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Curse My Stomach!

Hello, I am writing a short blog just asking for prayer. Last year, the week of the wedding, my stomach decided to react to all my nerves and drive me crazy all week. WELL our first performance is tonight & my stomach is once again driving me crazy. I didn't use to react to my nerves like this, Ive been in many performances and never had a "nerves" problem before. Anyway I would just like some prayer that I can overcome this & not have a stomach-ache the entire weekend. I really want to enjoy these performances.

Thanks!

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So I officially have a devolpment plan with specific goals towards acheiving my promotion. Its amazing how much just having everything on paper has calmed me. Before I really wasn't sure on what it was going to take before I'd get the promotion. Now I know exactly and I've already begun crossing things off the list. Of course with Drive approaching my attention is going to be mostly on preparing for it, but some of the things I'm working on, like improving the data entry process throughout drive, can be a part of my development plan. Sometimes I am just truly amazed by how God works. Six months ago I was convinced that this department was not for me. I wanted something else I reached for several other positions, even outside of FLC, but God knew I was exactly where I needed to be. I became discouraged after not receiving those other positions, but gave that frustration to God. He began showing me all the positives about where I am, I have a great boss who is eager to see me succeed and helps me along the way, I truly enjoy my other co-workers, and the weirdest positive of all of them, I have developed an interest in data and database programming. I love building these systems that help reduce work and create more efficiant processes. I still have so much to learn, but I'm really enjoying most of it. I would never have guessed I'd be interested in anything data oriented.

Rehearsals for the production Marc & I are going to be in are going well. I'm looking forward to the scenes I have with just the character Eva. The breakdown of this play is about 2 Jewish teenagers, Ed Silverburg and Eva Schloss, who both knew Anne Frank at one point, and how they survived the Holocaust. I play Eva's mother, only Eva & her mom survived in their family. Her father and brother died in a concentration camp. There are intense scenes between Eva & my character that will be great to portray. Scenes where they're hiding together, when they get caught, and when they're in Auschwitz. The hardest part so far has been learning a German accent, I keep falling into various other accents. There is one other tough aspect of rehearsals, Marc plays my son in the production...WIERD!! All you friends that attend are probably gonna laugh. I have to play Marc's mom and act with someone else as my husband. Luckily a majority of my scenes are only with Eva, especially during the 2nd half of the play. Let's just say rehearsals have been interesting. For all of you in Tucson, the performances are at the Arizona Theater Company Oct 11-14th. If you want tickets they're $18 or $22 at the door, you can get them frmo Marc or I. It should be a very powerful play, the acting is intermixed with video of the actual Ed & Eva telling their stories.

Until next time, have a wonderful week

P.S. to Andrea in Mongolia, I hope you're having a great time and my prayers are with you.

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OK so I know its been 2 months since my last blog and unfortunately it seems everyone has stopped blogging. I miss reading everyone's updates. Maybe I can start a trend, I'll try to update more often and hopefully others will follow.

Work has actually been alot of fun lately. This is not saying that's its been easy, there has been alot of long tiring days, but the type of stuff I'm doing now has been very challenging and therefore rewarding. I had my first meeting with the president of our minstry, which was a little stressful, not that I haven't talked to him before. Since my dad's worked at FLC for 6 years now, I've known Dr. Carlson a while and had several conversations with him, but never in a work atmosphere. The meeting seemed to go well and the reports I prepared were helpful. Training Danielle has been going well. She seems to be picking up on things and learning rather quickly. I am beginning to transfer alot of the actual mailings to her workload which frees me up for completing the neccessary training I need for the Sr Data position. Over the past few months I believe God's been showing me that I'm exactly where he wants me, and moving up within this area should be my goal at this time. I really enjoy working with my boss and Danielle. We have a great chemistry between the three of us, creating a comfortable work atmosphere. There are always stressful times I think at any job and frustrations, but working for a ministry is really rewarding. There are definate sacrifices, but for me its worth it, knowing that I truly am working for the Lord.

This summer's been alot of fun hanging out with friends and just spending time with Marc. We started hanging out with C&C alot, having them over to play games and swim. Its been great getting to know Chris more, Marc & he seem to have alot of fun which is great for Candy & I to get more time together. Lately I've been cleaning house when we play Texas Hold' Em, unfortunately fake money doesn't go very far.

We went camping this past weekend with J&A, Andy, Marci, & Hannah. It was awesome seeing Hannah since she's been gone all summer. We had a good time hiking, playing games, and eating excellent food. Jake is the camping cook master and Marci makes a mean campfire. It will probably be the last time I share a tent with Amanda, since I'm sure her & Jake will share a tent after their married, but we had a good time together even though our air mattresses kept deflating.

Well that's all for now, next week Marc & I will start rehearsals for "And then they came for me: Remembering the world of Anne Frank". We found out yesterday that Sam Shephard an actor (he played the Noah's dad in The Notebook) and playwright will be attending one of our performances. If he likes the performance he plans on donating to Waypoint (its the Christian theater company here in Tucson that Marc & I have joined). Anyway, I'm really excited about this production, it should be pretty powerful.

