Thankful Tuesdays #2

It's another Tuesday and since last week I decided to try "Thankful Tuesdays" where I reflect on the week and be thankful it is now time to do it again!

This week I have learned to be thankful for:
1. Travelling. I went to Connecticut and got to see some awesome snow and regional, epic grocery stores and experience "New England." I really like seeing the differences in towns and what makes each area unique and this was a good reminder of that :)

Us in Elizabeth's backyard in Connecticut :)

2. Friends. It's nice re-establishing, renewing or making new friends. I did a lot of that this past week. In Connecticut, I got to get to know like 7 other people my age (plus my friend's awesome parents), I got to get see friends I haven't seen or hung out with in a long time (since I was very anti-social last semester), and I made an awesome new friend today whom I should've been friends with 3 years ago (but better to start now than never!) :)

3. Family. Yep. I'm still thankful for them. I can't wait to be back at home this weekend. Last week, I called my parents and my dad was checking his email specifically seeing if I had sent him anything. Man, freshman year I went 2 months with no contact whatsoever with them! Times have certainly changed.

4. Job prospects. I think I may have actually found a chemical engineering job that I want to do and I haven't received a rejection letter back yet so that's good! God's given me a flicker of hope in my future with this career and I'm so thankful for that. It's been 3.5 years of misery and me being so unsure about it and loathing it. I'm excitedd. Pray that I'll recognize and do the thing that is what God wants me to do. kthx.

Yay! This was a good week. I like good weeks, especially when they are in the winter when I suffer from winter blues and seasonal anxiety. I've been learning so much and growing much closer to God. Yay!

Thankful Tuesdays

I found that on someone's blog they do this thing called "Thankful Tuesdays" where they write down things that they are thankful each Tuesday. (duh.) I kinda think that is a neat idea and goes pretty well with my other New Year's traditions of Meatless Mondays and Fish Fridays. So.... I wanna try it. At least for now.

This week, I am thankful for...

• My real, legit brother because he's awesome and fixed my computer and saved all my files when my hard-drive decided to stop being recognizable as a hard-drive.
• Snow (bc it snowed on Monday night while I was with a bff eating onion rings)
• Church. I do love going to church. And by church not only do I mean the body of Christ but the actual institution. I didn't realize how much I loved going until my non-Christian friend told me she was sad for me that I didn't get to go on Christmas Eve because she knew how excited I get when I go. I missed going to church this week because I couldn't find a ride to mine and every time I don't get to go to church, I get a little sad. I live on campus in the dorm and this is the 4th year of me doing so. While I get plenty of fellowship with Christians, it's only really with college aged children or people who think they are college aged still. It's nice and refreshing to go to a church where there are older and younger people also worshiping the same God. It keeps everything in perspective.
• Family bonding. As much as I greatly despise and loathe all the problems that have been going on this past semester with my family, we are growing closer as a family. I never grew up with my sisters because they were already married when I was born so I never had those bonding moments. And my parents are so old I never thought of having a two-sided conversation with them instead of just revering whatever they say and keeping my thoughts to myself. But this winter we got to sit down and chat and have intelligent conversations on stuff such as food and human trafficking and diabetes and disease and work and school and anxiety. That was nice.

Yay! PS- Meatless Mondays is less fun when they serve the good meat on Mondays and terrible vegetarian foods. And they didn't have vegan sausage yesterday like they usually do. I actually really wanted vegan sausage too.