I was kind of stressing last night about jumping right back into work - I really WANT some time to focus on Little Man. I had a couple months when we first got him true but we were so new to each other. I wanted some time to just enjoy and I was feeling like this was a headlong rush right back to the rat race. Then suddenly it dawned on me. My life can be how ever I CHOOSE it to be. (I'm supposed to be relatively bright - how come the simplest things elude me so often?) So this morning we got up and I made french toast for breakfast then rice and veggies and turkey slices with gravy to pack for his lunch. We played around while brushing his teeth and now he is at school. I'm taking my MIL to her accountant in a few min and I'll do my interview after that. Then its home to snuggle little man for his nap.
If I feel like the job is going to be a 14 hour day pressure cooker - I can say NO. Just like I did to Chicago. Lord knows its not like I don't have two other options to review just this week. I can't expect to have some fantasy where someone pays me millions to just stay home and enjoy my boy but I don't have to let my life get out of control unless that is what I choose either.
How come I have to keep learning this same lesson? I swear I've been here before!!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Now this is just silly!!
Guess who just called all frantic.
If you guessed Mega Corp you'd be right. Seems their QC manager walked out on them and since I've done that job (best damn QC manager they ever had - and that's a quote from folks there not me) they'd like to talk to me - before Friday apparently.
Methinks they have a mole.
I'm just befuddled.
If you guessed Mega Corp you'd be right. Seems their QC manager walked out on them and since I've done that job (best damn QC manager they ever had - and that's a quote from folks there not me) they'd like to talk to me - before Friday apparently.
Methinks they have a mole.
I'm just befuddled.
So much for getting things done around the house
Now I have an interview this Friday to prepare for. I suppose it is really ungrateful of me to be annoyed that this couldn't happn like a month from now.
The first day of the rest of my life...
Otherwise known as the first day of my unemployment, went pretty well. I got up at 6 as usual but had time to work out and shower before making Little Man eggs and toast for breakfast, instead of hustling us both into clothes and the car as fast as possible after just giving him Cheerios's for breakfast.
I dropped him off for preschool then came home to attack paperwork. I've been letting that slide as well as pretty much everything else around the house. About the only thing other than Little Man I have paid any attention to over the last month has been getting ready for and celebrating the holidays and shutting down the old job. I picked Little Man up from Preschool just after lunch and continued on paperwork while he took his nap. After that, he and I worked on thank you notes for his Christmas presents. Mama wrote the notes and he colored them with his markers. So paperwork is now in order, thank you's done, several loads of laundry are also completed, and we had a nice home made dinner last night.
Today I plan to tackle some general tidying and, since there is plenty of that to do, it should take most of the day. After that I am going to take one room of the house at a time and do a full scale work over of each room. Anything that does not get used goes - anything that does not have its own "place" to get put away either gets a place or goes. I feel like we are living with 50 pounds of crazy stuffed into a 5 pound sack and I want to lighten the load. I fully expect this to take several weeks at the least.
Once the house is in order, I have a couple years worth of photos I want to organize and scrapbook. (And these have been some photo intensive years let me tell you.) And if I manage to make it through all of that and still remain unemployed I'm looking at enrolling in the summer intensive session of the Russian program at the local university. Just because I want to learn Russian and Mega corp will pay tuition for a year after my layoff.
Lest you think I am expecting a job to just drift from the sky on fairy dust while I do all this other stuff - I do have a schedule of hours per day to do resume mailings, applications, and networking calls. In fact I' have a phone screen later this week with a company interested in me for a plant managers job and already successfully completed one with a different company - just waiting on a call about a possible on site interview there.
I know neither of these may pan out - but for some reason I'm just not worried about finding work yet. I don't know if it is faith that God will provide or just relief from the stress. Probably some of both. I can honestly say - I wish it would take a few months at least but instead of trying to control it I'm going to just keep going with the flow for now. It seems to be working so far.
