The past few weeks have been a deliberation in whether to change my occupational status or not. In other words, should I remove myself from my full time job to go and work in a different (but original) department.
This past Thursday night I went to young adults at a different church and we talked about how every moment should be the greatest moment of your life because it is all you have. Previous moments are past, future ones have not come.-- we need to live NOW. Not tomorrow, not years from now, but NOW... I sat there listening and the pastor said - i promise he did - that if you're considering a change in your job but don't want to out of leaving your comfort zone, you need to do it. I smiled. I hear you God. I hear you. .... and then he continued in talking about living -- making one's life full, about traveling and really living life. My consideration for "should I europe" is almost affirmed.
Then, last night. At my church. The pastor here talked about how we need to move out of our levels of comfort, take steps of faith, take opportunities out of our zones of "easyness"....
I felt like God said AGAIN.. "shar, you need to move from your job..." I felt Him give me a peace about it - an excitement about it - that I wouldn't be opposed by my current manager. I was happy in the choice that may not make others happy. I realized that maybe it's time to figure out my life and not the 'happiness' of others before it. ....I felt like God told me to enjoy a trip to Europe, that I should go visit my friends there.
And so I am potentially booking my flight (listed below) to Europe... (Patti, i will be back in time for your wedding!!)
And today, not 20 minutes ago, I fired off a message to my manager and supervisor about leaving my position to go elsewhere. ... *phew*
There's just so much being worked on in my heart. There's so much I'm challenging in myself - or, well, rather that God is challenging. I want to take risks. I want to try new things. I want to see new sights and be a part of what God is wanting to do... And I'm excited about it!!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
To Europe or not to Europe, that is the question.
I'm changing my job situation (i hope) as of May 1st. I will have 2 weeks off in June...
And I found this:
MUNICH, GERMANY
Air Only - Roundtrip
Vancouver Departs: June 3, 10 @ $399 (Rtn: June 18)
Vancouver Departs: June 3, 10 @ $499 (Rtn: June 11, 25)
Argh.............. I can't decide.
And I found this:
MUNICH, GERMANY
Air Only - Roundtrip
Vancouver Departs: June 3, 10 @ $399 (Rtn: June 18)
Vancouver Departs: June 3, 10 @ $499 (Rtn: June 11, 25)
Argh.............. I can't decide.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Great Quote:
"The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained; that would be to cast out of window the medicine of cure while yet the man lay sick; to go dead against the very laws of being. Yet men loving their sins, and feeling nothing of their dread hatefulness, have, consistently with their low condition, constantly taken this word concerning the Lord to mean that he came to save them from the punishment of their sins. The idea- the miserable fancy rather - has terribly corrupted the preaching of the gospel."
~ George Macdonald, from "The Hope of the Gospel".
~ George Macdonald, from "The Hope of the Gospel".
Hair, oh hair...
I got my hair done again. I thoroughly enjoy going to my hairdresser. For one, she's the bomb. We have such a GREAT time when we're together... I tell her my stories (there's always something that's happened that puts her into stitches), and two, she makes wonderful magic with my hair! I leave feeling like a whole new person.
I seriously think i entertain the rest of the hairdressers there too (and the clients). They all watch the colors that go into my hair, the saran wrap that goes between the colors, and the crazy cut my dresser comes up with on her own after gleefully clapping her hands and jumping up and down like a child anticipating the best time ever. I'm glad to be her entertainment..
I tip her pretty well too. It's usually in the form of a booster juice...
Oh, Booster Juice. I like them. Their downside is that they're positioned between Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and a Sushi Shop. While patiently standing in line for a 'healthy alternative', I debate whether i should get me a caramel apple (*drool*) for 'later' (meaning, now), or some California Rolls and Bubble Tea instead. .... I most often stick with Booster Juice and this past week i was glad I did. For a limited time they have this AMAZING Pomegranite Passion flavor. OH. MY. Soooooooooooo good. It was like candy. Or Sherbet. Or something beyond good.... I wonder how limited the time is that they say it's limited for. I may have to go wander the mall for the sake of getting another one. Or for one of these:
I seriously think i entertain the rest of the hairdressers there too (and the clients). They all watch the colors that go into my hair, the saran wrap that goes between the colors, and the crazy cut my dresser comes up with on her own after gleefully clapping her hands and jumping up and down like a child anticipating the best time ever. I'm glad to be her entertainment..
I tip her pretty well too. It's usually in the form of a booster juice...
