I was thinking today about how few times I've written a blog this month and realized I better write one tonight before April is over!
I'm just going to share a few things that I'm grateful for.
I'm grateful I have a job in this unstable economy. I'm grateful that I work with people that are pretty much easy to get along with. I'm also very grateful that it is temporary.
I'm grateful for the mild weather we've been having lately and that it hasn't been too hot or cold. I think I really enjoy 60 degree weather the best now.
I'm grateful for the small storage of food that I have right now. If it comes down to a pandemic in this country and we have to be quarantined in our home for awhile, I think we'll be okay.
I'm grateful to be accepted to all of the schools that I applied to. Even though I received a rejection letter many years ago, I forgot that it isn't usual to be accepted to every school you try for.
I'm grateful that my brother and sister-in-law have been back in the area for a year, tomorrow. I'm grateful that they have put up with me while I wasn't always patient or understanding during this year of transition. I'm grateful for the rest of my family putting up with me as well.
I'm grateful for my husband and his willingness to change our life so that I can pursue my dreams. I'm grateful that I have the freedom to make these changes.
I'm grateful for the freedoms and the choices we have now and I hope that my fears for the future do not come true.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
So frustrated
As I sit here and write this and hear the unknown visitor staying at our neighbors place, clomping up and down the stairs and banging in and out the door, I am so frustrated. Although I know there are much bigger problems I could be having and that others DO have, I'm still frustrated. There is a lesson that is suppose to be learned from this, but I don't know which one it is. Should I learn to live with things I cannot control and try to ignore them? Should I learn conflict resolution with people that drive me crazy? Should I take this as a final straw that we should move? Or is it some other point that I'm missing entirely?
I'm so tired of living in a place where you have no idea from one moment to the next who is going to be staying around you and how noisy they are going to be and what times they will be making that noise! It's so unsettling and most of all very hard to get a good night's sleep. I feel like I'm living at a Motel 6 much of the time.
I am very, very, very grateful though that we don't have bedbugs. It could always be worse, I know.
Most of you that know me have heard this all before, many times. Sorry to bug you. I just need to get this out somewhere and I had the computer on.
Oh look, it's now midnight. Happy Easter everyone! I'll try to put my frustration in the tomb with Christ and hope that it will disappear with all the other problems he died for. What a weird way to talk about Easter. Anyway, goodnight.
I'm so tired of living in a place where you have no idea from one moment to the next who is going to be staying around you and how noisy they are going to be and what times they will be making that noise! It's so unsettling and most of all very hard to get a good night's sleep. I feel like I'm living at a Motel 6 much of the time.
I am very, very, very grateful though that we don't have bedbugs. It could always be worse, I know.
Most of you that know me have heard this all before, many times. Sorry to bug you. I just need to get this out somewhere and I had the computer on.
Oh look, it's now midnight. Happy Easter everyone! I'll try to put my frustration in the tomb with Christ and hope that it will disappear with all the other problems he died for. What a weird way to talk about Easter. Anyway, goodnight.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
I have the computer to myself!
Finally! A chance to use the computer at home and write a blog!
I went back to work 3 weeks ago and I use the computer all day long and I don't really feel like using it in the evening after work too. My husband also believes I get to be on the internet all day, so I don't NEED to use the computer at home either. So not true, I usually only check my e-mail for a few minutes.
Work has been good. Quite a change from the previous three months of nothing I'd had, where the big event of the day was taking a long walk. Surprisingly going back to work hasn't been that big of an adjustment as I thought it was going to be. I went back to my old job and after 18 months of being away, I was able to remember almost everything. Was a nice boost for my self confidence. Now in my 4th week, I am remembering why I quit (I was very bored and not challenged) but it's only temporary and I'm so thankful just to have a job.
I have not been taking pictures this year like I had been the previous year. I just now created an April 09 photo folder that has a total of 3 pictures in it! So different from last April! It's okay though. It was fun to document every aspect of life for a year, but after awhile it gets tiring.
I do have a few photos taken on my cell phone camera and I will use some of them to tell what has happened to me over the last few weeks.
My husband and I went hiking early in March and made our own trail through this wall of poison oak. My husband got it really bad, and I didn't get one blister. Still not allergic to it, yay!
Fun with shadows on our hike.
I took a walk to "my tree" the Thursday before I started work again as a final "goodbye". I knew I would walk there again, but it put an end so to speak on that chapter of my life. It was bittersweet. It's been good to have so much free time and to work on all my Math classes, but the 18 months was full of a lot of depression too.
