I am blessed...

I realized today that I am blessed with a special brain. I remember things. Not that I don't need to study, because I do, but once something is ingrained in my brain, there it shall stay until the end of time. In grade 8 we had to learn the poem 'In Flander's Fields', and we had to present it, with emotion in our voices, different inflections at different points. I still remember every last word and tone of voice.

We got our comprehensive exams back today. They covered a little bit of everything that we have learned in the last 2 years. Between the 2 exams they were approximately 300 multiple choice (and a few matching) questions. I got 90% on my academic one (including anatomy, physiology, pathology, nutrition and kinesiology) and 91% on the practical portion (including massage treatments, contraindications, assessments, remedial exercise and business/ethics). I barely cracked a book for either of them, but I believe that they showed me that I remember a lot of stuff from the last 2 years. This is a good thing since I have my board exams later this week (Thursday at 1-5pm and Saturday 8-10am). But I looked around at other people who got much lower marks than me, and I am not bad mouthing them in any way, but I just don't feel that smart....like I said before, I think I was blessed with a very special brain.

On another note, my grad was yesterday. It was fun to get dressed up, however the grad was really long and boring. We actually left part way through...after the meal because my family and Jay were bored, I was bored and mom had the beginnings of the flu. So we took off early and didn't miss anything but a REALLY boring guest speaker and special awards that I didn't win! I am getting excited about being done! And on Saturday I got flowers delivered to my house, from Jay's parents, that was super nice!! We only have 5 more days that we have to go to school!! And it looks like the trip to Swift Current is going to work out :) Yipeee!

Procrastination....mwahaha!

So close, but yet so far away. I will be officially done school in two weeks!!! TWO WEEKS! I look back to when I started and I cannot believe that it has been just about 2 years since I met my classmates. What a great bunch we are ;) Our instructors tell us all the time what a great group we are, how we all get along and like eachother (Aaron even told us we were his favorite class to teach since he started there 4 years ago!). But maybe they just feel that way in comparison to the class that is 6 months behind us....they are aweful! They are clique-y and full of attitude, but I will soon be gone! Woohoo!

However, in two weeks, it won't really matter how cohesive our little group is. We will be set free to go out and put our knowledge and skills to work as massage therapists. The thought of going 'head to head' with my classmates for jobs in the city makes me feel kinda sad. There is no doubt that they are all great therapists and I realize it'll all come down to the 'fit' of our personality within a particular workplace, but it's still seems strange to 'compete' with those people for work. But I have God on my side and I know that He will guide my path as I look for a job.

I really have no desire to go job hunting right now :( I just want to take a little bit of time off when I am done. I have a feeling that by the time I get registered and get insurance that it might be around the end of June anyway, so that will give me a couple of weeks off :) And that's assuming that I pass my board exam that I have been procrastinating for 2 or 3 months for already! *sigh*

Back to studying blood vessels I go. Wish me luck, or if you think of me tomorrow afternoon, say a little prayer for me!!

Loooong weekend!

What a great weekend it was! Saturday was my first day fully off of work. I am currently unemployed and it feels great! I still have 3 weeks until I am finished school, but to be done Impark feels wonderful! Saturday Jay and I went to see Shrek 2 (highly recommend it to anyone who liked the first movie!), went shoe shopping (got a nice pair for $8.50), looked in Charm Diamond Store (never shop there, they are very pushy and try to talk you into everything you DONT want :P), then went back to his place for supper. It was a great first Saturday off!

I have also been tweaking my resume all weekend because I am going to go drop a copy off tomorrow for a job! I hope that works out, well if it's a good job, and that I am still able to go to Swift Current with Jay after I am done school. I know we can't always have the best of both worlds....but i waaaaanna go *pout* ;)

I am currently trying to study for my written practical comprehensive exam. It will be about 100 multiple choice questions based on massage theory, hydrotherapy, remex and assessments. I have lost my will to study. Like before, I complained that I was having a hard time studying, but I honestly cannot physically bring myself to study for this exam. I am sure I will do okay *crosses fingers*, but this is pretty important....if I fail I don't graduate, can't write the board exams...basically my life is over ;) But I am pretty confident that I won't fail. I passed my comprehensive oral/practical with flying colours, so I have confidence in this as well.


