(2) introduction to finality

Long time no see blog world. Apparently my "Blog More 2013!" campaign since last post was kind of a dud- but now I'm back!

and I've got some news.....

Ya girl got into the counseling program at RTS!

How exciting right?!

It was a very anxiety driven experience waiting to see if I got in.

You see it is so attached with something I feel called to that it was literally hard for me to give it to the Lord. It definitely was a time of God prying my fingers open one by one as I learned to have an open hand to whether this counseling program (and ultimately being a counselor) was His will for me. 

Waiting sucks.

The waiting is what caused me to tweet things like "Trust in the Lord... ain't nobody got time for that! (I kidd... but that is sometimes how I feel!)"

 as well as find comfort in the Alabama Shakes song:

So, bless my heart and bless yours too.I don''t know where I'm gonna go don't what what I'mgonna do.Must be somebody up above sayin' "Come on Brittany, Yougot to come on up!""You got to hold on..."YEAH! YOU GOT TO WAIT!YEAH! YOU GOT TO WAIT!BUT, I DON'T WANNA WAIT!I DON'T WANNA WAIT...
That song was cathartic.  As well as Psam 39 which I had to write a paper on for a class during the waiting time:
¹² “Hear my prayer, Lord,
    listen to my cry for help;
    do not be deaf to my weeping.
I dwell with you as a foreigner,[IN OVIEDO]
    a stranger, as all my ancestors were.
¹³ Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again
    before I depart and am no more.”*letters in red added by blogger ;)
It was kind of a dramatic time for me. Waiting. (and i don't wanna wait!!)Not to mention 3 of my good friends down here were applying as well and we were sure as heck that we all three wouldn't get it, which kind of made us sad b/c we knew it may change our group dynamic. 
I got a letter a month after the interview saying that they would get back to me after they evaluated the 2nd review weekend. We all 4 got those letters.I mean it wasn't a NO (which I was thankful for)but it still meant more of that 4 letter wordWAIT.2-3 weeks ofWAITING (is what the first letter said i should expect until they made a decision)and then unbeknownst to me a week later I randomly check my email to find this in the inbox 

I ran to Tezar, told him the news and fell on the floor very dramatic-like to take it all in (Tez rolled his eyes at all the drama but it's quirkiness like that that keeps him in love with me... so i like to tell myself)

So come July- I start the Master's of Counseling  Program and I couldn't be any more excited. 

It's an awesome program and while I have heard it's hard work ( a 3 year program shoved into two, super intensive and hands on) I CAN NOT WAIT!

I'm 27 years...old?...young? 

But I've been around the block enough to know that I want to do something in my life that helps people. Counseling has helped me in my journey in more ways that I can adequately explain and to have a chance to learn to counsel people and it be what I DO as a career or whatever is like finally finding something I am made for. At the risk of sounding cheesy it feels like a calling... like destiny and I am thrilled. 

So there that is. 

A little update.

Who would have thought all of this would happen a year ago?!  I sure as heck didn't!

 But I'm thankful...

So thankful

P.S All three of my friends got in too. It made happy news even happier!

2013 (1)

 SO I have every intention of being a regular blogger in 2013... we'll see ;)

Christmas came and went here in good 'ole Florida and a lot of changes were in the works!

First, Tez and I had our three year anniversary. I meant to post something sweet and romantic but... I didn't. We celebrated in high fashion. First a lunch at the Cheesecake factory and then, well, I'll leave you with this savory picture of what we wore later on that day- at a Christmas party- to compensate.

Some say you can't put words to beauty and I believe the picture above is a testament to that saying...
(Yes, we made those ourselves)

Also, I am no longer a pre-k teacher.

Change of plans.....

I'm going to go back to school and apply for my Master's of Counseling... it's a highly selective program and I'm putting myself out there by telling the world I am applying (big chance I won't get selected but I have made it to the 2nd part of the process- the Weekend Interview)

Until I figure out if I get in I can still take classes towards the program (and they're free seeing as I am the wife of Tez and wive's get to take classes fo free!) (and if I don't get in, well I will more than likely still take Master's classes- try again next year?) but for that to be done I have now started a new job as a .... 

WAITRESS!!!

Were you to tell me I'd be waitressing when we moved to Orlando I might have laughed (or cried)
You see, I have something called a DEGREE...
it was pretty expensive and I plan to put it to use...
but that was then and this is now.

TO be honest, this is the only job that will work with my class schedule
and to be honest....
I LOVE IT...

really!

I am a social person and while you do have to eat crow sometimes (people, please be kind to your waitresses!) I really have found myself surprised by the generosity of people I serve, and the familialness of everyone I work with.

(and no tantrum throwing three year olds...my previous job seriously pushed the baby making back a year or two past thirty)

So there you have it. That's what's going on these days in our little corner of Florida.

One day I'll be a real grown up... but probably not in 2013.....