WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE EXCHANGE

EXCHANGE - CHURCH PICTURE - 

AUGUST 11,2012 

ME & LILY  

IN LITTLE LIFE

                       THIS PICTURE OF 

LILY & I  IS IN THE VIDEO AT THE 2:08 MARK

First Year Celebration Video from The Exchange on Vimeo.

A Bitter Sweet Week For Me at Work we are now only two more days away from my transfer.

Job Update - Last week - 08/08/13


So when I got here buddy says someone came by to talk to him about the transfer but he was busy and said they would call him tomorrow and i said well i know what they are going to talk to you about and he said i KIND OF DO TOO! BUT IM PREPARED! I WANT BEAT YOU! I said are you sure about that that you are prepared and he said yeah! I PROMISE! BUDDY IS A TRIP! CRACKS ME UP! im not so sure he is though because he wasn't expecting it til end of the month... So we will see! LOL!


Tuesday - 08/13/13 - 

It is official... buddy DOES NOT WANT ME TO LEAVE! 

When I first came in Lastnight, he informed me he had not heard from Cory at Reservoir yet.
he also said I am trying to get the new girl in here thursday so you can train her so we can get you out of here sooner not that I want to. I said well that gives me Thursday & Friday to train her and he said and maybe even Monday and I said that would work really because Cory is not going to start me til Tuesday and he said I ain't worried about Cory, He said I will call cory and tell him he can stay late and clean it himself and keep you here as long as I want to! Lol! Buddy is a trip! I think its setting in that im almost gone.  he is going to make me cry.

He said I know its good to be wanted! I said Yea, it's been a good thing it really has!  he said cory is going to need me to put up with him being a nut! and I responded to that with YOUR BOTH FUNNY while thinking to myself, like I dont already put up with buddy being a nut! he said Cory and I will get along just fine. Lol! when I really should have said exactly what I was thinking! LOL!


I appricate the front desk guy lastnight for letting me know that they have enjoyed having me there.  

It was a Bitter Sweet Night....

It really did make me want to cry to see Buddy all sad.... 

I'm sure he will make me cry before I'm gone.  MARK MY WORDS!!!!!

He was in Denial last week when he said he was prepared for this because after Last night, he clearly isn't prepared for this but he's working with it and preparing for it.

just in one of those moods where everything is going so wonderfully in my life right now that for the first time in my life I dont know what to do with myself. Im not use to all of this all the appriciation from everyone around me that I work with and all the love and appriciation from my boss on a daily basis.
I really do appriciation that he has taken my past work history seriously and makes sure that he lets me know I am appriciated more than I know.   

this song below is everything I'm feeling right now after lastnight and leading up to my last day. 

Michael W. Smith 

Friends - Lyrics

Packing up the dreams, God planted
In the fertile soil of you
I can't believe the hopes He's granted
Means a chapter in your life is through

But we'll keep you close as always
It won't even seem you've gone
'Cause our hearts, in big and small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong

And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the Lord of them
And a friend will not say, "Never"
'Cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the father's hands, we know
That a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends

With the faith and love, God's given
Springing from the hope we know
We will pray the joy you'll live in
Is the strength that now you show

But we'll keep you close as always
It won't even seem you've gone
'Cause our hearts, in big an' small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong

Yeah, yea

And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the Lord of them
And a friend will not say, "Never"
'Cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the father's hands, we know
That a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends

And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the Lord of them
And a friend will not say, "Never"
'Cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the father's hands, we know
That a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends
To live as friends

Though it's hard to let you go
In the father's hands, we know
That a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends
Though a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends

ADDIE - SATURDAY AUGUST 10,2013

ADDIE - 

SATURDAY AUGUST 10,2013 

My Mom's masters diploma Came In!! Sunday August 11,2013

I am really proud! Its been a long road to this but we got through it together! She went from getting National Board Certified to getting her Endorcement to Teach Gifted and then on to Masters. She spent 2 years on national boards & 1 year on gifted endorcement & 2 years on masters!!!! She says NO MORE SHE IS DONE FOR GOOD!!

5 years of going back to school at night at MC to finally get to this point. She's excited to finally be done with school. She's saying she can't believe she did it.

 

JOB UPDATE!!!!!!!!! BIG NEWS!!! BUT BITTER SWEET.... TEAR....

I'm about to have one very sad boss. Today could not have gone better. looks like I'm transferring not next week but the next. Buddy is about to get a phone call today. he knows it's coming because he knows I was going to talk to the guy at Reservoir today because the guy at Reservoir told him. He just doesn't know I am only coming back for one more week. Buddy thought he was keeping me til end of the month. I have to say I am going to miss everyone at The Downtown YMCA, they have all been so wonderful to me and I couldn't have asked for better co-workers or a better boss. I will miss all of Buddy's WHATEVER... IM EASY... IM FLEXIBLE!!

