Great Day!!

Today was a great day!! It started with some Krispy Kreme Doughnuts!!!!  I looked up some articles for my homework for my online class.  Then I went to the mall and got a phone cover so when i drop my phone it will not get beat up.  I then came home and Tootsie and I went to Lakeshore Park where you get to walk along the water and it is absolutely gorgeous.  I then came home and decided that I wanted to make something different for dinner.  I am trying to cook more and cook more of a variety than spaghetti, and chicken.  I went online and found a really really easy for baked pork chops.  All it was was some onion soup mix, cream of mushroom soup and you bake it and the mixture makes a great topping for rice.  So I had brown rice with it.  It was really really good.  The great thing when you cook for 1 you really do not have to do it that often because the left-overs will last awhile and sometimes you can even freeze it.  

In case any of you are wondering NO BABIES yet!!!  We will see what happens next week.  I know that Connor will be born on Wed or Thurs, because Kristy is being induced.  With Terri and Lori who knows when Lilly and Jackson will come.  Terri is my hero!! She is going to go natural, she is such an amazingly strong woman.  I do not even have a desire to do that.  Terri is an amazing person, and I am so glad that we were able to be roomates.  

Tomorrow is super bowl sunday and I have zero plans, figure that.  I am going to go to a different church tomorrow.   I am thinking that I am going to go to First Baptist Ridgeland.  I am hoping that I have better luck with this one.  

Well I am going to go so I can get some homework done.  

Love and hugs

SO SO SAD!! I miss everyone so much!!

So this whole moving to a whole new place where I know absolutely no one is a lot harder than I thought and I feel like it is getting harder.  I have always had friends to talk to and hang out with and do not have that right now and it is hard.  I love the people that I work with and they are all so nice and some amazing women.  But its work and we have not hung out outside of work because everyone's married, engaged, dating, busy etc.  I have always gone and gone and never just go home and stay in the evening.  I was really involved in church, school, Relay, and hung out with friends.  Frankly it really stinks right now to be bored all the time.  I am trying churches but that is not something that happens overnight.  I really miss everyone.  I miss my family and all my amazing friends and my church family.  I know that this is where I am suppose to be and am here for a reason.  I know that God is with me and is constantly with me but I am lonely.  I guess that in the back of my mind I thought that it was going to be easy because God wants me there so her was going to plant a Jessica, Kim, Jeff and Lori, Terri and other great people in my life and they were going to be waiting for me.  

Today has just been a really homesick day and I just miss all the hugs.  i have not had a hug in weeks...................That is huge I am a hugger like no other.  Sorry that this blog is a debbie downer but this is what I am dealing with right now.  I do not know what I was thinking that this would be easy, I was excited to move.  I know that it is the right choice, I love my job, even though I do not have an office not even a cube I am just outside someones door in a common area where there is no privacy!!  I want to have a friend to call and go to lunch with, go shopping with, go to the movies with.  

I cannot wait to come home and see everyone but know that leaving to come back will be really hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love everyone and miss you even more!!!

WOW oh WOW!!!

So I have been here going on my third week!!!  It has been a whirldwind!!  I have started traveling a little but to my areas and am getting excited to get out there and help the cancer patients.  I had something incredible happen today!! I fulfilled my first service request which is if a cancer patient needs help and they call the 1800.ACS.2345 and they are not able to fulfill their request it will go to my assigned office asst. and if she can not fulfill it then I have to do my best to fulfill it so ACS can meet that need of the patient.  I was able to give a patient information of 2 hotels in Jackson which give cancer patients reduced rates.  They are having to travel 2 hours to receive chemo treatment.  It was just amazing to make that phone call and tell her that i had information that would help her during this difficult time.  It is going to be those phone calls of I have help for you that are going to make this job.  It is what is going to get me through the difficult times.

I am liking living in Jackson it is so pretty and I am getting adjusted.  I have not quiet adjusted to the fact that I do not have friends here yet.  I have always been so busy at night with church activities, going to dinner with friends or just hanging out with friends so this has almost been culture shock to come home every night and cook dinner and just be here.  I am hoping to get involved with a church.  My first church experience was absolutely horrible!! I went to a HUGE GYNORMOUS church on Sunday it is Pinelake and their "campus" sits on over 100 acres and they have about 5-6000 that attend their sunday services!!  I went and met with the singles minister and am possibly going to go to their next event, a super bowl party and am possibly going to get involved with a women's small group.  They do not have Sunday School they have small groups.  

I have really only been homesick once and it was bad i called my momma and I cried.  I think i miss different things all the time but I was really really homesick.  I think it helps a lot to know that I am coming home a few times for my nephew being born, and for the mission trip soon.  I cannot wait it will be a long drive and exhausting to do for a weekend but so worth it.  I cannot wait to see God's little miracles in Baby Connor, Baby Jackson, and Baby Lilly.  I cannot wait to see all 3 of them and love and hug on them.  I cannot wait to see everyone.  I hope that i will find some great friends in Jackson like I have in Texas.  