Oh, Booster Juice. I like them. Their downside is that they're positioned between Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and a Sushi Shop. While patiently standing in line for a 'healthy alternative', I debate whether i should get me a caramel apple (*drool*) for 'later' (meaning, now), or some California Rolls and Bubble Tea instead. .... I most often stick with Booster Juice and this past week i was glad I did. For a limited time they have this AMAZING Pomegranite Passion flavor. OH. MY. Soooooooooooo good. It was like candy. Or Sherbet. Or something beyond good.... I wonder how limited the time is that they say it's limited for. I may have to go wander the mall for the sake of getting another one. Or for one of these:
In other news:
I have a new toy. ..
It's totally convenient. 160 books at my fingertips - it gives me 100 free books to download, mind you they're from a select 1000 books of the "classics", so, i'm loading up on Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George MacDonald and more.. I figure that it's always good to have a little DIckens or Austen on hand. I ADORE their literature and prose. I could ready it over and over and over again...
Good ol' technology.
Speaking of technology. I have two incredible friends over in the Phillipines right now, and I miss contact with them.... BUT, it just so happens that their hours (16 hrs ahead) correspond well with my night shifts so I've been blessed with the ability to email them and/or facebook them (via my blackberry because work has Facebook blocked) when they're online! YAY for that! Yay for the internet in the Phillipines!! I'm able to hear how God's working in their hearts over there.... *sigh*. 10 more days until they fly back to Canada! I will see one of them in 2 weeks hopefully, and I swear I will attack him when I do...
I'm at work right now... and this is what I'm tired of getting.
Me: "Who do you want me to put down as your person to notify in case of emergency?"
Patient: "uhhh... can I put you down? Can you be my emergency contact?"
No, people! NO!
not my idea of a winner pick-up line.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
A Busy Week, kinda....
At young adults, we were made to sit outside in the parking lot for a good 10 minutes, no talking, no huddling with people... An illustration for the night's sermon on homelessness.
I love that group of people. I really do. I don't know a whole lot of them, but they're pretty cool. I enjoy being a part of the leadership for them - despite the fact that it can be frustrating. One thing excites me though -- and that is where God is taking the group. Perhaps it will dissolve to be a once a month meeting with life group focus. We don't know. I thoroughly enjoy the leadership that it does have right now. The pastor is such a cool guy....
My volunteer work with the Boys and Girls Club is more than enjoyable. I like it a lot....
And...... work is frustrating.
5 of us got freaked on by our manager this week. She accused us of stealing $2. We found $4 under the photocopier the next day. The morale in the dept is dead. I'm setting up my escape plan...
I enjoy my friends. I truely do. I'm so blessed by each and everyone one of them. I have been realizing of late that I'm pretty lucky to have the friends I have. Seriously. In order for someone to be your friend, they need to like you. Some days, I just don't think I'm likable. Some days (like yesterday) I'm down right "dirty" and need a good dunk in some joy juice or something. I just keep thinking that I need to be an example. I need to show the love of Christ because my co-workers are watching me -- and i remember my pastor saying "Us Christians should be the most joyful people on earth, but we need to tell our faces that because sometimes it looks as if we were baptised in vinegar or lemon juice.." I don't want that to be me....
So it's on these horrible days that I reflect and rest in awe of those friends who call me "friend", those individuals in my life who WANT to spend time with me, who WANT to know how my week was, and who smile and embrace me when they see me.
I can only try to be just as good to them (if not better) than they are to me.... cuz frankly, I don't deserve some of them.....
I love that group of people. I really do. I don't know a whole lot of them, but they're pretty cool. I enjoy being a part of the leadership for them - despite the fact that it can be frustrating. One thing excites me though -- and that is where God is taking the group. Perhaps it will dissolve to be a once a month meeting with life group focus. We don't know. I thoroughly enjoy the leadership that it does have right now. The pastor is such a cool guy....
My volunteer work with the Boys and Girls Club is more than enjoyable. I like it a lot....
And...... work is frustrating.
5 of us got freaked on by our manager this week. She accused us of stealing $2. We found $4 under the photocopier the next day. The morale in the dept is dead. I'm setting up my escape plan...
I enjoy my friends. I truely do. I'm so blessed by each and everyone one of them. I have been realizing of late that I'm pretty lucky to have the friends I have. Seriously. In order for someone to be your friend, they need to like you. Some days, I just don't think I'm likable. Some days (like yesterday) I'm down right "dirty" and need a good dunk in some joy juice or something. I just keep thinking that I need to be an example. I need to show the love of Christ because my co-workers are watching me -- and i remember my pastor saying "Us Christians should be the most joyful people on earth, but we need to tell our faces that because sometimes it looks as if we were baptised in vinegar or lemon juice.." I don't want that to be me....
