August 31st Can't Come Fast Enough!!! LOL

Okay, let me whine first.........

I am OVERDRAWN!!!!!  WAAHAAHAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

 

Grrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!  I HATE that!!!!!  And I thought that I was being SO CAREFUL, but, the again, most of my shopping was for school.  Worse, the bank charges $29.00 for EACH overdrawn charge!!!!!  Can you imagine how much my little check has been eaten up ALREADY?!?  There goes my overtime!!!!!!  Now I have no money until Thursday.  I have GOT to be more careful in the future.  Don't want to make this a habit, especially now, since I have a NEW JOB!!!!!!

   

Yes, ladies and gentlemen!  September 5th, 2006, will be my first day employed with the City Of Houston as an Airport Communications Operator at the Bush Intercontinental Airport!!!!!  They are as excited to have me on board as I am excited to be on board!!!  My last day at Wal-Mart will be August 31, 2006, and it cannot come fast enough!!!!  I already have my two-weeks' resignation letter typed and ready to submit to them Monday morning.  I have already been issued my orders as to where to go and what needs to be done on my first day.  From August 31 to September 5th, I plan to "get my house in order" before starting my new job.  Motherhood and wifedom doesn't end just because you have to work! LOL 

This opportunity is definitely a second-chance from God.  I had a well-paying job before, but I was so ungrateful when I was younger.  I complained ALL THE TIME, and took what I had for granted.  For a girl who only has a high school diploma and typing skills, I was making more money than most certified professionals.  But I always managed to find something wrong with where I was, and why I was there, and desiring to want to "do better" than what I was doing.  God had to allow me to lose my job to make me see that where I was and what I had was a PRIVILEGED position.  Yes, there are other jobs available to me, but He provided a GOOD one, and I wasn't satisfied with it.  But after working two years in mass-retail hell, I have THOROUGHLY learned my lesson!  No matter HOW HARD, or how "STRESSFUL" it gets, I will not complain, and instead will ALWAYS thank Him for being there, because I know full well where I CAN be.  And I don't want to go back there ever again!!!!!!

The other awesome thing about this opportunity is that my monthly salary is over 50% more than what I am making at Wal-Mart right now!  I am GOING IN making very close to what I was earning at the police department when I left!  Think about it......I was working at the police department for seven years, and what I was making at the end of my tenure is what I will be starting with here!  HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!!!  I thought that they would start me at the lowest end of the pay scale, which is still more than what I am making at Wal-Mart, but I guess with my experience, they gave me the highest possible starting salary!!!!  Oh, what a blessing, what a BLESSING!!!!!!!   

It is indeed true that when God redeems us, He RESTORES all that we lost, plus more!!!!  We go on!  We continue where we left off!  That doesn't come without some hard lessons learned, but as a trusted friend told me recently, the lessons help us to appreciate what He has and is doing for us even more!  It would be a shame and a tragedy to go through what I have gone through again, knowing how much I have struggled in the past years.  Oh, Lord, keep me HUMBLE before you!!!!!!  NEVER allow me to become puffed up with PRIDE ever again!!!!! 

I am just so grateful, so blessed, so....PRIVILEGED! LOL  As I always say, there is a difference between life in Christ, and life outside of Him.  I prefer my life in Christ.  Without Him, I am just ordinary, a nobody.  With Him, I am somebody.  I trust Him so much.  He is so good!!!!

I hope to have pictures of the girls posted soon.  I am teaching myself how to braid hair.  I found this wonderful how-to site on the Internet that gives practical, easy to understand instructions, as well as how-to pictures!  I hope to be able to master "the corn row" in a few months!

I wanted to share this blessing with all my friends, on and off line.  God is SO GOOD to me; He is so good to us all, and I tell as many people as I can, every chance that I get!  Well, I gotta go now, and get ready for work.  I love y'all!

            

Adrian