All Caught Up

It's finally here! The moment where my days are back on track! Hallelujah! I never thought I would get here! Sure I am putting off writing a midterm, preparing an assignment for clinicals tomorrow, and preparing my presentation for tomorrow... just so I can be caught back up.... but hey! it's worth it to me to not have it looming over my head. I'm all caught up and boy does it feel good!

Today--oi vey! I had that test I wrote about in my last post.... oof. I had two other classes. And you can see the list of things I have yet to do is staggering high... but overall, today was alright! I am just about ready to crash on my pillow though so my typing fingers better get moving or else I will never get finished with all the rest of my assignments before my 2 hour "night's sleep" before rushing of to work in the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) at UCLA tomorrow! Phew! Type away little fingers!

Today I was just blessed by one of my dearest friends- Elizabeth. It just goes to show how sometimes the smallest things can make all the difference in the world to people--- something that encourages me as I continue to think of things I can do to show my love for others. Miss Elizabeth changed her profile picture to a picture of us both-- wooh. Big whoop! So extremeeeeee--- but really thought. It meant so much to me! I was going through a little internal turmoil struggle with someone else I am close to--- basically I feel like I give 200% in the relationship and feel like I get about 10% back. (We all have people like that--don't we!?) The person means a lot to me so finding the patience and choosing to love them despite their current absentmindedness and shortcomings has been both challenging and very important for me. So in the middle of this inner dialog that was ruminating in my head seeing that another one of my lovely friends changed her picture to one of the both of us was just so uplifting. It helped pull me out of my crazy babblings and out of focusing on everything that was not working out and let me remember that there are people in my life that absolutely give me all they can in our relationships. And this girl-- man she's a fantastic blessing! I was able to see her this past weekend and spend the night at her house. Through our conversations she told me about all the specific things she has been praying over me and over my life. Man how can that not lift you up!? All those times where I might have felt alone or unwanted, I had a friend that was thinking of me and talking to the Lord on my behalf. Shoot. If that isn't humbling, I don't know what it. I love this girl so much. She is an amazing sister and a beautiful person. So for my intentional act of loving-- I sent her a little something in the mail. I had already bought her the item a couple days ago, but hadn't sent it yet. I was waiting for a time when I could make it to the post-office. But let's face it-- in nursing school timing that might have been like 2 weeks from now. Instead, I asked the girl in the library next to me if she would please watch over my things (which she did! Thank you!). I sped walked across campus and to my car... pulled out the little gift and sped walked-it over to the on-campus Post Office that I forgot we even had. Then I sent that sucker on off for my beautiful friend to receive sometime soon. Thank you for all that you do-- loud and small-- Miss Elizabeth!