Thursday, March 18, 2010

New Personal Resume

I decided today that I spend too much time thinking of all that I don't have going for me. I have considered myself undate-able (not that I'm really looking, but ....) and as a very messy work in progress. Although I do believe I will always be a work in progress, I have decided to redefine my personal resume, or at least how I tell it to myself in my head. On one hand, I am a divorced mom, broke college student, minimum wage barista who'd like to lose about 5 more pounds and is desperate for a good vacation. On the other hand, on my new personal resume hand, I am a successful single mother with two children who excel in behavior and academic effort. (I know hard parenting times are ahead so we have to be really really happy when they're good.) I am a motivated and determined college student, so far managing to pull straight A's with an aging brain and two little children on my mind. I am also successfully handling an amazing job that offers me full benefits for 20 hours a week, which more than makes up for the less than stellar pay (for now.) I am a published writer and photographer. I have lived in five states and even Mexico for a time. My life has already stretched out in adventure and there is so much more adventure to be had. I am a student of the Bible, and at this age I am grateful some of it was written on my heart when I was young because those are still the parts I know the best. I am a good daughter and am becoming a better girlfriend (to my girlfriends, don't get too excited) the more I practice. Most importantly I am learning to bloom as a woman who is loved by Jesus. This is my personal resume. This is a really good life.

1 comment:

  1. I'm guessing that new personal resume is much closer to how our Father would describe you! That's my goal... to see myself the way He sees me and to strive to be what He wants me to be.

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