helloooooooooo friends.

so i'm in marietta right now in my office [woo]. it's fun. i just went & checked out the basement place, and for real..it is SO NICE. & only 200 bucks. the other place is the apartment with two leaders [one of them is actually on my team] & 363 + plus utilities a month so i think that's a no-go. number one, i don't want what happened with alana happen. way to much drama. & number two, i don't make a lot of money. haha. so i found myself making my first "big girl" decision today. i laid out my budget stuff & there is no way i could do 363 + utilities RIGHT now. i barely have any money as it is & i need time to save. SO, i think that i am going to take the basement place. it's a little further out than everything else, so that takes me away from the community, but it's okay. i'll want my alone time anyways and not to always feel like i'm on the job. so i might not be homeless anymore! YAY!

i also got to hang out with the two area directors today more, and it's getting easier. i can feel myself relaxing and it becoming more natural to be hanging around them. i don't miss jeff & kathy as much this time, which is good. God is definitely working in that way. last sunday i went to Midtown Community Church [which, if you are ever in atlanta you should definitely go to their afternoon service because it's INCREDIBLE] & we were singing this song & it was saying "come fill me up & send me out" & we kept singing that part over & over & when i closed my eyes to sing it i just could see the halls of kennesaw mountain high school & marietta flashing in my mind & then at the end it just kept repeating "i'm ready now". & i definitely felt God in that instant just be like ok...you're ready. you're ready to go to marietta. you're ready to start your ministry over. you're ready. it was a really awesome feeling. sorry if you didn't get any of that..haha...but i really wanted to share with y'all. it was cool.

house sitting is still really boring especially now that katelyn is gone. &, yes you can make fun of me for this, last night i got maaaaaybe 3 hours of sleep because i was scared. haha. i slept with the lamp on in my room. it was just so creepy down in atlanta in this little house by myself. plus, they have a creepy basement. it was just creepy. i'm hoping i get more sleep tonight & get not so creeped out because i'm becoming exhausted. other than being creeped out, i spend my days watching soap net & doing arts & crafts [aka finishing y'alls gifts...which are almost done! YAY :)]. & taking the dog to piedmont park & occasionally stalking the streets of atlanta looking for ashton kutcher. i won't be able to be this lazy for much longer though so i'm soaking it up.

anyways, i should be able to see some of y'all soon which i am SO HAPPY ABOUT. my hearts needs to see y'alls beautiful faces. anyways...y'all are wonderful. love you all very much. i'm going to go work on my support letter stuff now...

much love, me.

my beautiful friends.

so far being away from milledgeville sucks majorly. as you can imagine, knowing me, i cried for a good while after leaving. it was a sweet goodbye. a bunch of us had breakfast at waho & then i went & saw everyone off at the bus for Windy Gap. it just hurts a lot. i wish i was with y'all. i wish i could drive down the street and see y'alls beautiful faces. & just be with y'all. in fact, it aches right now. i seriously miss each & every one of you terrible.

but i know that this is life. i know that people grow up & change will, inevitably, occur. but knowing this doesn't make things any easier. i'm just ready for this feeling to go away. to get use to calling and being more intentional than i was before.

anyways..i have been house/dog sitting for one of my region bosses tom. katelyn has been here helping and we have done a lot of nothing. i have been writing my support letter and i go to marietta next thursday to knock out some work in the office [woo]. & pick out my office [woo again]. also, when i am there, i am going to this one lady's basement apartment that i might be able to live in. she'd charge me rent, but only around 150-200 bucks so that's the best deal i'd get in marietta. i'll keep y'all updated on it. it's the same lady that has been saying she might rent it out to me. it has it's own entrance, so that's good. we'll see.

that's about all that's going on in my life. nothing big, pretty slow right now. i do have a fun story from last week. i was at lunch with josh mills, and was talking about how much i was going to miss y'all and milledgeville and living within minutes of my best friends...and he was like "i don't know everyone real well in your little group, but what i can see...y'all have something real special and a sweet dynamic. i like it." of course, i replied with an "i know." i mean...duh. that pretty much means everyone wants to be us :).

i hope i see each and everyone of you soon. my heart hurts to be near y'all. i'll get use to it...i know i will. i am always praying for y'all...continually loving. you're never alone ;).

"I thank my God every time I remember you."

Love y'all.