*The end of the night all the waiters gave us every balloon from the restaurant. We closed the place down so it was a good time had by all!I decided on a few things. First things first is to get out of this stupid debt I am in. Unfortunately I made the dumbest move ever to have this HUGE shopping spree to take out some aggression. Ah what the heck, these things are all about spilling your guts anyway and hey! I'm an open book....I went on a shopping spree the night I found out that my mom is dating this guy. I definitely need to find another venue to taking out any frustration or anxiety because I am still paying for this decision I made. (I will look cute getting out of debt though, that's the only plus to this story ha!). So that's number one...which probably with counteract with my second resolution, traveling more. How do I expect to travel more when I don't have the money to do it? Good question, but I am determined to get out of debt FAST so that then I can travel more later! I have some pretty good connections of people around the US and I intend on using the fact that they offer for me to come see them. My roommate Marlene has been after me to come to San Diego as well as my friend James, so I definitely need to make that a priority. I also have a good friend of mine who lives in LA that I want to see too. She works for Live Nation. They put on all sorts of concerts and such...(interject conceited story here....this particular friend scored me Dave Matthews tickets this year, so I am going Apr. 18th to Charlottesville to see them!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UUUUber excited about this one!....(back to what I was saying)....what was I saying? Oh right..resolutions. I think thirdly I have got to work on not sweating the small stuff. It is absolutely ridiculous when I think about the amount of time that I put into people who don't give a care! If people don't want to take the time to be my friends, then that's ok. I will live. I don't need to bust my butt off trying to win them over. I also don't need to be anyone's Saviour. THAT is just absurd! I have a God and so they. I don't need to put more pressure on myself to think that I need to fix anyone. Ok so now that I have brought everyone up to where I am at the start of 2009, onward to the purpose of this post...
I lost my electricity yesterday because of the ice we had in Lynchburg. Okay now we did not really get much ice, but somehow it managed to shut the power off, weird. Anyway! So it was a little cold, I do have gas logs but as I mentioned before about trying to get out of debt....cranking those suckers on would do no good in helping me SAVE money. So I looked at this as a great opportunity to potentially save at least $20 on my power bill haha. My roommate has a jeep kind of car so she was able to make it to school to work. I, on the other hand, was stuck because my car was in the garage. (For those that are thinking, "You can manually open it yourself, Kara"...I didn't think of this until too late..yes, yes, blonde I know!) SO! I did a little work from home. My boss constantly text messages me even when I'm not in the office anyway so this was no different than any other day. The dude would seriously lose his business if it weren't for me and I'm pretty much that is okay for me to say because he would admit it himself. He knows nothing without me. So back to me sitting in the cold dark..I tried to get my friend to come pick me up, but he couldn't. So then I'm thinking, Great! now what?!
For those that know me well, I hate being by myself for any extended period of time unless I am completely burned out. That is rare. So what do I do? Clean!! As I was cleaning, I prayed because to be honest, that can be the hardest thing for me to do. I just don't always think to pray, go figure! So I start talking out loud to God which is sometimes the best thing for me to do because my mind will start to wonder if I don't. It ended up being phenomenal! I found that I have been neglecting God. I actually have been putting my own ambitions in front of what maybe God has to say about my life. God totally needed this time of power outage to get my attention. I felt refreshed. And it wasn't really for that long. This all happened in a matter of maybe an hour. But I needed this. So the power outage...a blessing in disguise. So then when my friend called to check on me..he probably would've come and gotten me by then, but I decided, nah! I need to be with my Lord instead.
God is awesome like that, don't you think?
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thanks for the shout out!
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