PTA

One other thing today... I got my PTA license today. Well I got a letter saying my application has been initially approved and I have a license number and can go to work. Which I will do tomorrow. TOMORROW!!! I have been trying to let that sink in all day. Tomorrow I will go to work as a PTA. I will be paid double the amount for my time that I was paid at my last job (and it wasn't a bad job.) I will be working some in Jamestown, some in Monterey, some in Crossville and I will keep applying everywhere until eventually someone offers me a full time position with good pay. But for now, I get to bounce around and see what I like. Truly amazing.

Writing Prompts

I came across a thing on Pintrest... "25 Writing Prompts for the Bored Writer" and I thought... why  not?

1. What is your earliest memory. Well that is a toughy for several reasons. First of all, it's hard to distinguish which things I remember and what I have heard so many times that it feels like I remember. Second, I am not great with time in general so remembering which one actually came first is tough. I think though my first memory is eating grapes on a vine in the back yard on Scott Street. I don't remember who I was with and now that I've said it, it feels rather unlikely that it happened. Why would there be a grapevine in a neighborhood? Nonetheless, that's my memory.

In the Flow

Recently I messed up my hair. Also my chin keeps breaking out. I gained back the 5 pounds I lost. I still don't have a job. My husband is on 3rd shift and I don't see him enough. Also he is still drinking. And yet... everything is just so lovely.

 Do you ever just feel like you're "in the flow"? I looked that up. It's how I feel right now. And I remember thinking of it specifically that way since I was in high school. I wondered if it was a real thing so I Googled it. It is! According to Wikepedia... Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. I agree with that to some extent. But for me it also includes God.

It can be as simple as hanging out with my kids and thanking God for them. Riding my bike and marveling at nature. Getting in bed and feeling happy when my husband touches my foot with his. Laughing with my parents. Praise at my clinical that I will stand out as a therapist. Loving the people I run into during a day. Reading something spiritual that gives me an "aha" moment. Just an overall feeling that everything is good and working out just how it's supposed to. Thank you God.

And then the Brady's sing Sunshine Day.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaCCG7QkM_c

On track

Every now and then I have a moment of bliss where everything seems to be headed in the right direction. I am in one now. Chip has an interview for a job he really wants that could set him on a cool path. I feel like this semester's Neuro class is going to come easier for me than last semester's Kines. The kids seem happy. Parents are considering retiring in my town. I'm just going to savor it for a bit.