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Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Monday was pretty awful, but it had a bright spot at the end.
Tuesday was pretty great, but it had a really awful spot in the middle.

I felt horrible Monday. My stomach was messed up and I was on the couch most of the day since it hurt when I stood up. Medicine got things under control enough by the evening that I was able to go to an audition I had with a group called the Show Offs. They're a mostly touring group that does Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre. It a group that prefers to be over the top, silly, zany, funny. They also have Cabaret nights locally and are planning to open a restaurant in town to have a local dinner theatre and are going to start doing some scripted comedies. I met one of the two directors of the group through the Clemson Little Theatre, so she already liked me. After my audition, I'm in! I'm super excited because I don't have to be available for every show they do, and I won't be with my new job starting on Monday. So I'll still be able to work in some acting! Yay!

Tuesday I was feeling well enough that I went white water rafting with my handsome hubby and others from the chemistry dept. They do it every summer with the undergrad students who come in and work there for the summer. It was a fun day! Weather was beautiful, we rafted with fun people through the mountains. It was great. Until we got to the final rapid. It's a class 3 (or 4, can't remember). So they suggested that you get out at a spot before it and go scout it out to see the best way to get down. We did this and watched several other rafts go down, which was quite entertaining. :) Only one person fell out that we saw and she fell out after they made it over the worst part, so someone threw her a line and pulled her to shore. We went back to our raft, pumped and ready to go. I was very confident in our fearless guide (Matt) and was sure we'd make it through with no problems and it would be lots of fun. Well... neither of those things happened, at least for me. I think it was fun for the girls in the front of the raft who had no clue what was happening behind them. Matt and I were in the back. The back of the raft went up in the air when we went over the big rock. Matt was flung forward, I was flung out. It was one of those experiences that when you think back, you have no idea really how it happened. You remember starting to hit the rapid and the next thing you know, you're underwater going downhill. I think the second time I went under was the scariest and I'm pretty sure my legs went under the raft. Thank goodness for my hero husband who was able to get ahold of my PFD and hang onto me until we were in calmer water so I could be pulled back inside. I lost my hat... and my paddle (though I'm sure someone was able to get it later and return it). And once we got on shore, the fear that adrenaline had covered up for a time came forward and I couldn't help but cry. Knowing I was safe, but reliving the emotions of the experience. That was an awful spot during the day.
Getting into dry clothes was good and then we got on the road, stopped for dinner, and made it back safely. All in all, I would call it a good day... with a minor mishap in the middle. Today I am a little sore and have a few bruises, but sunblock kept me from being burnt on top of it! :)

Tuesday, 10 June 2008

My church is currently a part of a sermon series that over 1,200 churches across the world are also a part of. It's called One Prayer. It's really really awesome that so many churches from so many denominations and so many countries can put aside their differences and join together to become one church as Christ prayed we would be. It's going to be 4 weeks long. Two days ago was the first week of it. Four pastors from four different churches have recorded the messages and they're being shown at all these churches so we're all seeing the same message at the same time. The pastor from my church was preached the first sermon. He called us to be dangerous Christians. He believed that Christ was dangerous. He wasn't safe. And I agree. It's a difficult thing to aspire to... giving up what you love most for the sake of following Christ. Being willing to walk with Him in a way that you open yourself up to spiritual attack and can believe in the miraculous enough that you see it happen. It happens in other countries, why not here in America? Because we've put God in a safe box and decided that the things that Jesus and His disciples did in the Bible aren't supposed to happen anymore. But if God is the same yesterday, today and forever, then why wouldn't He have planned on us continuing His ministry of healing and casting out demons and preaching to masses?
I'm assuming that they'll post the sermons on the website, too, but if not, you can at least see the first one on my church's website. I just think it's really awesome that this is happening and pray that it starts a revival, calling for the unity of Christians so we'll stop fighting each other and start fighting the real enemy and start making a huge impact for Christ.
I'm leaving my part time, temp job as a fabulous office assistant where I organize files, clean out files, make room for new files. I'm sure you can tell that it's a difficult job for me to leave... BUT another door has opened and I feel compelled to walk through it.
I have gotten an internship at Clemson University with the production manager! For one year I'll be learning how to light, stage manage, and do sound for many different venues as this is a roadhouse and not a theatre that houses a company. One of the first groups coming in is Rock-a-pella, which I'm psyched about!! And there will be several Broadway productions including Nunsense with Sally Struthers. There will be several jazz groups, a sister act that does folk/country music on banjo, mandalin, etc, and a group that does body illusions... like the bending your body in all kinds of weird ways while holding up another person bending their body in a weird way. Should be exciting! That, of course, is just highlights. We'll also house Clemson band/orchestra concerts with an I assume we're doing set-up for the outdoor pops concert in the spring. It's going to be really great experience and I'll have a much better resume when I'm done to try to get other tech jobs. Plus it means that Matt and I will get to car-pool some and have lunch together a few times a week. That will be a nice bonus. I'm totally pumped about this new position and am thankful that, once again, God's plans were not my own and my not getting other jobs I thought I wanted was really all to my benefit! He's so good!
I start the 23rd!! :)

Monday, 12 May 2008

The church I go to is so awesome! It's huge, first off... but the heart is so great. I love that we don't have to take up special offerings to do service projects. For example: on Mother's Day, a lot of churches give flowers to the moms. My church back home would sometimes give away special flowers to the oldest mother present or the mother with the most children there. Well, Newspring gave two very special gifts this year. Last year they gave a house to a single mom. This year, they gave a house to a single mom and they gave a van that was wheelchair accessible to a woman who is older and has a son who is wheelchair bound. This mother and son are always at church, even though she had to get him out of his chair, lift him mostly by herself into the car, fold up the chair to put it in the vehicle, and then do the reverse when they got to church. Now, all she has to do is press a button for a ramp to come down out of the van, roll him into the vehicle, close the door and they're on their way. And the mom who got a house has a neat story. Her fiancee left her after she got pregnant and her parents took her in. She's been living with them ever since. Her parents helped raise the baby and he's now in high school and active in our youth group. They've continued to live with her parents and apparently there were jokes about her son moving out before she did. Now she has a house and the church is also covering all the bills for a year.
That's what a church should be: generous enough in giving that they can be generous to the community. I'm proud to be a part of Newspring Church.

In other news... I have a part time job. I'm the admin assistant for HR at Kravet Fabrics. It's close, it's 20 hours a week. It's a place to start. It may turn into full-time, but for now, it helps some. Tupperware hasn't quite picked up the way I'd hoped, but I still don't know many people.
And I'm raising money for an orphanage in Haiti if anyone wants to contribute. :)

Saturday, 26 April 2008

So my first Tupperware party was fun. There were 4 ladies in addition to the host. All really great women. Funny story, though. After demonstrating, we made some salsa. Fortunately I had given each lady some salsa in a snack cup because the host's baby got a little sick and some throw up got in the salsa. Fun times!

I had an interview for a part time administrative assistant position with Kravets Fabrics. I should hear something soon. Here's to hoping!