Time Goes On

So much has happened since I last updated. *E* and I have been in the apartment for 1 month. I have finished my 7 weeks of training at Verizon Wireless (VZW) and have now finished my first of 13 weeks of "Transition". Where training was learning how to use all the tools and resources, plus the billing system, etc, Transition is sort of a "Boot Camp" where you take all that your were supposed to learn and apply it while taking calls. We have 18 students that entered Transition and we have access to 6 Transition assistants. They are there to help us if we get stuck and cannot find an answer from the massive database called Doorways. If we have to call for help, they will walk up but they won’t just give you the answer, they will ask you where you looked. They want to make sure you have done what you can to find the answer before they show you.
Anyway. customers, after the call, have the option to do a survey after the call. I have had 4 interviews left for me and they all have given me 100% evaluations. This is a surprise to me as frankly, I have really struggled in training and felt totally unprepared to be on the phones.
During the first 2 weeks of Transition we are doing what is called "Nesting." this where we are doubled up on the phone with someone else in our class. I have been fortunate to be teamed up with *G*. a woman that I have become friends with in class. She is very smart and appears to have an almost photographic memory. Earlier in training we were talking and I confided to her that I was having a real hard time retaining things and she offered to meet me early before work or after and help me. She is really nice and we have become pretty good friends through these 9 weeks or so. It is nice to have someone like her for a friend.
I am very happy, no, ecstatic to report that *E* is a very different girl. She is pulling straight A’s in school, has been making friends, and most importantly starting to really talk to me.
It is very obvious now that God has us where we are supposed to be. The only thing that I wish were different is my work schedule. I am working Sunday through Thursday 11am to 8pm which means I cannot go to church. But I have a partial remedy for that thanks to the Internet. I have been downloading sermons from my former pastor at Faith Community Church, burning them to CD’s, which I then listen to in my car on the way to and from work.
The house in Suisun is up for sale and we have had an offer. I am waiting on the Bank to approve it. It is a short sale and because I was unemployed, recently divorced, etc. Kim and I qualify for ‘Hardship Conditions" which if approved will get this financial elephant off of our backs. Again I am trusting God will make a way.
I talked to an old friend a few nights ago. I couldn’t get a hold of him before we moved so he had no idea I was divorced or had moved to Arkansas. He asked me if I were happy and I told him I was. He said good, congratulated me and then asked how the dating situation was.
That brought up the following…
Currently that is not on my radar. When Sprite broke up in the Fall of ’92 that was when I rushed into the disaster that was my marriage. That is something I will NOT do again. Added that I still miss Sprite and cannot imagine anyone else in my life, plus needing time to heal, another relationship is somewhere down the road, maybe. If anything I have learned that I need to heal as mentioned and if there is someone for me, to wait and let the Lord work it out.

Yesterday was a day that Sprite was heavy on my mind. Her picture is on my dresser and I sat on the bed looking at it and remembering her smile, her laugh, and how much I miss her strength, wisdom, and her love for *E* and I.