Who turned out the lights??

Thank heavens I'm not in the dark...but what happened? I was at the grocery store with Missy on Sunday afternoon and our hair was getting blown all over the place. You can forget looking descent when the wind is blowing so fiercely. We come home and our lights are out. My first thought is, "Thank God it's Sunday cause I don't want to miss any of my TV shows." So, I hear from everyone in our small group that their power is out too...and I'm confused even more. This never happens. Well, in the morning, I get up and get ready for work in the dark and I start driving to work...in the dark. Every house and business that I pass is....you guessed it...in the dark. My mom told me that it was because of hurricane winds. What's up with that...a hurricane in Cincinnati? This just keeps getting more weird. So, I arrive at work and there is no one. It is obvious that we are closed. I came across one other person in the parking lot and he said, "Looks like we're closed, I guess we'll come back tomorrow." So, I go back home and try to take a nap, but that doesn't work out and I go to my parents house in Bethel because they have power. I took a cooler full of food over there so that all of our food wasn't ruined. Then to make the day interesting, Missy came home from work...meanwhile I'm still in Bethel...and she texts me and tells me that WE HAVE POWER!!! Thank you God!! Unfortunately, there are still hundreds of thousands of people still waiting for their lights to come on, but please just have patience! So, I go to work today and there are actually people there and I see lights on at the plant where I work. I was kinda disappointed that I would have to work, but when I walk in the building, I can see the problem. People are just sitting around and half the lights are on. We sit and we sit and nothing happens. Our bosses came to the conclusion that at 10am, the power wasn't going to be fully restored and we got sent home. So, here I am still being affected with Cincinnati's Blackout. Hopefully this will all be over soon.

My First Blog!!

Here I am....satisfying Diana's wish. Missy was right, if Diana bugs you enough, you'll do what she asks. This has been such a crazy week that I don't even know where to begin. One of my first thoughts this morning was.....GOD IS AMAZING! After you read what has been going on this past week, you'll understand where I'm coming from.
Last Wednesday, Sept. 3rd is when my horrific week started. I was given some bad news at work that my responsibilities were changing...and it wasn't for the better. I enjoyed what I did and now it's getting taken away from me. I was always busy and it made my days go by so much faster. Now the bulk of my work was changing and I had to do new stuff for my boss. I have felt in the past few months that there has been a big target over my head. It seemed like I was being followed at work and they were looking for anything to get rid of me.
Then came Friday...I was called to the Plant Manager's office. They told me that they found me doing something on company time that wasn't work related. To sum up the story...they suspended me from work until further notice and I was to leave work immediately. So I left on Friday afternoon not knowing whether I had a job or not. This made my weekend pretty horrible. I didn't know who to tell about my problem and then Missy and I got an invitation to a volunteer dinner at church. And this was good...I thought that maybe I could talk to someone about what was going on and maybe get some help in finding a new job because I thought it was all over at this point. All the financial obligations that I have...how was I going to make it work? I can't rely on Missy to pay all the bills...she has bills of her own.
So, Sunday morning comes and I wake up to Missy screaming from the bathroom because it is flooding. Just what I needed...another bad day. The maintenance team here at our apartment complex ended up fixing the bathroom, but it was another bad thing happening to me. I just kept thinking...how much worse could it get? I just want to have a normal day and this wasn't going to be one of them. We went on to church while they are cleaning our bathroom and had a wonderful service. The music was OUTSTANDING! (thanks Chris...you're amazing!) Meanwhile, after church, we go to The Beach Waterpark to have fun and try to relax. This is our getaway when we don't have money to spend because we have the season passes!! Sunday ended without any more catastrophes and it ended up being a pretty good day. I had plans to set my alarm and get up to go job searching this morning because I still didn't know if I had a job or not.
This morning comes along and I'm getting up to get in the shower and my cell phone rings at 8:22 am. I could see from the caller ID that it was work and I was sure that this was going to be the bad news coming that they didn't want me to return. I think I was hearing the voice of God when I heard on the other end of the phone, "Our investigation at work is complete and we want you to come back tomorrow!" Talk about relief....I was speechless. I didn't know what to say. This was a true answer to prayer. So, I hang up the phone and then I wondered to myself, what about getting paid for Friday afternoon and today? Then my cell phone rang again and I saw that it was work again. My heart started pounding again cause I thought they had changed their minds about wanting me back. I answer the phone and the same voice tells me that I would be getting paid for Friday afternoon and today. "Just enjoy your day off and we'll see you tomorrow." There I was...speechless again!
I had the best day today and it was just what I needed. I spent the afternoon with my mom and it was totally relaxing! I better not get used to it though. For those of you that know me, my life is busy busy busy!! I hope I get to post more blogs because this is very refreshing...thanks Diana for harassing me about it!!!