Welcome to the School of Rock

Well hello everyone! I thought I would take this opportunity to recap my first week of getting into the studying grind for the CPA exam. Overall, it was not too bad. I only felt a little discouraged/defeated maybe twice and REALLY briefly, its amazing how faithful God is when you call on Him in those moments. I'm reading this book called "Abba's Child" and it is talking a lot about the empowerment and strength we can have if we just recognize Jesus Christ's present risenness (basically meaning that we should not just appreciate Christ rising from the dead 2000 years ago, but that we should understand that it means He is walking with us constantly today). We can literally meet with the Lord at anytime...As much as you can say "oh yeah I knew that", I just don't know how much I actually realize/take advantage of the amazing power that exists when your Savior walks along side you.

So here goes the actual recap:

Monday- Started off with our first Becker review class, which I kind of alluded to in some past posts. Really the review class is a whirlwind because your highlighting and writing notes the whole 4 hours. It was really good to have friends with me though...I'm trying to only speak words of encouragement and hopefulness. Our God gives us hope, so I'm going to be a bringer of hope.

Tuesday- Got into serious study mode at my house with Jennifer, Toni and Patricia. Intense. The first "chapter" we went over was not too tough, so I got through the notes and homework pretty quickly. Then I played wii.

Okay so I'm going to digress a little. I LOVE my new wii. It is SO much fun and has facilitated the goofiest moods that I have had in a while. Now, I have also realized that I can get too into playing the wii and it can be a major distraction from spending time with the Lord or studying, but kept under control, it is just freakin amazing. My favorite games are wii tennis and mario party 8...mario party being like my WAY all time favorite.

See doesn't it look like so much fun! See the cute red-headed character in the back? That's who I play, her name is Daisy....hahaha too much! I may seem like a little princess on screen, but I can dominate in that game!

Okay, back to recap time:

Wednesday and Thursday: We had another Becker class that night, but this time it was a little more challenging material and I remembered going home that night thinking, "Oh man I didn't remember a thing that lecturer talked about".

However, the next morning I went to Starbucks and spent a good 3 hours re-looking over the notes and the concepts began to make sense. The only hard thing about it, is there are so many rules to remember. Only do XXX if ALL of these 4 requirements are met. There was like 3 different things like that.

Thursday was also strange because Reed texted me in the morning saying his stomach wasn't feeling good. I thought maybe it was just one of those days, but nothing serious. Then at around 4 I got a call that he had thrown up at work and was headed home. Odd, but still I thought he should just get some rest and lay down. We discussed at this point that since he was CERTAIN he had caught this from his roommate Zach (who had been sick a few days before with the EXACT same symptoms) that I should not see him for a couple days, just because I still feel some lingering mono symptoms and since my immune system is low, it might not be a good idea. Well later that night after I hung out with Rachel (and her new kitty :), SOOOO cute) I got a text from Reed saying he had thrown up like 6 or 7 more times this evening. I called him and we talked and I realized that he was unable to keep ANYTHING down...water included. So that led to the next predicament, Reed was starting to get dehydrated. He called his mom and started taking this medicine that still didn't work. After a couple hours he started to get a dehydration headache pretty bad because he was still unable to keep down liquids. So at around 11, Zach took him to the hospital so that he could get an IV and get some fluids in him. CRAZY! I was left at home only texting Reed back and forth to hear how things were going. Apparently the IV helped a lot though because he felt a lot better the next day and actually ate two pieces of bread! He is MUCH better now, actually he is perfectly normal! But it was a seriously crazy 36 hours!

Friday- I did NO studying, which I later regretted because the homework for the chapter turned out to be REALLY hard...but I did have fun babysitting the Perryman's (couple who disciples Reed and I) kids.

Saturday- I woke up around 8:30 and started to study, but was having some serious distraction issues, not even to anything in specific, its just that my brain did not want to do accounting problems. Plus the problems weren't even making sense! So I went and saw Valkyrie with Jamie, which was WAY sad, but I thought it was a pretty okay movie in the end.

Sunday- Reed and I went to church together, like we do every Sunday we are in College Station, but it was just so good yesterday. I missed FBC Bryan and brother Tim just gave a really raw and vulnerable sermon that really challenge everyone to simplify life.

After the wonderful morning, I felt so much strength to start off my really busy day ahead. Because I had slacked off Friday and Saturday, I knew I needed to get a solid amount of studying in, so I studied from 12:30ish to 5:30 at Sweets and then came home and studied from 8:30-10:30. It was good, there were little moments when I would feel exhausted and want to give up, but there was always something keeping me going. I know that it was most definitely the Lord. All good things are from Him and I am feeling it so much throughout this process.

So here I am, Monday morning, at work and feeling really positive about this week! I have A LOT of studying to do, I'm going to try and study about 10 hours more than I did this week, which is huge, BUT I know that the Lord will help me through it. I just need to not kid myself and think that I have strength enough to accomplish that kind of a task on my own. I know I don't.

Anyways, here is to a wonderful Monday!