I will wrap up here with one of my favorite quotes from Shrek 2, "Look at his wee boots. How many cats can wear boots? Honestly!" haha

Reflections

It has been quite a week. I finished up my final shift at Impark, thank goodness! Jay was baptized! My parents met Jay's parents. I have a lead on a massage job for when I am done school (please pray for me)!! A dear friend of mine, lost her grandpa to cancer. It just all makes me think a lot about life, and what really matters.

I have not experienced death of any close friends or relatives. I cannot imagine what my friend's family is experiencing, but I do know that at least they can have hope and peace in knowing that he has gone to a better place. A place where there are no more tears or pain. Reminds me of a verse written by Paul in Philippians 1:21, "For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain." John D. definitely lived his life for Christ, what passion that man had!

I was thinking of their family as I rode the bus this morning listening to my discman. The song I Can Only Imagine by Mercy Me came on and I was welling up with tears and people were giving me funny looks, so I had to skip it ahead to the next song. That is such an amazing song, and when I think of being in heaven, wow, I become awed at the very thought! I don't deserve to go to heaven, but through Jesus' sacrifice on the cross we are able to. And after seeing the Passion earlier this year, it just breaks my heart. Jesus did THAT for me! And he would do it again in an instant, he loves us that much. And I whine about getting up 'early' to go to church on Sunday mornings ('but it's my only day to sleep in'). I think I need to get my priorities straight. Because a person never knows when your time will come, when God will call us home.

I Can Only Imagine by MercyMe

I can only imagine what it will be like, when I walk by Your side...
I can only imagine, what my eyes will see, when Your Face is before me!
I can only imagine. I can only imagine.
Surrounded by Your Glory, what will my heart feel?
Will I dance for you, Jesus? Or in awe of You, be still?
Will I stand in Your presence, or to my knees will I fall?
Will I sing 'Hallelujah!'? Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine! I can only imagine!

I can only imagine, when that day comes, when I find myself standing in the Son!
I can only imagine, when all I will do, is forever, forever worship You!
I can only imagine! I can only imagine!

Surrounded by Your Glory, what will my heart feel?

Will I dance for you, Jesus? Or in awe of You, be still?
Will I stand in Your presence, or to my knees will I fall?
Will I sing 'Hallelujah!'? Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine! Yeah! I can only imagine!

Surrounded by Your Glory, what will my heart feel?

Will I dance for you, Jesus? Or in awe of You, be still?
Will I stand in Your presence, or to my knees will I fall?
Will I sing 'Hallelujah!'? Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine! Yeah! I can only imagine!

I can only imagine! Yeah! I can only imagine!! Only imagine!!!
I can only imagine.

I can only imagine, when all I do is forever, forever worship You!
I can only imagine.

A pretty good weekend

So I had a fairly decent weekend :) Friday night, my class from school had a bbq at Kristen's house. It was a good time of just hangin out with some good food.

Then came the worst part of the weekend. I had to train the new girl yesterday at work. Remember a blog or two ago I said, either she'll be really smart and on the ball, or way off the ball and dumber than a sack of hammers. Yeah, she was much closer to the sack of hammers side. Now I realize that I was slow when I started too, but she wasn't even trying. She would look at the times on the ticket and just take a random guess. I tried to teach her a couple of different ways to calculate the times, but she just was not getting it. She would just take a stab in the dark. I would say, no, try counting it on your fingers, and she couldn't even do that. And she had a really annoying voice, like a 'wittle baby'. Patience Angie, six 'n a half more hours with her, then it is out of my hands and into Dale's :) Then Jay picked me up and we went for supper with his parents to Mano's.

Today was Jay's baptism. It went really well, and was a very emotional time :) Jay's parents got to meet my parents and my sister today. They all got along super well and chatted a lot. His mom even invited them down so my dad could go fishing with Jay's dad, and his mom said that my mom n her would go sun bathing ;) haha I like his parents a lot, they are really down to earth, easy going people and I can picture myself seeing a lot more of them! I am really looking forward to our trip down there in June to visit!

