7.29.2009

This is what I know



We All Need Saving Sometimes
Jon McLaughlin


.Say what you will.
.but the time that we fill.

.While we're on the earth.
.Should not be alone.
.We were meant to be known.

I have lovely friends. Thank the Lord for the blessing that they are to me. We were not meant to be alone... we were meant to be known.
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I am at my internship right now. On lunch break.

Another thing I know. - You eat 30-40% less if you eat alone rather than eating with others -
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I really like lunch time here because I can just come into my office and be alone for a bit to think and process and breath. Oh, and eat. We had Olive Garden today! WOO HOO! They have lunch here almost every day. People just bring it. It's like magic. Free magic. :)
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I need to start adding pictures to my blogs. Yes, yes I do.
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That is all I know today.
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OH! That's a lie. I also know that Pandora is awesome. If you want to go old school with it it's "The Bomb" and if I were to go a little further I'd say it was the "Bomb diggity."
K, That's it.

7.28.2009

This is melting.

Jason Morant - Delight lyrics
Artist: Jason Morant
Album: Abandon
Year: 2004
Title: Delight

Surrounded by Your shadow every need I have is met

When I'm waiting in Your presence every fear
Is put to rest

You belong to me and I belong to You

Nothing will ever come my way
That You won't see me through

I delight in the beauty of Your holiness
Because I won't find a love like Yours
In all the earth

In the quiet of Your chambers the love
I feel is made complete

In the mercy You have granted
I will rest for all eternity

You belong to me and I belong to You

Nothing will ever come my way
That You won't see me through

I delight in the beauty of Your holiness

Because I won't find a love like Yours
In all the earth

(Because I won't find a face like Yours
In all the earth)


I started my internship! It is amazing. More on that later.

This weekend was really nice. I went to a wedding in Wisconsin with Adam (my wonderful boyfriend) and then had lunch in Chicago on the way home. It was a really nice wedding and I really enjoyed spending time with Adams parents. PLUS I got to wear my new dress and shoes. :)

I am overwhelmed lately with changes. Getting older and getting a job. Thinking about my future and all of the adventures that I wish to have and remembering all of the sweet things I have done. Making new friends and missing old friends... and remembering friends that are no longer with me. Life is such a beautiful mess of experiences and moments. How I have chosen to act in those moments and how I have chosen to react to those experiences has shaped my character and hardened and melted my heart time and time again.

Right now I am pretty melty. :)

God is good. ALL THE TIME. ALL the time. all the time.

Wishing you many melting moments,
Korey


7.10.2009

Casual Fridays

Here is a story for you...

So. I graduated. I secured a job. And this is what happened.

Two weeks ago I lost all of my paperwork for the job that I was starting in a week. I looked everywhere for it and did not find any trace of it.

Orientation Week...
Day One: I could not sleep. Thought process went something like this... I'm going to be late. They aren't going to give me new paperwork. I probably won't even make it there... I'm terrible with directions. I'll probably end up on the other side of the state and my car will break down or run out of gas and I'll never amount to anything and end up on the streets scraping gum off of park benches for the rest of my life smelling like BO and muttering on and on under my breath about that one fateful day when I missed the first day of orientation...

It got progressively worse and more and more ridiculous as the night went on. I drifted in and out of sleep/nightmares of naked orientations...

Needless to say I was up about 2 hours before I needed to be. I used the excess time to attempt cover up the three lovely red bumps that had formed on my chin over night. The makeup just made it look worse. Thrilling start to the day.

I left the apartment and made my way easily to work listening to Jason and trying to convince myself that everything was going to be just fine.

When I arrived I went straight to the front desk and asked what time orientation began. "Oh, an hour from now? Okay, I'll just go wait in my car." So, I did.

I made my way back into the building and was directed to HR where I filled out tons of paperwork, neglected to ask for a new orientation schedule, and had a pretty shiny forehead ID picture taken. Twice.

The rest of the day was spent sitting in a chair listening to different lectures. Basically, don't be late, don't let anyone die, and realize that if you are part time you have no benefits. They people were really nice though and things began to look up.

Day Two: New room. Learned about bed sores. Sick. Spilled plate all over the place at lunch and gave my cell phone and wallet a lasagna/cottage cheese bath. Mmmm...

Day Three:

9:00 Meeting with the Women's Shelter I hope to volunteer at. So cool.

3:40 Finger printing appointment. Got lost on the way. Cried. Showed up late. Fingerprinted. Lost Cell phone.

Day Four: Slept in. Boyfriend returns cell. 7 new messages. "Why weren't you at orientation yesterday... and today?" Crap Crap CRAP CRAP! This is the moment I realized that I was supposed to attend the Wednesday and Thursday orientations even though I wasn't a nurse. WHY DIDN'T I ASK FOR A NEW SCHEDULE!!!!!!!!!

STUPID STUPID STUPID!

Day Five: Pretty excited that it's casual Friday because I got to wear jeans to work and I worked at a place that had casual Fridays. I felt like an adult. CPR Training. Entered the room and answered co-workers concerned questions about my absence. Signed in and had a TB test. "Oops... you'll probably have a bruise", said the nice nurse. "That's okay."

CPR Training begins. I feel someone walk up behind me... "Are you Korey?"

"Yes"

"HR needs to speak with you"

"Okay" Crap Crap Crap Crap

So I took the walk of doom in my casual Friday jeans.

Fired.

I cried like a baby in front of the HR rep and she said she would see what she could do. Turns out I'll just re-do orientation in a month.

I suck at being an adult... but, ya know, as my mother, my boyfriend, any my best friend Elyse said, "These things happen."

I will do better next time. It was a learning experience and now I have a month to memorize the companies policies and orientation booklet.

I am gonna be so orientated next month that they won't even know what to do with me.

Goodness Gracious.

Korey Anna