Ta ta for now...

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So things at work are starting to calm down. We finally hired someone within my department and she's alot of fun. She doesn't have any real data experience, but she's pretty sharp with the computer and a quick learner. Most importantly she's very detailed oriented, which is important. We've been having alot of fun amidst all the learning and training. It has also opened up my opportunities for more training and future possible advancement. There is a Sr position open in my department that my boss seems very optimistic I could have someday. It will take awhile though, there's alot of training to accomplish before I would be at that level. It will be interesting to see what direction God takes me, I do know all the disappoint I felt earlier this year about my position and wanting to change it has disappeared. I know now that God was in control and I'm very pleased with how things turned out. I have an awesome boss that is very helpful and fun.

Well this was a short update, but just wanted to check in

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OK, so its been a really long time since I blogged and lots has happened since. Pretty much I've come to except that where I am now, in regards to work, is where God needs me for now. There is a lot going on with FLC right now and this position needs someone with alot of patience and can work well in a chaotic team setting. We are missing a very key position in our Development department, since the original person left we haven't been able to fill this position yet. Not to mention we still have 2 positions open in my department. As you can tell we're a little short staffed right now. Due to these gaps there is a lack of organization and communication. Some steps are finally being put in place to organize processes and check for any gaps, which there are many, in the processes. In addition to all this we have 5 new stations that just went on air this month, which is wonderful for the ministry, but has definitely added difficulty. As well as the new stations we have new mailings in place and changed some of our major mailings so they are now being outsourced. In short, there's alot going on and I really need another person in here to help not only finish all the projects, but to lesson the load so quality checks can be done on everything. Right now having these types of QC's in place is just not possible because of time restraints. This is why I think God wants me here for now. I usually can handle the stress well, with only minor breakdowns, which normally only Marc gets to witness (sorry honey ) As well as the stress I have to manage all the work and keep myself accountable for finishing it all efficiently and timely. I'm pretty sure God has future positions for me, but He knows the right time for them. I'm actually happy I didn't get to apply for that other position. I was upset at first and then I realized God was actually saving me from a bad situation.

Life in general has been going pretty good lately. I know I'm repeating myself here but I don't care, I LOVE BEING MARRIED! Its been a little more than 7 months and things have been wonderful. There is defiantely some adjustments to be made and a few struggles, but overall its been wonderful. We went to Las Vegas & Denver for vacation and had a great time together. It was so nice getting to spend so much time together. Between work & the production Marc was in we were really hurting for some personal time together which the vacation provided nicely for us. The only major burden of being married has more to do with my health than anything else. (P.S. If you don't want to hear about birth control skip the rest of this paragraph!) I have really been struggling with my birth control pills. The stuff I've been on has been causing weight gain and worst I've been struggling with random accurances of major naseau. I went to my doctor last week and he put me on a different type of pill, he said its more natural than the one I was on. Unfortunately I still managed to get sick yesterday. It may have just been the change, but who knows. I decided I'm going to stay away from alchohol (that's been a catalyst I think for the major naseau) for the next 3 months while I'm trying this new pill out. If I still get sick and have problems then Marc and I decided we're going to get educated on Natural Family Planning. Yesterday I decided since I was staying home from work I might as well find a way to stay productive so I did some online research on birth control options. I found that all methods have side effects that can effect your health except natural family planning classes. Its still 97% effective if done correctly. Even if the next 3 months go well I may still opt for that plan, but we'll see.

A few weeks ago I helped throw a bridal shower for miss Amanda, which was alot of fun. We made everyone attempt to kiss a poster of Cpt. Jack Sparrow blindfolded. It was hilarious, both Amanda and her Mom ran into the poster during their attempts, I felt a little bad for her Mom though. I got some great footage on tape though. We also went to David's Bridal and Amanda picked out her dress. It's beautiful, of course. As soon as the lady who was helping us put the veil on her head she starting tearing up which then caused her sister to tear up, which then caused her mother to tear up... & I got it all on tape. WooHoo! It was a precious moment indeed. We also picked out the bridesmaid dresses which are really pretty. The type of fabric causes the color to change when it moves, so the color changes from a peachy orange to a sunset-like pink. I'm sure there's exact names for those colors...but I don't know them. They're pretty colors and that's what matters, really unique. It was the only dress with that fabric and those colors.

We saw Pirates 3 last weekend, which was incredible! It was an excellent conclusion to the 2nd film. All the characters were hilarious and I really enjoyed the character development amongst them, even in such an action-packed film. I loved Barbossa's role in the whole film, he was great. I definately want to see that one again in the theaters.

So that's all I have for now, I'll try to keep my blog updated a little better. I've decided I need to be more regular with my prayers and want to pray daily for my friends. I know there's alot going on in everyone's life and we all need people praying for us. I hope everyone has a wonderful few weeks till I manage to blog again and I'm sure I'll see a few of you around...