A Quick Update on My Life

August is finally here. Things are brown and crunchy and hot, as is only fitting for the month of August. It brings back memories of cross country and band camp. Those were the good ol' days! Back before I had to do my own grocery shopping and cook for myself. =P I miss the simplicity of that time of life. Things were pretty simple: go to school, get good grades, hang out with your friends, and avoid the drama. Oh, and make getting into college a priority. I was pretty good at handling all of the above. Now I have a whole new set of priorities. Stay on top of the laundry, find the best grocery deals and stay in our budget, make sure Etienne eats three meals a day (this one is harder than you'd think... He forgets about lunch a lot), find a job, and get ready to jump into college again.

Surprisingly, I feel like I'm doing pretty well with all of my new responsibilities, too. I confess, sometimes we run out of cereal or bread/eggs (shame on me) so I have to get kind of creative with breakfast, but I am getting better about that. I plan a week's worth of meals at a time so I only have to go grocery shopping once a week, and I'm doing well with being resourceful with what's already in the kitchen. I have my schedule of classes worked out for this first semester (biology, american history 1492-civil war, developmental psychology, and american government), and it's paid for. Best of all, I have an interview at Hillcrest hospital next Wednesday for an endoscopy technician position. 

Many of you may be wondering what an endoscopy tech is. To answer that question, here is the description from the website. "To process and disinfect endoscopes and accessories to the high infection control standards of the endoscopy unit. To assist the registered nurse in caring for patients in the endoscopy setting. To assist the physician during endoscopic procedures. Responsible for cleaning and routine maintance of equipment used in endoscopy. Takes assigned call including weekend shifts on as needed basis (30 minutes response time)."

I think it sounds fascinating! It's a Monday-Friday position as well. I hope they are willing to work with my school schedule. I'm very nervous they won't. I scheduled all of my classes to be on Monday so I could work the rest of the week, but I won't work on Sundays either. We'll see. Please pray they are somewhat flexible! 

Now for something a little more interesting. Today, I will finish painting the study!! Granted, I've been saying that for the past week.... But I really am determined to get it done. It's looking really good! I'm quite proud of it. I will post pictures when it is completely done (hopefully I will have found my camera by then... It has been MIA for about a week now). Etienne is going to build desks for us and other such things. It will be a room quite conducive to a couple of college kids trying to ace all of their classes. I'm so glad it'll be ready in time for school to start! 

Also, we have decided to scrape our ceilings. Oh boy. We have popcorn ceilings in the downstairs, and I don't really like it. So we've decided to scrape it all off. Etienne (with the help of Cameron and my father-in-law Rylan) scraped the study Thursday. It was a surprise, I didn't know they were going to do it. They did it while I wasn't home, and what a beautiful surprise it was! It looks SO good! I'm glad we've decided to do it. Unfortunately, it's a lot of work. But it will be worth it! 

I need to go wash the walls in the study again (the scraping is a lil bit messy) so I can do the last bit of painting in there and be DONE with it. But first, Etienne and I are off to the bank to secure our emergency fund. 

Oh yes. One last thing. Lord willing, Etienne and I will be visiting Ohio next weekend! HOORAYYYY!!!!!

Love to all!