01/11/2012 11:53pm Plane Ticket: Purchased

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

So... Just this morning, I bought a plane ticket. :D

Two days ago, Rebecca called me during her break from work with some good news. When she's got good news, it's always realllllly good news. :) She said my mom sent me some money to buy a plane ticket! We were both kinda in dreamland or something... Both of us were pretty shocked. Sure enough, a couple moments later, I got an e-mail 'notice of remittance' stating that funds were being transferred to my bank. Wow!!

The funds still haven't transferred to my bank account yet, but I've been working hard and selling lots of stuff, so I had just enough money to get caught up on bills and things, and then just enough to buy the ticket on my own, so I did. Hopefully the transfer will go through soon, though. :P Haha... But, wanted to book the ticket ASAP. I'll be flying out on the 20th, and arriving in Korea on the 21st... The weekend right before Lunar New Year, the biggest holiday in Korea. I'll be spending it with my family, and Rebecca!!

There is much still up in the air... I'm planning on staying at least three months... It could possibly be longer, and it might possibly be shorter. I really have no idea. I don't have enough money saved to sustain myself that long, else I'll come back to a pile of debt, but I'll see what happens when I get over there. One step at a time... Still... I'm not worried about it. Not out of lack of responsibility, but out of faith. God has brought me this far... And I still obviously have no control of things... So, just gotta trust Him.

I had actually braced myself for a lonnnnnnnng wait, so finding out that umma was suddenly ready was quite a surreal moment. Actually, that legal case is still an issue... That's not yet resolved. I don't know what happened, but she managed to get me the money for a ticket, somehow.

I am crazy excited... This is just SO much sooner than I had imagined, especially after hearing the last bit of news from umma. I really do believe some things had to change/get done before I could go back... And I'm sure those forgiveness letters were on that list. So, hopefully I'll continue to be obedient to God and not obstruct His plan for my life... Or the plans for anyone else's. Wow, though... Wow.

The plan now is for my bro to drive Rebecca to the airport next Saturday... They will meet me... I think Rebecca and I will probably gonna gross out my bro something serious. :P But... I wanted to meet my umma later, not everyone at once. Too much all at once... And I need some time to kinda re-orient myself and emotionally prepare to meet my mother, the woman who gave birth to me, the one who gave me her genes, for the first time. Definitely gonna be an emotional day... One for the books. I can't wait to see Rebecca again... Meeting my bro is going to be awesome... And meeting my mom... I just can't imagine the weight of the moment.

So, yeah. God answers prayers. God has plans. I can't wait!!!