 I will also miss our Characters we have at The Downtown YMCA. speaking of, the guys at the front desk and I were Joking around Tuesday Night about one of the characters who was giving the workers nick names and the guys at the front desk said, we have some characters around here and you will learn that the longer you hang around. I KID YOU NOT ABOUT THE CHARACTERS!!! THATS NO LIE!  the one giving workers nick names, he gave them each a spice girls nick name, I WAS LIKE ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THINK WE CAN SAY WE DEFFENANTLY HAVE SOME CHARACTERS. I was thinking OKAY THIS IS NOT THE 90'S. CAN'T BELIEVE ANYBODY STILL LISTENS TO SPICE GIRLS LOL!!!
Also get this, next week during my last week, I will spend my last week Training the new girl, I just found that out today, they said I'm so good at what I do, they want me to train her. So the new girl will be coming in to work with me next week. I'm excited about being asked to train somebody for the first time!!! hoping this goes well... so pray for me about training the new girl next week. Training someone is a whole new Adventure for me. I may get to do that some at Reservoir if they ever need me to train someone. the guy was basically just like buddy, he was just HEY WHATEVER!! I'm going to run things just like Buddy. WORKS FOR ME!!!!

AND GOOD NEWS!!! I will still see Buddy at Reservoir a good bit because he comes over to reservoir ymca to work out because he lives right over here on old fannin by the reservoir ymca, I just won't be working with him anymore after Next week.

Also at Reservoir I will have WAAY MORE Interaction with the members than I do now because it's such a small ymca. Once I start working at Reservoir YMCA, I will be working from 4:00pm-7:00pm instead of 5:00pm-8:00pm or 5:00pm-7:00pm and I will only work 3 days a week instead of 4 days a week, I will work Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, off on Monday & Wednesday and off Saturday, Sunday!!! YAY!

Next Friday August 16 will be a very bitter sweet day for me but I am so glad that my cousin Evelyn is coming next weekend, it will be good to have her around after such a bitter sweet day! Looking forward to the visit!!!!

Anyway, I will talk to ya'll Later!
I Look forward to telling ya'll all about next week and all about Reservoir!!! IM EXCITED!!!!


HAVE A GREAT REST OF THE WEEK & WEEKEND!!!!!!!!! 

!~Tara~!

Job Update - August 6,2013

Hey Family & Friends & The Exchange & Life Group

OMG!!!! THANK YA'LL SO MUCH AGAIN FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR ALL OF THE CONTINUED PRAYERS AND FOR CONTINUING TO STICK WITH ME THROUGH THIS JOURNEY. 

We are slowly but surely getting through this now 5 months long process of me getting on at Reservoir YMCA. I just Finally got a Text Message this morning that I'm suppose to go meet with this guy on Thursday at 1:00pm. He doesn't seem interested in Just transferring me over since all the paper work is already done  all buddy has to do is send over all the paper work and the copy of my ID and all that good stuff which he will do, for some reason I'm having to go through this whole process all over again, Interview and all that stuff. I thought buddy and marcus had it to where all I would have to do is transfer, atleast that was my understanding, because all of the paper work and drug test is done and it all goes through the same office downtown, so it doesn't make sense to me that I'm having to go through the entire process all over again. I don't know it seems to me like there is some confusion. I'm not looking to get a job, I just need to transfer from one ymca to another ymca location.Hopefully thursday we will get all of the kinks worked out of this. I have been trying to get on at Reservoir since April. 

Now I just need ya'll to stick with me for just a little bit longer, and continue to pray that I finally end up at Reservoir either before I leave for Nashville or After I get back.  I hope this process doesn't get drug out for too much longer. 

I will Talk To Ya'll again on Thursday Night as soon as I know more. 

Have A Great Week! 

 

Job & Life Update Time!

August 1,2013 - Job Update -


Looks like im staying at downtown ymca atleast for this month anyway. May not go to reservoir til September when I get back from Nashville. They only had weekends Avaliable and The weekends they had available would be two 10 hour days full time every weekend and no week days and I dont want that and buddy advised against that. He said the guy at reservoir will have an opening with week days available in september. so for now im staying put!


 Well... Now waiting to see if im going to leave downtown and go to Flowood for a while. Got some news Friday, that was not exactly what I wanted or needed, got cut an hour Friday night at work but its Not their fault though because It was technically suppose to be my last night at the downtown ymca. I was suppose to transfer to reservoir on monday but thats not happening. Its not in anybodies control, theres nothing anybody can do about it, its out of Buddy's Control, its out of my Control, There has been a call put in to Flowood to see if Marcus can bring me on yet & and to Reservoir b/c they didnt hold up their end of the deal. So for now all I can do is make the best of it. 

I wasn't too bothered by Friday nights cut because Friday had already been a Long & Rough day because I was suppose to go to a class early Friday morning so we drove 30 minutes over to my class and only to get a call on my cell phone after being in the building for 10 or 15 minutes and then someone met me in the room and said IM SO SORRY I FORGOT TO CALL YOU, also we took my moms car to the shop to get the oil changed and find out why the check engine light came on and so they changed the oil and checked in out and the car went dead a few times while they were working on it and then once they had it ready for us we got in and tried to leave and tried to crank it several times and it wouldn't crank at all. We took it to that car care clinic by walmart in Flowood, so we ended up getting stranded for a little while until one of my moms teacher friends could come pick us up. We walked to Walmart lol and her friend picked us up from walmart about NOON and she took us to eat Chinese for lunch and then I met up with my memaw and my cousin Ashleigh from Texas later on and I went to sit with them while they ate at Olive Garden and we all 3 shared a dessert!! YUMMY! and then we went to see my memaw's cousin Alice and then I came home to change clothes real quick before work and went to work. so I was cool with going home early Friday Night. I usually get in 3 good hours of work.  I try to take my time and make it last so I get 3 hours.


