{and so the seasons passed}

(sorry if this doesn't seem to flow like my normal posts.. you'll live.)

Life: I can't seem to completely catch up with what's happening in my family, let alone a few friends I haven't seen in months. I barely have time to clean my room (well okay, that IS the first thing I let slide) before I'm out and running again. My internet rarely works for more than 5 minutes at a time (believe it or not, this blog post has been written over a period of several days), and aside from the days when I've been sick, my sleep seems to be coming in 3-hour segments. Yeah, there's nothing like being knocked out on the couch for the majority of the day to force you to slow down! So physically, I was kind of a wreck but am doing much better.
Chocolate World will be re-doing the majority of the entertainment venues in January/February, meaning hours are most likely going to be non-existant. Of course, once I discovered this, I immediately started looking for a second job and reworking my budget and thinking about how to make things work - notice I didn't include praying in that list? Why do I still forget to do the one and only thing that makes a difference?
Long story short: I had one job, then two jobs, then maybe another second job, and now I'm back to one again. I'm right back where I started... only now with a little more trust. Because honestly, as frustrating as the whole saga has been, I'm not taking control of the situation anymore. I have a job. There may be no hours during January and February, but I need to stop focusing on/worrying about that. God's got my car keys. He'll have a use for my time.
Oh and guess what? I'm going back to Nicaragua... whee! The tentative details are that I will be helping lead a group of teen girls on a month-long trip (mid-June to mid-July) to an orphanage on the island of Ometepe. If that name sounds familiar, it's because I spent a week there just before coming home for Christmas last year. Beautiful place, though my memories of the island are a little more rough as God was taking me through some hard decisions at the time. I am super excited! The next step is to finish up some paperwork with AIM and go through a formal interview, so I'll try to keep everybody updated as it happens.