August 2, 2005

• From the shadows of the past...yes, I am still alive. Very much so. My dailey intake of chocolate milk has kept me going, as well as my dailey intake of cottage cheese.

  
  

  Kitchen is my abiding place this week, last week...and for the rest of the weeks I'm here. I love it. Wouldn't trade it for anything. The only time that I maybe don't enjoy being in the kitchen is at 10:30 at night when I realize that I have to be up at 6:00 in the morning. At 6:00 in the morning, however, I love it. To those of you who know me and my sleeping habits, you will be shocked and pleased to hear that I have become a creature of the morning hours. That has it's difficulties, as most of the other girls in my cabin don't share that same love.  

  
  

  Back to the kitchen news tho (you can tell where my mind has been!). Strange things, fun things...challenging things! The past few weeks, my kitchen bosses have been putting ME, yes me, in charge! They just say "you're in charge," give me a few instructions...and leave me as reigning tyrant of the kitchen, with my loyal subjucts to do my bidding. Ok...on a serious note on that topic, it's been a really good experience for me. Definitely has stretched me quite a good bit, but like I put it, a "good" bit.

  
  

  It's great having Ryn here! Unfortunately, she is not in my cabin, and since my duties and her training does not cross paths except when she's going through the food line and I'm manning the food line, we kinda do the little "wave" thing every breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But, tomorrow, yes tomorrow!!! My prayers are answered, because Mom flyes in!! To say I am extatic would be an understatement. Yipee!!

  
  

  Well, this post is getting really long...and if you are all anything like me, you don't like reading long xangas. So I'll close with this. God has been stretching me, growing me, opening my eyes...teaching me SO much! He has showered me with grace when it gets hard, given me so many opportunities to take what He's taught me, and use it to help/bless another person around me. Growing can be tough, but wow...it's worth it as I see God taking me up and just holding me in His hands, and guiding me. God is good.

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