this is what happens when i drink coffee after 9pm at night. It's 1am, and I suddenly had the urge to update and revamp my blog.... some 8 months after my last post.

It is finally summer and the 30 degree weather is making me very happy.

This past winter was a long and hard one. I pretty much resolved to move to a hotter place when we got a snowfall in JUNE!

My heart has been in a place of discontent for a while, and I think it started creeping in when the winter was just not letting up...

But slowly I am learning that wanting to always be somewhere else is no way to live your life.

It's fine to have goals and dreams but to not be present in the present is a bad habit I sometimes fall into.

so once again, God is calling me up the mountain... He's really been challenging me on this.

I have been learning what it is to feed on the Word, the living and active word of God, and to find fullness in the Almighty. Believing. Choosing to drink Living Water and to eat the Bread of Life daily.

It's crazy how many things I turn to for filling... but it leaves me feeling void... satisfying in the moment, yes, but to what avail? I realize just how empty I am without Him.

It's been a struggle, i'm not going to lie. I'm pretty feeble, but He is faithful and doesn't give up on me.

so that's what's been happening in my relationship with God.

On the front of daily happenings:

I applied for registration as a nurse in Ireland. I dont know what will happen in this area, as there are currently few jobs available in Ireland because of the recession.

However, I am still pursuing it and I am patiently waiting to hear what the next step will be. It is in God's hands. I will probably go live and work there for a year or 2 if it all works out, no earlier than spring 2010.

I've had a couple of new jobs since the last time I wrote in here.

In the Winter semester I did a stint of clinical instructing with a college. I instructed first year nursing students in their clinical placement in the hospital. I really enjoyed it and realized that I would like to incorporate teaching into my future in nursing.

I then got a job in an Intensive Care Unit combined with a Coronary Care Unit. It has been quite a challenging 3 months, and I am starting to get the hang of things slowly. I love the cardiac nursing aspect of my job. I find it very fascinating. I am still not sure how I feel about caring for people who are unconscious and unable to communicate, staring at monitors and values all day... i like talking to patients.. I am going to reevaluate how I feel after the 6 month mark.

I feel grateful for this opportunity to learn.

Cello is going well. I am now 8 months into my lessons. I must admit that I wish I had more time to practice, but i have to settle with what i have. I'm still renting one, it's going to have to do for now...maybe sometime soon I will be able to afford to buy my own...that would be amazing. I find that when I am focused on worshiping God, the time I spend playing is so much sweeter. there's just nothing like that sound of the deep C string vibrating under the bow.

I picked up my guitar again this month too, for the first time in almost a year. it was good.

what else?

I got into two accidents since my last post.

First one, I was rear-ended and my little blue car (diego) was a write-off. It all worked out, and 3 months of physio for whiplash and a sweet settlement later I now have a new car and a good portion of my student loan paid off.

Second one,

I crashed a scooter. Yes. that's right, a scooter. I was wearing shorts and a tanktop and now (4 weeks later) have some ugly road rash scars covering my shin/knee and elbows

At least it wasn't my face, and I had a wonderful weekend when it happened. I will never forget the beautiful views I saw of Kelown, a driving that little rented Yamaha Vino.

Concerts... I saw Celtic Thunder twice ! (lol yes i know i'm a nerd, but I love it) and COLDPLAY! best concert i've been to!

I'm looking forward to going to Vancouver for the U2 show in October!

Yeah i guess this blog doesn't have to be a play by play of everything that happens to me, but I thought i'd include a bit of an update, and start writing in here again ( as I feel inspired to..)

I'm off to BC on sunday for a few days camping with the fam in the mountains, should be fun and relaxing.

before I go...

If you haven't heard of Kari Jobe, go here and check her out!

Her music has been a blessing in my life.