T-minus 1814-1812

So I did a "Predict Your Own Outcome" list the other day...I may post it here....but I'll probably save it for myself.

Anyway...on to the writing!

These past couple of days have been crazy! I really don't have another word for it. I know there will be days where I am sad/mad/throwing a pity party but these few days were not it....lol.

I don't know if I mentioned this before but while I am here, I'm expected to have a job. Especially since the judge ordered that my restitution start "while you are incarcerated (make sure you read it in a deep booming male voice for the true effect)." Everyone here, except those with a medical excuses, works. There are several types of jobs available. Of course, the pay is REALLY low....I mean we make migrant workers look like millionaires...; but you have to make money in order to pay for things...and these are not Marshall's or Kmart prices.

I had decided that instead of working inside at a desk or in a warehouse for UNICOR, I wanted to be outside...in landscaping. Yes....yes...I know it crazy hot in the South but when I'm working outside, I lose track of everything and I am so relaxed. Anyways....there is a saying...there is your plan and then there is God's plan. One of the other ladies here REALLY wanted me to work at a desk with her in UNICORE, mostly because it pays the highest out of all of the jobs; I was resistant but agreed to at least take the typing test to get on the 4 month waiting list.

Meanwhile, I sent in a request form, through one of my roommies, to the supervisor of landscaping requesting to be put on that detail. Now mind you, all this time I am STILL an A & O (don't ask me what the acronym means) but basically it's the holding pattern you're in when you first come in. You attend different orientations, take out garbage, rake leaves and get NO pay.....oh....and there is A LOT of down time (read: I have read 6 books by this time). For me downtime = reading & writing. Therefore, the first people I met were the little old ladies who work in the library and the man who comes on the book bus from the public library.

As I am planning on working in landscaping and then possibly ADP, yes I passed the test, God decides something different, unexpected and way better. Remember in the earlier paragraph when I mentioned about reading and the library? Well, one afternoon the head little old library lady pulls me aside and offers me a job...as long as the Education Director, Mrs. Waldron, approves it.

Well ...how about that?

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the lord,"plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11

FAITH 51212

3 miles (daily) - max intensity class (arms and abs) - boot camp class

weight:
8/3/2010 - 166.6
8/14/2010 - 163.6 - gotta love the it...I might write a new book called "The Prison Diet: Lose weight, Get Fit, Get Free!"