my big news of today is

I got a job.

Yes, I’m using a reaction gif on a blog that’s not Tumblr.  Sorry not sorry.

That’s right.  After three-plus months of feeling useless and having angst and frustration and emotional meltdowns, Kiersten Lawrence is now a real adult with a real job that actually pays money.  MacKenzie’s Bakery hired me after an interview that was approximately 8 minutes long and consisted mostly of the hiring manager telling me stuff about the bakery.  I think the only questions she asked me were “Tell me about yourself” and “how do you know Jo?” (the lovely lady who gave me a reference).  She literally wrote me into the schedule less than five minutes after meeting me.

If that’s not a God-thing, I don’t know what is.  I’m excited.

I’m not as nervous about starting as I thought I’d be–maybe I will come Tuesday, which is my first day.  (But I’m not going to try to psych myself out.)  I’ll be shadowing the manager, and be on shifts with Erika (another fellow New Day-er, whom I don’t know all that well but is extremely sweet (no bakery pun intended)) for a few days.  It’s easily accessible by bus and the employees are nice and it smells good and IT IS AN ACTUAL JOB.

I am going to choose to be EXCITED ABOUT THIS.