Doh!

So my printer stopped working a few weeks back, maybe even a month or so ago. Every time I would try to print something it would give me an error message that said I needed to reinstall my colour print cartridge. It has been empty for years now, and the printer always worked. So after trying countless times to reinstall the empty one, I bit the bullet and spent a whopping $50 on a new one! And guess what, it works like it always did now! Stinkin' machinery!!

Life is good!

I now only officially have TWO shifts left at Impark! Yippeee! I did however find out today at work that I will be training the new girl (which I knew), but I found out that she will be training with me for the WHOLE shift Saturday and next Thursday! Now it's boring enough doing the little work there is to do by myself, but when someone else is doing the work and I am just standing looking over her shoulder....oh my, they are going to be 2 very long shifts!

Now I have had a lot of scenarios running through my head. She could be VERY smart and 'on the ball' and learn everything quickly. Or she could be 10,000 miles away from the ball and dumber than a sack of hammers. I am hoping she is at least some where in between and is a good conversationalist. It would not be fun to spend 14.5 hrs with someone in a confined space who can't carry on a conversation. No matter what happens, in exactly one week, I will say good bye to Impark and dance a jig up to the 6th floor of the Princeton Tower to do my final deposit! *sigh* life is good!

*sigh*

Sometimes it is best to leave well enough alone. I was drawn into the pretty new templates (and I really like my new one!) on blogger.com, and I ended up losing my comments as well as my links. So bear with me as I try and get everything back to the way it should be. I think I should have comments enabled on this entry, but none of the previous ones. I will do the best to get the links back on the page if I can figure out where the codes go in the template.

No shame

Today after church, I hung out with Jay while he waited for Pastors Leyton and Wes to come and practice the 'dry run' for his baptism next Sunday. I will have to admit that I was a little bit apprehensive watching it, but it went quite well. The staircase up to and down into the baptismal tank is quite narrow and they wanted to make sure they would be able to get him up and into the tank next Sunday for the real thing.

Now Pastor Wes' granddaughter Natasha (who is probably about 3 or 4 years old) came along and watched the whole ordeal. She watched on with wide eyes and said in a very matter of fact way to me that when it's her turn to get baptised she wants to do it that way (ie have pastor Wes and pastor Leyton carry her into the tank in a great big sling). I just kinda laughed and said cool.

Once they got Jay back into his chair and they were just making sure they had everything thought out for next week, little Natasha went wondering into the bathroom (right next to where we were all standing), I just thot she was getting restless, having to sit there waiting for her grandpa. But no, about 2 seconds later I hear a tinkling....haha. What an adorable little girl, no inhibitions about using the bathroom within view of 2 complete strangers, Pastor Leyton and her grandfather. Hehe!

Pray for me?

Got a quick prayer request. Mom went for a massage this afternoon with her therapist, Camille. She told my mom about a friend of hers who has her own massage business who is looking to hire someone. She is going to call me and talk to me to see if she thinks I might be a good applicant, and if so she would put me in touch with the person who is hiring. So I don't know what this job all entails, however, I ask that you would pray for me. I need to find a job fairly shortly once I am done school, and I this might just be a great opportunity for me :) *crosses fingers* Thanks!

What I learned today...

- Today I changed a boy diaper for the very first time. I am now fully qualified to babysit my nephew (that's what Robin said anyway).

-I realized today that I REALLY have no desire to start up my own business (stupid business plan). :P

- I have absolutely no desire to get involved in aromatherapy (we had an aromatherapist come to talk to us today). She said she has spent around $200 on 5mL of certain types of essential oil.....yeah, not that rich!

- I wish I had a jacuzzi tub in my home (had an underwater pressure massage after school today).

- I REALLY like the CD that Jay made for me, of mainly Christian music that is harder than I am used to (good driving music!).

- one cup of kraft dinner is worth 9 weight watchers points! Wow, I've eaten a whole box before....that's about 4 cups I think...I'm a porker :@)