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Name: You can call me Jo
Interests: I love volleyball & soccer...but especially volleyball, anything pink, I love music, hanging out with my family & friends, I love the beach & I love flip flops - they make me happy! Jesus -- He is the one that has set me free...and I am free to live, & dance for him! I like to sing, I love musicals, also I have a fettish for "Extreme Makeover, Home Edition" - ya gotta love it! I also really like "That's so Raven" - it makes me laugh! I like fireworks, and I have decided I am going to have them at my wedding some day! I love the south, good 'ol sweet tea & Starbucks coffee!
Expertise: Being ME :o)
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
2/15/2006
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| Yes, I know I have had quite an absence on Xanga lately. I will be posting more updates in the next week, hopefully...but I wanted to let you Xangans (that aren't Facebooking it) out there know that I'm alive. Have a happy Fourth of July!!  | | |
| 13 days until I get to go home!
Wooooohoooo! 
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| A few random facts about my life here in Greenville...
- I pass two Chick-Fil-A's on my way to work and school every day
- I pass one Starbucks on my way to work and school every day
- I pass two Sonic's on my way to work and school every day
- I study a lot
- I have a Wal-Mart 5 minutes away from where I live
- I ate Ramen Noodles for dinner
- The weather here is nice...much nicer than up in MI
Now, onto more meaningful things...
God is teaching me about worry.
Worry is not a good thing. Worry will eat at you like a disease. It starts little by little, then before you know it you're plagued with this horrible disease and it takes over the very essence of who you are. It eats at your core and oozes from you like an open wound. It is even slightly contagious -- if you're not careful. Worry is a sin. Yes, you heard me right -- it is a downright sin. Every time we/you/I start to worry about something we are basically taking God off the throne and saying, "ya know God, I really don't think you can handle this...let me try to take care of it this time." Try picturing that in your head....it's somewhat comical, isn't it? Can you imagine telling the God of the UNIVERSE who is all-powerful, & all-knowing to sit this one out and let you handle it? It's comical yet so sad because I think I do that almost every stinkin day!
Please do not think for one second that I have somehow mastered the art of trusting the Lord in everything and not ever worrying. Ha.....I am nowhere near that....however I am, with the Lord's help trying to trust Him more and more every day.
My challenge to you: Next time you are tempted to worry, take a situation into your own hands, play the "what-if" game....DON'T!! Give it to God and let Him take care of it -- after all He is the God of the universe who is all-powerful and all-knowing. I don't know about you...but His resume looks way better than mine.
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| It's about that time again....yep....I know....I've been doing a very poor job with updating. Unfortunately, I don't have too much time to update y'all on every aspect of my always exciting life. I know, I know....I can sense the disappointment....lol....here's a quick recap of my life recently:
Work, Christmas in Atlanta, work, missed my family, New Years in VA with the Lollar fam, work, missed my friends and family, spent well over $200 on textbooks for school, started school at Greenville Tech, work, missed my family some more, had a slightly rough first week of school and rough week at work, cried probably every day, was thankful that God is always in control even when it seems like everything is going wrong, studied, worked some more, have visited a couple churches, studied some more, got a hair cut from Tiff...and it's pretty much a vicious cycle.
The highlight of my week was probably the snow/ice day that we had yesterday!!!! Yes, you heard right....we had "snow" in Greenville, SC. Granted it did not come close to comparing to the feet of snow that all my friends and family can see right out their window in VERY COLD MI....yet it was some type of icy snow. So, school was cancelled!! I was so excited....I had prayed that God would bring the snow and give me a day off and he did....I was so excited when I got up and found out that school was cancelled....I couldn't go back to sleep for like an hour. :o) By the way, the "snow" or white, wet substance that we southerners referred to as snow is pretty much all gone and the high tomorrow is supposed to be in the low 50's....isn't the south great?
Well, I'm off to combat the Friday night traffic in Greenville....wish me luck....
Oh, and by the way if anyone feels led to send me mail...please do......I love mail.....it is probably one of the highlights of my day when I walk in the door after a long day and have a little something sitting on the table for me....there's just something about it, it's truly invigorating and it reminds me that I am loved.
It's almost as good as ice cream...now that's pretty good....
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| ...I got a job! Yes, I know...that was like the heading of one of my recent posts...however this job is much better than Banana Republic, I enjoy it more and it pays much better than Banana Republic was going to be paying me. It was totally a God thing how it worked out and I am so excited. I was literally hired like two days before I was supposed to start training at Banana Republic.
Anyway, I am training to be a Practice Specialist at a Physical Therapist office called Proaxis Therapy. (www.pivitaltherapy.com) (It used to be Pivital Therapy until about 3 months ago) My job entails a lot of various duties like; answering the phone that rings off the hook, scheduling patients, finding out insurance information, making lots of phone calls, sending and receiving lots of faxes, and just a myriad of different things. Needless to say it is very fast-paced and busy...but I am enjoying it so far and am so grateful for the provision of this job. Another cool thing is that I will be going to school to be a Physical Therapist Assistant and I am getting to work in a Physical Therapist office and am learning things now that you don't necessarily get to learn in class.
Well, I just wanted to share the good news...I have been there already for a week but I just haven't had the chance to update this thing. I am working full-time this month and then when school starts I will be cutting back to part-time. Thanks so much for all of you who have been praying for me, I appreciate it! Now I must go and try to find something constructive to do.....Merry Christmas!
P.S. In regards to my previous post: I changed my layout to my site shortly after posting it and it screwed up the whole blog entry....therefore the grammatical errors have been driving me crazy and I couldn't change them...so just to let y'all know why the font is all weird and everything else was kinda wacky. 
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