August 5,2013 - Job Update - 

A few Calls have been put in to Flowood YMCA to see if Marcus's boss will let him bring me on yet at all. also An email with several calls have been put into Reservoir to see if we can get them to come back through on their end of the deal because they were really suppose to transfer me over there this week and that didn't happen. Because that didn't happen, Buddy was put in a bad position Friday and ended up cutting me an hour because things were slowing down because this week it's back to school and Friday was the last day for kids all day at the ymca. 

with that being said, he said the work load would get lighter and there won't be as much to do and we won't have to go around and pick up trash in the gym where kids have been playing basketball all day. Also Ben had been there early from 1-4 because he had something to do and had done all of his work and most of mine so all I had to do was tend to the womens locker room and then he said I was free to go on and go home when I finished that, I know there is nothing good about getting cut a whole hour but like I said It's out of both mine & Buddy's Control & I know it's not Buddy's Fault because Technically I wasn't suppose to be coming back this week, I was suppose to be starting at Reservoir this week, but they fell through on their end of the deal. I knew Buddy didn't won't come tell me the plan Friday for Friday Night and the plan for this week I saw that look he had and I knew he did not want to come tell me I wasn't going to have as much to do anymore but at the same time he doesn't want to loose me either. From the looks of things he may end up end up with me til I can find something some where else if I can't get on at Flowood and if nothing comes of me going to Reservoir. 

 I'm wondering if going to work at the ymca was such a brilliant idea after all or not, I was really feeling it big time like it was right because so many other good things happened around that, but now I'm having serious doubts. I began Wondering Friday if maybe the sign was there all along that Im not meant to be at the ymca for very long  maybe that's why I can't seem to end up where I need to end up, maybe I just didn't want to see it but it was right there infront of me when I couldn't get on at Flowood. I fought a door God kept trying to close several times.


Today - August 6,2013

I want to thank each and every one of you... my family & Friends & my church & my life group who have been right here with me through this roller coaster of Ups & Downs of trying to get on at the location I need to get on at. thank you so much for being right here with me when I went through over two months of dealing with trying to get on at Flowood. Thank you so much for continuing to Follow me as I Update You on this Long Journey with The YMCA and pulling for me and praying for Me & with Me through this Journey. Thanks so much for walking with me on this Journey and continuing to walk with me on this Journey. Also THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH for never giving up on me as I went through two long years of being out of a job and cheering me on as I never gave up on myself and I never stopped looking for a job even though I had my moments where I wanted to give up but I pushed on.

If I hadn't of found my wonderful Church Family The Exchange & My Life Group & if God hadn't of brought my long lost friend Christina Hill from First Grade back in to my life when I really needed something positive in my life that I never in a million years dreamed would happen I don't know if I would have been able to keep going and keep looking. It is because of all of their encouragement and wanting to jump right in and do whatever they could to help me look for a job and also because of my mom's contiues pushing to keep looking even though sometimes it got under my skin because I was so sick of looking and so sick of filling out job applications. 

Friends & Family & The Exchange & Life Group, I need your prayers now more than ever, as I continue on this Journey of trying to get on at the right ymca location and as I continue to pray about this  weather or not God is closing this door and where God is leading me next on this Journey called Life.  

                                       I just saw this on Facebook this Evening

I love how God will put these reminders infront of us sometimes. God sure does work in Mysterious ways.  

well anyway, I will talk to ya'll later and I will keep ya'll updated as I continue to know more.

I will try to update again next week if I don't have anymore updates for this week. 

                                       HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

4th Annual Laugh Away SMA 2013 - August 3,2013 at The Muse Center at The Hinds Rankin Campus in Pearl,Ms

4TH ANNUAL

Laugh Away SMA 2013 -

 August 3,2013

 at The Muse Center 

at The Hinds Rankin Campus 

in Pearl,Ms 

THANKS SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT TO SHOW SUPPORT FOR SMA & HELP US RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT SMA AND HAD A GOOD LAUGH WITH US!!!!

WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED JAKE GULLEDGE & TOM WILSON (AKA) "BIFF" FROM BACK TO THE FUTURE & LAST BUT NOT LEAST THE GUY WHO KEEPS ON COMING BACK EVERY YEAR AND BELIEVES IN WHAT WE'RE ALL ABOUT & KEEPS ON BRINGING IN MORE TALENT WITH HIM EVERY YEAR  "HENRY CHO" AS MUCH AS WE DID!!!  I KNOW I COULDN'T STOP LAUGHING. I LAUGHED UNTIL MY STOMACH HURT AND THEN I LAUGHED SOME MORE! LOL!

                                                          SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!