For more than one reason, I am incredibly thankful for this thing we call the ‘net. Seriously.
When I was in grade 9 (or was it 10, Katie?) I got my first email address and my first taste of the powers of the internet. I had a large group of friends that year, and with a large group of friends come many challenges. It feels weird to even be bringing this up because it has been a good 12 or 13 years since then, but a few people (in my friendship circle) started sending emails to the entire group. Hate emails. Super duper creepy emails. The sender(s) called himself/herself/themselves No Name Brand. I don’t even know if it is bad for me to be bringing this up because I have no clue who sent them, but it’s likely that the person who did might be reading this because I still have (somewhat distant) relationships with a lot of people from high school thanks to facebook. Whoever it was though sure gave me a bit of a scare, although it’s nice to think back on that and realize it was harmless.
Anyways, so obviously that is an example of how crappy the internet can be sometimes. Right, not to mention the child pornography and crazy stalking and the sad reality of wasted time…
But for me, right now, and especially yesterday, the internet is a GOD-SEND. Within an hour of hitting ‘publish’ on that super-hard-for-me-to-write post, I had a job offer. And by the end of the day, it turned out that I had found enough work to not only supplement my income but also maybe provide enough for me to not stress over the Christmas break. God is good, people! AND one of the things I didn’t write but really had on my heart was that I really wanted to protect my nights…it would be easy enough to get a job at Starbucks but I know that if I was working till closing and getting only 5 or 6 hours of sleep, my first and foremost job of teaching preschool would suffer. So thankfully that isn’t going to happen!
To those who emailed/texted/bbm’d me about my work situation, THANK YOU. Thank you times a million, actually. I’m so excited to start this new (busy) chapter!
In the meantime, I was asked to co-direct the kids Christmas choir/production at my church. We started rehearsals Wednesdays. I have a post about that (and other such things) coming up soon 🙂
There is one more internet-related thing I want to share with you this morning…
When I was writing in my last post about having too much pride to get a new job, I realized that there is another area of my life I have been holding back telling you about because…well, because of that pride thing again.
Recently I joined the awe-inspiring world of eHarmony. Now THAT is something I never thought I would share! Perhaps this will need to be a post that stands alone, but for now I can tell you that I was a hater, my friends. Admittedly I judged eHarmony and I didn’t see myself ever using it, but here I am. And I need to get used to saying that to people because it’s starting to feel normal to me. More on that later, I’m thinking…
Thankfully most of you won’t find that weird, but it will be weird explaining it to my gramma…although she is pretty hip. She can send emails and google things like nobody’s business!
So here we are, friends…FRIDAY. At last! Here’s hoping you have fun-filled adventures ahead of you!
~C
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