Daily Benefits and Wondrous Works

Let me start by saying that work called me on Monday and wanted to know if I could come in and close… I said “No way, Jose!¬† I need to to homework!”¬† And I did actually do homework

Last night during my break I was texting Daniel and asking him what he was doing.¬† He told me he was working on a devotional for his speech class based off of Psalm 68:19 and 72:18.¬† He also informed the that he had read the verses the day before Bert’s caregiver unexpectantly died.¬† I didn’t have my Bible with me so I told him I would look them up when I got home that evening.

I got home around 10:30ish and noticed that Hannah wasn’t home.¬† I knew she was feeling sick and that she has a doctors appointment in the afternoon, but she should have been home by now.¬† My conclusion what that she was in the hospital and I was a little mad that I wasn’t told that she went to the ER (but then again when your sick you don’t really think that logically).¬† I got in contact with her and she told me that the she had been to the ER and they were sending her home with medicine… (and still no answers).

I went to my room and began to do my evening devotions and remembered that I was going to look up the verses that Daniel told me about.

• Psalm 68:19¬† Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah
• Ps 72:18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.

Wow!  that was just what I needed!  No matter what the circumstances of life my God only does wondrous things.  I may question His working but when I stop and consider I know that He is doing wondrous things.  I may wake up in the morning with a headache or I may have a really bad day cause of celiac but my God still loads me with benefits.  No matter how my day begins or where it goes my God has supplied an overabundance of benefits to me and is constantly doing wondrous things.  God is truly amazing and worthy to be praised!

3 Days Off… yeah right!

You’ve guessed it. ¬†another blog about work.

I was so excited about this weekend because they scheduled me to have three days off in a row!!! ¬†Actually I was suppose to go in on Saturday morning for an hour for a meeting, but the owner decided that he didn’t want to pay for everyone to go to this meeting, so it was cancelled. ¬†So I opted to visit my family today… and Subway called me twice. ¬†The first time the GM called me about a question regarding party platters. ¬†I was so glad when that was all she wanted because ¬†I was so sure that she was going to ask me to work tonight. ¬†Well less than an hour later i get another phone call. ¬†And you’ve guessed it. ¬†they asked me to come into work… Sunday morning. ¬†Apparently the manager is in the hospital and can’t open tomorrow morning so I was asked to work from 6-8 am. ¬†Well, you know me… I can’t say no to work. ¬†So tomorrow morning at 6am I will be at Subway. ¬†At 8 I will be in my car headed back to the dorm and by 10 I will be at church. ¬†As for my last day off, Monday, I plan to do lots and lots of homework. ¬†:)

Aaaahhhhh!!!!!!

I know that you are probably tired of hearing about all the work drama in my life, but my story isn’t finished.

Let’s start on Wednesday - I begin to lose my voice.

Thursday I have the day off and spend the entire day trying not to talk… by the way it was very hard… I always have something to say to someone.

On Friday my voice is better, but wasn’t 100% so I called work a little before 9am to see if I could get out of work.¬† Well, the manager was sick; one shift leader came in at 9; and the other one was suspended.¬† So there I was working… without a voice.¬† Thankfully I didn’t have to help that many customers.

Saturday morning I went to the OC to visit James and Renae.¬† That evening (3pm)¬†I got to work and there were two girls working.¬† Soon after I was there one of them asked if she could go home (she was very sick).¬† I told her to find someone to cover her shift seems how she was supposed to be there until 8.¬† Well, no one could cover for her.¬† The other girl left at 4 and couldn’t stay longer.¬† My closer wasn’t getting in until 5 so I told the one girl to make it until 5 and then I would send her home.¬† 5 o’clock came and I sent her home… leaving 2 people for the entire dinner rush.¬† Thank God that it was a slow night.¬† We not only got all of our work done, but all of her work too.

You would think that this would be enough of a story for one week… but its not… it never is.

Sunday:¬† My voice was doing better… but still not perfect.¬† I was scared of what choir would do to it so I chose not to sing in the morning service but when to evening practice anyways.¬† Thankfully I am an alto so I had no problems with hitting those low notes… but my voice didn’t like the top half of the treble clef.¬† Near the end of choir my phone vibrates and it says “Subway Pomona.”¬†¬† So I get up and answer the phone.¬† Long story short – they needed me.¬† I told them it would take me approximately 30 minutes to get there because I had to go to the dorm and get changed and then head back to Subway.¬† On my way out of the Church parking lot I called the manager and told her that I was going in but that it would probably put me on overtime and that I wouldn’t get there for another 30 minutes cause I had to go change.¬† She told me not to worry about changing and just go in as I was.¬† *Let me remind you that I am in my church clothes… heals and all.*¬† So I went straight to Subway.¬† The time now is roughly 4:45 and there is a party order (3 large platters)¬†due at 5 and only 1 platter was done, the front was a mess, there where a ton of customers, we were nearly out of bread, the shift lead is new to the position, one co-worker is new and the other one is just learning the cash register.¬† Needless to say it was pretty crazy.¬† I found an apron and got to work on the party platters.¬† Just after 5 they were finished and given to the customer.¬† Next to tackle were the mess and the bread.¬† I’m sure that the customers thought that I was either someone important or a little crazy… I wasn’t in the uniform and I was in a skirt and heals!¬† I was so glad that I grabbed a hair tie when I left the dorm that afternoon.¬† By 6:15 everything was under control and in a manageable state so I left.¬† I had completely missed church by now, but was able to go to the Harvey’s for the college activity.¬†

Well, that was my life this week.¬† I hope to one day write and say that nothing eventful happened at work… like that will ever happen.¬† Also I do plan on blogging about school… we will see when I get to that.

Drama

So last week I went from 21 hours to 37 hours… and this week I am going from 29 hours to 39.5 hours. Yes that’s right. I am a full-time student who¬†also works full-time.¬† If people would stop getting into trouble at work maybe I can actually have a real day off and visit James and Renae.