I dropped him off for preschool then came home to attack paperwork. I've been letting that slide as well as pretty much everything else around the house. About the only thing other than Little Man I have paid any attention to over the last month has been getting ready for and celebrating the holidays and shutting down the old job. I picked Little Man up from Preschool just after lunch and continued on paperwork while he took his nap. After that, he and I worked on thank you notes for his Christmas presents. Mama wrote the notes and he colored them with his markers. So paperwork is now in order, thank you's done, several loads of laundry are also completed, and we had a nice home made dinner last night.
Today I plan to tackle some general tidying and, since there is plenty of that to do, it should take most of the day. After that I am going to take one room of the house at a time and do a full scale work over of each room. Anything that does not get used goes - anything that does not have its own "place" to get put away either gets a place or goes. I feel like we are living with 50 pounds of crazy stuffed into a 5 pound sack and I want to lighten the load. I fully expect this to take several weeks at the least.
Once the house is in order, I have a couple years worth of photos I want to organize and scrapbook. (And these have been some photo intensive years let me tell you.) And if I manage to make it through all of that and still remain unemployed I'm looking at enrolling in the summer intensive session of the Russian program at the local university. Just because I want to learn Russian and Mega corp will pay tuition for a year after my layoff.
Lest you think I am expecting a job to just drift from the sky on fairy dust while I do all this other stuff - I do have a schedule of hours per day to do resume mailings, applications, and networking calls. In fact I' have a phone screen later this week with a company interested in me for a plant managers job and already successfully completed one with a different company - just waiting on a call about a possible on site interview there.
I know neither of these may pan out - but for some reason I'm just not worried about finding work yet. I don't know if it is faith that God will provide or just relief from the stress. Probably some of both. I can honestly say - I wish it would take a few months at least but instead of trying to control it I'm going to just keep going with the flow for now. It seems to be working so far.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Have I mentioned...
What an absolute sweetie Little Man is? He has gotten the spirit of Christmas down pat in just one day. We went out to dinner and as we waited for our food he took the crayons the server gave him, wrapped them carefully in his napkin and proceeded to give his "present" away to whomever would accept it. Hopefully the orgy of gifts he received this year (and is likely to in all those coming) will not erase that lesson - that Christmas is about giving not receiving.
Friday, December 25, 2009
OMG!!!
Santa has lost his ever lovin mind!!! The entire contents of the Target toy section plus a few additions from Toys R Us are currently scattered all over the house. You cannot walk without tripping over or bumping into something that squeeks, growls, chugs, sings, whistles or lights up. (some do all of the above)
The big hits of Christmas 2009 appear to be the vanity table, Barbie cash registerm and Breyers horse barn (Eden is SUCH a tween at the moment) and the remote control dinosaur and Imaginarium train table. Little man has been so besides himself over those two that he has bounced between them all day like a ping pong ball at the table tennis olympic finals. He refused to nap today and even now is in his bed alternating between growling and snarling like "Dino" and singing the Thomas the Train Doo-doo-doo-doot, doo-doo-doo. (I am never getting that out of my head again!!)
Mama is exhausted - since everyone got up at quarter to six this morning (and mama only went to sleep at about 3:30). Its been the best Christmas ever though. Now if only Little Man would GO TO SLEEP so I could.
The big hits of Christmas 2009 appear to be the vanity table, Barbie cash registerm and Breyers horse barn (Eden is SUCH a tween at the moment) and the remote control dinosaur and Imaginarium train table. Little man has been so besides himself over those two that he has bounced between them all day like a ping pong ball at the table tennis olympic finals. He refused to nap today and even now is in his bed alternating between growling and snarling like "Dino" and singing the Thomas the Train Doo-doo-doo-doot, doo-doo-doo. (I am never getting that out of my head again!!)
Mama is exhausted - since everyone got up at quarter to six this morning (and mama only went to sleep at about 3:30). Its been the best Christmas ever though. Now if only Little Man would GO TO SLEEP so I could.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
When it snows ain't it thrillin,
Though your nose gets a chillin.
Little Man and Eden had a ball and I am so glad. Mama on the other hand feels like crapo. Not fair but if it had to be someone I'd rather it be me than one of them.
Little Man and Eden had a ball and I am so glad. Mama on the other hand feels like crapo. Not fair but if it had to be someone I'd rather it be me than one of them.
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