For work, oh my. Where to start. We had an announcement on Tuesday that there was a concerning product failure in the field, so we are halting our clinical trial. And since then, the entire company has been in fire-fighting mode. I was tasked to fix an issue I don’t have any knowledge about, that no one else seems to have knowledge about, and by the way, it needs to be fixed next week. Oh, and we’re supposed to make final decisions based on my study results. I've been going home completely exhausted and feeling like my head hurts, literally. There's this throbbing pain on the very top of my head. I really hope nothing important is stored up there. Yup, it’s officially time to just freak out. I deserve to!!!
And for home, bleh. You know, I realize more and more that children who grow up to be adults don’t suddenly become mature and responsible. I mean we see this all the time in church. Parents are supposed to be the spiritual leader in the family, but many are not. They still need to be taken care of and reminded of the most basic things like, “You need to attend Sabbath services.” You would think that we can expect a certain level of maturity from them, but no, we cannot! We all just get older, garner a few more wrinkles each year and watch the gray hairs take over the black ones. But we don’t suddenly mature. Why is that? Well, I guess, why not? Whether we mature or not is not always correlated with time. There’s work involved to “grow up”. And that’s probably why so many adults are told to “oh, just grow up!”. It's a change in mental state. What can time do if a person never comes to an epiphany? What happens when husbands don’t realize they need to be husbandly, and wives don’t realize they need to be wifely? What happens when Fathers don’t see why they need to be fatherly and Mothers don’t see why they need to be motherly? Each of us can easily throw off our respective hats and say, hey, I’m just a person. Don't expect me to grow up, act responsibly, and yes, don’t even try to have any expectations of me. So deal with it. Oh, I know plenty of people like this, and I must admit – in my moments (sometimes prolonged moments) of weakness, I am also one of those people. *sigh.
And for church, it’s one of those weeks when everything just collides:
1. RE >> I have to finish up the student evaluations (oh, that means I had to finish grading their tests). And I have to prepare for class this Saturday on Galatians – yup in its entirety. I’ve read the lesson plan 3-4 times and read through Galatians again last night (which took me forever because I kept spacing out and have to reread passages again). Honestly, I don’t have it all together – the execution of the lesson is still fuzzy in my mind. That’s priority #1 tonight. *double sigh. I wish I weren’t one of those irresponsible teachers that do 90% of the prep work on Friday night, but…it seems like that’s going to be the case here.
2. Choir >> So I am the choir director's assistant, and that means sending out reminders on weeks that we practice, buying music and subbing in when the director is out of town. Well, we have choir practice this week (and the next 2 weeks because SC is coming up) and our choir director is out of town. So, you guessed it, the assistant is up this week. (Sometimes I wish I had a lot more training in stuff like this, but you either have to learn to just roll with it or you end up quitting.)
3. Pacifica Rehab >> David and I happen to be assigned to lead rehab service this Sunday. Wish we would already have something planned, but we don’t. So… I guess that’s where Saturday night will go.
4. Gospel Tea >> Gospel Tea is right after Rehab on Sunday and I guess we’ll be attending that, so… there goes Sunday afternoon.
5. Flower Arrangement >> I didn’t realize how stressful agreeing to try out flower arranging would be. I was basically scheduled in for the month of April. Granted that I had a few months notice, but April is *gasp* next weekend! Ack! And what? We have to buy our own vases/vessels for the flowers?? Why?? Sorry to be such a newbie about this, but I was stressed out for at least a month just thinking about how I don’t have vessels to put the flowers in. Every time I go to Ross, Jo-anns, Marshalls, Home Goods, I’d frantically scour for vessels. Why can’t we all just share them across the different flower arrangers??? Regardless, that’s where Sunday evening is going.
And…that’s the weekend. Gone.