Beach Trip!

One of my dearest friends, HB, who you have seen in a previous post, and I went on our first 'road trip' to the beach to visit my grandparents and see the sights. :) We had a grand time visiting my sweet grandparents, touring the town (HB  had never been there), drinking coffee, eating food, buying stuff, and having a picnic on the beach. :) 

We only had one truly traumatizing experience. Well, I had a traumatizing experience...As a younger child, I would swell up from mosquito bites (a lot), but for the most part grew out of it by age 10 or so, with a few 'swell ups' here and there. It just so happened, that HB and I had slept on my porch the night before our road trip and some mosquitoes enjoyed sucking HB's and my blood. By mid-afternoon the next day (the day we left for our trip), my right hand was swelling quite a bit, although the bite on my left hand was still normal...We arrived at my grandparents' house. My right hand was becoming alarmingly large, and my left hand was beginning to puff...Things were looking grim, but I was still optimistic; at least it was the weekend! Around 9:30pm, I went to wash my hands before getting a snack and glanced in the mirror. To my utter horror, there, on my nose, was a bright red mosquito bite. 

With dragging steps and a face full of horrified shock, I entered the guest-room, where HB was checking her phone. When I shared my news (or, rather, she saw my nose), she started roaring with laughter ("'A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again."), although she was sympathetic.

Forgive the gruesomness, but here's what my hand looked like:

You can't really tell, but it was so huge I couldn't make a fist...

Now imagine that on my nose. Not. Good. 

Dear Grandmother felt my horror and dug through her cupboard, found some sort of topical medicine, and glopped it on the bite.  HB then stuck a band-aid on the medicated bite. I was still in horrified shock. Then we trudged  to bed. 

I was finally succumbing to the idea and was comforted with the fact that God had a reason for allowing all of this, and so fell into a restless sleep, imaging the looks on the faces of my fellow employees when I walked into work Tuesday. 

Thankfully, God graciously kept the swelling on my poor nose down, and HB and I spent the day sight-seeing, picnicking, and visiting (two massively swollen hands couldn't keep us from having fun.).

 

Grandparents fed us tons of delicious food.

We were a bit overwhelmed, having just went out for coffee and doughnuts.

And so, with full stomachs and happy hearts, we gave our hugs, bid our adieus, and drove home. :)

Summer Days...

I feel as though I've fallen off the face of the earth, even though it's been only a few weeks since I last posted.

With school coming to an end for Summer Break, I started working at the law firm I interned at during the school year. I confess that having two jobs is slightly crazy, and I may have entered the pass-code belonging to the doors at the law firm as the pass-code for the mailbox at church on more than one occasion. :facepalm: 

 

This week, I've been filling in for a legal secretary, and let me tell you, it's fun, terrifying, and boring all at once. In my free time (in between revising documents, entering time, creating new client files, and answering the telephone, placing calls, etc.), I've been working on a bulk mailing project. It takes up about 85% of the work day and I feel like I might start dreaming about typing names and addresses on a white background with a stiff keyboard that, for some reason, especially doesn't like typing "t." 

All in all, it seriously has been a blessing to have work, and work in such friendly atmospheres. 

On a glorious side-note, after being addicted (as in, no coffee in the morning = massive headache and grogginess) to coffee for eight+ months, I have now been coffee-free for nearly three weeks! It really was a pain to depend on a cup of brown liquid that oftentimes tasted yucky. 

It was only possible because I was sick one weekend, and decided that since I already felt bad, I might as well skip my coffee and suffer just a bit more.  I'd say God's timing for that cold/sore throat bug was just about perfect, since I had already been cutting down a bit. 

Hold fast to Jesus!

~Sonia

p.s. ...I typed this post up a few days ago, before the work week ended. Just thought I would mention that.  ;)

p.s.s. And, because I like to add pictures to my posts if at all possible, here's a picture of me enjoying the summer by sitting on our porch swing in my swimsuit after washing Sven.

So happy the weekend is here!!!