What a day! What happened you say? Well let me tell you…
Today I was “working” in our Skelton office today. I say “working” because I had so many issues with my work lap top and to top it off my vehicle. Of course when it’s frustrating it just gets worse sometimes. But, you know what? It may seem like I’m frustrated and at certain points I definitely was. At the same time, I knew that God was going to work it all out and that I was going to learn something through it (People say I’m an optomist- I like to blame it on my parents and Mr. Luck “no problems, only opportunities”).
Anyway, today my lap top was being extremely slow and yesterday a certain important program wasn’t working. We thought it would be any easy fix but of course it was quite the opposite. I wasn’t made the administrator for the computer so it wouldn’t let me add/change programs on the computer and I needed to. So, we called our IT guy at the Wellspring office and he tried helping us out and then said that there was no way to make me the administrator when I was at the other office so I had to run to the Wellspring office which isn’t close, 20 min., it took him 15 min. to make me administrator and then I had to go back to Skelton office. All afternoon we tried re-installing this program and it kept getting an error and all the program on my computer wouldn’t work. Finally, I logged in as the last user of the computer and everything worked. So, it seems something is really wrong with my username but we basically got it working through another username. It took all day and bacause I was at Skelton I couldn’t do anything else but sit there like a bump on a log. I felt horrible not doing anything. I made phone calls for a little while but that only took a half an hour.
So, to top it all off as I was driving from Wellspring back to Skelton I noticed my car felt funny on turns. It made me very nervous because I’ve had my serpentine belt come off on my old vehicle and that was scary. So, thankfully I explained what I was feeling to my supervisor and he suggested I checked my power steering fluid. I had basically no fluid! My dad must have known there was a leak because I had a bottle of steering fluid in my car and was able to fix it. I know now I need to be checking those a little closer since it has a leak.
On a good note. Today I had an interview with a new recreation/ aquatics center to work as a lifeguard and instructor. Looks like I’ll start in a week or so. When I told them I was interested in teaching classes and that I had all my certifications they jumped right on it! I praise the Lord for my dad’s involvement with American Red Cross and his because I wouldn’t have what I have now if it weren’t for his servants heart. Thank you dad! 🙂 It will be nice to have a little more money coming in for gas because I’m finding that here in Gainesville it takes basically 15-20 min. to get everywhere. I’m not used to that!
So now it’s the end of the day. I could choose to be completely frustrated and upset but I choose to praise His name. I have been thinking about what God has taught me. I’ve learned that sometimes, while I may be a “jack of all trades. I am a master of none (a person I spoke to said that today and I liked it). I had to ask for help and there was nothing I could do to fix it but to sit and wait. Right now for some reason I see him grinning ear to ear. Thank you Lord for the learning experience… keep them coming! (Oh great, what have I gotten myself into 🙂 )
