Peace

Kind of a sad day today, finding out that Uncle Dwight passed away last night. But he's at peace now; not only is there no more suffering, but he is now in the presence of God Almighty, face-to-face with our Savior Jesus Christ. Though we mourn his departure from this life, we rejoice in the fact that he is now able to reap his heavenly rewards. My mother is headed to North Carolina tomorrow to be with her brothers and sisters and to attend the funeral, and my thoughts and prayers will continue to be lifted up.

It was one week ago that I was preparing to go to the Dallas MEPS to complete my processing into the Air Force. Last Monday and Tuesday were loooooong days, but swearing in on Tuesday evening was probably the proudest I've ever felt. Now I'm just waiting to see what my job is going to be and when I ship out to Lackland for basic training. Honestly, I no longer feel concerned or nervous, as I'm happy with my job possibilities and know that I have until at least October before basic. Since April, I've been totally stressed about the whole ordeal, but the weight of the worry was lifted upon my signing of the contract. For the first time in years, I finally feel good about the way things are going. I've enjoyed my job at Target, but got to the point where I felt stuck; and the fact that I'm only working about 22 hours a week is not good for the stress-level. So, big changes are coming, and I couldn't be more excited.

In this last week, I've re-connected with a lot of my friends and I've decided that I now actually want people to know what's going on in my life. I suppose I've been avoiding people for a while because I felt that my life was going nowhere and didn't want to talk about it, you know? I thought that this would be a good time to start blogging. It's something that I've wanted to do for a while, but every time I would think about sitting down to do it, I'd realize that I really had nothing to write about :P Now I do.

I'll try to keep it mostly short and fun, but I'll probably end up waxing serious every now and then. Also, I have a secondary blog for all things Morning Musume-related because, frankly, I could go on and on and on and on about them. Morning Musume, by the way, is a Japanese all-girl pop group over which I am obsessed :D The link to that blog is over on the left side of this page, along with a link to my Twitter site and my Youtube account. They are all worth checking out, especially Youtube. If you haven't seen my dance video, well...just watch it.

Still working on the design of this page, by the way. I'm mostly happy with it, but need to get in and tweak the HTML a bit.