It's been awhile since I last wrote a blog, and since I have something on my mind today I'll write it out and update ya!

I've been busy this week doing so much stuff for one job and training at my other job. In the mean time I've been Christmas shopping as best I could and finally I dealt with a snow storm and had to dig out my neighbor (they got snowed in and they couldn't open their doors lol).

The work at the garage has finally sent me over the edge and As of February 1st, I will no longer be working there unless some drastic changes come about (a damn heater would be one, i'm tired of freezing my ass off in the booth). I spoke to my manager yesterday and while she was upset that I was leaving, she understood. She wrote an email to the HR person for our location and now she's going to come down this Monday to talk to me about what is going on and what I would like (classic HR bullshit really).

Work at ARC is going better as well. I've managed to get a few shifts in here and there randomly, but cus i'm a new sub with a lack of training, I'm not gonna get the hours I need, but that'll change soon. I have my CPR/First Aid cert. and now I'm going for Med training after New Years which gaurentes me more hours (yay!).

I also got a nice early Christmas Present from the Jury Management Office of Monmouth County in the form of a letter stating that, due to medical reasons, I am excused from Jury Duty. To me, it's both a good thing and a bad thing because while it would've raised my stress level getting from there to work, I don't like using my disability to get out of things I think are important.

Now today is what got my mind whirling, I was sitting in Church today (okay for most of the day LOL) and I met a young guy in the Youth Group who started talking to me (guess i'm not SUCH and ogre lol). We got into talking about the high school here, and how the kids are, along with some other subjects of varying subjects. But it turns out hes a foster kid with some horror stories up his sleeve. Once the candle light service started, we parted ways to go sit with our families, and when I saw him sit with his family, I guess it was his foster dad put an arm around his shoulder and I saw the kid smile, and it touched me.

Now some of you may or may not totally believe in prayer, but I do and today is a good example of why. When we gave our thanks, we all bowed our heads and prayed once we were done and I had an image of the Kid I was talking to and one that I came across on my last trip to NYC in the East Village. The guy was on the street, begging for money and he looked no older then the kid from youth group that I met today. I gave him some money hopefully for some food or at least a warm drink, and I felt happy with that, a warm happiness.

On the way home, I still had that image in my head, of the kid on the street and I couldn't shake it. Hell I still can't, and it bothers me till I thought of something that put it to rest. From now on whenever I goto the city, I'm gonna carry some extra money in my wallet and the next kid I see in the village who's in need, I'm gonna help the best way I can. Whether its to get him a coat, a warm meal, or something, that's what I wanna do. When I affirmed that in my head, I had this huge warm feeling take me over and it felt good.

So, from praying, I got this idea, and I think it was affirmed, so that's what I'm going to do.

Well, it's almost midnight and i'm tired so i'm outties!

Eric

Oh PS - Expect a Spring Anthology from me in 2010!