September 24, 2006 So Grant and I went to see Gridiron Gang after Cody's birthday party on Saturday. In line we were standing there behind this couple and he drops a $20, they were kinda "cuddling" so I didn't want to interrupt them so I waited for an opening. I told him that he dropped his $20 and he was impressed b/c he said something like "thanks, I mean you could have just taken it and I wouldn't have known." Grant said around that same time "well I was gonna wait until they stopped cannoodleing to tell them". They both laughed at that and Grant proceeded to tell them it was mostly the word canoodleing that he wanted to say. Now the guy asks us what movie we were going to see and we told them. They were going to see Hollywood Land. He asked his girlfriend if she wanted to see Gridiron Gang so that they could sit with us. She really wanted to see Hollywood Land so we parted ways but both Grant and I were really impressed by them. He had really good manners and seemed to genuinely want to sit with us. Now I haven't really experienced that with complete strangers before so I was pretty impressed. Now Gridiron Gang, what a GREAT movie!! I mean I love the Rock, except for "Doom" I've seen all his movies. But this is definitely a human triumph movie and that is soo up my alley. Grant also told me that night that I was definitely in the right field of work b/c I wanted to reach out and help kids the way the guys did. (Gridiron is based on a true story and they show clips of the real football team at the end!) Those types of movies inspire me and make me realize that nobody is helpless. You can reach anybody. Everybody is redeemable. I want to help, I want to make a difference in people's lives. I signed up to go to Africa this summer with Harbour. (it's not a 100% thing but I really want to go) But there is an opportunity right there. The thing is, there are sooo many opportunities RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!! How often do I, do we, ignore them, think of ourselves, don't care. I wish we could all start caring and helping one another. September 20, 2006 So today at work there were only three of us. But it was three people that I love dearly and always request to work with. Erin, Jennifer and Jessica. Now we should have had another person b/c it's fairly busy on Wednesday's. Oh my gosh was it ever busy!! We worked our asses off!!! I'm soo grateful for those girls you have no idea!! I told them that next week sometime I'm gonna take them out as a thank you for being such awesome workers. Anyways the funny part was around 9:00 I just got off my break (at 9:00, that's how busy it was) and I was like girls, It's time for "Operation Work Hard". So we worked hard for the next two hours and got like EVERYTHING done!! It was amazing. We were definitely working at high gear all shift long. Craziness!!! But it was all good. September 17, 2006 So I'm back in school, and guess what? I LOVE IT!!! Quelle suprise! (think of Jim Carrey saying it from "A Series of Unfortunate Events" lol) But this semester at school doesn't look to bad, even if my co-op is in Welland *sigh*. I'm at a place called St. Lawerence house. It's from Brain Injury Community Renentry or BICR for short. I'm looking forward to it mostly. I've worked in group homes before with people with brain injuries so I hope that the clients aren't as difficult as my last place. (wow I tried really hard to word that properly...) Umm, yeah, I liked my group home work but there were a few clients that I used to have anxiety issues over b/c I couldn't handle working with them. But anyways I'm sure it'll be fine. lol So this week was interesting... And when I say interesting I mean crappy. It was just not a really good week. A lot of things happened, I kinda got upset. It all kinda came to a head this weekend. I guess the bottom line was I felt overworked and underappreciated. And not just in one area of my life, in all areas. Which I knew wasn't fair b/c I do know people appreciate me, it's just that sometimes if I haven't heard it for a while, or if I'm not looking properly I don't feel it nor see it. And especially if I'm not as close to God I really feel it then. So combine all three of those this week and there ya go! So I felt pretty crummy and I just kinda felt useless and awakard, and like I was this big giant klutz who just kept making things worse by being around. So on Saturday, even though I was surrounded by my friends I kinda isolated myself. I lost track of time though and apparantly people were starting to worry about me which wasn't my intention but I'm still sorry nonetheless. So Grant got Shane to call my phone and I answered and told him that I was in the basement and Grant came down and we talked and I cried and I felt better afterwards lol. Then Grant embarassed me upstairs. (not in the bad way, but the good way) I still wasn't feeling 100% on Sunday, infact I still felt kinda crummy on Sunday but God in his grace and love continued to send me smiles at work and afterwards. Here are some of them. Grant came to visit me at work twice!! Erin and I both had crummy weeks but we talked to eachother and that was good. I got all the work done early tonight at work. And I got an awesome e-mail from Peter and it made me smile. God was encouraging me today and I totally give him credit for it. He is the one that I need to go to for encouragement b/c He's the one that I truly need. So to say the least I'm feeling so much better. I know this week will be good b/c I'm gonna put God first this week and it will be better. *HUGE GRIN*