So it's on these horrible days that I reflect and rest in awe of those friends who call me "friend", those individuals in my life who WANT to spend time with me, who WANT to know how my week was, and who smile and embrace me when they see me.
I can only try to be just as good to them (if not better) than they are to me.... cuz frankly, I don't deserve some of them.....
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Quotes I've said, heard or read this week in and around town...
"Stay safe. Come back in one piece. I'm not finished getting to know you yet."
"...pulled out of her car wearing only a g-string, a boustier and knee high boots. Completely drunk."
"You drink latte's right? Here's one for you, with a chocolate heart on top!"
"One should have a 3 second, 30 second and 30 minute sermon ready...."
"I don't think that i have ever had a friend as good as you."
And tonite's winning story.
The time: 0445am. The emergency/code phone rings. I reach quickly to grab the phone and see it originates in Emergency "Code Phone!" -- "Uh.... code white, Emerg"...
I hang up the phone, press the tone button and page overhead "CODE WHITE EMERGENCY, ...CODE WHITE ....EMERGENCY?". Should I have been calling Admitting?? As i hang up the phone I see a husky 20-something guy with a laceration to his forehead come ambling into our department from emergency with 2 nurses on his tail, wearing nothing but a diaper. "Come back! Where are you going?!" The nursing supervisor hops up from her seat saying "No no... wrong way!"
The young drunk hockey player (as referred by the nursing staff) kept walking into our backroom/lunchroom as if he knew where he were going.
"Is there a bathroom back there?" one of the nurses asks.
uhhhh......
And then I hear "Oh come on, keep your pants on man!"
Seriously?
3 or 4 more staff members on the "code white" team come walking through. "They're in the back... come save us!" I said, laughing.
Nursing supervisor comes out and says "I think we'll need housekeeping.. he kinda missed the toilet". Awesome.
I told one of the guys walking by just to make sure that the man had clothes on when he came back out.
Thankfully, not 15 seconds later, buddy comes walking out wearing only a gown (not done up in the back) being held on by the nurses trailing him, his eyes pinned on me.... I try to maintain eye contact or avoid any contact whatsoever but he maintains his gaze. Reaching not 8 feet away and walking straight towards me, he grasps down and pulls up his gown mumbling something like "you wannnnaaa..".
NO THANK YOU!
I turn my head as fast as I could to save myself some visual scarring and exhibitionistic counseling, thankfully seeing NOTHING...
"whoooeeee. I didn't see anything. ugh..."I say once they're back in emergency. One of the nurses stops, touches my shoulder and says "Oh, dont' worry. There's nothing worth seeing!". Haha.. Thanks!
Oy.....
I walked into emerg later and the unit clerk looks at me and just starts cracking up, "your face! you're just not impressed!" "Why didn't you keep him!! I didn't want him!" I said. She justkept laughing.....
The police show up later and come over saying "we're all good here? So, he came walking into your department wearing only a diaper?" They're smiling away at me... "Oh yeah. Sheer entertainment. Why weren't you guys here earlier?"
Ha!
Gotta love entertainment that I'M paid for.
"...pulled out of her car wearing only a g-string, a boustier and knee high boots. Completely drunk."
"You drink latte's right? Here's one for you, with a chocolate heart on top!"
"One should have a 3 second, 30 second and 30 minute sermon ready...."
"I don't think that i have ever had a friend as good as you."
And tonite's winning story.
The time: 0445am. The emergency/code phone rings. I reach quickly to grab the phone and see it originates in Emergency "Code Phone!" -- "Uh.... code white, Emerg"...
I hang up the phone, press the tone button and page overhead "CODE WHITE EMERGENCY, ...CODE WHITE ....EMERGENCY?". Should I have been calling Admitting?? As i hang up the phone I see a husky 20-something guy with a laceration to his forehead come ambling into our department from emergency with 2 nurses on his tail, wearing nothing but a diaper. "Come back! Where are you going?!" The nursing supervisor hops up from her seat saying "No no... wrong way!"
The young drunk hockey player (as referred by the nursing staff) kept walking into our backroom/lunchroom as if he knew where he were going.
"Is there a bathroom back there?" one of the nurses asks.
uhhhh......
And then I hear "Oh come on, keep your pants on man!"
Seriously?
3 or 4 more staff members on the "code white" team come walking through. "They're in the back... come save us!" I said, laughing.
Nursing supervisor comes out and says "I think we'll need housekeeping.. he kinda missed the toilet". Awesome.
