Update...

How can one week simultaneously feel like the fast week and slowest week of my entire life? I think the hospital environment has that effect. My last couple of days have been spent sleeping at the hospital, and driving in the car from Indy to Louisville. My mama is healing well after her surgery; now she's just experiencing some post-surgery side effects, which we're trying to get through. She's doing so well though, given her surgery was just 6 days ago.

There have been so many things I've wanted to blog about the past few days, but I either didn't have a good internet connection, or when I did have internet, I didn't have the energy to write. So, here we go (this is not even half my actual list)...

• Being in Louisville lately is making me nostalgic. I even had a random thought of moving back home at some point (no timeline). Then the feeling overwhelmed me, so I plucked it right out of my brain. I will say though, there is no place like home.

• God answers prayers in big ways. I mean HUGE. If I started writing about all the prayers I'm seeing him answer in the past couple of weeks, I'd be writing for days, so I'll just leave it at that. Luke 1:45 has found a renewed meaning in my heart: "Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!"
  

• I'm ready for Spring Break! Even though my spring "break" will consist of me going to California to slog and have 12-hour work days on 8-hour pay, I'm ready for a week without school. It couldn't come soon enough, because I'm fearfully getting burned out...I say "fearfully," because there are still a lot of classes left, plus lots of assignments left before this crazy Spring semester is over. So, hopefully having one week off will get my head back on straight.

• Earthquake in Chile. Tragedy. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the cover of NY Times. Didn't we just have one in Haiti? And Japan? Another one? Lord, what do we make of this? I had a sobering memory of Matthew 24, which talks about the end times. Specifically v. 7 - 8: "...There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains." Thinking about this gives me chills.
  

• I randomly ran 3.1 miles yesterday! I haven't run since mid-November 2009, but I still felt really good when I finished! Payback comes now though...I cannot move my legs, and anytime I laugh, my abs and sides HURT! To get back into running or to not get back in running? That is the question.

I'm off to bed. A 5:30 AM cycling class is demanding me to go to sleep right this second.