My life experiences lately have seemed to dance along with the soundtrack of the grand ole movie, Annie.
Here's my 'Annie' experiences lately...
First months here were best described by the song, "It's A Hard Knock Life".
From moving and starting school...to waiting for God to send money to pay bills..The first song is sooo appropriate. :)
However, the last two weeks have been sunshine to my soul! Just like when the Hard-Knocked Annie went to have lots of adventures with Daddy Warbucks and Grace. She sees all kinds of extraordinary, unbelievable things. Her life is finally looking up. My life is finally to the 'part' of the soundtrack on the song of "I think Im Gonna Like It Here".
Thus far, four tests have been completed in nursing school. I made over 97% on each of them. Unbelievably, I made 100% on two of the tests!! What a personal victory! And somehow, I've still had much play time.
Girls weekends with my best friends from college. Workouts galore. Meeting new friends. Finding a bamboo garden. Thrift store window shopping. Going to a black church this last Sunday! (Oh wow. It was extremely and wonderfully different! I can't wait to go back..even if I am the ONLY white person there! I looovvvveeedd it. 15 people were baptized!! Started at 11 am...Didn't get out till 2! But, I thought it was only the 'standard' hour. Time flies when you're having fun.)
I also have a new friend named Matt. He and I just instantly hit it off. I don't know about Matt, but I feel like we've been pals our whole life. My stomach has hurt since we met because we've been just dying laughing about everything. Crystal knew Matt from her high school days. She is gracious (or maybe just has to) to share her old friends with me now. Matt has introduced me to this wonderful relaxing fun world of local live bands. Holy cow. Great muscians here. The calender looks full with dates to check out these bands at local hole-in-the-walls. Racquetball, tennis and running are becoming a planned adventure of ours too. Im just so glad to have a 'Brad Harris' or "Brian Crigler aka Baller" type friend here. The gym saw the likes of us last night too. We worked out really hard...then drove around to all the historic places downtown and listened to his favorite local bands. We stayed up till 2 am laughing about I who knows what. I even scored a CD of a local legend, Johnny Rocket.
I think Im gonna like it here!
