Well, my first day of work wasn't too bad. It was an orientation so it involved a lot of paperwork and listening to people talk about all the benefits that the city offers. There were some good parts to the day though. I rather enjoyed the tour of city hall that we were taken on and I also liked learning about all of the services and stuff that the city offers. Overall, it wasn't too bad of a day. Tomorrow I start training and contrary to popular belief it is going to be downtown. The bad thing is that they are not providing parking for us so we have to find our own. This won't be a very easy thing to do since most of the parking costs an arm and a leg. We were told about a few places we could park for little or no money but then we have to walk about 6 blocks to get to where we are going. I am not too thrilled about this because winter is well on the way and we are expecting freezing temperatures with sleet tomorrow. I just hope it's not pouring down when I get to work. Guess I better pack an umbrella huh?

While I am not exactly thrilled at the thought of spending all day filling out new hire paperwork and listening to policies and such, I am very excited at the thought of finally going back to work. I don't know how people who don't work can stand it. I have to have something to do all day or I'll go crazy. I have read as much as I can about the job and the department and it seems like a great place to work. It looks like a job that I will really enjoy and I will be able to help people too. It might take me a little while to get over my nervousness at hearing other peoples emergencies and stuff but I think I can do it. It looks like I will have great job security and a good chance at promotions and such. I could see myself keeping this job for a long time if I end up enjoying it.

Of course there is still the matter of the church that I am helping to start but hopefully that will all work out too and I might be able to do both. The thing is that I am afraid that I am going to be on call a lot and get called in a lot and then I won't be able to have a regular schedule with the church. But if I have to I could take third shift and that might work out well because then they wouldn't call me in first during the day and if I have to stay late it would be into the morning hours and not into the time that I would be doing work for the church. Well, however it works out I am excited because it will be an adventure. I love it when life gets interesting. It's more fun that way.

I am ready to learn something new, to experience something new, to be a part of something important.

There are some powerful words in music. This song reminded me that I need to totally surrender to Christ every single day.

Here I am before you now
like a child I am reaching out
here I am I'm giving all I can
well breaking my pride I feel I'm through
shattered inside I run to you
and now I give it all to you

so take my life
take my mind
take my soul
take my will
cause I am yours and I give it all to you (x2)

lay it all down before my king
offering all my everything
lay it all down before the one I serve
I can understand the reasons why
you came on this earth and died
and now I give it all to you

I got bored with the old look of the site so I changed the template. If I get really really motivated I might just customize it. ooooh.....aaaaaaah....... Anywayz, how is everybody out there? I never know what to write on this thing anymore.

Oh ya, small groups are going good still. I am playing for youth at Couts still and I am playing worship services once a month for Light of the World (soon to be every Sunday which will mean giving some stuff at Couts up). Let's see what else am I doing.......???........ummm......oh ya....I am working a walk to Emmaus in January. I will be on the music team with a new friend of mine that leads worship at LOTW with me. It should be fun. Guess thats it for now.

blog blog blog......bloggity bloggity blogger....ok. I'm bored....Actually I just can't seem to make myself go to sleep. I'm not really sure what I'm going to miss if I don't stay up half the night but my mind does not want to give in to my eyelids and let me sleep. I've got a parade to go to in the morning for LOTW and I have to be there early. I am almost finished with the website at least. I thought I was gonna pass out on my keyboard a couple of times cuz I sat here so long staring at it always trying to figure out how to get that one thing to work and it's usually something small that nobody is going to see or notice. Ok, I think that was the longest sentence I have ever written. Well, maybe not but now I see why I desperately need sleep. Think I'm gonna try at least.