Week 8 - 11

So I realize I have been really bad about blogging lately especially about my weekly updates on living with the rents. So I am going to try and recap the past few weeks in one post and then jump back into regular post this week.

Week 8 was easy when it comes to living with the rents b/c I was in Brazil - which was a completely amazing week. Brazil will get it's own post sometime soon as I am still processing the trip.

Week 9 was a harder week. As if coming back to the US - Dallas from Brazil isn't hard enough on it's own. I decided that 5 days after returning to the US I needed to get on another flight to head to Las Vegas to meet up with my family to celebrate my younger sister, Whitney's, 21st birthday. Not to mention I was doing all of this on crutches - did I tell you I don't like crutches? I have to admit though Vegas ended up being fun after I blocked out all the craziness that is Vegas it was a good time to just hang out and be around my family, even in Vegas. I also was able to get to see Whitney and Rob, her boyfriend, interact more - which was fun to see and get to know him a little better. Somehow I was even able to cook one meal this week - I think it had a lot to do with the fact that my dad felt sorry for me b/c I was on crutches and he could tell I missed Brazil terribly even if he didn't understand why I missed it - so he made Marsha leave me alone when I came home one day and said I just wanted to cook a meal. I can say that I would not have made it threw this week had it not been for all the people I went to Brazil with - just our little conversations really helped make this week bearable.

Week 10 - WOW! If I thought week 9 was tough I hadn't really understood tough and hard until I survived this week - I did survive somehow, it wasn't on my own strength that is for sure. Monday was super easy - I really just slept a lot and laid by the pool. However, Tuesday morning I woke up with this feeling that I just didn't want to go to work but thankfully a couple of friends told me that I had to go - I now know when I have those feeling there is usually a reason and may-be I should just stay home. By 9am I was so frustrated with my boss and just our systems and my job that I thought I would lose it - I probably would have quit if Tim hadn't given our Brazil team the stupid two week rule. Short version of the week was that everything that I had done for the past 2-3months was going to be erased b/c of a system issue and needed to be redone in lesson than a week - seriously yikes!!! On top of work drama the monster showed her face again this week - in stupid little ways that I did my best to ignore. I think the final blow for this week came on Thursday when I went to physical therapy where they told me that something was seriously wrong with my foot/ankle and that I had to get an MRI ASAP! I think up until this point I had held a hope that I might actually be able to run Seattle at the end of the month - needless to say I was wrong. God really humbled me in that moment in lots of ways - 1st being I realized I had once again put running ahead of Him and 2ndly I was being super prideful. All in all a super tough, convicting week, but probably a week I will look back at some point and be thankful for all the lessons I learned.

Week 11 started off great b/c I got to hang out with my 7th grade girls and celebrate their completion of 7th grade with a pool party - oh so much fun. And then I was able to reunite with my Brazil team and Brazil team 2 over dinner and just laugh and hang out and even farkle a little bit. Poor Ricky lost the farkle and had to "kiss" Larissa's dog. Unfortunately some of week 10's work drama spilled over into week 11 but there wasn't much I could do about it - somehow I managed to pull of a small miracle and get almost everything reset up in the system before the deadline - I didn't get it all done but I got enough done. The other random high and low lights from week 11 are not having an air conditioner - the air went out upstairs at the house - seriously right as it gets into the upper 90's the air goes out, so I didn't have AC for a good part of the week. Thankfully Laura let me stay at Hotel Vistadale for a night to help get me out of my misery. I also was finally able to get an MRI this week and get the results, which showed a hairline fracture in my foot. So it was a good news bad news sort of deal....I finally knew what exactly was wrong with my foot but it wasn't the best news but considering the fall I took it could have been so much worse - so I am learning to take it and use whatever good comes from it.

Sorry for such a long post....but I will work on being more consistent.