Freezing rain and record highs. Today, Salem broke the all-time recorded record high for the entire month of January ever with a whopping 64 degrees (14). Yeah, so 3 days ago, I was scraping a half inch of ice off the truck at 5am. I guess I won't have to go through that tomorrow!
Anyhow, this has been an interesting past week or so. I found out a week ago that my friend Heather (wife of the youth pastor at our church when I was in junior high) moved back to town. Rich (her husband, the youth pastor) is now youth pastoring at a church in the Salem area. It is really neat to hang out with Heather again - she was kind of like a mentor to me in junior high, and now it seems as though we're not so far apart in age! We laugh about the fact that she was a wife when I was in 8th grade, since we are more like peers now. (In fact, she is the same age as my friend Michelle (in Honduras) to whom I once mentioned that I am young enough to have been in her youth group when she was a youth pastor! And she does NOT seem old enough to potentially have been my youth pastor.) So anyhow, it's been good.
Then I was talking last night to another friend of mine from junior high - Lindsey. And we were talking about the fact that we both know that we won't be living in the Salem area much longer, but don't know how long it will be still, and that is a huge hinderance to making friends. I just didn't put much (any actually) effort into building new relationships when I moved home from school because I knew I'd be leaving..... even though I knew it would be at least a year after graduation that I move. So that was bad of me. Nice that I see that now that I have an undetermined time left here, but somewhere in the ballpark of 3 months to a year I imagine!
So I'm off to bed. Yes, it is before 9 pm, but that's the price to pay to get off work before noon! :-)
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