Who needs sleep anyways?

Permit me one moment to vent...

I've been scheduled to work 7 days in a row by fluke.  I'm currently between day 3 and 4.  I just worked a double because someone called in sick on another floor, and I work again in the morning.  My back aches and all I want to do is stand in the shower and go to bed and sleep with no alarm.

Phew.  I promise, that's it as far as the ranting goes on this post.  The rest is a bit more rosy.  I'm all settled into my new room for the summer.  I was blessed to find a few girls at UMKC through FOCUS that have a house here in KC, and one of the girls is also staying here for the summer, so for a very reasonable rent I'm staying here while working.  My room is nice and cozy now and my life is once again organized after living out of storage tubs for a week or so.  I'm going to have to get used to just living off of groceries instead of a mix of groceries and dining services on campus, but I'm adjusting well.  And next week, as soon as I get off my 7th day of work, I'm packing up and heading back home to go on a small vacation with my family down to our regular spot in Oklahoma.  The thought of being home soon gets me through each day and each hour of each day.  In addition to the thought of sleep each night, of course.

I just reread "Hinds' Feet on High Places" and the book seriously rocked my world again the second time around.  It was the perfect book for beginning the summer.  I won't give away too much of the plot for those of you out there that I'm bound and determined to lend the book to, but the thought of going into the desert and learning how to accept joyfully the will of the Lord was the right medicine to be given for starting this summer in a somewhat foreign way, being away from home for the first time.  I just want to absorb everything in the book. 

More good news that I just got: my brother got his orders!  He was supposed to be home at the beginning of May so he would be home for a month before leaving in June for Korea.  However, due to a mix of him being a little slow on some paperwork and the government being MUCHO slow on their part of processing his orders, he's been stuck there in Virginia till now.  And what should I discover but that he's finally heading home!  Now he'll for sure be home for our Oklahoma trip, and I'll be able to spend some quality bro-sis, arguing/laughing/teasing time :-)

Alright y'all.  Goodnight.