12/31/11

This time last year, I had just returned from Florida having recently completed my College Program at Walt Disney World and I was looking for an internship.

Now, I inch closer to graduation with each passing day, my thoughts and energy becoming ever more focused in finding gainful employment. I've done the internships, I've gotten the grades, now it's time to put it all into action. I'm shockingly calm about the whole issue. I've given a lot of the stress and fear of finding a job to God and He has truly given me a sense of peace about everything. I am nervous about finding a job that I enjoy, but at the same time, I trust God to provide for me in the ways that He sees fit.

And I'm alright with that.

My resolutions?

1. Further my hobbies of photography and cooking.
2. Learn to listen better.
3. Become content with what I have instead of focusing on what I don't have.
4. Lose some #%@ @$@# weight.

Oh also, I love the Kindle Touch I received for christmas. I can't stop reading ever since I got it. I highly recommend one.

Happy New Years!

12/29/11

New Year's Resolution: blog more.

Resolutions consist of furthering my hobbies of photography and cooking, listening better, finding gainful employment, and enjoying what I have more than what I want. I'll make them more specific the sooner we get to the big 1st of January.

Currently, Jonathan and I are playing Battlefield 3 and getting wrecked, par for the course around here lately.

Back at school, 1/15/11

It's so great to be back at school. Classes, friends, an amazing room, it's all just great. I appreciate being at HPU so much more now than I did last year. I was getting pretty pessimistic about my situation and needed a change of scenery. The change of scenery? Walt Disney World. Pretty good change if you ask me. Disney taught me a lot about life and a lot about myself. Sounds cliche, but it really is true. I learned that there will always be people who don't care. I can't do anything to change their minds. All I can do is focus on my work and doing the best I can. I also learned to put more effort into my education. I do not want to go back to a job like I had at Disney. Nothing against the job, but it was very simplistic and I feel I can be much more productive in a different field. Overall, I learned to appreciate what I have. This beautiful HPU campus, the friends I have made, and the caring professors I have.

The one problem that I've encountered being back is my faith is being challenged once again. At Disney, nothing was familiar and I needed God to help me through my crazy schedule and situations. But now at HPU, everything is back to normal, my schedule is set, my routine is there, and I've found that I'm putting God on the back burners right now, which totally isn't right. I need to make time to just stop and listen to what God is trying to tell me. Psalm 46:10, "Be still and know that I am God." I've been going non stop and not really giving an attempt to have time for God, which I am actively trying to change. All in all, I'm in a really good situation right now. 

This is going to be a a great semester. I can feel it.