I told one of the guys walking by just to make sure that the man had clothes on when he came back out.
Thankfully, not 15 seconds later, buddy comes walking out wearing only a gown (not done up in the back) being held on by the nurses trailing him, his eyes pinned on me.... I try to maintain eye contact or avoid any contact whatsoever but he maintains his gaze. Reaching not 8 feet away and walking straight towards me, he grasps down and pulls up his gown mumbling something like "you wannnnaaa..".
NO THANK YOU!
I turn my head as fast as I could to save myself some visual scarring and exhibitionistic counseling, thankfully seeing NOTHING...
"whoooeeee. I didn't see anything. ugh..."I say once they're back in emergency. One of the nurses stops, touches my shoulder and says "Oh, dont' worry. There's nothing worth seeing!". Haha.. Thanks!
Oy.....
I walked into emerg later and the unit clerk looks at me and just starts cracking up, "your face! you're just not impressed!" "Why didn't you keep him!! I didn't want him!" I said. She justkept laughing.....
The police show up later and come over saying "we're all good here? So, he came walking into your department wearing only a diaper?" They're smiling away at me... "Oh yeah. Sheer entertainment. Why weren't you guys here earlier?"
Ha!
Gotta love entertainment that I'M paid for.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
The BIG 3-0
What to do, what to do...
So, my birthday is coming up in a couple of months and i'm contemplating it's activities... You see, I want it to be something enjoyable but I'm not sure to what extent....
I am currently considering a couple of options.
1. Trip to Europa.. I have been wanting to go back and visit my friends there in Germany, Switzerland and Italy but I'm not SUPER enthused about going like I have been in previous years. In going though, I'd want to be with a friend or two that I'm super tight with -- or do something memorable. Considering I have been to Europe 3 times before, there's no where that i am DYING to go to and see, especially on my 30th birthday.
2. Trip to SoCal. I could choose to meet a super amazing close friend down in southern California for some fun in the sun, sand and ocean. In previous years, our family vacationed down there with another close family and those have always been highlights. I'm such a fan of the pacific ocean off the coast of California that this trip would be dreamy -- especially with a good friend. Nothing like ringing in the big birthday with relaxation and sunshine. I just don't know if that's exciting enough...
The question is, what is it that I am looking for -- what do i WANT from a birthday. Previous years have disappointed, but it's all about what I make of it right? ...
This past year has been such a blessing all round, this year has brought many wonderful people and God moments -- the potential for next year has no ceiling.
My latest consideration has been this...
3. Sushi party gathering... : I have a friend who can make sushi - he worked as a sushi chef for over 2 years and can do it all... I could have him come up and make the food, charge everyone $10/head for some good foods -- and then just hang out. I could do a bonfire, we could play Wii... I could get everyone to dress up to a theme (all things "S": Shar, sushi, s'mores, ).... Oh the options....
I just can't decide whether i want to be HERE or not... I presume i could do both a trip and a party here....
Blah...
So, my birthday is coming up in a couple of months and i'm contemplating it's activities... You see, I want it to be something enjoyable but I'm not sure to what extent....
I am currently considering a couple of options.
1. Trip to Europa.. I have been wanting to go back and visit my friends there in Germany, Switzerland and Italy but I'm not SUPER enthused about going like I have been in previous years. In going though, I'd want to be with a friend or two that I'm super tight with -- or do something memorable. Considering I have been to Europe 3 times before, there's no where that i am DYING to go to and see, especially on my 30th birthday.
2. Trip to SoCal. I could choose to meet a super amazing close friend down in southern California for some fun in the sun, sand and ocean. In previous years, our family vacationed down there with another close family and those have always been highlights. I'm such a fan of the pacific ocean off the coast of California that this trip would be dreamy -- especially with a good friend. Nothing like ringing in the big birthday with relaxation and sunshine. I just don't know if that's exciting enough...
The question is, what is it that I am looking for -- what do i WANT from a birthday. Previous years have disappointed, but it's all about what I make of it right? ...
This past year has been such a blessing all round, this year has brought many wonderful people and God moments -- the potential for next year has no ceiling.
My latest consideration has been this...
3. Sushi party gathering... : I have a friend who can make sushi - he worked as a sushi chef for over 2 years and can do it all... I could have him come up and make the food, charge everyone $10/head for some good foods -- and then just hang out. I could do a bonfire, we could play Wii... I could get everyone to dress up to a theme (all things "S": Shar, sushi, s'mores, ).... Oh the options....
I just can't decide whether i want to be HERE or not... I presume i could do both a trip and a party here....
Blah...
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