was about to swing, he called her out and it was the 3rd out–so there goes my second at bat….What are you gonna do! But because they just sit me on the bench the whole game I’m not gonna pay money next season to do that. So a long story short–yeah for the Encounter co-ed softball team!

So over the last few months, I’ve started missing Dallas and my friends and family who all live there. Ya, I know it’s only a 45 min to an hour drive to see them, but when you drive there 5 days a week to go to work, you don’t want to make another trip to see anyone. Especially with these gas prices….and if I just stay in Dallas after work to see people, it makes for a long day. The drive to work is getting to me the most I think. I do miss my friends though….I guess it all just hit me the last few days how much I do miss it. Okay so the majority of my friends and all my family is in the Dallas area and my work is in Dallas, but I live in Waxahachie…basically I feel like I live in two different places and I don’t get to see my friends or family that often. I miss the fact that I could call up a friend or brother or my mom and say hey lets go get coffee or lunch and in 15 minutes we’d see each other. A big delima comes in to play here because Jonathan is really involved in our church, Encounter, and all his friends are in Waxahachie or surrounding areas. Now don’t get me wrong, I do like Encounter and the people and friends I’ve met through our church. Let me put it this way, Jonathan is a very social person and could make friends with a rock…me on the other hand, it takes a while, I don’t have a whole lot of friends…no I’m not a loner….I have a handful of friends that I really have strong relationships with and I would just call up and talk or visit, and I’m completely fine with it. So now we have to decide where we want to live and hopefully we’ll find out before our lease is up in March. So be praying we get some peace about the situation.

Man has it been a crazy week. We’ve been swamped at work trying to get all the kids in before school starts and next week is going to be even busier–yikes! Wednesday on my way home from work I basically blew out one of my tires and had to change that, well I didn’t change it. I was all ready to do so, I had the spare tire down and the jack out but I just couldn’t get the jack to work, it was sticking and luckily this nice man stopped to help me and he had one of those big jacks on wheels…the whole time I was just thinking to myself “just don’t take me or shoot me” it’s sad that we think that now days but that’s what its coming down to. Just two or three days prior to that a–now stay with me on this–a co-worker of mine, his wife’s cousin was killed while he pulled over to help a guy who had crashed. The guy who he stayed to help shot him and three other guys and then shot himself. looser! Anyway, we got my tire changed and two new ones put on my car b/c they needed to be changed anwyay. Then discount tire was being dumb and couldn’t figure out what they were doing with my tires….they didn’t know where to put the new tires or what to change or whatever……That was a crazy afternoon/evening. Let’s just say i’m ready for the weekend. I think wer’re just going to go eat tonight and then rent a movie to watch at home…if I can stay awake through it! not sure what else we’ll do this weekend. Hope you have a good one!

Yesterday at church (Encounter) Brian talked about our “passion groove”. For those of you who may not know what he is referring to, it’s what gets you going, what gets your blood flowing and gets you out of bed in the morning. There is a groove on a record that the needle from the record player fits right into and that is the records “groove”. God has created a passion for each one of us and we are created to fit right into that passion, whatever it may be. That is our passion groove. We may not know what it is right now but usually, as Brian said, we will find it when we are put into a situation that brings on heat and/or pressure. You can ask yourself…if I were to give up my life to God and say you have control over it…..if there were nothing holding you back, what would you do, where would you be? That would be your passion. If you had this amazing career with a six figure income, but gave it up and to do what your passionate about, that would be your passion groove. I was talking to someone after church and we got onto the subject of our jobs and she said to me “your job must be what your passion groove is, I don’t see how you could do it if it weren’t.” You know, it’s not…ya I love what I do and I am passionate about working with the kids I work with, but it’s not my passion groove, it’s not what my passion is. I could walk away from it and would be just fine. Now I think the part that is my passion is the part of helping people. I think if I were to give my life to God fully and nothing was holding me back, I might be in a third world country doing medical missions. But there are so many things holding me back from doing that and I just don’t feel led to do it right now. I think it might take me a while to truly find my passion groove. What do you think your passion groove is, what are you most passionate about and would give everything up for?

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I’m baaaaack! So it’s been a while since I posted something, we’ve been kinda busy with work and just life in general. It was a fantastic weekend at the casa de Blundell. Friday night Jonathan and I went to Dallas to eat at Snuffers and then went to see Bourne Ultimatum. Ohhh cheese fries and a snuffers hamburger!!!! If any of you haven’t seen the Bourne Ultimatum, you need to go out and see it, it’s just as good as the Bourne Identiy and Bourne Supremacy…I hear there will be a fourth one coming out sometime. Anyway, Saturday my mom and Jonathan’s mom came down to Waxahachie and we all went and got a pedicure and then did some shopping in downtown Waxahachie…we all went home with something from one of the stores we visited. Saturday night our dad’s came out and met us all for dinner and then a fun filled evening with After Hours improv at the Texas Theater in downtown Waxahachie. After Hours Improv is a comedy troup that our friends Shari and Smiley are a part of. They are hilarious…it’s improv at it’s finest! If you haven’t been before you really need to go and see them perform sometime. Then Sunday we went to church and listened to Brian talk about our “Passion Groove”….more on that in the next post. Then we went to lunch with some friends and came home and went to the pool for a little while. It was a very nice weekend, and now I’m back at work…argh. Maybe it will be another good weekend next week.