God laughs, again.

What. A. Week. It was crazy. It was incredibly busy. But it was also very blessed.

And I am now incredibly tired! This week pretty much got lost at work - seriously. Fridays are usually pretty quiet and kind of slow, but this week, Friday came like a train going 150 mph. I got to work at 6:30 this morning, and didn't leave until... 5:00 this evening. Mmmhmmm, so much for an easy Friday.

Thinking about yesterday's post, yeah, almost all of my "plans" for today ended up tossed by the wayside.

Leaving work early? Hahahahaha! Riiiiight!! Try 5:00.

Having a nice, calm day at work, tying up loose ends from the week, responding to emails, analyzing some data? Not gonna happen, not today!

Running some important samples this afternoon? Ahhhh, hahahaha... forget about it, geek girl!!! Watch the vacuum pumps on your spectrometer crash! Those samples will just have to wait until next week.

No, I can't lie, today had its frustrations, but although I was definitely ready to go home by 5:00, I still felt like it really had been a good day.

Anymore, for me, the silver lining in each day is the people I share it with - my family, my friends, my coworkers (who are really in the "friends" category, anyways!). Seriously. The best people in the world are the ones I've been blessed to have in my life. All of them.

Today, as I was driving home, I was specifically thinking about my coworkers. They're wonderful, and sometimes they're crazy, and sometimes they challenge me. We don't all share the same beliefs, but we do share a common respect for one another. We help each other, we face problems together, we support each other, we laugh together, and sometimes we are sad or frustrated together, too. I know I am incredibly, incredibly blessed to say I work with such a phenomenal group of people, and I am grateful for that - and for them. It's true, the best things in life aren't things, they're people.

God laughed at almost all of my plans for today. Despite the long day, I came out with something much better than leaving at 3:30 - a reminder of how grateful I should be for all the amazing people He has put in my life, my family, my friends/colleagues. He obviously knows what He's doing.

Oh yeah, as a side note: the only two things I'd planned to do today that DID go as planned? Making it to Mass, and Stations of the Cross. Further proof that God knows exactly what He is doing, all the time. Pace e bene! ;-)