moving on

Okay, so this week has thrown it's fair share of ups and downs into my otherwise much-needed time off but, I am ready to move on.   Prior to the tragic apartment flood of 2010, I actually had a ridiculously productive Friday - Monday.   Here are the stats:

Friday: 

Conferences + work day at school 

laundry 

grocery shopping 

knitting 

cleaning, cleaning, cleaning

brought stuff to my storage closest that has been waiting to go up since JANUARY! 

took my car in

watched the biggest loser

painted my toe-nails 

went to bed

Saturday: 

skyped with my friend Carrie 

skyped with my sister Anna

went grocery shopping again :) 

did some crock-pot cooking

worked endlessly on a very large homework assignment

spent some time browsing my cook books 

finished knitting my friend Angela's Christmas blanket (finally!) 

Sunday: 

Took a long shower

spent the majority of the day finishing up my very large homework assignment 

wrote birthday thank-yous

went to an early dinner with my friend Shannon 

lead small group Bible study

went to a very late movie with my friend Shannon

went to bed! 

Monday: 

babysat from 7 - 3:30

went to class

turned in the very long homework assignment :)

went to a late dinner with my friend Kelli

came home to a flooding apartment. . .

And then time kind of stopped.  . until now.   Because it's Thursday and I am ready to get stuff done and stop mourning the loss of my time and some of my favorite stuff.   Life happens.  Here I sit in my favorite Panera, eating a deliciously early lunch, surrounded by stacks of folders and a crumbled to-do list.  My next step is to work until I can't work anymore and then evaluate and potentially edit my spring break to-list after that.   No one plans for their apartment to flood.  No one intends to surrender the opportunity to successfully complete things in order to deal with yucky water in places it doesn't belong.   So - this flood never made it onto my to-do list but that's okay because I'm moving on.   Starting now, I am praying for focus and peace of mind as I wade through my homework and conquer stress one finished paragraph at a time.