Lots.
The Dance Marathon I have been planning for months was today! It was a blast. All of the hard work payed off. It was a fundraiser for the Arc of Kent county and Dance in Motion Studios (both programs that provide opportunities and advocacy for people with disabilities). I expected a better turn out from Aquinas students, but it was the first year of the event, and it's superbowl weekend, and a directed study class meeting weekend... so hopefully the turn out will improve in the years to come. I danced all day with some awesome people with disabilities though. I love spending time with them! They really touch my heart, and they are so much fun! They have such a positive outlook on life and they know how to dance like no one is watching. It was wonderful! Thanks God for giving me this opportunity!
Before the Dance On, I spent the morning in the ER again. Not so happy about this, but it's been worse, and there are things out there that are worse then the worst I've had to deal with, so I'll take the inconvenience and discomfort and be thankful it's all I have to worry about. I bought a new chapstick last night, and work up this morning with swollen lips, so we are 99.9% positive it's something in certain chapsticks. I will probably bring this new chapstick and the one we were suspicious about before to the allergist to get tested to see exactly what it is that is in them that is causing me to have these reactions. Then I will hopefully be able to avoid chapsticks with whatever that ingredient is. I'm on steroids for a week, and benadryl, and pepcid. I'm not pumped about being on these meds, but the steroids made the swelling go down pretty quickly. More good news is that we are 99.9% sure it's just a local reaction, and not a reaction to food. It would be more serious if it was a reaction to food. I might still need an epipen, but maybe not. The allergist will know more about that once they figure out what it is I'm allergic to and how severe the reaction could get.
Last week I sent in my application to be a summer staff member of a traveling missions camp for teens. I will find out if I got in by February 16th. I really hope I do. It will be an amazing experience and I want to use it to share God's love! If I get in I will be gone for 4 weeks during the second half of the summer. I'll be in a different state, with a different group each week. I really feel it in my heart that Christ is calling me to do this. I smile every time I think about how awesome it would be to be a team member! So please send up some prayers that I will get the job!
The guy I have been seeing for a little over a month now and I have started talking about not seeing each other romantically any more and just being friends. We both knew from the start that this probably wouldn't work out since I'm leaving in May, and will be starting big girl life soon, and he is two years behind me, so we said we wouldn't get too serious about this and we'd just have fun spending time with each other. And we have had fun, I love spending time with him. But we accidentally fell for each other more than we planned. So he is thinking that maybe we should quit while we are ahead of the game to save us from the heartbreak that could happen later. Since I knew I'd be leaving from the start, I thought I would be fine with that whenever the day came, but I'm actually pretty sad. I'm not sure I want this to end. So now we have to decide if we just want to keep seeing each other like we have been to see where this leads, even if it lasts until after I leave school and it will be a distance thing (I don't think he's too big on the idea of doing the long-distance thing , and I don't blame him, so this is probably the least likely scenario), or keep seeing each other until May, or whenever we decide to stop before I graduate, or starting now- just be friends. We both agree that keeping the friendship is more important than dating, but I love snuggling him! Haha. Plus, he makes me smile! We just don't want to end up hurt and we don't want things to get messy and complicated. We want to be able to look back on this as a good time we both had. Sigh. We are supposed to hang out tomorrow and I'm sure we'll talk more about this and maybe make a decision.
That's my life update for now...
I love you!
Before the Dance On, I spent the morning in the ER again. Not so happy about this, but it's been worse, and there are things out there that are worse then the worst I've had to deal with, so I'll take the inconvenience and discomfort and be thankful it's all I have to worry about. I bought a new chapstick last night, and work up this morning with swollen lips, so we are 99.9% positive it's something in certain chapsticks. I will probably bring this new chapstick and the one we were suspicious about before to the allergist to get tested to see exactly what it is that is in them that is causing me to have these reactions. Then I will hopefully be able to avoid chapsticks with whatever that ingredient is. I'm on steroids for a week, and benadryl, and pepcid. I'm not pumped about being on these meds, but the steroids made the swelling go down pretty quickly. More good news is that we are 99.9% sure it's just a local reaction, and not a reaction to food. It would be more serious if it was a reaction to food. I might still need an epipen, but maybe not. The allergist will know more about that once they figure out what it is I'm allergic to and how severe the reaction could get.
Last week I sent in my application to be a summer staff member of a traveling missions camp for teens. I will find out if I got in by February 16th. I really hope I do. It will be an amazing experience and I want to use it to share God's love! If I get in I will be gone for 4 weeks during the second half of the summer. I'll be in a different state, with a different group each week. I really feel it in my heart that Christ is calling me to do this. I smile every time I think about how awesome it would be to be a team member! So please send up some prayers that I will get the job!
The guy I have been seeing for a little over a month now and I have started talking about not seeing each other romantically any more and just being friends. We both knew from the start that this probably wouldn't work out since I'm leaving in May, and will be starting big girl life soon, and he is two years behind me, so we said we wouldn't get too serious about this and we'd just have fun spending time with each other. And we have had fun, I love spending time with him. But we accidentally fell for each other more than we planned. So he is thinking that maybe we should quit while we are ahead of the game to save us from the heartbreak that could happen later. Since I knew I'd be leaving from the start, I thought I would be fine with that whenever the day came, but I'm actually pretty sad. I'm not sure I want this to end. So now we have to decide if we just want to keep seeing each other like we have been to see where this leads, even if it lasts until after I leave school and it will be a distance thing (I don't think he's too big on the idea of doing the long-distance thing , and I don't blame him, so this is probably the least likely scenario), or keep seeing each other until May, or whenever we decide to stop before I graduate, or starting now- just be friends. We both agree that keeping the friendship is more important than dating, but I love snuggling him! Haha. Plus, he makes me smile! We just don't want to end up hurt and we don't want things to get messy and complicated. We want to be able to look back on this as a good time we both had. Sigh. We are supposed to hang out tomorrow and I'm sure we'll talk more about this and maybe make a decision.
That's my life update for now...
I love you!