On my second day of work, I went to try to velobind a report and found that the "arm" was very difficult to push down to punch the holes. I tried to pull out the tray and it was so full, it almost didn't budge. Obviously nobody had cleaned out the tray in over a year, because what you see in this picture is the pile that fell out of the "machine" after I had emptied out the drawer!! I also had a similar experience with the moistener on the postage meter. Nobody had ever cleaned out the water reservoir since I had left, so it was positively green with mold! Glad I could come back to do those jobs if nothing else!!
I have been on some long walks since I've started work, but not as many as I was taking before. This was taken on very beautiful Saturday
Later in the afternoon on the same Saturday I was on the way to the grocery store and was rear-ended by a very young tourist driving a very large vehicle. Not much damage, but I was very shaken up. As you can see, the bumper did it's job.
The following week I met up with an old friend who has moved away and we went out for a great dinner and great conversation. This was our dessert, Brioche with Pumpkin pudding and vanilla ice cream. Kind of kicks the pants off of pumpkin pancakes, more like really fancy pumpkin french toast. I will be definitely trying versions of this in the fall!
Last Saturday my sister spent the night at our house and we had lots of time to hang out. We took a walk on the beach and I was joking around getting a picture of the surfer that was checking us out while we were sitting for awhile.
There are some fun and exciting things ahead and I will blog about those when I come to them. For now, it's work, work, work and wait, wait, wait. I should probably pray in the middle of all of that was well!
I went back to work 3 weeks ago and I use the computer all day long and I don't really feel like using it in the evening after work too. My husband also believes I get to be on the internet all day, so I don't NEED to use the computer at home either. So not true, I usually only check my e-mail for a few minutes.
Work has been good. Quite a change from the previous three months of nothing I'd had, where the big event of the day was taking a long walk. Surprisingly going back to work hasn't been that big of an adjustment as I thought it was going to be. I went back to my old job and after 18 months of being away, I was able to remember almost everything. Was a nice boost for my self confidence. Now in my 4th week, I am remembering why I quit (I was very bored and not challenged) but it's only temporary and I'm so thankful just to have a job.
I have not been taking pictures this year like I had been the previous year. I just now created an April 09 photo folder that has a total of 3 pictures in it! So different from last April! It's okay though. It was fun to document every aspect of life for a year, but after awhile it gets tiring.
I do have a few photos taken on my cell phone camera and I will use some of them to tell what has happened to me over the last few weeks.
My husband and I went hiking early in March and made our own trail through this wall of poison oak. My husband got it really bad, and I didn't get one blister. Still not allergic to it, yay!
Fun with shadows on our hike.
I took a walk to "my tree" the Thursday before I started work again as a final "goodbye". I knew I would walk there again, but it put an end so to speak on that chapter of my life. It was bittersweet. It's been good to have so much free time and to work on all my Math classes, but the 18 months was full of a lot of depression too.
On my second day of work, I went to try to velobind a report and found that the "arm" was very difficult to push down to punch the holes. I tried to pull out the tray and it was so full, it almost didn't budge. Obviously nobody had cleaned out the tray in over a year, because what you see in this picture is the pile that fell out of the "machine" after I had emptied out the drawer!! I also had a similar experience with the moistener on the postage meter. Nobody had ever cleaned out the water reservoir since I had left, so it was positively green with mold! Glad I could come back to do those jobs if nothing else!!
I have been on some long walks since I've started work, but not as many as I was taking before. This was taken on very beautiful Saturday
Later in the afternoon on the same Saturday I was on the way to the grocery store and was rear-ended by a very young tourist driving a very large vehicle. Not much damage, but I was very shaken up. As you can see, the bumper did it's job.
The following week I met up with an old friend who has moved away and we went out for a great dinner and great conversation. This was our dessert, Brioche with Pumpkin pudding and vanilla ice cream. Kind of kicks the pants off of pumpkin pancakes, more like really fancy pumpkin french toast. I will be definitely trying versions of this in the fall!
Last Saturday my sister spent the night at our house and we had lots of time to hang out. We took a walk on the beach and I was joking around getting a picture of the surfer that was checking us out while we were sitting for awhile.There are some fun and exciting things ahead and I will blog about those when I come to them. For now, it's work, work, work and wait, wait, wait. I should probably pray in the middle of all of that was well!
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