I Have an Externship!!! Yay!!!

I was offered an externship yesterday morning, and today I accepted it. On the last day of the last mod. I'm so not surprised. :)

It's an interesting situation... One of my instructors called a podiatrist who hasn't accepted externs from the school for over a year. She convinced him to give another chance, and has asked me to "redeem the school." I ended the conversation saying I would pray about it and talk to Wendy and let her know today.

So for the next couple of months I will be getting very familiar with feet. :) I am told the doctor loves to teach, which is sweet music to my ears, since I want to learn as much as possible. The office manager is a former student of the instructor who referred me; she began at the office as a Medical Assisting extern. I hope she, too, will take me under her wing.

I am just so grateful. God provides again.

A cord of three

My friend Karissa is coming to visit for a few days in two weeks. I was thinking of things we could do while she's here, and then I thought, "Why not just join in the ministry God has given me?" So we'll be ministering to my family together, and I'm so excited. She will find so much joy in that, as will my fam and myself! She arrives Wednesday mid-morning (but it will feel like early morning to her). First stop: coffee and breakfast and lots of catching up. Then we'll decide what we feel like making for dinner and get whatever groceries. We're cooking for Heath and hanging out with him for the evening. If we leave in time, we can go to prayer meeting. Or we can stay with Heath. However God leads.

Thursday my aunt Sarah is having a C-section, so we'll go visit her and my uncle Pete and the new baby Morgan and whomever else is up visiting. Thursday night we'll help my mom make dinner and then spend the evening with her and Rich (her boyfriend). He is "wanting to expand spiritually" - I don't know if that will come up while we're there, but we can love them.

Friday a.m. is Ladies' Bible study - I'm so glad Karissa will meet these women. They are so dear; and that they will meet her. She is also so dear. :) I meet Fridays (when we're both available)with Doreen for discipleship - Karissa will join us. yay. Then Friday night is a Bible study at Derek's brother and sister-in-law's home in Mass. We may go out to dinner with him and his friend Evan beforehand. That'd be fun.

She leaves early Saturday morning. Of course, all is subject to change (as life always is, and usually does), but that's an outline of possibility.

Friends are so good. Such gifts, each one of them.

Wendy comes home today from India! It has been a long ten days without her or Hannah (she stayed at a friend's house for the week).

I am so blessed to have so many loved ones in my life.

and so it is

Today I purchased my first grown-up outfit. I'm going to a job fair for healthcare professionals tomorrow. I admit, as I tried on variations of black pumps, I felt as though I crossed a threshhold. This was far more of a milestone than turning 21, or 23 for that matter. As I chatted with the cashier, I couldn't help but divulge the surprising hugeness: "This is my first pair of high-heeled shoes. I mean, not first high-heels, but first REAL, WOMAN shoes." :)

I visited the Monday night deli crew for the first time as a non-employee. Craig, Jason, George, and Mario. And Ben, but he's not in the deli. I love these guys. SO much. We had spent every (just about) Monday night together in the craziness of Monday-night-grocery-shopping-madness (why does everyone go on monday?) for over a year. They are my boys. My brothers. They love me just the way I am. Friends like that are priceless. And so I am reinvigorated by having spent time with them this evening.

Derek is the new friend I wrote about last time I blogged. It was funny - we watched a movie the other night and were totally laughing at completely different parts, and none of the same ones, except for the very last scene. Wednesday we're going for Indian with his friend Evan, and then all to a homegroup - a Bible study/fellowship thing.

I'm glad medical assistants wear scrubs; I couldn't wear grown-up shoes everyday.

I am in the process of finding an externship for the beginning of December.

The coffeeshop is awesome - relationships beginning to sweeten with regulars and another Jason whom I work with every Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday.

Heath and I played cards the other night - we're both terrible and completely went hysterical laughing at ourselves and each other. part of me wonders what the alcohol is doing to his brain, though. He seems to react (even sober) way more slowly than I remember. Damage is done. It's sad.

I need to go to bed. There's a little bit of what's happening lately.