Its like, no matter how bad, or stressful. No matter how much I cried that morning, that sunshine somehow hits a reset button and can almost always make my day 100% better.
I live on a river, kinda. Like. I'm not on the river, but I'm right by it. When I drive to school in the mornings, I get to drive by the fog hanging low over the water, sunlight illuminating it. Its like the background of a gospel song on Sunday morning, and with the right playlist. Wow. Honestly I'm grinning just thinking about how good it feels to drive those twists and turns, singing along to my music with my shades on as the world glides by. Its like actual sunshine in my heart. I don't know how else to describe it.
I used to drive to school with fog hanging low on the mountains, the sunshine making the snow glow. My mom used to say that towns and cities needed sleep so they could be fresh in the morning. Thats why Wallowa County is so beautiful. Cause the town sleeps. There are not many (if any) places open all night. Traffic doesn't clog the streets, ever, but especially after 9 PMish.
Nine Mile sleeps, too. The streets are quiet around the same time, but Nine mile is also smaller than Wallowa county. That's easy to do when you live 15 min from Spokane though.
Sleep is so beautiful and restoring. Maybe that's why babies are so beautiful. They get sleep. They don't know what anxiety or fear is. They don't get so excited that they can't sleep.
And that leads us to today's topic.
68 hours, 30 seconds till I get on a place to Chicago. I am so excited that I seriously can't sleep. I have had this problem since I was little. I used to just get really excited for no reason, and I'd wake up in the middle of the night so excited that I just couldn't fall back asleep. I'm jittery and I can't think and my words are jumbled, because my body is moving like, five days ahead of me. I am seriously being dragged behind myself. So I am tired at all the wrong times and I am awake at 2 AM when I am supposed to be sleeping.
But Chicago has not been the only thing on my mind these past two weeks. I have been studying like crazy. Memorizing things forward and backwards, waking up in the middle of the night to recite what I have been memorizing because I say it so much and I have been thinking about it so much, determined to get it down so good that even if I am nervous, I can still recite it.
And that worked payed off because I am now a barista at Wake Up Call coffee in Spokane, WA. Thats right. Your church coffee girl is doing what she loves, to make a living. Right out of high school, only six months after moving here!!!!
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. No, because it would be too easy if all I had to do was plan for a trip to go see my love and get a job. Oh no. I also have two essays that I had to write. Not easy essays, either! They are supposed to be about how our chosen profession dose their research.
Its really easy to find statistics on Human Trafficking, but finding out how they get those statistics? Thats rough. So naturally, I did what every kid would do, and I took a chance. I messaged and emailed a whole bunch of non profits that deal with getting statistics, rescues, and recovery for people in Human Trafficking situations.
Then I got replies. Which, maybe you figured would happen, but I just assumed they would get my message and ignore it. I took that chance though, and it payed off. I learned a lot about Human trafficking that I never knew.
I feel so good. I currently have A's in school. I have scored my dream job, I am going to go to Chicago, which is amazing in itself, but I also get to see William graduate from Navy Basic. I'm just excited to see him!!! I can't wait to see his smile and get a hug and just be close to him. I can't wait. I am so excited.
This blog is so random. I don't know how we went from sleeping cities to not being able to sleep to being excited. I have no idea. Anyways. Moral is. Get some sleep!! Live life excited, and take a chance because you will learn, you might get some pretty dope results, and who knows. You could end up on a plane to a new place to see your favorite person. Which, btw. The day Lisa and I leave for Chicago is the day I can have social media again and I will be blowing up facebook and instagram and snapchat with photos. Probably. IDK I might forget haha but I'll try.