I have gotten a new car and am loving it.  It is a 2007 Honda civic and gets the best gas mileage ever!!!!  Tootsie is loving it we have gone to some great parks and am waking up at 5:15 in the mornings to take her on a nice long walk, don't worry we go to the neighborhood right beside us that is lit very well.  

Remember that anyone can come visit, I have a couch and an air mattress.  I would love to show jackson to you!!

Well I guess that that is it for now!! I miss you all and love you even more!!!

LOVE YOU!!!!

WORKING to Fight Cancer!!

So today was the first day of Work!!  It was absolutely great!! All the people are so incredibly nice and friendly!! Right now all I am doing is reading a lot of stuff and just getting to know everything.  It will prob. be a few weeks till I travel to my areas.  I got my computer today which takes my fingerprints to log in, so that was way fun.  

Today I realized that I will be able to really help cancer patients and make a difference.  JeanAnn who has the same job I do but with a different area met a need.  She was able to get a stove donated to a patient whose went out and she is also diabetic.  It is just great that you can call you local ACS and really get help.  That is what Relay dollars go for.  It is going to be so great to see Relay dollars in Action!!!

Well it was a GREAT DAY!!! and I cannot wait to go back and jump in there and start helping Cancer Patients and their families.  I am excited.

I cannot thank you all for the out pouring of love, support, and prayers.  I could not of made it through all of this with out that.  THANK YOU!!!

Love you

MISSISSIPPI!!!

Well I have made it Ridgeland!! It was a LONG day but we made it.  My parents, brother in law and oldest Nephew came with me.  It was a long drive but not a bad one, we hit some rain but it was not bad.  When we got to the apartment while I was signing my lease it just started pouring.  But God was watching out for us and when we were ready it stopped raining.  We got everything unloaded and boy I have more stuff that I thought!!!

So the area that I live in is GREAT! Parts of it reminds of The Woodlands!! The guy who came and connected my cable and internet was telling me that it is a great area.  It has a lot to offer.  I have found Target, Wal Mart, Kroger, and the Mall! All the basics.  

Now that I have groceries I made some dinner and man I can make so Mad tuna!!  The only thing that is left now is just getting everything unpacked and getting pictures on the wall etc.  I am excited about work tomorrow.  Good thing that I have GPS because I do not know where the office is.  I do not know anyone there or what it looks like or anything.  I need to find something to wear and then try to find the iron.  

OH MY GOODNES!! You will never guess what I left at my parents house?? my Chi are you kidding I cannot have a bad hair day tomorrow.  So I had to get a cheap straightener at Target.  It was so funny that that is what I left.  There is still a lot to do and I am sure what all has happened with the move will hit me in the middle of the week.  I just know that God is protecting over me and I know that he is here with me because I am not scared and am just at peace with everything.

Oh yeah and I had my first surprise party on Friday!! It was AWESOME!!! I was so surprised and so touched that when I saw everyone all I could do is bawl uncontrollably!! It was Great.

I love you all and will be blogging soon about my job! Thank you for all of your love and support!!!

First Post of 2009

WOW!! This is insane that it is already 2009!! It is so crazy to think that I will be moving in 8 days! 8 days that is nothing time is just flying by. I cannot believe it. I have started to pack and it just is making me crazy becaue I start to think about what it was like when I just finished 3rd grade and my parents told me that we were moving to Texas. I had lived in this incredibly incredibly small town in South Carolina and we were moving to Texas. I was not wanting to leave my friends but was so so so excited. Here I am 17 years later and moving to Mississippi, I do not have the comfort of my family moving with me, but I know that everything will be ok! Because God is the one that is guiding me here so I know that he will be there to get me through this. I know that this is going to be hard but I am so excited. A while new place, new people to meet, new adventures, new place to live, new atmosphere a whole lot of newness. Even though I am sad there is more of me that is excited. I know that the hardest moment is coming but will be over in a flash. It will be when my parents drive away after helping me move. That will be the hardest. But after that it will get easier. I remember when Jeff and I drove away after Lori had moved to Fort Worth for her job before he moved up there also. It was so hard and I bawled like a baby but then it constantly is getting easier.

I know that families and friends can live in completely different places and still have relationships. I am nervous about meeting all new people, but that is why one of the first things that I am going to do is get involed with a church that I feel I am suppose to serve and be apart of. I am in need of a lot of prayers for this next great adventure!! It is going to be a lot of fun but hard and I have a feelings some tears will be shed along the way.

Well I guess that that is it for now, I am about to go and hang out with Jess and Baby Logan!

I will definitly keep you updated on everything!!

Love you!!!