::murphy's law::

Lately, life in the Hansen household has been a little too boring, a little too normal, and maybe just a little too easy. Then today happened.

Murphy's Law states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and its days like today that almost convince me that this is true!

This morning I went into work as usual, but about 15 minutes after arriving I was called into talk with the VP of the company. He informed me that I was being laid off.... and yes he did use that term. Apparently Mill Harvest is going to take a break until after Christmas (funny! that's the same thing they told me last year) and when they get back to working on it, they'll give me a call...? Are you serious? Like I would EVER work for you again. So basically what they are asking is that I leave for 5-6 months, while they sit on their hands, and then come back and work for them again. Awesome.
Now the fact that Mill Harvest is "taking a break" is not a total shocker since I've been doing a lot of work for one of his other companies. However, it was perfectly bad timing. I have been planning on quitting for about 2 months now, so mostly all that was hurt was my pride. (Ah the sweet satisfaction of the words "I quit!") Oh, and did I mention that I was not offered any severance? And school starts next week so that gives me Monday (which is a holiday) to look for a job. I’m sure you also realize that this is a college town with two Universities that bring in more than 50,000 people who have already been hired and are working their first few weeks at their new jobs. The hiring period is very much over, which makes the timing of this firing even harder. This wouldn’t even be as big of a deal, but we just paid tuition on the 26^th (3 days ago) and so we are as poor as we will ever be! (Don't worry, we've been saving, and we are and will be fine financially. This was not written for sympathy or to make everyone worry about us ;))

And so here is where we can choose to believe that EVERYTHING is going wrong in our lives. Or... we can believe that we are being guided through life by a loving Heavenly Father who knows us so well, that sometimes he has to give us these challenges because we're not quite "understanding" what we should be doing.

I've recently been thinking about going back to school. I really wanted to, and Brady has been urging me to, but its been a struggle with myself as I was having a hard time knowing if this was a good time and just having the motivation to go back. After crying to Brady about being "laid off" from a job I've been complaining to him about for months now, I did find comfort in knowing I have other things going on in my life now, like school. Also, by "chance" I started looking for another job at the beginning of this week. Not because I was given any hint that I was going to be fired by the end of the week, but because I just felt it was time. I found out yesterday that I have a 2nd interview for another job. Lucky? I actually see it as a blessing.
And after I came home at 9:30 am on Friday, my sweet husband was doing his best to comfort a crazy over emotional wife and took me to see a matinée, since I'm usually working at that time. And would you believe it if I told you that when we walked out of the theater our car was surrounded by not 1, not 2, no not even 3, but 4 Policemen and a drug dog? Well, believe it. We asked the officers if it was okay for us to get in our car and go home, and they informed us that the cars on either side of us were broken into and robbed. We were told to check our car to see what was stolen. As we looked inside and out of our car, we saw that not a thing had been touched. Another sweet blessing...

And so no, I don't believe Murphy's Law. But I do believe that our Heavenly Father works in mysterious (sometimes frustrating! ;) ways, and I have complete faith in Him. No, our life isn't perfect no matter how many fun/good/exciting things we post on our blog, and there are several days that I come home and complain to Brady that I'm fat, ugly, and no body likes me. But in the end I am always reminded that I'm not alone, and that besides all the bad things going on in my life, there ARE also good things going on.

Oh.... and by the way, we just saved a TON on our car insurance! By switching to Geico! I'm totally serious too!