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Just Sayin'

Anyway, I am kicking myself for not taking the time this weekend to work on my novel!  I have another blog that has most of the chapters I have completed thus far.  I need to provide a link to that blog on this blog.  It is a novel I call "Exceptions".  It is about an FBI psychologist who loses her brother and reconnects with her father, who has been separated from the family for years.  She also learns to reconnect with her spirituality in the process.  I am so excited to have it finished.  My goal is to get it finished this summer and self-publish it on the Amazon Kindle website.  If you have a Kindle, iPod, iPhone, iPad, or Kindle app for Windows you can read it that way.  If you don't have those, you can access the book through my blog.
Here is the Link to my Blog: Exceptions: A Novel by Julia Hall

Anyhoo, I am coming to terms with the fact that I probably need a second job.  Things are getting more expensive.  I have already spent almost $100 dollars in gas this month and I barely drive 150 miles per week!!  This time last year I could drive that much for like 60 or 70 dollars a month.  It's crazy!  Also, I started paying this month on Chris's wedding band and I have been paying my medical bills each month, too.  It's ridiculous.  I am hoping that everything will go well as far as my job situation.  If I can get a job that offers good health benefits, I may be able to afford some allergy shots and that will greatly improve my asthma and allergic reactions to dust.

On another note, I decided this month not to go into Education.  I feel the Lord leading me in a different direction.  I plan to continue on in my English bachelor's degree and minor in Criminology.  After I graduate, I plan to apply to the Master's of Social Work program at Kennesaw.  If I am to do this, I definitely need a job with more flexible hours because the Master's of Social Work will require an internship that will be a couple of days a week.  Getting a job that has day, evening, and weekend hours will be best.

I am praying that the Lord will give me the strength to get on with my life even if I feel it is not always fair.  I have been asking a lot of God lately and I am not sure that He always answers in the way I expect.  I have heard stories of people who needed to adopt children from China or go on missions trips to faraway countries who were short thousands of dollars and miraculously received checks in their mailbox days before the money was due.  This has never happened to me.  I have raised a lot of money in one day when I went to Paraguay a couple years ago, but I have never received random checks in the mail.  I need money, I but I feel that God has called me to keep working faithfully and be the best worker I can.  Also, if I am the best student I can be, I have a feeling He will reward me.  I will be able to pay my student loans, medical bills, tuition bills, and other bills off no problem if I just keep working hard.  Luckily for me, I am taking just two classes online this summer and three classes in the fall.  That way I will have lots of time to work.  Hopefully I will be able to be wise with my money, afford what is still needed for my wedding, and help Chris and I get off to a good financial start in our new life together.

Thanks again for reading!  I appreciate all my readers very much :)
Love,
Julia